News Briefs – Page 314
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Zoot introduces cooling neck sleeves, for ventilation and protection
Zoot Sports, the specialist in performance apparel and footwear for endurance sports, has launched a product called the Cooling Neck Sleeves, designed to maintain maximum ventilation while also providing a protective barrier, of particular interest at the time of coronavirus. These neck sleeves are made with Chillout fabric, which uses ...
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Erreà introduces a new antibacterial fabric
Erreà, the Italian sportswear company and the kit supplier of many sports clubs in various countries, has introduced a new fabric that is said to protect the players from microbes and bacteria. Developed with the use of nanotechnologies, the new “Ti-energy” fabric is made with nanoparticles of zinc oxide. The ...
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Munich’s oldest sports store will shut down
Regarded as a local institution, Sport Münzinger, the oldest sporting goods store in Munich, will close its doors at the end of this year. It was founded in 1904 on Munich’s central Marienplatz, after Hermann Münzinger served for 12 years as official supplier to the royal court of Bavaria. The ...
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News briefsPentland’s design contest honors a project inspired by British history
Pentland Brands has announced Alex Grant of the Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts as the winner of the Pentland Winston Churchill Wardrobe Competition 2020. Grant was recognized for a project entitled Churchill’s “Victory” Swimming Goggles. His goggles are indeed inspired by the frame of Winston Churchill’s spectacles. In ...
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Goldwin’s new forecast highlights Covid-19’s impact
Goldwin, which also controls The North Face’s trademark in Japan and has a stake in Woolrich International, has issued its outlook for the full year ending in March 2021. It forecasts that revenues will decline by about 23 percent from the previous year to 75,000 million yen (€624.7m-$688.0m). The Japanese ...
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Amazon steps up its fight against fakes
Amazon has announced the creation of a new Counterfeit Crimes Unit, a global, multi-disciplinary team composed of former federal prosecutors, experienced investigators and data analysts. The new unit is dedicated to “bringing counterfeiters that violate the law and Amazon’s policies by listing counterfeit products in its store to justice,” the ...
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Eric Roza, a local affiliate, will buy and lead CrossFit
Eric Roza, owner of a ten-year affiliate CrossFit gym in Boulder, Colorado and former senior vice president of Oracle Data Cloud, is going to become CrossFit’s new owner, at least at the U.S. level. Further details including the purchase price are missing. Roza described himself as the incoming “CEO and ...
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Wintersteiger goes on promoting young talent
Wintersteiger – the Austrian provider of machinery for ski repair and maintenance, software for ski rental, and equipment and furnishings for ski shops – continues to train young people despite the coronavirus pandemic. While announcing the appointment of a new head of human resources, Wintersteiger says it wants to hire ...
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Advance e-sales for Nike’s Dior sneaker
Dior will soon be launching a mini-website for limited advance sales of the sneaker it has created with Nike. Introduced in December, 2019 at Dior Homme’s pre-autumn 2020 fashion in Miami, the Air Jordan 1 OG Dior will in time be sold through pop-up stores, although no start date has ...
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Julbo announces new B2B platform
Julbo Eyewear is launching a new B2B platform. As reported by sport-guide.com, the new platform enables faster deliveries with cheaper delivery charges. All Julbo and Solar products are available via the platform. The project has been developed internally, with the help of an external consultant, in about four months.
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New Balance confirms $1.25 million in grants for Covid-19 relief
The New Balance Foundation, which had pledged earlier this year to donate $2 million in non-profit grants in response to the pandemic, has confirmed a second round of funding. Selected organizations from the foundation’s network of grantees have recently received a combined total of $1.25 million in New Balance Foundation ...
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Obuv Rossii starts selling bicycles
As in many other countries, bicycles have become a hot commodity in Russia as an ecological alternative to public transport, in order to avoid contamination from the novel coronavirus, while keeping fit. Even a leading Russian footwear retailer, Obuv Rossii, has begun selling bicycles, handling after-sale servicing in its own ...
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Decathlon’s opening in Ireland is described as “hugely successful”
The opening of Decathlon’s first Irish store in Dublin has proved so successful that the company is already planning to create 25 new jobs, while also considering new openings in the cities of Cork and Galway. The Dublin store was inaugurated on June 13 and, according to a report in ...
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Artémis trims its stake in Puma
Artémis, the holding company that controls Kering, expects to reduce its stake in Puma from 29 percent to about 25 percent through a new €500 million convertible bond offering. Bondholders will be able to convert their investment into Puma shares in 2025, with a conversion premium of between 35 and ...
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Ispo’s organizer goes digital after a record year
Messe München, the organizer of the Ispo trade shows, had record revenues of €474.2 million last year, generating Ebitda of €138.4 million. Its success had a spill-over effect on the economy of Munich and the state of Bavaria, resulting in extra revenues of around €3.3 billion for the hotel industry ...
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JD re-acquires Go Outdoors
Just after appointing Deloitte as administrator of Go Outdoors, its struggling British outdoor chain, JD Sports Fashion announced that it has re-acquired the business and substantially all of its assets for £56.5 million (€62.5m-$70.5m) “as partial repayment against its historic indebtedness” in a “pre-pack” administration deal via a newly incorporated ...
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Alpina wins German Brand Award 2020
Alpina, the German brand of helmets, goggles and protectors that is part of the Uvex Group, has received the German Brand Award 2020 for “excellent brands – sports and outdoor goods.” The annual award’s organizers, the German Design Council and the German Brand Institute, found that Alpina had successfully linked ...
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Fischer Sports releases lightweight rollerski
Fischer Sports has released what it claims is the lightest rollerski on the market, made entirely of carbon to achieve the flexion and torsional resistance of a regular ski. Fischer has sought to give the Speedmax Classic, as it is called, a slim profile so as to balance high ground ...
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News briefsNike enlists Native American Miss Universe
Ashley Callingbull of the Enoch Cree Nation, the first Canadian and first indigenous woman to become Miss Universe, is one of three Native American women figuring in Nike’s new ad campaign for its N7 collection. Callingbull is joined by Chelsey Luger, of both the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and ...
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New CEO for Casall Sport
Nanna Hedlund will take up the post of chief executive of Casall Sport on Aug. 17. She was previously the CEO of Polarn O. Pyret, a Swedish quality kidswear brand with sales all over Europe and also in the U.S. Hedlund has been on Casall’s board since 2108. She takes ...
