News Briefs – Page 321
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Nike lets New Balance finish up the season with the Liverpool team
If the football season is resumed in the U.K., as has already happened in Germany, the Liverpool team will be allowed to continue wearing the New Balance jerseys until the end of the season. The English team was close to winning the title before the coronavirus pandemic struck. Nike was ...
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XXL has completed its equity increase
The Altor Fund has been confirmed as the largest investor in XXL ASA, owning 23.82 percent of the leading Nordic sporting goods retailer’s shares, as a result of an equity increase of 400 million Norwegian kroner (€36.5m-$39.7m), which ended on May 18. Together with an offshoot, Altor Invest, the Norwegian ...
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Hummel replaces Umbro as Everton’s kit supplier
Hummel has agreed to a three-year deal as the new kit sponsor of Everton, the English football club that competes in the Premier League. The agreement is reportedly worth more than double the expiring contract with Umbro, which called for fees of between £4 and £5 million per year. The ...
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Polartec’s enhanced fleece in Salewa’s jackets
Polartec has contributed an enhanced version of its high loft fleece made from merino wool to a new product line by Salewa, the Italian mountain sports brand. In the newly designed fabric, the layers of merino wool are connected to both sides of a synthetic core. This is said to ...
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The IOC and WHO renew cooperation to promote physical activity
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have announced a new cooperation agreement that reiterates their joint commitment to promoting healthy lifestyles, including physical activity, sport and active recreation, as a tool for better health conditions across the globe. The agreement was signed by the IOC’s ...
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Icebreaker works with a start-up on temperature-taking armband
Icebreaker, a brand of VF Corp., is partnering with a start-up on the development of a smart armband designed to monitor the wearer’s temperature, which could become a key tool in the post-coronavirus world. Nightingale MedTech, the company behind the armband idea, was only formed on May 1. The prototype ...
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Giant’s Q1 results are hit by the pandemic
Giant saw its revenues in the first quarter decline by 9.3 percent on an annualized basis to $444.5 million. The net income before taxes dropped by 16.9 percent to $27.4 million. Sales of e-bikes and traditional bikes in many European countries were hit by strict shutdowns in connection with the ...
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Puma partners with Central Saint Martins for sustainable design
Puma has collaborated with Central Saint Martins, the London-based arts and design college, on a new collection that focuses on sustainable technologies in textile manufacturing. The Puma X CSM collection comprises a range of footwear, apparel and accessories that use environmental-friendly dyeing technologies such as “Dope Dye” and digital printing. ...
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Michael Jordan’s shoes fetch record $560,000 at Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s has auctioned an autographed pair of Michael Jordan’s sneakers, worn in his rookie season, for $560,000 to an unnamed buyer. The sale establishes a new record for sneakers at the auction house. The Nike Air Jordan 1s match the colors of Jordan’s team, the Chicago Bulls. According to Sotheby’s, ...
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Arc’teryx urges politics to include climate among post-Covid 19 priorities
Arc’teryx Equipment has joined 155 multinational companies in a statement jointly issued by the Science Based Targets Initiative, the UN Global Compact and the We Mean Business coalition that urges governments to include climate action in their strategies to rebuild the economy after the coronavirus epidemic. The other signatories include ...
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Down supplier makes masks
Allied Feather & Down, the down supplier and maker of bedding, is switching a large portion of its bedding production over to face masks. The company will be using the tightly-woven cotton that it normally employs for pillows and comforters to make washable two-layer face masks. Allied has also partnered ...
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News briefsSchöffel organizes its first digital sales meeting
Like Oberalp, Schöffel has decided to hold its first virtual sales meeting because of the coronavirus outbreak. The family-owned German company quickly created an extensive program with product presentations, video contributions, webinars, discussions and live broadcasts across national and continental borders. The venue for the digital sales meeting, which was ...
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Castore will be the Rangers’ new kit sponsor
Tom and Phil Beahon, who founded Castore in Liverpool four years ago, say they want to partner with five leading football clubs across Europe in the next 10 months. “All these clubs will be challengers, who are perceived externally as underdogs but who themselves relish the battle and have both ...
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Spain permits large stores to open in “Phase 1” regions
Decathlon has reopened its 24 small Decathlon City stores in Spain in two stages, while offering click & collect at 74 of its larger stores in the country. Spain’s Ministry of Health has revised its initial guidelines for stores re-openings in Phase 1 regions. By the estimate of the Spanish ...
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Two Swiss companies produce fashionable, reusable masks
Two Swiss textile companies, Schoeller Textil and Forster Rohner, have a developed a washable mask to meet the criteria of the Swiss National Covid-19 Science Task Force, establishing a short supply chain and improving on disposable masks from an ecological perspective. Schoeller is supplying the fabric, a two-layer weave of ...
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Maynards to auction two Adidas pilot production facilities
Maynards Europe, the global liquidation and auction specialist, working in conjunction with U.S.-based Heritage Global Partners, are to sell the entire manufacturing equipment of two unique production lines established by Adidas. The facilities were previously a part of a pilot flexible-design manufacturing project, called Speedfactory, for small runs of custom-designed ...
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UA and others commit to pay suppliers for certain cancelled orders
Under Armour has committed to the PayUp campaign, an initiative that urges fashion brands to pay their garment factories for orders that are both completed and in production, and yet cancelled or delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic. The campaign was launched by Remake, a workers’ rights organization, at the ...
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Under Armour is manufacturing face masks
Under Armour (UA) is making special face masks that require no sewing to support the healthcare professionals at the nearby University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) in their fight against the coronavirus pandemic. UA’s global headquarters is located in Baltimore, Maryland. The sports brand is also working on face shields ...
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Asics invests in Seevix Material Sciences
Asics Ventures, an investment subsidiary of Asics, has taken a stake in Seevix Material Sciences, an Israeli start-up that develops and produces synthetic spider silk. Seevix was established in 2014. The company manufactures a patented man-made spider silk, called SVX, backed by more than ten years of research at the ...
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VF Corp. looks at virtual reality
VF Corp. is exploring virtual reality as part of its strong investments intending to become “hyperdigital.” Cemtrex has announced that it has received an order from VF to create a virtual reality (VR) application. The VR application, which is due to be delivered within the current quarter, aims to create ...
