News Briefs – Page 323
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Kelme to replace Adidas as Watford’s kit sponsor
Kelme has signed a £10 million (€11.3m-$12.3m) kit deal with Watford, a professional football club that competes in the English Premier League. The news was first unveiled by The Athletic on May 10. The new four-year deal with the Spanish sports brand will replace the current contract with Adidas, which ...
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Former Nike manager works for the Higg Index
Higg Co., the developer of the Higg Index for the measurement of the sustainability of textile products, has hired Del Hudson, a former executive of Nike, as its new vice president of marketing and communications. Hudson spent 20 years at Nike on communication and sustainability at various locations. He then ...
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Nike supports new wastewater management training
Nike is collaborating with the ZDHC Roadmap to Zero Programme and the Water Environment Federation (WEF) on a new training program that aims to improve water and wastewater management in the textile supply chains around the world. The organizations are collaborating on further developing the WEF training manual, exams and ...
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Arc’teryx places a creative Adidas veteran in a top new position
Katie Becker has joined Arc’teryx Equipment as the Canadian outdoor brand’s first vice president in charge of creative operations. Becker comes from Adidas, where she had worked for 12 years, most recently as senior global design director. Prior to that, she held various design positions at Merrell, Helly Hansen and ...
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Halti’s CEO is leaving
Sami Kiiski is resigning at the end of July as the chief executive of Halti, a leading a Finnish producer of ski and outdoor clothing. He did not say at this stage what he is going to do next. Halti has launched a search for his successor. Kiiski became the ...
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Sun Mountain launches golf bags made from recycled plastic bottles
Sun Mountain, the American brand of golf bags, carts and apparel, has introduced a new range of bags made from recycled plastic bottles. It takes around 25 recycled half-liter plastic bottles to form the fabric of each Eco-Lite stand bag, while it takes 30 to make the cart bag in ...
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Trisport appoints new joint chief executive
After Trisport, which has been the exclusive importer of Kettler in Switzerland for 40 years, acquired the fitness equipment patents of the insolvent German brand and the trademark rights for its distribution in Europe in mid-January, the company has appointed Melanie Lauer as its new joint chief executive. Lauer will ...
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Pascal Aymar has passed away
Pascal Aymar, a well-known and influential figure in the sports and outdoor sector, passed away on May 6 due to a heart attack. Based in the region of Annecy, the 63-year-old Frenchman was active lately as a consultant, as a vice president of the Outdoor Sports Valley (OSV), the French ...
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Colnago has a new owner
Colnago has been sold to Chimera Investments, an investment fund registered in Abu Dhabi, which has acquired a majority share in the Italian bike company. The iconic brand was founded in 1954 by Ernesto Colnago in Cambiago, near Milan, where the company is still headquartered. While the strategic direction is ...
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Stronger management for Kettler
Melanie Lauer has joined the executive board of Trisport to help the development of the Kettler brand of fitness equipment in the areas of marketing, logistics, procurement, finance and operations. Lauer, who comes from Conrad Electronic, will serve as one of the Swiss company’s general managers alongside Stefan Christen, who ...
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A boom in e-commerce for Kathmandu
Kathmandu, the new owner of Oboz and Rip Curl, said its sales over the internet jumped by between 250 and 300 percent in April because of the coronavirus lockdowns, with the domestic Australian market growing the most. Only two of its 327 stores are now closed, and the company says ...
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GoPro’s sales are cut by more than half
In line with its previous warning, GoPro reported a turnover of $119 million in the first quarter, more than half the $243 million level of the year-ago period. The transition to a more efficient and profitale direct-to-consumer model reduced operating expenses mitigating the decline in the gross margin, which was ...
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News briefsStore closures weigh on Johnson Outdoors’ sales and profits
Johnson Outdoors’ earnings for its second fiscal quarter, ended on March 27, declined by 7 percent from the year-ago period to $20.4 million. Total revenues were down by 8 percent to $163.1 million, but the gross margin improved by 1.6 percentage points to 46.1 percent, thanks to stronger pricing and ...
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JD’s takeover of Footasylum is blocked
After a more in-depth review of JD Sports Fashion’s acquisition last year of the Footasylum chain in the U.K., Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced on May 6 its decision to block it, arguing that it would lead to a “substantial lessening of competition nationally,” with higher prices and ...
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Umbro to replace Canterbury as England Rugby’s kit supplier
Umbro will be the new kit supplier for England Rugby in a new four-year deal, effective Sept. 1. It will be the first involvement with professional rugby for Umbro, which will take over from Canterbury of New Zealand, a brand owned by Pentland that has been England Rugby’s official ...
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Efftex postponed until 2021
The 2020 edition of the European Fishing Tackle Trade Exhibition (Efttex), originally scheduled for June 11-13 in Prague, has been postponed until next year. It will be taking place at the same venue at a still undertermined date. Speaking to Angling International, Olivier Portrat – president of the European Fishing ...
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Eurobike postponed, altered
As Germany has a ban on major events until Aug. 29, logistics will preclude opening the Eurobike show on schedule, just two days later, to run Sept. 2-5. Instead, there will be a one-off Eurobike Special show – a “pure B2B concept,” not open to the public – on Nov. ...
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Nike donates products for Covid-19 relief
Nike is donating about 140,000 pieces of footwear, apparel and equipment – worth $5.5 million – to hospitals and clinics in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Medical personnel at the Veterans Health Administration and at hospitals in Chicago, Los Angeles, Memphis and New York City will be receiving 30,000 pairs ...
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Löffler gives away face masks via its online store
Löffler, the Austrian-based brand of sports clothing, is giving face masks free of charge to the first 500 people who place an order on the company’s web shop. Löffler currently produces about 3,000 face masks per day at its headquarters in Ried. Löffler, which belongs to the Fischer group, is ...
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SportScheck cancels its first running event
SportScheck cancelled the start of its Run Challenge series of running events in Germany, which is sponsored by Under Armour. There will be no race in Bremen due to the coronavirus. The Run Challenges in Hamburg, Cologne and Berlin will take place in the second half of this year. The ...
