News Briefs – Page 333
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Toray is launching a PET-recycled iteration of Primeflex
(OIC) Toray is launching a PET-recycled iteration of its Primeflex series of flexible stretch fabric. The new version, which will be available in spring/summer 2021, is to meet the increasing demand by sportswear consumers for sustainability without compromising stretch. The Primeflex PET-recycled type incorporates recycled PET that would normally be ...
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Outdoor & Running Business Days announces additional winter edition
(OIC) Outdoor & Running Business Days, the Italian B2B fair for the outdoor and running industry, has announced an additional winter edition for 2021. More details will be unveiled in the coming months. Meanwhile, this year’s edition of the trade show in Riva Del Garda, in the northern Italian province ...
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Smartwool launches online store in Germany
(OIC) Smartwool, the maker of woolen sports apparel and a division of VF Outdoor, launched its first online store in Germany this month. The store offers the entire range of Smartwool products, including base layers, shirts, underwear, and socks. The website also provides information about the brand, the materials used ...
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Millet launches video
(OIC) Millet has launched a new video revolving around the Rise Up concept, an invitation for sports enthusiasts and people in general to pursue their objectives without giving up. The two-minute video, produced by Almo Film, was shot in the French Alps as well as Nice and Paris between January ...
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Vibram unveils Grip All Terrain
(OIC) Vibram has unveiled the Vibram Arctic Grip All Terrain, a new version of the Vibram Arctic Grip. The Vibram Arctic Grip technology was designed to enable enhanced grip on ice, especially wet ice. The new version combines this technology with a new compound, the Vibram XS Trek Evo, developed ...
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Vernon expanding its distribution
(OIC) Vernon, the Danish sports distribution company, is expanding into new markets with the help of a Russian brand of rainproof and windproof apparel, Shu. Founded in 2012 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Shu operates three stores (in its hometown, in Moscow and in Yekaterinburg), maintains its head office in Moscow ...
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Columbia appoints chairman
(OIC) At its meeting of Jan. 24, the board of directors of Columbia Sportswear appointed as its chairman the company’s long-standing president and chief executive, Tim Boyle, who is now 70 years old. He takes the place on the board that was previously occupied by his “tough mother,” Gert Boyle, ...
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Thule appoints CFO
(OIC) Thule has announced that Marianne Bonrud Hagelqvist, the current group accounting director, has taken over as acting chief financial officer of Thule Group, effective Feb. 14. She is replacing Lennart Mauritzson, who has resigned as CFO, until Jonas Lindqvist, currently chief financial officer at Arjo, a global supplier of ...
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VF closes industry’s first “green bond”
(OIC) VF Corp. announced on Feb. 27 the closing of the first “green bond” in the apparel and footwear industry. The net proceeds from the €500 million bond offering will be used for investment in programs within the company’s “Made for Change Sustainability & Responsibility Strategy,” and to drive progress ...
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Skechers signs up Redknapp
Jamie Redknapp – a former midfielder for the Bournemoth, Southampton, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur football clubs – has signed a deal with Skechers to promote its lifestyle men’s collections in Europe as of this spring. Redknapp helped Liverpool win the 1995 Football League Cup final. He retired from professional play ...
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Patagonia sues over apparent “Petrogonia” parody
Patagonia has filed suit in Los Angeles federal court against OC Media for trademark infringement, unfair competition and other violations of the Lanham Act. Open Caucasus Media, as it is formally called, is a Russian-language news website covering the North and South Caucasus. Its funders include the European Endowment for ...
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Lotto works with Starvie
Lotto Sport Italia has signed a three-year deal to become the technical sponsor and official supplier of StarVie, the Spanish producer of pádel equipment. Lotto will be outfitting StarVie’s 80 or so professional pádel players for the World Pádel Tour. StarVie has been active in the sport of pádel for ...
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News briefsMusto signs long-term partnership with Land Rover
Musto, the British brand of nautical and outdoor apparel, announced a five-year worldwide licensing deal with Land Rover at this year’s Ispo Munich, extending a previous deal that produced Above and Beyond, a 24-piece apparel collection launched with the new Land Rover Defender at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September. ...
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YKK introduces magnetic zippers
YKK, the Japanese producer of fasteners, has come up with a zipper that substitutes magnets for interlocking teeth. The aptly named Magnet Zipper seals the two sides of a garment by electromagnetic attraction when they are brought close together. As the company explains, this makes the zipper easy to operate ...
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Wolverine settles over contaminated water
Wolverine has agreed to pay $69.5 million to local authorities and the state of Michigan over several years to remedy water contamination from chemicals used in a now-closed tannery and other company-owned facilities in the state. On the other hand, WWW will get $55 million in a lump sum from ...
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Nike wins case against Avenatti
Michael Avenatti – the California lawyer who rose to prominence representing an American stripper, Stormy Daniels, in a failed lawsuit against Donald Trump – has been found guilty of extortion, wire fraud and transmission of interstate communications with intent to extort in New York federal court. The plaintiff is Nike, ...
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Nike hits counterfeiters via their customs brokers
Nike has filed suit against some of its customs brokers in the U.S. – B&H Customs Services, Hana Freight and Shine Shipping – alleging their use of fake documents and a stolen corporate identity to get four containers filled with counterfeit merchandise past customs. One of these, recently seized in ...
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Eurosima joins Fesi
The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi) has announced the arrival of a large new member, the European Surf Industry Manufacturers Association (Eurosima). The French-based organization has also gained a seat on various steering committees at Fesi, notably the one that handles product compliance with EU standards on ...
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Patagonia Opens Second U.K. Store
Patagonia opened its second store in the U.K. earlier this month, in Bristol. It already has one in Manchester. The new 280-square-meter brand store will not only present the collections from the outdoor sports segments, covering climbing, snow sports, surfing and trail running, but will also serve as a meeting ...
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New top managers at Wolverine
Wolverine World Wide has appointed Joelle Grunberg as global president of its Sperry division and Tom Kennedy as global president of the Wolverine brand, with oversight for the Licensing Group and membership on the acquisitions team. Grunberg has spent the past seven years as president and chief executive for North ...
