News Briefs – Page 384
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Adidas is releasing a Parley for the Oceans edition of...
Adidas is releasing a Parley for the Oceans edition of its Alphaedge 4D running shoe. The upper of the Alphaedge 4D Parley for the Oceans shoe is made with recycled ocean plastic debris. The shoe also features the Adidas 4D midsole, developed in partnership with Carbon. This midsole is produced ...
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Smartwool, a division of VF Outdoor, has pledged to support...
Smartwool, a division of VF Outdoor, has pledged to support Protect Our Winters (POW) Canada, a community of professional athletes and industry brands teaming up to address climate change issues across the outdoor community. The financial support from the brand is to help raise awareness of climate change as well ...
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Arc'teryx, a brand of Amer Sports, is partnering with Leave...
Arc'teryx, a brand of Amer Sports, is partnering with Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics, an organization based in Boulder, Colorado, that helps protect the outdoors by teaching people to enjoy it responsibly. The partnership is carried on via Arc'teryx' “In My Backyard” grant program, which supports projects that ...
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Somos Numa has announced a project that will see the...
Somos Numa has announced a project that will see the Brazilian company sell shoes to help street dogs. The Brazilian athletic shoe brand said that it intends to donate the money from the sale of 160 pairs of its recycled cotton, recycled PET and recovered rubber tennis shoes to Patas ...
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To expand its global R&D, the Lycra Company has opened an Advanced...
To expand its global R&D, the Lycra Company has opened an Advanced Textile Innovation Center (ATIC) in Nanhai, China. This is the American company's fourth ATIC and its second in the Far East, after the one in Taipei. The other locations are Newark, Delaware, and Casaloldo, Italy. The Nanhai laboratory occupies 4,500 ...
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Toray, the Japanese textile company, has inaugurated an advanced weather...
Toray, the Japanese textile company, has inaugurated an advanced weather simulator at its Fibers & Textiles Research Laboratories in the city of Seta. To test the comfort of garments, the Technorama GIII – as the facility is called – uses “sensitivity engineering” to go beyond heat, cold and humidity and ...
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Anta Sports Products has announced that it has been selected...
Anta Sports Products has announced that it has been selected as a constituent stock of the Hang Seng China Enterprise Index, starting on June 17. The benchmark index includes the major Chinese companies on the exchange that has the biggest market capitalization and the highest liquidity. Furthermore, Anta was recently ...
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VF Corp. will become almost entirely an active lifestyle and...
VF Corp. will become almost entirely an active lifestyle and workwear company with an annual turnover of around $11 billion following the approval by its board of directors of the spin-off of its two jeans brands, Lee and Wrangler, into a new company called Kontoor Brands. VF's shareholders will get ...
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Jean-Philippe Torgue has set up his own consultancy, called Akuna,...
Jean-Philippe Torgue has set up his own consultancy, called Akuna, after collecting 25 years of experience in brand-building. He was a senior executive at major companies including VF Corp. and Amer Sports before setting up a European office for Phenix in 2017. He left the operation after a year and ...
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Deporvillage, the Spanish sports e-tailer, has launched its own cycling...
Deporvillage, the Spanish sports e-tailer, has launched its own cycling brand and will be its exclusive vendor. It is called Finisseur – the term for a cyclist who performs his team's final sprint – and its slogan is “Never look back.” The brand consists of more than 50 technical items: ...
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Decathlon has announced the opening of a new logistics center...
Decathlon has announced the opening of a new logistics center in León, Spain, in the industrial estate of Villadangos del Páramo. The 32,645-square-meter facility, which has a distribution capacity of more than 25 million sporting items per year, will be serving the 37 Decathlon stores located in the north of ...
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Sports Direct's warehouse in Wigan, Greater Manchester, will close on...
Sports Direct's warehouse in Wigan, Greater Manchester, will close on June 13, according to reports by the Press Association, causing the loss of around 300 jobs. The decision is believed to be linked to the expiration of a lease. The employees in the Wigan facility mostly pack goods for national ...
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Vibram is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Vibram Technological...
Vibram is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Vibram Technological Center (VTC) in Guangzhou, China. The facility is an innovation hub where the Italian brand studies innovative compounds and technologies and creates prototypes of new products prior to launching them on the market. The VTC staff operates in close synergy ...
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JD Sports Fashion has an experienced non-executive director on its...
JD Sports Fashion has an experienced non-executive director on its board. Kath Smith, the former executive of the Adidas Group who served as general manager and vice president of The North Face EMEA until last year, has joined the board of directors of the fast-growing U.K.-based retailer. She wanted to ...
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Canada Goose has promoted Ana Mihaljevic from senior vice president...
Canada Goose has promoted Ana Mihaljevic from senior vice president of planning and sales operations to chief commercial officer. She will oversee the company's global commercial business while continuing to take charge of sales planning and sales operations. She will be seeking to expand the wholesale channel, the direct-to-consumer (DTC) ...
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Taking a position previously occupied by Joel Sandoz, Mark Phares...
Taking a position previously occupied by Joel Sandoz, Mark Phares has gone back to Smith Optics to serve as its new vice president of global sales. He had already spent 17 years with the U.S.-based Safilo subsidiary in various sales and management roles before leaving for OluKai, where he oversaw ...
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The Adidas Group has three new members on its supervisory...
The Adidas Group has three new members on its supervisory board. At the company's annual general meeting on May 9, Thomas Rabe, Bodo Uebber and Jing Ulrich were elected to the board. Rabe has been the chief executive of Bertelsmann since 2012, Uebber is financial director of Daimler and Ulrich ...
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MIPS, a Swedish firm that regards itself as the world's...
MIPS, a Swedish firm that regards itself as the world's leading supplier of helmet-based safety technologies to protect against rotational movements, appointed on May 10 its former chief financial officer, Max Strandwitz, to the position as chief executive. Strandwitz replaces Johan Thiel, who will work together with the newly appointed ...
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Puma has appointed John Miller as its new senior vice-president...
Puma has appointed John Miller as its new senior vice-president of wholesale for North America. He joins Puma from G-Form, the sports protection brand, where he has held the role of senior vice-president and general manager of sales and marketing since October 2017. Prior to G-Form, he spent 11 years ...
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VF Corp. is moving Jeremie Blondel from Vans to The...
VF Corp. is moving Jeremie Blondel from Vans to The North Face. Filling a newly created role, he will serve as vice president of sales for TNF in Europe, the Middle East and Africa with responsibility for the entire wholesale business in the region. Blondel will work under Jan van ...
