News Briefs – Page 482
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The ANWR Group, which manages the centralized purchasing operations for...
The ANWR Group, which manages the centralized purchasing operations for its affiliated shoe retailers and the retail members of Sport 2000 and Fairplay International Sports in Germany, will launch a new concept for its in-house trade shows, starting this autumn. ANWR plans to organize four trade shows on a quarterly basis. ...
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Messe München is set to open two additional halls for...
Messe München is set to open two additional halls for the 2019 edition of its Ispo Munich trade show. Exhibitors will be able to present their latest products in a total of 18 halls encompassing 200,000 square meters. Fifty percent of the construction work for the two new halls, C5 ...
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The European Fishing Tackle Trade Exhibition (Efftex) will return to...
The European Fishing Tackle Trade Exhibition (Efftex) will return to Brussels in 2019, after an absence of five years. The other cities under consideration for the event included Helsinki, Prague, Vienna, Madrid, Rimini, Hannover and Nuremberg. The 38th edition of Efftex will take place on June 13-15, 2019. It will ...
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Cambodian workers in garment factories supplying some of the biggest...
Cambodian workers in garment factories supplying some of the biggest sportswear brands in the world suffer from repeated fainting due to poor work conditions. According to the investigation carried out by The Observer in collaboration with Danwatch, a Danish investigative media group, more than 500 female workers in four Cambodian ...
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Reportedly, Under Armour has finally reached a settlement with its...
Reportedly, Under Armour has finally reached a settlement with its former Spanish distributor, Alnisa Sport. The American company had terminated a distribution agreement with Alnisa, giving it notice that the contract would stop at the end of 2016, and decided to set up its own sales subsidiary in the country. ...
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Bunker Mentality, one of the most original golf apparel brands...
Bunker Mentality, one of the most original golf apparel brands in the U.K., is moving into the U.S. market through The Duran Group. Its products will be adapted to the U.S. market, where the group works with more than 6,500 pro golf shops. The group also owns the National Golf ...
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ABC Distribution will again be the Italian distributor of Inov-8,...
ABC Distribution will again be the Italian distributor of Inov-8, the British brand of trail running shoes owned by Descente, starting with the spring/summer 2018 season. ABC, which now also sells the backpacks of Ultimate Direction, had taken on the Italian distribution for Hoka One One at the start of ...
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Mundo Mammoth, one of the major physical and online retailers...
Mundo Mammoth, one of the major physical and online retailers for bicycles in Spain, has announced an agreement to integrate its operations into those of Barrabès Esquí y Montaña, the leading Spanish outdoor and ski retailer, which has adopted a hybrid online/offline retail structure since it launched its web store ...
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As the outcome of Britain's general election earlier this month...
As the outcome of Britain's general election earlier this month caused a sharp fall in the exchange rate of the pound against the dollar, Sports Direct International (SDI) said that its exchange rate for these currencies was fully hedged for the fiscal year until April 2018 at a rate of ...
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Intersport France has stated that it wants to become the...
Intersport France has stated that it wants to become the second-largest sporting goods retailer in Belgium, where it now has only six stores, compared with 639 in France. We estimate that Intersport was in sixth place in a market dominated by Decathlon in 2015. After closing many stores, Intersport opened ...
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Decathlon has opened its 15th store in the Paris area....
Decathlon has opened its 15th store in the Paris area. Located in the suburb of Malakoff, it measures 3,500 square meters. In Spain, the French retailer inaugurated on June 16 a smaller store of 1,800 sqm. in the Maquinista shopping center of Barcelona.
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Yet another Spanish voluntary group, Anzamar, is launching its own...
Yet another Spanish voluntary group, Anzamar, is launching its own chain of sneaker shops, called Black Laces. The first one will open next month at Los Barrios, near Algeciras, to be followed by another one at Jaén in August or September.
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Lacoste unveiled a new global store concept in early June...
Lacoste unveiled a new global store concept in early June that features a stronger and more immersive brand experience. Located at Westfield White City in Shepherd's Bush, London, the 140-square-meter boutique celebrates the heritage of the French premium lifestyle brand. The central feature is The Polo Wall, which features Lacoste ...
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Volcom has opened a flagship store on rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine...
Volcom has opened a flagship store on rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine in Paris, near the Bastille and close to several other mono-brand shops including the Jordan store recently opened by Foot Locker. It covers 200 square meters of space on two floors. Volcom now has 18 directly owned or partner-owned stores ...
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Launching a new store concept, Dainese has inaugurated a store...
Launching a new store concept, Dainese has inaugurated a store in Berlin for its motorcycling and sports apparel and protection products. It has a Custom Works room for special projects.
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Canada Goose told investors at the recent Baird Global Consumer,...
Canada Goose told investors at the recent Baird Global Consumer, Technology & Services Conference that it is planning to have no more than 20 physical stores in place by 2020 because its business is still largely seasonal, but as previously reported, it is investing heavily in e-commerce, particularly now in ...
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Puma says it has withdrawn its request for a preliminary...
Puma says it has withdrawn its request for a preliminary injunction against the Adidas Group at the regional court of Braunschweig. The case related to the Stan Smith Boost by Adidas. Puma alleged that it infringed on one of its registered European designs, focusing on the midsole. Last week, the ...
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Puma has reached an out-of-court settlement with Urwyler & Hostettler,...
Puma has reached an out-of-court settlement with Urwyler & Hostettler, a supplier of furniture and wooden household items in Switzerland that adopted a logo with a leaping animal. The company, which sells the Made in Ermatingen brand, filed an application to register the logo for sports footwear, sports apparel and ...
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As previously reported, a district court in California recently rejected...
As previously reported, a district court in California recently rejected a trademark infringement claim by Puma against Forever 21 because of insufficient evidence of irreparable harm. Skechers has now won a round against Adidas in a court in Portland, where the judge similarly felt that the Big a was not ...
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The organizers of Art Basel, an arts exhibition held in...
The organizers of Art Basel, an arts exhibition held in Basel, Miami and Hong Kong, have reportedly filed a lawsuit against the Adidas Group due to its allegedly unauthorized use of the Art Basel name on a limited edition of Adidas EQT shoes on the occasion of Art Basel in ...
