News Briefs – Page 551
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Brooks Running has signed up Jeremy Taiwo, the 2015 U.S....
Brooks Running has signed up Jeremy Taiwo, the 2015 U.S. indoor track and field heptathlon champion, to its roster of sponsored athletes. In addition to his gold medal from last year's indoor season, Taiwo finished second in the decathlon at the 2015 U.S. outdoor track and field championships and third ...
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Skechers Performance, a division of Skechers USA, has been named...
Skechers Performance, a division of Skechers USA, has been named the Official Running Shoe of the 2016 Ironman European Tour. The brand will be present at 26 of the 43 races in the tour, beginning with the Ironman 70.3 Pays d'Aix event in May. The sponsored races will take place ...
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Skechers Performance has announced the signing of Russell Knox and...
Skechers Performance has announced the signing of Russell Knox and Ashlan Ramsey to the growing roster of athletes representing its Skechers Go Golf line of golf shoes. The two professional golfers will join Billy Andrade, Matt Kuchar, Colin Montgomerie and Belén Mozo as part of the Skechers Performance elite team. ...
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Bridgestone Americas has teamed up with Michael Johnson, the Olympic...
Bridgestone Americas has teamed up with Michael Johnson, the Olympic track & field legend, to conduct an internal training and sales incentive program for the employees of Bridgestone Retail Operations (BSRO), designed to inspire them in the countdown to the Rio 2016 Olympics games. Bridgestone, the parent company, is a ...
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Camelbak has signed up another top ultra runner, Moritz auf...
Camelbak has signed up another top ultra runner, Moritz auf der Heide, and the Team Garmin Adventure for the 2016 season. Camelbak will also again sponsor Xavier Thévenard and Sissi Cussot, who belong to Team Asics. Thévenard is the reigning champion of the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc (UTMB). They ...
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CEP U.K. & Ireland has announced it has become the...
CEP U.K. & Ireland has announced it has become the Official Compression Partner of Equinox24, the 24-hour endurance running event, which will take place at Belvoir Castle, in the British county of Leicestershire, on Sept. 17-18. The race, now in its fourth year, is a mixed-terrain running competition held on ...
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Adidas has entered a multi-year partnership with Wanderlust, a producer...
Adidas has entered a multi-year partnership with Wanderlust, a producer of lifestyle festival events focusing on yoga, wellness and music. The deal is designed to pair Wanderlust's multi and single-day events with Adidas' latest performance-based products. For 2016, highlights from this partnership include Adidas being a presenting partner of Wanderlust's ...
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The organizers of Ispo Beijing boasted that the number of...
The organizers of Ispo Beijing boasted that the number of visitors at the fair soared by 29 percent to 38,600, driven by growing Chinese enthusiasm for sports and more particularly for winter sports, in the run-up to the Winter Olympics to be held in Beijing in 2022. The twelfth edition ...
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The next Ispo Shanghai fair, scheduled for July 6-8, will...
The next Ispo Shanghai fair, scheduled for July 6-8, will feature a new trends forum for beachwear. To this effect, Ispo Textrends, the platform for innovative fabrics and components, is proposing to exhibit a selection of related materials free of charge, after validation of their proposals by an international jury.
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The TCS New York City Marathon, the world's largest marathon,...
The TCS New York City Marathon, the world's largest marathon, accepted a record number of runners for its 2016 edition. New York Road Runners (NYRR), which organizes the event, announced it accepted 19,083 participants through the race entry lottery held on March 8, out of 82,172 applicants. NYRR said the ...
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Sport Achat will hold a second summer fair this year...
Sport Achat will hold a second summer fair this year in Nantes, in western France. This trade show for the French sporting goods industry is normally held twice a year in Lyon, with its next summer edition scheduled to take place on Sept 12-13. But another stop will be added ...
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Vaude has received yet another award for its initiatives in...
Vaude has received yet another award for its initiatives in the area of sustainability. This time the German outdoor brand has been honored by the German Council for Sustainable Development with a “Werkstatt-N” seal of quality for its Second Use Program. In order to prolong the lifespan of its products, ...
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Amer Sports has announced that it will acquire Enve Composites...
Amer Sports has announced that it will acquire Enve Composites for $50 million in an all-cash transaction. Enve, based in Utah, is a maker of high-end carbon wheels, components and accessories for road and mountain cycling. The company has annual sales of around $30 million. The acquisition, which is expected ...
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The Rossignol group has completed the planned acquisition of Time,...
The Rossignol group has completed the planned acquisition of Time, a French bicycle brand which will help it to offset the vagaries of the snow season. Sylvain Noailly, vice president of the group in charge of marketing and business development, will take responsibility for this new business segment. Time made ...
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Asics Corp. has joined the industry-wide connected fitness movement by...
Asics Corp. has joined the industry-wide connected fitness movement by acquiring FitnessKeeper, a company in Boston that owns Runkeeper, a popular GPS-based running app. The takeover should allow the brand to obtain data that will help to guide its marketing activities. FitnessKeeper was founded in 2008 and its app is ...
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Technogym confirms through a company executive that it has filed...
Technogym confirms through a company executive that it has filed the documentation to go public on the Milan stock exchange in order to promote its international expansion. According to the Italian media, the Italian company raised its operating profit before amortization (Ebitda) by 40 percent last year to €86.7 million ...
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Quiksilver's European Boardriders subsidiary is offering to exchange €200 million...
Quiksilver's European Boardriders subsidiary is offering to exchange €200 million worth of outstanding 8.875% senior notes due in 2017 with a new package of 9.500% senior notes due in 2020, plus cash, in order to reduce its indebtedness. The new package eliminates restrictive covenants and certain default terms associated with ...
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Sympatex Holding is changing its name this month to Smart...
Sympatex Holding is changing its name this month to Smart Solutions Holding – albeit only at the level of the holding company. Its two subsidiaries, Sympatex and Ploucquet subsidiaries, will continue to operate under those names. The group said in a press release that the change of name was meant ...
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Stella International Holdings is closing its large factory in Dongguan,...
Stella International Holdings is closing its large factory in Dongguan, which employs some 10,000 workers, at the end of this month, due to rising labor costs. The plant has been making mainly women's shoes for brands like Prada, Rockport and Nike. The Chinese producer will move most of the production ...
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XXL Asa has announced a series of changes in its...
XXL Asa has announced a series of changes in its executive management structure. Marcus Wibergh, its managing director for Sweden, will leave in April after eight years with the company to search new opportunities elsewhere. Janicke Blomsnes will take up the position as acting managing director for Sweden, and will ...
