News Briefs – Page 557
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The Adidas Group has denied a report by the BBC...
The Adidas Group has denied a report by the BBC earlier this month that it intends to put a premature end to its contract as an official partner of the International Athletics Federation (IAAF), describing it as inaccurate. Media reports claimed that Adidas wanted to end the eleven-year contract, which ...
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The Adidas Group declined to comment on a report in...
The Adidas Group declined to comment on a report in Marca, the Spanish newspaper, that the brand was discussing a ten-year deal worth €140 million per year with Real Madrid. Demands were predicted to escalate in the market for kit contracts with leading football teams, after Adidas agreed to pay ...
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Reebok has earned a 2016 Ispo Gold Award in multichannel...
Reebok has earned a 2016 Ispo Gold Award in multichannel marketing for its “Be More Human” advertising campaign, developed in partnership with Venables Bell & Partners. The campaign, which was launched in January 2015, celebrates those who dedicate themselves to fitness not for trophies, awards or money, but to improve ...
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Under Armour (UA) has signed up Alison Lee, the American...
Under Armour (UA) has signed up Alison Lee, the American professional golfer, as one of its ambassadors. The athlete, who is 20 years old, plays on the LPGA Tour and is also a college student at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), majoring in communications. Meanwhile, the brand has ...
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Asics has signed up David Goffin and Julia Goerges as...
Asics has signed up David Goffin and Julia Goerges as global tennis ambassadors. Goffin, from Belgium, occupied the 16th place in the Association of Tennis Professionals' (ATP) world ranking in 2015, becoming the highest ranked Belgian tennis player in history. Goerges, from Germany, is ranked No. 50 in the world ...
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Brooks Running has launched a new global brand campaign entitled...
Brooks Running has launched a new global brand campaign entitled “Live the way you run. Run happy.” The campaign is meant to capture the positive impact of running on various aspects of the runner's life. The U.S. company said that the campaign was inspired by its belief that a run ...
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New Era, the brand best known for being the official...
New Era, the brand best known for being the official on-field cap of Major League Baseball (MLB), has signed up Nina Agdal as an MLB ambassador for its 2016 women's collection. The supermodel is New Era's first female brand ambassador. She joins the brand's MLB roster which features numerous baseball ...
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Messe München has reported more than 80,000 daily passages through...
Messe München has reported more than 80,000 daily passages through the turnstiles at the latest edition of Ispo Munich, which ran on Jan. 24-27. The business climate appeared to be good in spite of the lack of snow in the last months of 2015, as retailers had ordered cautiously for ...
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Messe München has decided to invest about one billion euros...
Messe München has decided to invest about one billion euros to build two new exhibition halls next to the existing C halls in its fairgrounds. They should come on-stream in mid-2018, meaning that they should be ready for the presentation of the autumn/winter 2019/20 collections at Ispo Munich. Meanwhile, the ...
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A committee of the European Outdoor Group (EOG) is still...
A committee of the European Outdoor Group (EOG) is still looking at proposals by Messe München to hold its summer OutDoor show in Munich rather than Friedrichshafen. Meanwhile, the EOG and Messe Friedrichshafen have decided to move forward the dates of the show to June 18-21 in 2017, making it ...
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Bernd Kullmann, former chief executive at Deuter, made an impassioned...
Bernd Kullmann, former chief executive at Deuter, made an impassioned plea for more women to take the lead at outdoor companies, as he handed this year's Ispo Cup to Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, a famous Austrian mountaineer. She is the first woman to have climbed all 14 peaks of more than 8,000 ...
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Two veteran activewear designers, Rolf Günther and Nora Kühner, ran...
Two veteran activewear designers, Rolf Günther and Nora Kühner, ran a new kind of workshop during the recent Ispo Munich show, challenging 25 fashion students from different countries to come up with smart and innovative concepts for winter sports clothing that can be worn in the snow or in a ...
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X-Bionic, the Swiss brand of functional base layers and socks,...
X-Bionic, the Swiss brand of functional base layers and socks, plans to inaugurate next September the so-called X-Bionic Sphere, a sports complex of one million square meters with training facilities for 27 Olympic sports. It is co-founding the €500 million project, which will also be placed at the disposal of ...
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Greenpeace says it has found “hazardous PFCs” in outdoor apparel,...
Greenpeace says it has found “hazardous PFCs” in outdoor apparel, footwear and other products tested for its latest report on outdoor gear, called “Leaving Traces.” Only four out of the 40 products tested had no PFCs, the environmental organization said, and “high concentrations” of the “most hazardous” long-chain PFCs were ...
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Macintosh Retail Group has sold its Scapino chain of shoe...
Macintosh Retail Group has sold its Scapino chain of shoe shops to a Dutch shoe retailer, H. Ziengs, and its Brantano chain of 130 stores in Belgium to Brantnew, a new group formed by three other local retailers. Ziengs will take over only between 140 and 180 out of the ...
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Selle Italia has acquired a majority stake in Selle San...
Selle Italia has acquired a majority stake in Selle San Marco, as reported by the Italian newspaper Il Gazzettino di Vicenza e Bassano. The two historical bicycle brands are both based in Italy's Veneto region and together generate revenues of around €30 million of which €23 million are generated by ...
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Golf Datatech, the market research company covering the sales of...
Golf Datatech, the market research company covering the sales of golf equipment and apparel, has acquired the Golf Retail Audit Service of U.K.-based Sports Marketing Surveys (SMS). As a result of the acquisition, Golf Datatech said it will now be able to deliver market retail research in one consistent format ...
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The North Face has moved its office and showroom for...
The North Face has moved its office and showroom for the German-speaking countries from the MOC to the German office of VF Corporation in the northern part of the city, along with other group brands such as Smartwool, Napapijri, Timberland, Vans and Wrangler.
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Seven executives of Thule Group including Magnus Welander and Stefan...
Seven executives of Thule Group including Magnus Welander and Stefan Jacobsson, who are respectively chief executive and chairman of the Swedish company, have exercised warrants issued since 2014, paying 84.90 Swedish kronor (€9.05-$9.88) per share. The transaction raises the total number of shares by 1,036,455 to 101,036,455, resulting in net ...
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Garmin International has acquired Pulsed Light, a company specializing in...
Garmin International has acquired Pulsed Light, a company specializing in optical distance measurement technology, boasting that the sensor boards from the firm in Oregon are particularly accurate, small and lightweight. Pulsed Light developed and owns the intellectual property that enables this technology. The multiple applications could include products such as ...
