News Briefs – Page 71
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News briefsFila will continue to outfit Italian ice sports athletes
Fila Holdings Corp. has announced that the Fila brand’s partnership with the Italian Ice Sports Federation (FISG) will continue for the entire four-year Olympic cycle until 2026. The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, where the national short and long-track speed skating team and the mixed doubles curling performed in specially designed ...
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News briefsTechnogym inaugurates new Benelux center
Technogym has announced the opening of its new Technogym Benelux center. Located at Capelle aan den Ijssel in the western Netherlands, the 1,500 sqm space has been designed to attract both industry operators and consumers, who will have a chance to discover the brand’s ecosystem made of training equipment, digital ...
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News briefsLacoste to double number of stores in India
French apparel brand Lacoste plans to open around 50 standalone stores in India over the next five years, Business Standard has reported, based on an interview with Lacoste’s CEO for the Asia-Pacific region, Marcus Meyer. The brand currently has 42 stores and seven digital marketplaces in India and plans to ...
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News briefsCricketer Deepak Chahar launches new sports brand in India
Deepak Chahar, the 31-year-old cricketer who plays in the Indian Premier League and team India, has officially launched a new sports brand called Dnine Sports. The brand will be incorporated under Lcdc Athletics Private Ltd., which Chahar co-founded with his father, Lokendra Singh, last year. Dnine’s products, designed to enhance ...
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News briefsDoja Cat launches Skechers signature collection
Source: Skechers Skechers x Doja Cat Grammy Award-winning rapper, singer and songwriter Doja Cat continues her role as Skechers artist-in-residence with the debut of her first footwear collaboration, available at first exclusively on StockX for a limited time. The Doja’Lite from the Skechers x Doja Cat collection ...
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News briefsAdidas launches limited-edition spikeless golf shoes with 4D midsole
Source: Adidas Adidas MC87 4D Adidas has unveiled the MC87 4D, a limited edition model of spikeless golf shoes that combines a clean and classic upper with the futuristic 4D midsole. The shoes are based on a gender-neutral last and are available in various men’s and women’s ...
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News briefsSport enters the Italian Constitution
In a historical step, Italy’s Chamber of Deputies unanimously approved on Sept. 20 an amendment to include sport in the Constitution. The measure had already received the green light from the Senate. The following paragraph has been added to Article 33, which refers to art and science: “The Republic recognizes ...
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News briefsHelly Hansen Italy has a new country manager
Michele Battocchio is the new country manager for Italy of the Norwegian brand Helly Hansen. Battocchio has more than 25 years of experience in sporting goods, footwear and fashion at the national and international level. He previously worked for UYN, Garmont and Northwave. Battocchio will be based at Helly Hansen’s ...
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News briefsBabolat will open a padel innovation center in Spain
French equipment maker Babolat has announced that it is investing in a new padel technical center in Spain. The new unit, located in Sant Fruitós de Bages, about one hour from Barcelona, will be used by the brand as a studio for testing and developing its own padel racquets while ...
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News briefsBrooks launches running shoe made from partially recycled materials on path to net zero
Source: Brooks Running Green Silence Ghost 15 With the introduction of the Green Silence Ghost 15, Brooks takes another (running) step toward its net-zero emissions goal in 2040. 39.4 percent of the shoe is made from recycled materials, including 80 percent of the upper. Both represent the ...
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News briefsGulden comments on Kanye West incident on podcast
Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, interviewed Bjørn Gulden, CEO of Adidas, on his podcast “In Good Company” on Sept. 13. The boss of the world’s second-largest sporting goods company said during the interview, among other things, that Kanye West may not have meant his anti-Semitic statements as ...
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News briefsAmer recovers in Spain
After two years of dips, Amer Sports Spain seems to have inverted the curve in 2022, falling just shy of the €60 million or so in revenues it was generating before the lockdowns came into force. According to the VAT-free figures that CMDsport has gathered from Spain’s commercial register, the ...
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News briefsGolden Goose could be next to go public
The private equity Permira has hired a financial advisor to study an initial public offering (IPO) on the Milan stock exchange for Golden Goose, according to the business newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore. The advisor is believed to be a US investment bank present in Europe. The IPO could be ...
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News briefsFreitag celebrates 30 years with a fake turned original
In the fall of 1993, two brothers made bags from used truck tarps in a Zurich apartment. Today, this has grown into a company that puts unique recycled bags on the road from Europe to Asia. The idea is to keep used materials in circulation for as long as possible ...
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News briefsAdidas opens new state-of-the-art automated distribution center in China
Adidas has partnered with Geek+, a specialist in mobile robots for logistics, to announce the opening of its state-of-the-art automated distribution center in Suzhou, China. The 139,000-sqm fully automated warehouse and distribution center sets a new industry standard with its high level of speed and flexibility in warehouse logistics. It ...
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News briefsBiotech company MycoWorks opens US factory for leather alternatives
Biotechnology company MycoWorks has begun production at its 12600-sqm factory in Union, South Carolina, making it the world’s first large-scale leather alternatives factory. The facility is capable of producing large quantities of the alternative leather material produced with Fine Mycelium technology. MycoWorks currently counts Hermès and General Motors among its ...
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News briefsSportmaster launches Russia’s first sporting goods marketplace
Russia’s largest sporting goods retailer, Sportmaster, has rolled out the country’s first marketplace focused exclusively on the sale of sporting and outdoor goods. The service was launched on Sportmaster’s website in the form of a separate page. The marketplace does not yet have a standalone name, and so far only ...
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News briefsDecathlon opts for internal solution for Germany CEO succession
Source: Decathlon Arnaud Sauret Following the promotion of long-time German CEO André Weinert to CEO for Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CESEE), the French sporting goods retailer and manufacturer Decathlon has appointed Arnaud Sauret as his successor with immediate effect. Sauret has been responsible for Decathlon’s growth ...
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News briefsRoger Federer’s last Grand Slam-winning outfit up for sale in historic tennis auction
Source: Prestige Memorabilia Roger Federer’s 2018 Australian Open match worn and signed outfit Prestige Memorabilia announced an auction of tennis memorabilia culminating in an exclusive piece of tennis history: Roger Federer’s match-worn outfit from his landmark 20th Grand Slam victory at the 2018 Australian Open. The win ...
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News briefsPickleball becomes official in Spain
Spain’s tennis federation (RFET) has incorporated the sport of pickleball. It has, in consequence, established a committee to handle pickleball-related matters and chosen the leader of pickleball’s Spanish association, Roberto Pérez, to preside over it. RFET’s chairman, Miguel Díaz Román, acknowledging pickleball’s fast growth in Europe, says the RFET seeks ...
