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The action sports section at Ispo Munich has been redesigned...
The action sports section at Ispo Munich has been redesigned for next year's edition, with a concept of polygonal modules in Hall B6. Providing suitable space for brands of all sizes, the new design is meant to put more emphasis on products and innovation, as well as sustainability. The hall ...
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Our assumptions were right. Next year's European Outdoor Summit (EOS)...
Our assumptions were right. Next year's European Outdoor Summit (EOS) will be held in Italy. The venue will be the beautiful city of Venice. The 2017 edition of the EOS will be staged in partnership with the Italian Outdoor Group and Assosport, which recently agreed to join forces for this ...
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Bright, the ten-year-old action sports trade show at Arena Berlin,...
Bright, the ten-year-old action sports trade show at Arena Berlin, is adding a new outdoor segment for its next session, scheduled for Jan. 17-19. It is proposing to host a selected number of streetwear and lifestyle-minded outdoor brands as well as more technical brands that connect design with functionality. Most ...
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More than 300 chief executives and present or future employees...
More than 300 chief executives and present or future employees of the action sports industry gathered in Seignosse, on the Basque coast of France, on Oct. 6-7 for the annual Eurosima Surf Summit. Some 40 brands showed nearly 100 products in the Surfing Lounge. Patagonia won the 2016 Innovation of ...
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A higher level of management was represented at the fourth...
A higher level of management was represented at the fourth annual European Outdoor Summit, which welcomed more than 250 outdoor industry professionals from across Europe and beyond on Sept. 29-30 in Barcelona. It was organized by the European Outdoor Group in cooperation with Afydad, the Spanish sporting goods industry association. ...
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Barcelona will be the venue of a new snow and...
Barcelona will be the venue of a new snow and mountain sports festival, Let's Snow BCN, on Nov. 11-13. Besides the operators of ski resorts, it will host some ski brands as well as a dozen sports stores on a space of 42,000 square meters in the Pueblo Español.
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The latest edition of Fibo China, held in Shanghai on...
The latest edition of Fibo China, held in Shanghai on Sept. 8-10, welcomed a total of 16,097 visitors, 75 percent of whom were buyers from the fitness sector, says Reed Exhibitions. That was double the 8,018 visitors of a year ago. The number of exhibitors grew by 30 percent to ...
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Moscow hosted a new bike trade show called Bike-Expo in...
Moscow hosted a new bike trade show called Bike-Expo in September. The event started on Sept. 8 and took place at an exhibition hall in Sokolniki, just outside of the Russian capital city. The area features a large parking lot for cars and a dedicated metro station. It is also ...
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Giant was named as the winner of the Profitability Award...
Giant was named as the winner of the Profitability Award in the Bike category at the latest Interbike Awards ceremony, which was held in Las Vegas on Sept. 22. The winner of the Profitability Award is chosen by the National Bicycle Dealer Association (NBDA) based on a range of parameters ...
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The Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals Foundation (ZDHC) and the...
The Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals Foundation (ZDHC) and the China National Textile and Apparel Council (CNTAC), an industry federation representing textile-related industries in China, will jointly host a conference on better chemical management aimed at suppliers within the textile and footwear value chain. ZDHC oversees the implementation of the ...
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ZEG, the biggest cooperative of independent bike dealers in Europe,...
ZEG, the biggest cooperative of independent bike dealers in Europe, has announced that it will pull out of the Eurobike show in Friedrichshafen. It will invest more of its resources in the ZEG Bike Show in its home town of Cologne, opening it up to non-members. Its next show is ...
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After a year's hiatus, the Swesport trade fair near Stockholm...
After a year's hiatus, the Swesport trade fair near Stockholm will be back on Nov. 27-28, but in a new format that caters primarily to independent retailers. Its role diminished after the purchasing activities of the major Swedish sporting goods chains became more centralized. Therefore, Sweden's trade association in the ...
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Three sports-related conventions are taking place in Spain this month....
Three sports-related conventions are taking place in Spain this month. More than 130 managers attended the new Sport Business Day, a national conference organized by Diffusion Sport in Madrid on Sept. 20. A few days later, on Sept. 28-29, the European Outdoor Summit in Barcelona is set to welcome more ...
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The organizers of the first Sport-Achat fair in Nantes, which...
The organizers of the first Sport-Achat fair in Nantes, which was held a few days after the same fair in Lyon to target buyers from the western half of France, are likely to adjust the timing of the second edition. Although the response was satisfactory, it turned out that quite ...
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Eurobike suffered a 7 percent drop in the total number...
Eurobike suffered a 7 percent drop in the total number of daily visits by professionals, down to 42,720, at its 25th edition held in Friedrichshafen last month. A stronger decline was recorded among German trade visitors. The number of daily visits by consumers grew by 14,000 to 34,400 because of ...
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The organizers of the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market have started...
The organizers of the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market have started discussing the idea of an agreement with Snowsports Industries of America, which organizes the SIA snow show in Denver. The idea is that Outdoor Retailer would hold a softgoods-only show in Salt Lake City in November, starting in 2017, while ...
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EFFTA, the European fishing tackle industry association, confirms that Budapest...
EFFTA, the European fishing tackle industry association, confirms that Budapest will be the venue for its annual EFTTEX show next year, followed by Amsterdam in 2018, and that it is looking at other potential venues for 2019 and 2020. Reportedly, exhibitors prefer Amsterdam, but the organizers indicate that it is ...
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved on Aug. 3 five...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved on Aug. 3 five new sports for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The 2020 Games will include skateboarding, surfing, karate, climbing and baseball/softball. These will not replace any of the 28 sports already on the schedule, and the athlete and event quotas of ...
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Nine leading sports brands worked together to supply free competition...
Nine leading sports brands worked together to supply free competition gear to hundreds of athletes at the Rio Olympics, under the first NOC Competition Uniform Support Programme. As described earlier this year, the partnership led by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) ...
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Ispo Shanghai confirmed itself as multi-segment sporting goods show in...
Ispo Shanghai confirmed itself as multi-segment sporting goods show in the Asian market. The number of brands exhibiting at the second edition of the fair, which took place on July 6-8, increased by 32 percent to 470 companies representing about 500 labels. However, the number of visitors declined from nearly ...
