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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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Elena Jasper will take over in April as exhibition director...
Elena Jasper will take over in April as exhibition director for Ispo Beijing and Ispo Shanghai at the main office of Messe München, taking the place of Paul März who left in December. The 33-year-old worked most recently as senior manager at Siemens in Munich, where she was responsible for ...
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The London Golf Show 2016 will take place on Aug....
The London Golf Show 2016 will take place on Aug. 26-28 at Bluewater, moving from the show's traditional schedule in October/November. The 2015 show welcomed 14,881 visitors over three days, representing a 15 percent increase on the previous year. The number of exhibitors showed a similar increase. The Golf Show ...
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Pinarello has announced it is pulling out of the Eurobike...
Pinarello has announced it is pulling out of the Eurobike trade show, saying during the last few years it has been shifting toward direct involvement with its customers. The Italian bicycle company will continue to present its new products via a collaborative presentation with Team Sky at the Giro D'Italia, ...
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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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The number of exhibitors at Ispo Munich is on the...
The number of exhibitors at Ispo Munich is on the rise again. They will total 2,645 at the edition of the world's largest sporting goods show starting on Sunday, compared with 2,585 a year ago. The exhibition space of more than 180,000 square feet is fully booked. Messe München's management ...
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Sustainability, ethics and human rights in sports are the topics...
Sustainability, ethics and human rights in sports are the topics of this year's World Sports Forum, organized by the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry on Jan. 22 in Munich. The speakers include Shaun McCarthy, former chair of the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012, and Federico Addiecchi, Fifa's ...
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Several ski brands are working together under the coordination of...
Several ski brands are working together under the coordination of the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi) to promote snow sport activities on one of the venues of the 2016 edition of the World Snow Day in Cortina, Italy, on Jan. 17. The World Snow Day is an ...
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Zalando, which bought the bankrupt Bread & Butter trade show...
Zalando, which bought the bankrupt Bread & Butter trade show in Berlin last June, says it will stage the first consumer-oriented B&B show on Sept. 2-4 at Arena Berlin, where the Bright and Seek trade shows were held earlier this week. Zalando was looking for a new site for its ...
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The Berlin Fashion Week, which took place on Jan. 19-21,...
The Berlin Fashion Week, which took place on Jan. 19-21, was again a successful platform for retailers and manufacturers to meet and discover the new autumn/winter 2016/17 collections. Bright, the leading European trade show for streetwear, sneakers and skateboarding, took place for the first time under the ownership of the ...
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CIFF, the international fashion fair in Copenhagen, is featuring for...
CIFF, the international fashion fair in Copenhagen, is featuring for the first time a Performance area at its next session on Feb. 3-7, focusing on outdoor and sports fashion. It will focus on Scandinavian brands such as Bergans of Norway, Casall, Peak Performance and Tretorn.
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The Outdoor Retailer Winter Market reports stable attendance at its...
The Outdoor Retailer Winter Market reports stable attendance at its latest session in Salt Lake City. The organizers estimate a total of 22,000 attendees. More than 1,060 brands exhibited at the show, and 19 percent of the exhibitors were new to the fair. The business mood was not great, according ...
