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Snowleader was honored at the Annecy Showroom avant Première (ASAP)...
Snowleader was honored at the Annecy Showroom avant Première (ASAP) on Jan. 14 with the award for best digital strategy among outdoor retailers. Snowleader is a French e-shop, created ten years ago, and specializes in the sale of outdoor products. The company posted revenues of around €23 million in 2018.
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The organizers of Ispo Beijing 2019 said they expect 400...
The organizers of Ispo Beijing 2019 said they expect 400 exhibitors representing 700 brands to take part in the trade show. Around half of the brands are from outside China, including regular attendees such as Marmot, Fjällräven, Rossignol and Scarpa. New European exhibitors at the Asian event include Active Sportswear ...
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Manchester United will open a series of “entertainment and experience...
Manchester United will open a series of “entertainment and experience centers” in China through a leading property developer based in Shenyang, Harves. The first ones are due to come on stream in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenyang before the end of 2020. They will feature interactive and immersive experiences for fans ...
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While no data were actually provided, attendance figures fell below...
While no data were actually provided, attendance figures fell below expectations at last month's new Outdoor Retailer Winter Market in Denver, said the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA). The new dates were supposed to respond to the need by softgoods companies for earlier orders, yet major brands like Patagonia and The ...
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At the opening of an international underwater swimming show in...
At the opening of an international underwater swimming show in Paris today, Aqua Lung announced that Philippe Cousteau and his wife, Ashlan Gorse Cousteau, will become its new brand ambassadors in 2019. Philippe is the grandson of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the French underwater explorer, film-maker and member of the Académie Française ...
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Special help is being made available to a larger number...
Special help is being made available to a larger number of sports retailers from several countries wishing to go to Ispo Munich, the international trade show scheduled to take place on Feb. 3–6, 2019. The program, called “Altogether to Munich,” is intended to support sports retailers from Austria, Italy, Poland, ...
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Outdoor Retailer has announced that all three shows in 2019...
Outdoor Retailer has announced that all three shows in 2019 will only last three days. The Summer Market in June and the Winter Market in November will move from four days to three, while the Snow Show in January remains a three-day event. All three shows will take place at ...
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There will be no Interbike show in Reno, Nevada as...
There will be no Interbike show in Reno, Nevada as planned next September. The organizer of the major North American bike trade show, Emerald Expositions, justified the move with a difficult market for bicycles in the U.S. over the past four years, compounded by substantial increases in U.S. import tariffs ...
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SportScheck will be honoring certain sports personalities with the newly...
SportScheck will be honoring certain sports personalities with the newly created “Made for More Award” on Feb. 2, 2019. The award ceremony will be broadcast via the free-TV channel of the Sport1 online platform. The live show will be recorded at the ziegelei101 in Munich. SportScheck has invited more than ...
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Zalando announced that it would not organize the Bread &...
Zalando announced that it would not organize the Bread & Butter by Zalando fashion festival in 2019, leaving the door open for similar events in selected cities. The online retailer launched the consumer-oriented marketing event for the first time three years ago at the former Tempelhof airport in Berlin, after ...
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Ulli Ehrlich, creative director and managing director of Sportalm, has...
Ulli Ehrlich, creative director and managing director of Sportalm, has received the Brand Award from the European Brand Institute. The annual awards ceremony took place for the tenth time in Vienna, honoring founders of sustainable companies. Sportalm is based in Kitzbühel, Austria, and manufactures and markets fashion and ski apparel ...
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Karl-Heinz Müller, the founder of the Bread & Butter show,...
Karl-Heinz Müller, the founder of the Bread & Butter show, has canceled the L.O.C.K. trade show that was scheduled to take place on Jan. 15-17, 2019, at the former Tempelhof airport in Berlin. In a statement, Müller says that there were uncertainties surrounding the rental of the airport's Hangar 7 ...
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Visitors to the next edition of Ispo Beijing, which will...
Visitors to the next edition of Ispo Beijing, which will celebrate its 15th anniversary at a new venue on Jan. 16-19, will be offered a two-day guided tour of ski resorts in preparation for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. The E-Commerce Matchmaking Program and the Asia Pacific Snow Conference will ...
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The Bright show, regarded as the leading European trade show...
The Bright show, regarded as the leading European trade show for streetwear, sneakers and skateboarding, which was acquired by the Premium Group in July 2015 and is held at the Arena Berlin fairgrounds, will not take place next January. According to the organizers of the show, the break will be ...
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Markus Hefter, who has been in charge of Ispo Munich...
Markus Hefter, who has been in charge of Ispo Munich for the past ten years, has become personally responsible also for the new OutDoor by Ispo fair as exhibition group director. He had already served as outdoor project director for Ispo between January 2006 and October 2008. Hefter reports to ...
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As previously reported, Performance Days, the 10-year-old trade show for...
As previously reported, Performance Days, the 10-year-old trade show for functional fabrics, will be moving from the MOC to the main fairgrounds of Messe München for its next session, scheduled for Nov. 28-29. Taking advantage of the larger floorspace in Hall C1, it will host a total of 296 exhibitors ...
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The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) will...
The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) will be holding its sixth World Manufacturers Forum (WMF) on Dec. 11-12 in Ho Chi Minh City. The theme is “Manufacturing 4.0: Steps towards a Future Vision.” In keeping with this theme, the WMF will be dividing the program into four ...
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Sports retailers are being given preferential rates for attending the...
Sports retailers are being given preferential rates for attending the Ispo Munich show next Feb. 3-6, supplementing various services that are already available to this important target group. Exhibitors are already being given free tickets for their key retail customers. The others will have to pay only €19 for a ...
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Ispo started to accept applications for the 2019 Ispo Awards...
Ispo started to accept applications for the 2019 Ispo Awards on Oct. 1, establishing Dec. 7 as the deadline for receiving them. In the previous contest, the deadline had been set much later, on Jan. 10, leaving little time for the jury to make its selections.
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Eurobike's organizers have teamed up with counterparts in Thailand to...
Eurobike's organizers have teamed up with counterparts in Thailand to set up a new trade fair targeting the cycling business in South East Asia. Aseanbike powered by Eurobike will be held for the first time next year, over three days starting on Oct. 3, at the Impact Exhibition and Convention ...
