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A new national B2B and B2C trade show, Surf Out...
A new national B2B and B2C trade show, Surf Out Portugal, will make its debut in Portugal on Sept. 15 and 16. It will be held at Estoril near Cascais, the surf spot north of Lisbon. Rusty and Lightning Bolt are mentioned among the 45 exhibitors along with local surf ...
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Paying tribute to the new athleisure trend, Première Vision, the...
Paying tribute to the new athleisure trend, Première Vision, the world's largest fabrics fair, is launching a new Sport & Tech section at its next show on Sept. 19-21, accompanied by conferences on the subject. The initiative has led Polartec and Primaloft to exhibit at the fair, joining 73 other ...
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The third edition of the Bread & Butter by Zalando...
The third edition of the Bread & Butter by Zalando fashion festival in Berlin registered 35,000 visitors, 16 percent more than in the previous year. It ran from Aug. 31 to Sept. 2, and the marketing event organized by the online retailer was apparently sold out every day. The festival ...
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Burton and Nitro, two leading snowboarding companies, have joined the...
Burton and Nitro, two leading snowboarding companies, have joined the European Outdoor Group (EOG), widening the remit of the organization. Burton and Nitro have both become full members, and Salomon is adding its snowboard business to its existing membership. The EOG said that this highlights the alignment and synergy between ...
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The European Platform for Sports Innovation (EPSI) plans to hold...
The European Platform for Sports Innovation (EPSI) plans to hold its annual conference in Ghent, Belgium, on Oct. 25 and 26, with the support of Pinnacle and Ghent University Victoris. In June, the organization has reached its goal of doubling the number of members in one year. Continuing to provide ...
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Micam, the world's leading footwear exhibition held in Milan twice...
Micam, the world's leading footwear exhibition held in Milan twice a year, has decided to stage for the first time a consumer event for sneaker fans, targeting millennials, in 2019. Inspired by sneaker conventions like the Complexcon festival in Los Angeles or Atlanta's KixFair, Micam's “Plug-Mi, The Sneakers Culture Experience” ...
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The July 5-7 edition of Ispo Shanghai attracted over 14,500...
The July 5-7 edition of Ispo Shanghai attracted over 14,500 visitors, four percent more than one year ago. The organizers estimate that nearly half of the visitors to the show tend to come from the retail and distribution segment, and that more than 80 percent of them are decision-makers. A ...
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Messe München says that its Ispo Digitize Summit attracted a...
Messe München says that its Ispo Digitize Summit attracted a total of 443 participants, 20 percent from outside Germany, at its first edition outside the Ispo show in Munich last June 28 and 29. We plan to report on some of the highlights in a forthcoming edition of SGI Europe. ...
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Changing their minds, the organizers of the Eurobike show in...
Changing their minds, the organizers of the Eurobike show in Friedrichshafen have decided to take it back to its older end-of-season schedule. Messe Friedrichshafen had proposed to stage the show next year from July 31 to Aug. 3, but it gave in to the requests for later dates by Shimano ...
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The new Outdoor by Ispo show in Munich, which will...
The new Outdoor by Ispo show in Munich, which will take the place of the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen, will occupy nine halls on the eastern side of the main fairgrounds. It will be divided into three segments: Core Outdoor, Outdoor Plus and X Industries. The third segment will be ...
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Oberalp has decided to start exhibiting again at the Ispo...
Oberalp has decided to start exhibiting again at the Ispo Munich show, after an absence of two years. It will have a corporate stand for all its brands – Salewa, Dynafit, Pomoca and Wild Country – but it will continue to hold its sales conventions in late October and May. ...
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Fila will be presenting its first ever runway show at...
Fila will be presenting its first ever runway show at the next Milan Fashion Week, which is scheduled for September 18-24. The specific venue and date of Fila's show have yet to be confirmed. On that occasion, the brand will be unveiling its spring/summer 2019 womenswear collection. Fila's debut runway ...
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Sport Achat will not have an edition in the city...
Sport Achat will not have an edition in the city of Nantes this coming September. The B2B event in France's West, organized by Sportair, was originally launched in 2016. At its inaugural edition, it saw the participation of 243 brands and 576 visitors, but the 2017 Nantes show registered a ...
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Surf Demo Days, a new three-day event for the surf...
Surf Demo Days, a new three-day event for the surf industry and consumers, will be launched on June 15-17 in Soorts-Hossegor, in France's southwest. The location, only 20km north of Biarritz, is at the heart of the European surf industry. Industry leaders, manufacturers, pro surfers and retailers will be given ...
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Messe München, which won the bid to host the European...
Messe München, which won the bid to host the European OutDoor show from 2019 on just before the Ispo Munich show last January, is inviting industry professionals to register to attend free of charge a conference in Munich on June 27 to introduce the new concept of the fair, which ...
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Kasper Rorsted, chief executive of the Adidas Group, has agreed...
Kasper Rorsted, chief executive of the Adidas Group, has agreed to be one of the speakers at the Ispo Digitize Summit, the event organized by Messe München in June around the digital economy. Other confirmed speakers include Günther Althaus, chief executive of the ANWR Group, Philipp Roesch-Schlanderer, co-founder and chief ...
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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, has restructured its management team. Katharina Schreiber and Dennis Scholz, both active skateboarders who are said to ...
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The new European Cup of Padel Clubs, or Euro Padel...
The new European Cup of Padel Clubs, or Euro Padel Cup, will make its debut on Nov. 9-11 in Paris, at Casa Padel. The tournament is organized by AECP, the European Association of Padel Clubs, based in Toulouse, France. The new event is to promote the sport across the continent ...
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For the fifth consecutive year, Stormberg is ranked among the...
For the fifth consecutive year, Stormberg is ranked among the top three sustainable businesses in Norway. The ranking is based on the Sustainable Brand Index, which is the largest Nordic brand study on sustainability, based on consumer assessment of 225 Norwegian businesses. Stormberg came in third place, increasing its score ...
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Digitization in the sports business is the central topic of...
Digitization in the sports business is the central topic of the Ispo Academy Scandinavia, scheduled in Stockholm on April 17 and 18. The organizers said that specialists from Sweden and other countries will provide exclusive insights into the digital prospects of the industry at the two-day event. “Digital transformation is ...
