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The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry will host...
The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry will host a public forum on the globalization of the industry at the Geneva headquarters of the World Trade Organization next Sept. 21 from 11:15 AM to 1:15 PM. Admission will be free. The purpose of the conference, titled “Made in the ...
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The Spanish sporting goods industry federation, Afydad, will be organizing...
The Spanish sporting goods industry federation, Afydad, will be organizing a seminar about radio frequency identification in cooperation with the Barcelona Moda Center, BMC. The event will take place on Sept. 29 at the facilities of the BMC near Barcelona, in Sant Quirze del Vallès. The event program includes a ...
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Messe München, the organizer of Ispo Munich and Ispo Beijing,...
Messe München, the organizer of Ispo Munich and Ispo Beijing, has created a special project management division for its cycle show, Ispo Bike, formerly known as Bike Expo. The new unit will be headed by Eva Schlangenotto, a 30-yeazr-old official who has already worked for both Ispo and Bike Expo ...
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Two Swedish sports retailers – Sportringen, with about 50 stores,...
Two Swedish sports retailers – Sportringen, with about 50 stores, and Jaktia, with about 20 stores – have entered a collaboration agreement on buying days and for marketing purposes. The first common fair will be organized in early September in Borås, Sweden. About 30 sport suppliers, 10-15 fishing suppliers, and ...
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The organizers of the Moscow Ski & Board Salon, scheduled...
The organizers of the Moscow Ski & Board Salon, scheduled for next Oct. 21-23, are proposing the creation of a Child Art-Sport Zone, featuring sport contests, a drawing clinic and contest, a blow-up rock climbing wall, a slide, and other amusements for children up to the age of 12. This ...
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EuroSIMA, the European Boardsports Industry Manufacturers Association, is launching the...
EuroSIMA, the European Boardsports Industry Manufacturers Association, is launching the 2011 Innovation Awards. A jury of professionals and experts will meet on Sept. 16 to pick winners of the Technological Innovation of the Year Award and the Ecologica l Innovation of the Year Award. They will be announced on Oct. ...
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The Kanumesse, which claims to have become the most important...
The Kanumesse, which claims to have become the most important trade show for canoes and kayaks in the world, reports another record in the number of exhibitors at its next session, scheduled for Sept. 18-20 in Nuremberg, Germany. There will be more than 170 exhibitors on a gross surface of ...
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The Swatch Skiers Cup, a freestyle skiing equivalent to the...
The Swatch Skiers Cup, a freestyle skiing equivalent to the Ryder Cup of golfing, is being launched this year. Eight freestyle skiers from the U.S. will compete with eight European freestyle skiers in Valle Nevado, Chile, on Sept. 5-12. Just like in the Ryder Cup, one skier from each continent ...
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Building on the success of the Surfing China organization and...
Building on the success of the Surfing China organization and the China Action Sports Exhibition trade show, a group of action sports companies operating in China have formed a trade association, called S3 for Surf, Skate, Snow. One of aims is to raise participation in action and board sports. S3 ...
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Roger Zeng, president of the China Outdoor Retailers Association (CORA),...
Roger Zeng, president of the China Outdoor Retailers Association (CORA), will be among the speakers featured at the European Outdoor Industry Forum in Annecy next Oct. 11-12, complementing presentations by Mark Held and Frank Hugelmeyer, who run the European Outdoor Group (EOG) and the U.S. Outdoor Industry Association (OIA), respectively. ...
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The organizers of the European Outdoor Forum have announced that...
The organizers of the European Outdoor Forum have announced that Alex Stiler, the author of “X Play Nation,” will appear at the event to give a presentation on how to capture the youth market. He will take the example of how action sports have made themselves appealing to young people ...
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Forty suppliers exhibitors showed at the latest trade show of...
Forty suppliers exhibitors showed at the latest trade show of ISRA, the Irish buying group, including Harrows, Ridge 53, Reusch, Mizuno, Asics, Fitness-Mad, Precision Training and Wacky Sox. The event, held July 11-12 in Killenard, drew 30 retailers. John Riordan, ISRA's coordinator, said that the number of orders placed at ...
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Heiner Oberrauch, president of the Salewa/Oberalp group, will be the...
Heiner Oberrauch, president of the Salewa/Oberalp group, will be the keynote speaker at a dinner sponsored by Ispo during the European Outdoor Forum, scheduled to be held in Annecy, France, on Oct. 11-12. Like last year, where the keynote speaker was Paul Petzl, the dinner will take place on a ...
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GBsport TV, a free digital sports channel that will stream...
GBsport TV, a free digital sports channel that will stream sports live in the U.K., is preparing to launch in September. The channel has the backing of the sports production company Input Media; the brand engagement specialist Kameleon; the Telegraph Media Group; and Convers Sports Initiatives, a fast-growing sports, media ...
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Sports, tourism and sporting goods industry officials in Munich, Germany,...
Sports, tourism and sporting goods industry officials in Munich, Germany, and Annecy, France, were sad to hear that Pyeongchang has been chosen to host the Winter Olympic Games in 2018. The South Korean city got 63 out of the 95 votes cast at a session of the International Olympic Committee ...
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The International Olympic Committee has added three new events that...
The International Olympic Committee has added three new events that will make their debuts at the 2014 Winter Olympics: slopestyle skiing, slopestyle snowboarding and snowboarding parallel slalom. These come on top of halfpipe skiing and women's ski jumping, which the committee added in April. The executive board of the IOC ...
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The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry has published...
The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry has published the branding guidelines for the 2012 London Olympic Games on its website. They cover general definitions, principles and their specific implementations for all kinds of product categories. They will apply to all the athletes, officials and other persons accredited to ...
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The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry has extended...
The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry has extended its partnership with Messe München, organizer of Ispo, so that the federation's members will continue to benefit from the tie-up. The agreement encompasses the Ispo fairs in Munich and Bejing, Bike Expo, Golf Europe and Sports Source Europe.
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Two new industry meetings are to take place in France...
Two new industry meetings are to take place in France this summer for companies in the board sports business. To be held in Biarritz at the start of July, B.A.S.E. Workshop consists of four buying days for boardsports apparel and footwear, with about 200 brands represented. Organized by Brotherhood Communication, ...
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Asia Bike, which will be integrated into the Asia Outdoor...
Asia Bike, which will be integrated into the Asia Outdoor fair for its inaugural edition in Nanjing at the end of July, will thereafter become independent and be held after the Eurobike show in Friedrichshafen. The first show of its kind in China, Asia Bike is expected to draw about ...
