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Paola Cobos has been appointed as the new secretary general...
Paola Cobos has been appointed as the new secretary general of Afydad, the Spanish sporting goods industry association, taking the place of Gloria Perarnau who is pursuing new projects in France. Cobos has accumulated experience elsewhere in the organization of international fairs, trade missions and similar projects. Her new job ...
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The World Customs Organization (WCO), which is based in Brussels,...
The World Customs Organization (WCO), which is based in Brussels, is developing a special database of potentially counterfeit items in collaboration with the European federation of the sporting goods industry (Fesi). Using this database and new tools, customs officials were able to seize about 520,000 fake footballs, shirts, shoes and ...
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Research conducted by the European Outdoor Group (EOG) indicates that...
Research conducted by the European Outdoor Group (EOG) indicates that outdoor brands in Europe and North America utilize between 1,400 and 1,600 tons of duck and goose down annually, representing less than one percent of the global production of the feathers. Some 90 percent of it comes from China. Marc ...
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Scott Sports is voluntarily recalling about 8,000 Speedster bikes worldwide,...
Scott Sports is voluntarily recalling about 8,000 Speedster bikes worldwide, in cooperation with national authorities, due to a finding that the steerer tube in the front fork can break, posing a hazard. The recall involves model year 2014 Scott Speedster road bikes, the current range, including the women's model, Scott ...
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Scott Sports reported that thieves broke into the warehouse at...
Scott Sports reported that thieves broke into the warehouse at its headquarters in Givisiez, Switzerland on Sunday, June 1 and stole 200 high-end bikes. It is the latest in a recent spate of burglaries that have affected bike manufacturers and retailers across the globe during the past few months. According ...
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Greenpeace has taken advantage of the excitement over the World...
Greenpeace has taken advantage of the excitement over the World Cup to voice a claim that 33 products developed for the tournament by Adidas, Nike and Puma contain high levels of hazardous chemicals. The products criticized by the organization include Adidas' Brazuca ball, its Predator boot and Nike's Tiempo boot. ...
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Marker Völkl and Tecnica Group, respectively the leading and fourth-largest...
Marker Völkl and Tecnica Group, respectively the leading and fourth-largest sellers of skis in the U.S., have settled Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that for many years they illegally agreed not to compete for one another's ski endorsers or employees. The FTC charges that beginning in 2004, Marker Völkl and ...
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The French sporting goods industry federation, Fifas, is recruiting a...
The French sporting goods industry federation, Fifas, is recruiting a new secretary general through Sport Carrière to take the place of Catherine Trachtenberg, who is planning to leave after a transition period to pursue a new project outside the sporting goods sector. She has been with the association for 30 ...
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The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) has...
The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) has become an official member of the Intergovernmental Committee for Physical Education and Sport (Giceps) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco). In this role, WFSGI intends to fight for access to sports as a fundamental right for ...
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Columbia Sportswear reports that a court in Milan has granted...
Columbia Sportswear reports that a court in Milan has granted a preliminary injunction against Geox, authorizing the seizure of certain Amphibiox branded shoes in Italy because they are likely to have infringed a patent held by its OutDry Technologies subsidiary for waterproof and breathable footwear. Similar legal action is pending ...
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Vibram USA, the producer of FiveFingers running shoes, has moved...
Vibram USA, the producer of FiveFingers running shoes, has moved to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that it overstated the shoes' health benefits. The company has offered to pay a total of $3.75 million to people who bought the shoes and said it would stop making claims in its commercials ...
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G-Max, the Norwegian sporting goods chain franchised by Gresvig, has...
G-Max, the Norwegian sporting goods chain franchised by Gresvig, has won in the court case that XXL had filed against its price matching campaign, which we have already written about in recent issues. The verdict stated that G-Max had done nothing illegal when they launched the campaign, but asked the ...
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French court authorities received two bids for the takeover of...
French court authorities received two bids for the takeover of Duarig, the Balbigny-based sports equipment maker founded in 1886. The company went into receivership last October. The first offer was filed by Duarig's senior management, who would like to create a cooperative (Scop). The second offer came from a group ...
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The European Commission will provide €1.7 million in funding for...
The European Commission will provide €1.7 million in funding for a new project called Tex-Med Clusters, whose objective is to enhance the competitiveness of the textile industry in the Mediterranean countries. The project will run for two years. Through the scheme, small and medium-sized companies in the European textile sector ...
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Unofficial sources at Shimano said that the strike at its...
Unofficial sources at Shimano said that the strike at its facility in Kunshan, China was brought to an end on April 10. The strike is expected to have no impact on deliveries, the company said. The Kunshan facility, which produces entry-level bicycle components mainly made for the Chinese market, is ...
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European importers may be able to recover some of the...
European importers may be able to recover some of the anti-dumping duties that they had to pay for shoes sourced in China and Vietnam. Responding to a complaint filed by Puma, the financial court of Munich has formally asked the European Court of Justice to issue a verdict on the ...
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Herbert Hainer, who recently accepted to extend his mandate as...
Herbert Hainer, who recently accepted to extend his mandate as chief executive of the Adidas Group, has agreed to become now also the chairman of the supervisory board of FC Bayern München, the big football club in which Adidas is a minority shareholder. He was already a vice president of ...
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Experts from several companies that are members of the European...
Experts from several companies that are members of the European Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi), joined experienced investigators and enforcement officers from across the 28 member countries of the European Union, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), the World Customs Organization (WCO) and Brazil's National Council on Combating ...
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Marina Egydio de Carvalho has been appointed executive director of...
Marina Egydio de Carvalho has been appointed executive director of MOVE, the Brazilian sporting goods industry association. She takes the place of Andre Raduan, who left a few months ago, after three years in the post. She became a lawyer in 2006 after her studies in Brazil and the U.K. ...
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A group of companies involved in pádel, the Spanish-Argentinian racquet...
A group of companies involved in pádel, the Spanish-Argentinian racquet sport known also as paddle tennis, has set up an international association of manufacturers of the related products. Its foundation took place in the framework of the first edition of the Pádel Pro Show in Madrid, which coincided with the ...
