News briefs – Page 63
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After consulting its members, the leadership of Spaf, the Swiss...
After consulting its members, the leadership of Spaf, the Swiss association of sporting goods suppliers, has decided to postpone a possible merger with Asmas, the Swiss sporting goods retailers association, for at least one year. The board of Asmas has approved the project in principle, but it has agreed to ...
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Cotton shipments from India have resumed after two months of...
Cotton shipments from India have resumed after two months of restrictions. The government had suspended new registrations for cotton exports as an attempt to make sure domestic mills and manufacturers had plenty of the raw material. The decision will be revisited later this month, and the Cotton Corporation of India, ...
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Britney Obstar, a former senior marketing manager at Adidas America,...
Britney Obstar, a former senior marketing manager at Adidas America, has been sentenced to one year and one day in jail by a U.S. district judge for organizing a fraud scheme that cost Adidas $336,000. Obstar was ordered to pay full restitution to Adidas, and to serve three years of ...
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Columbia Sportswear will pay $22,800 as a fine to the...
Columbia Sportswear will pay $22,800 as a fine to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for selling mislabeled pesticide-treated clothing. The agency requires that such apparel bear an EPA pesticide registration number, a proper ingredient statement, and a proper storage and disposal statement, and that they carry the statement “It is ...
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The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) has...
The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) has announced a new board member: Christina Li Wei from the Li-Ning company is replacing Jay Li, who has quit his duties at the big Chinese sporting goods company. Li Wei, 42, was appointed head of Li-Ning's PR last year. She ...
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Black Diamond has become an associated member of Fesi, the...
Black Diamond has become an associated member of Fesi, the European sporting goods industry federation. As a member of Fesi's ski & ski boots working committee, it will participate in the organization's 2011/12 ski hardware market research.
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One Way Sport said it would be seeking significant compensation...
One Way Sport said it would be seeking significant compensation from Fischer, after courts in Germany and Finland rejected three separate claims by Fischer relating to trademark rights and unfair competition. The dispute relates to the use of the black and yellow colors for Nordic skis and boots. The Finnish ...
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Another 1.9 million bales of cottons will be exported from...
Another 1.9 million bales of cottons will be exported from India after being cleared by the government in the wake of its ban on raw cotton exports. The applications for export were submitted before the ban went into place on March 5. No plans have been made for new export ...
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The U.S. Golf Manufacturers Anti-Counterfeiting Working Group has won another...
The U.S. Golf Manufacturers Anti-Counterfeiting Working Group has won another battle in its fight against the sale of fake golf clubs, balls and accessories over the internet. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida has issued a preliminary injunction against 130 defendants, ordering them to shut down ...
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Callaway Golf and Acushnet Company have jointly announced a settlement...
Callaway Golf and Acushnet Company have jointly announced a settlement of all the pending litigation and disputes between them. No money is changing hands, but under the terms of the agreement, each company will have specified rights to make ball and club products under patents owned by the other. Details ...
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Nike and Reebok reached a settlement in a U.S. court...
Nike and Reebok reached a settlement in a U.S. court in a case involving new merchandise created by Reebok for Tim Tebow, the new quarterback of the New York Jets American football team. Nike sued Reebok on March 27 to prevent it from selling a line of jerseys and T-shirts ...
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New reports of mass fainting by maltreated workers have reached...
New reports of mass fainting by maltreated workers have reached the news wires from Cambodia. Nike is now under the spotlight after Puma, H&M and JCPenney. The latest case of fainting involves more than 300 workers at the Sabrina (Cambodia) Garment Mfg. Corporation plant in Cambodia, which makes apparel for ...
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The EU has launched a program to support the development...
The EU has launched a program to support the development of sustainable cotton in Pakistan throughout the supply chain. It will cover the process from farm to final product, including liaisons with retailers and brands, and is funded by the Switch Asia initiative. WWF-Pakistan will fund the project, which is ...
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Some top sporting apparel brands, including Adidas, Nike and Li...
Some top sporting apparel brands, including Adidas, Nike and Li Ning, have been accused of buying clothes from Chinese suppliers who illegally discharge polluted water. Several groups – Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPEA), Green Beagle, Envirofriends and Nanjing Greenstone – put out a ...
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Adidas has been ordered to pay some 200,000 Russian rubles...
Adidas has been ordered to pay some 200,000 Russian rubles (€5,000-$6,600) for delayed deliveries to the Russian army, according to media reports in Die Welt and Iswestija, two leading newspapers in Germany and Russia, respectively. Apparently, the Russian army had demanded damages worth 115 million rubles (€2.9m-$3.8m), but a court ...
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Sport is probably going to suffer a big cut from...
Sport is probably going to suffer a big cut from the package of austerity measures taken by the Spanish government to reduce its indebtedness. The Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports has seen its annual budget slashed by 21.2 percent to €3,088 million this year. The total budget of ...
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The French cycling industry federation, CNPC, which has 36 member...
The French cycling industry federation, CNPC, which has 36 member firms, has signed a cooperation agreement with Fifas, the French sporting goods industry federation, mirroring in some ways what happened recently at the level of World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry. CNPC will move into the office of Fifas, ...
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Assosport, the Italian sporting goods industry association, has announced the...
Assosport, the Italian sporting goods industry association, has announced the establishment of a dedicated business unit for outdoor sports. Andrea Parisotto, chief financial officer and major shareholder of Calzaturificio Scarpa, has been elected president of Assosport's Outdoor Group. He will nominate a vice president, but the assembly has indicated Luca ...
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The International Olympic Committee will hear a presentation on April...
The International Olympic Committee will hear a presentation on April 19 for the inclusion of baseball and softball into the program for the Summer Olympic Games after Rio de Janeiro. The IOC is scheduled to make a decision on the addition of one more sport in September 2013. Besides baseball ...
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The idea of a Canadian student for an African charity...
The idea of a Canadian student for an African charity has expanded to involve the World Squash Federation and the African Squash Federation. Those two groups are supporting Rackets for Africa, an initiative born out of Riley Waterous' idea of collecting used squash racquets and sending them to communities in ...
