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Austrian ski champion launches his ski brand, Van Deer
The former Austrian Alpine ski champion Marcel Hirscher, who retired two years ago after numerous World Cup victories, has begun producing his own skis. His brand, Van Deer, is at least for now distributed only in Austria, through Bründl Sports, and in the Netherlands, through the Duijvestein Winterstore and Daka ...
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News briefsGore-Tex unveils new, more sustainable ePE membrane
W. L. Gore & Associates has announced that the consumer unit of its Gore Fabrics Division will introduce the use of expanded polyethylene (ePE) as a new and more sustainable, complementary material platform that will serve as the basis for its future membrane technologies. The new ePE laminates (membrane and ...
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News briefsPolygiene-owned brand allows the production of germ-killing barbell grips
Making use of Addmaster additives, Casking has developed a range of antimicrobial grips to cover the full length of barbells 28 to 30 mm in diameter. Their selling point, in the age of the Covid pandemic, is gym sterility. The press release from Addmaster’s parent company, Polygiene, cites two studies ...
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Amazon Halo adds three fitness services
Capitalizing on the strong global fitness trend, Amazon will be adding three services to its Amazon Halo subscription fitness service for the holidays at the end of the year: a health tracker, called Halo View; a video service for home workouts, called Halo Fitness; and a custom, guided meal planner, ...
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ArticleRevo boosts sales management, launches new high-end range
While launching a new high-end line of sunglasses, Revo has appointed three new vice presidents. Jerry Bedingfield is now vice president of sales for the sport and specialty segments in North America, while Christoph Nitz and Kurt Plunger both now hold that same title for Europe. Bedingfield has been working ...
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Macron enters the padel tennis segment
Macron, the Italian company specializing in licensed teamwear, has presented its first complete line of clothing, equipment and accessories for padel tennis, including even five models of racquets, made in Spain, for beginners and more experienced players. The garments are said to be technical as well as comfortable and elegant. ...
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ArticleCanada Goose to start selling its first boots on Nov. 12
Source: Canada Goose Canada Goose journey boot Canada Goose announced the widely expected market launch of its first footwear line on Nov. 12, starting with two luxury-priced snow and hiking boots offered at suggested retail prices of $750 and $1,295. The new product launch follows six months ...
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Peloton diversifies into strength training and more
Predicting an adjusted Ebitda loss of $325 million for the current financial year, ending in June 2022, Peloton Interactive told the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference that it will be a year of important new product releases as well as strong investments in marketing, supply chain and IT. Notably, the company ...
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Apple adds new features and languages for its sports watches
While presenting many other new products, Apple has announced expanded functionalities for its Fitness+ sports watch. Adding six new languages, it will become available in a total of 21 countries. In addition to a guided meditation feature, it will also come in the autumn with an offer of group workouts ...
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Zara launches the Zara Athleticz men’s label
Zara has been selling some sports clothing in the past. This time, the international fast-fashion retailer owned by the Inditex group has decided to launch a full-fledged line of activewear for men under the Zara Athleticz (sic) label, starting on Sept. 30 on its web store and at selected physical ...
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Adidas sneaker ties in with the newest Bond film
Adidas will be introducing four Ultraboost sneakers for its 007 collection for the debut of the new James Bond movie, No Time to Die, which will have its global premiere in the U.K. on Sept. 30. To promote them, the German sportswear giant is organizing an augmented reality contest featuring ...
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Tonal to release Tonal Live
Tonal is launching Tonal Live, a fitness app with live and on-demand workouts as well as a “social zone” for exchange and goal-sharing between members. Tonal’s founder and CEO, Aly Orady, describes the company’s offer as having “adaptive weights, individualized pacing and form feedback that are customized to our members ...
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Fútbol Emotion and Unisport launch lifestyle apparel
Evidently reacting in part to past and possible Covid-related restrictions on attendance at team sports matches, two European team sports retail specialists have launched more ordinary clothing lines. Fùtbol Emotion, the Spanish sports equipment retailer headquartered in Zaragoza, has launched After 90, a new clothing line for football enthusiasts who ...
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Peloton releases its first full range of apparel
After dabbling with a few apparel items in the recent past, including a collaborative line developed with Adidas, Peloton Interactive has released its first full private-label collection of men’s, women’s and gender-neutral fitness garb, calling it Peloton Apparel, for autumn 2021. The items are made of four fabrics, each with ...
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A new Berlin-based sports brand, Winqs, is going fully green
Winqs, a new brand of footwear, apparel and accessories that aims to cover many sports categories, hopes to replace traditional materials with much more expensive yet fully sustainable ones, without sacrificing performance or raising prices too much. The Berlin-based brand told the Swedish trade paper Sportfack that all of its ...
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Whoop moves into smart apparel
Whoop, the growing fitness subscription service operating out of Boston, is releasing a line of smart apparel that monitors athletic performance. Whoop Body incorporates a set of sensors, called Any-Wear Technology, that connects to the simultaneously released Whoop 4.0, the latest edition of the company’s app-based, round-the-clock digital coaching service. ...
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Columbia readies launch of its new metallic-dot insulating lining, Omni-Heat Infinity
Columbia Sportswear has announced a patented, NASA-inspired entry in its Omni-Heat line of insulating linings. Its new Omni-Heat Infinity insulation, says the brand, is a “gold metallic lining material in a pattern scientifically engineered to optimize warmth and breathability.” Its gold metallic dots “reflect and retain natural body heat […] ...
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Out Of comes out with electronic photochromic sunglasses
An Italian startup, Out Of, is launching its first collection of sunglasses for cycling and other outdoor sports equipped with an award-winning lens, called Iris, that adapts to the ambient light in less than a second, using a small solar cell that powers a microchip and a special liquid crystal ...
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ManU runs out of Ronaldo shirts
The Manchester United football club is suffering a shortage of replica shirts, according to The Daily Mail, because of the closure of one or more Vietnamese factories that work for Adidas, due to Covid. The English club has sold out the shirt of Cristiano Ronaldo, the 36-year-old former captain of ...
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New co-branded UYN-Bugatti line to be launched in the autumn
UYN, the Italian brand of performance clothing whose name stands for “Unleash Your Nature” has signed a partnership with the luxury car specialist Bugatti for a compact line of co-branded clothing and footwear. UYN, which is part of the Trerè Innovatio group, will produce all the 11 items of the ...
