All Water Sports articles – Page 4
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News briefsNew brand director at Chiemsee
Source: Chiemsee GmbH & Co. KG Alexander Timmers With immediate effect, Chiemsee has a new brand director in Alexander Timmers. He succeeds Lutz Mai, who is leaving the company at his own request at the end of June. Timmers has many years of experience in sales, marketing ...
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News briefsBarcelona will host the 2024 America’s Cup
America’s Cup will be back in Europe and once again in Spain in 2024. Barcelona has been confirmed as the host venue for the 37th edition to be held in September and October 2024. The last time in Europe was in 2010 in Valencia, which also hosted the 2007 edition. ...
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News briefsBarcelona wants to host the 2024 America’s Cup
Barcelona will bid to host the 2024 edition of America’s Cup, the iconic sailing race which is also the oldest trophy international sport, established in 1851. The news was first unveiled by the Spanish daily newspaper La Vanguardia. The other bidders on the shortlist include fellow Spanish city Málaga, Cork ...
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News briefsPiping Hot partners with University of Technology Sydney on textile made from seaweed
Australian surf brand Piping Hot and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have announced a research partnership to develop a sustainable textile made from seaweed. Starting in February 2022, scientists at the UTS Climate Change Cluster will be building a prototype fiber. Piping Hot commissioned this research to UTS as ...
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ArticleJohnson Outdoors reports strong orders, sales drop due to supply chain issues in Fishing segment
Johnson Outdoors, the U.S.-based owner of several fishing, diving, camping and watercraft brands, including Jetboil, Scubapro, Eureka and Old Town, amongst others, saw sales decrease in the first quarter of its financial year as supply chain disruptions made it difficult to keep up with demand for outdoor recreation products. Total ...
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EuroSIMA launches surf podcast
EuroSIMA, the European surf industry association, is launching a podcast on the surfing business. Produced with Impact Zone Surf Podcast, Inside Eurosima, as the podcast is called, will be taking listeners “behind the scenes into the heart of the Actions Sports industry” and the artists, entrepreneurs and executives behind it. ...
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ArticleA bullish European surf industry honors Frederic Basse
Surfboards, wetsuits and other hardware items in the surf sector have recorded growth rates of between 20 and 40 percent during the current post-Covid year, according to the European Surf Industry Manufacturers Association (EuroSIMA). Speaking at the annual EuroSIMA Surf Summit in Hossegor, on the French Basque coast, Jean-Louis Rodrigues, ...
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News briefsPorsche gets involved in kitesurfing
In addition to its long-standing sponsorship activities in the sports of tennis and golf, Porsche will also support the further development of kitesurfing in the future. The first event sponsored by the automotive brand will be the Red Bull King of the Air in Cape Town in November 2021. In ...
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Brazilian surf brand incorporates Polygiene treatment
Oceano Surfwear has incorporated Polygiene’s Stay Fresh anti-odor treatment into a shirt collection, called Legends, developed in cooperation with a Brazilian surfing champion, Everaldo “Pato” Teixeira. The shirts, says Polygiene, “come with a guarantee that you can wear more and wash less – lightening the load on our planet and ...
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News briefsThe Munich region is set to host Europe’s largest surf park
Following the official approval of the project, the ground-breaking ceremony for Surftown MUC is scheduled for the autumn of 2021, and its completion is planned for the summer of 2023. Located near Munich, the new complex will comprise a 20,000-square-meter surf pool as well as a 29,000-square-meter multifunctional hybrid building ...
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Short stops
June 10 Short Stops: Accell - Archroma – Callaway - Football Association – Jack Wolfskin - Joop!- Kappa - Onefootball – Pinarello - Puma – Rusty – Shimano - Surftech – Titleist – VF - Wilson
Corporate: +++ VF Corp. is planning to discontinue the Eagle Creek brand of backpacks and luggage by the end of this year due to strategic and financial concerns, according to the Outside Business Journal +++ According to Bloomberg, the Sequential Brands Group is working on a deal with ...
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Surfrider Europe launches Green Sport program
The Surfrider Foundation is launching its Green Sports Hub Europe program. Over the past few years, the NGO has actively participated in sports-related projects to protect the ocean and its users. The launch of Green Sport represents the next step in Surfrider Europe’s mission to promote healthier environmental sporting practices. ...
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Decathlon introduces inflatable surf board
Olaian, Decathlon’s surfing and bodyboarding brand, is launching a surfboard that can be inflated in only two minutes with a high-pressure pump, the company claims. The surfboard has been developed in France’s Basque coast, where Olaian has its global design center. The new surfboard weighs 5.8kg and can fit into ...
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Rip Curl to sponsor the World Surf League
Rip Curl will be sponsoring the World Surf League (WSL) Finals for the next three years. The single-day, winner-take-all tournament – taking place at Lower Trestles, in San Clemente, California – pits against one another the top five surfers from the Championship Tour (CT) rankings, in male and female divisions. ...
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Surf Expo was held physically in Florida
Not all the industry’s trade shows are being held virtually these days. Without giving any attendance figures yet, Emerald Holding has reported on a successful in-person edition of its Surf Expo show, held from Jan. 6-8 as planned in Orlando, Florida. A total of 321 exhibitors registered for the event. ...
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Burton re-sells a surf brand
In 2006, Burton Snowboards bought Channel Islands, a brand of surfboards, from Al Merrick, a shaper who founded it 51 years ago in Santa Barbara, California. Burton has now agreed to sell CI Surfboards to the founder’s son, Britt Merrick, along with members of its management and athletes. According to ...
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EuroSIMA Surf Summit to be held digitally
As many other conferences, the 19th edition of the annual EuroSIMA-Surf-Summit will now be held online, due to the current contact restrictions caused by Covid-19. As originally planned, the European surf industry association will start the event on Oct. 1, but the free and interactive conferences will be spread over ...
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Surf photographer joins Mizu’s ambassador team
Mizu, the brand of drinkware and other hydration and filtration products founded in 2008 by a Finnish pro snowboarder, Jussi Oksanen, has welcomed Todd Glaser, the well-known U.S. surf photographer, to its ambassador team. Glaser was a staff photographer at Surfer for over a decade, earning more than a dozen ...
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Garmin partners with Surfline to provide watch-controlled surf video
Garmin has paired the release of two smartwatches – the Fenix 6 Solar and the Surf Edition of the Instinct Solar – with the inauguration of a partnership with Surfline Sessions of Huntington Beach, California. Garmin’s wearable devices measure wave count, top speed, distance surfed and total water time. The ...
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Paris Surf & Skate Film Fest is open for submissions
The fifth edition of the Paris Surf and Skate Film Festival (Sept. 24-27) is open for submissions until July 14. This year, the organizers have announced a new category for music videos with a predominant surf or skate theme. Details and registration are available at pssff.fr.
