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Puma’s most efficient road shoe isn’t race legal
Two fused carbon plates and a €350 price tag: PUMA’s Fast-RB Nitro Elite 2 is built for running economy, not competition.
Bleckmann enters Germany with a base in Lingen
One carve-out gives the Dutch 3PL an automated site, a trained workforce and a decade of contracted volume in Germany.
Yue Yuen warns of up to 55% profit drop
Footwear manufacturing giant Yue Yuen is facing a sharp profit decline of up to 55 percent as major brand customers including Adidas and Nike increasingly place orders at shorter notice, disrupting production planning and driving up unit costs.
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Puma’s new French logistics hub sets a four-hour target
Ten years into its partnership with ID Logistics, Puma gets automated capacity in Alsace sized for volume growth to 2030.
Oura takes Ultrahuman’s redesigned ring to court
Oura has sued Ultrahuman in the Eastern District of Texas, asserting two new patents against the redesigned Ring Pro.
Bogner launches Chalet Icons winter collection
A shearling and knitwear line targets après occasions, while the race-team contract keeps sport at the core of the brand.
Lululemon appoints Tara Poseley to its board
The last board seat owed to Chip Wilson goes to Tara Poseley, who ran product at Lululemon a decade ago.
Adidas Originals brings its premium format to Rome
The Collection V.2 lands on Via del Babuino with a courtyard for events, personalization and a lineup of top collaborations.
Alo opens first German flagship in Berlin
The 557-square-meter Berlin store opened Oct. 15, a day before Alo’s Hong Kong grand opening at K11 Musea.
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ROICA V550 stretch fabrics on show in Munich
Italian sportswear knitters lead the booth, from cycling grip fabrics to Merino base layers.
Textile recycling: The next challenge is scaling up
In recent years, the textile recycling industry has focused primarily on technological development.
Circular sportswear: matching construction to recovery
Designing sportswear for a circular economy includes deciding who prepares garments for recycling. LaMunt asks owners to remove zips and trims; Arc’teryx assigns disassembly to ReBIRD.
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Closing the distance: inside LTP’s clubhouse in Saigon
LTP Group has opened a dedicated development space in Ho Chi Minh City that compresses performance apparel sampling from months to fourteen days.
Hoka growth slows and Deckers shares fall on sales miss
Tariff refunds lifted Deckers’ profit, but investors sold the shares on a weaker sales outlook for Hoka and Ugg.
SportsShoes.com launches AI gait analysis with Ochy
The free tool rates running technique from a short phone clip, covering hips, knees and symmetry as well as footstrike.
Atleet adds Runnea AI shoe recommender to web store
A running review site’s tester data now guides online shoppers across a network of independently run stores.
Salomon courts women through color
The new capsule with FP Movement is a small release aimed at a big shift: women are reshaping who buys Salomon’s sneakers.
Premier Padel to sell data, streams to betting industry
Premier Padel has appointed iGame Media as its exclusive distributor of official betting data and live streams, covering more than 2,400 matches a year from the 2027 season – a deal the tour says will generate new revenue to reinvest in the professional game.
Head relaunches iPrestige and Prestige MP Limited
Both racquets launched globally Oct. 1: they draw on 2001, upgraded for both the nostalgic and the new players.
JOOLA POWER FX: player demand meets foam construction
The American-owned brand says foam reached market only once the material could deliver feel as well as power.
Joma named official shoe of Spanish Padel Federation
The Spanish sportswear brand is now the federation’s official shoe. Neither party has disclosed how long the deal runs.
The insole market leader steps onto the court
The estimated market leader adds court sports to its range while its home-scan personalization earns TIME recognition.
Solestar launches carbon-core football insole
Priced at €99, the insole fits boots from several makers. RB Leipzig captain David Raum is Solestar’s first football ambassador.
German DFB: Nike locks out Marc O’Polo too, not only adidas
Nike’s DFB kit deal, worth over €100m a year through 2034, also ends Marc O’Polo’s off-field clothing role from 2027.
Apollo Sports Capital wants in to the NFL
Two senior Apollo Sports Capital executives have publicly declared the firm’s interest in the NFL, although the league’s list of approved private-equity firms has ever only shrunk.
Oura takes Ultrahuman’s redesigned ring to court
Oura has sued Ultrahuman in the Eastern District of Texas, asserting two new patents against the redesigned Ring Pro.
Alo opens first German flagship in Berlin
The 557-square-meter Berlin store opened Oct. 15, a day before Alo’s Hong Kong grand opening at K11 Musea.
RUN X treadmill championship starts Oct. 23
Runners race 5km in 400 fitness centers across 20 countries, with a world final in Cesena, Italy, in March 2027.
Intersport renews Hyrox deal and adds three cities
ntersport extends its Hyrox title partnership through 2027, growing from three to six European races with Dublin, Vienna and Maastricht.
EuropeActive welcomes 4.1% Erasmus+ share for sport
Fitness group EuropeActive, like FESI, campaigned for a bigger sport share and welcomes the vote. The EU Council has the final say.
FESI welcomes Parliament vote on Erasmus+ sport budget
The sporting goods federation backs the plenary decision to raise sport’s Erasmus+ share from 1.9% to 4.1% for 2028 to 2034.
FESI sets out recommendations on EU sport tourism
Brands can act on products and business practices, FESI says, but sport tourism also needs broad investment in infrastructure.
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South Korea’s Hyosung makes bio materials a group priority
Hyun-Joon Cho calls bio-based materials a pillar of the group’s next century. A Vietnamese plant now supplies the first link in that chain.
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