[Source: Footwear News feed
]Pravda, Russia -”It’s extremely exciting to open a flagship Nike retail presence in one of the world’s great cities,” Nike brand President Charlie Denson, who was at the …
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[Source: Footwear News
]“You want to know how far you went, however many calories you burned. It also allows you to participate and be a part of a wider community. For many others it’s a social experience, it’s allowed people to be a part of something much bigger.”
Nike Inc. says it has helped runners log more than 22 million miles with its Nike+system in the past year. via The Herald
[Source: Footwear News
]Nike Inc. said Friday it suspended its contract with Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick and will pull goods with his name off the shelves at stores the company owns.
In a statement Friday, the company said it had not terminated the contract, as animal-rights activists had urged the company to do after Vick was accused of federal dogfighting charges.
‘Nike has suspended Michael Vick’s contract without pay, and will not sell any more Michael Vick product at Nike owned retail at this time,’ the company said. Read more
[Source: Yahoo! Finance: Textile - Apparel Footwear & Accessories Industry News
]Nike’s innovative Nike+ running experience combining music, personal coaching and fitness networking is revolutionizing the way people run, creating in its first year, the world’s largest online running destination at nikeplus.com.
[Source: Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
]The Supreme Court of California has reversed a Court of Appeal judgement over the trade of products made from kangaroo leather – a decision that prevents Adidas from selling a range of its football boots in the state.
[Source: Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
]Sportswear giant Nike has suspended the release of a new shoe line endorsed by Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick after he was accused of being involved in a dog fighting operation.
[Source: Yahoo! Finance: Textile - Apparel Footwear & Accessories Industry News
]Michael Vick’s legal troubles prompted Nike on Thursday to suspend the release of its latest product line named after the Atlanta Falcons quarterback.
[Source: WSAToday]
Marshal Cohen is chief industry analyst of the NPD Group and a nationally recognized expert on consumer behavior. This is an excerpt from the May issue of WSAToday magazine.
Almost every industry sees a time when all the rules change and all the tried-and- true things it has come to count on to plan, forecast, buy and sell are turned upside down. Well, that time has come to the athletic footwear market. This industry has grown enormously, and the shoes have evolved from very simple products to ones that use so much technology one wonders if they might be used to send us to the moon…or beyond. As for the more earthly pursuit of shopping, here, too, we are seeing a paradigm shift. More…
[Source: Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
]Sportswear group Nike is in the early stages of discussing a possible tie-up with social networking website Facebook in a move to publicise its recently launched running equipment Nike+.
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