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In its home market of China, Anta Sports is number three behind Nike and Adidas. Now the sports company, which is still largely unknown in Europe, has taken over Amer Sports and has thus risen to become one of the biggest players in the world. Read the assessment of the ISPO experts from Asia here.

In January, the death of Kobe Bryant and eight other people, including his daughter Gianna, in a helicopter crash shook the sports world. In August, the month of his birthday, the Los Angeles Lakers, Nike and Bryant's former hometown posthumously honor the "Black Mamba".

Asics starts in 2020 with a new EMEA boss: Carsten Unbehaun, previously CEO of Haglöfs, succeeds Alistair Cameron. It is intended to further stabilize the company in a challenging market. In addition to Unbehaun, a new Vice President will join.

World star Roger Federer is a new shareholder in On Running. The running shoe brand, which is showing the highest growth in its segment and has not yet had any connections to tennis, is expecting a development step.

The sporting goods giant will close the Speedfactories in Germany and the USA by April 2020 at the latest. The company is now using the findings of the sneaker factory at other locations.