Press release -
Salming iSpike - Gold winner at ISPO 2018!
Salming iSpike has been crowned the GOLD AWARD WINNER at ISPO 2018, undisputedly the largest and most influential trade show in the sports goods industry. It was named as Best Product in the category Health & Fitness - Trailrunning Shoes.
”We are super excited and humbled to receive such a high profiled sports industry award like this and it confirms our belief in our commitment to develop no nonsense products for no nonsense people” says Thomas Nord, Salming Head of Design ”Like all product development that pushes the envelope, it comes down to attention to detail, novel technologies and team effort. The latter in this case, is externalized in our close co-operation with Vibram Italy and their novel Litebase outsole technology”
iSpike - ice is just another surface!
A state of the art, lightweight performance winter running shoe! Based on the success of the award winning Salming Trail5, we set out to create the winter running equivalent of it, we wanted the shoe to perform and make you feel secure and confident when hitting the occasional icy spot and provide an amazing ground control in winter snow packed terrain. To succeed we have once again teamed up with the worlds leading authority on performance outsoles - Vibram - the Swedish-Italian design and technology co-operation continues.
Technical specifications
Color: Salming Blue/White. Weight: 268g (UK)). Stack: 24,2 mm center of heel, 19,6 ball of foot (excl cabon tip spike). Lug: Tungsten cabide studs. Drop: 5 mm. Midsole: RECOIL + SoftFOAM. Outsole: Vibram Litebase Technology. Size: UK 6,5-13, US 7,5-14, EU 40 2/3-49 1/3, CM 25,5-32
Topics
- Sport
Salming Sports AB
Salming Sports AB is a Swedish sporting goods company designing, developing and marketing high quality products for the Running, Handball, Floorball, Squash and Badminton markets under its Salming brand. The company has its head-office in Sisjön, Gothenburg on the west coast of Sweden.
In addition to producing first in class products Salming is committed to helping athletes improve and has developed and patented one of the most advance running analysis centers in the world. Salming RunLAB’s are currently located in Gothenburg, Stockholm and Zürich.
The company’s Swedish wholesale partners include sporting goods retailers: Intersport, Stadium, Team Sportia, XXL and specialty retailers such as Runners Store, Klubbhuset and Assist. Salming Sports AB also exports products to some 60 countries and has its own subsidiaries in key markets such as Germany and the United States.
Salming Sports AB also sells directly to consumers through the Salming Concept Stores in Askim, Gothenburg and Kungsgatan 19 in Stockholm and through multiple e-commerce sites, including their own e-commerce.
20 + employees, excluding retail personnel
Established 1991
Approximately 150MSEK revenue
Management: Tomas Solin Managing Director, Thomas Nord Head of Design & Creative Director
