Hummel International

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Hummel International
Industry Clothing
Founded 1923
Hamburg, Germany
Headquarters Aarhus, Denmark
Products Sportswear, footwear
Website http://www.hummel.net

hummel International is a sportswear company based in Denmark. The firm was started in 1923 by the Messmer family in the town of Hamburg, Germany. hummel currently manufactures apparel for football, futsal, handball, basketball, rugby league, Australian football, shinty and volleyball. The company also produces footwear for football and handball.

The company has manufactured kits for a variety of sports teams and from august 2016 will be the sponsors of the Danish national football team. In the past, hummel International has gained international recognition after the Danish national football team played in the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifiers for a first time since 1986.

Club teams which have worn the hummel brand include Vejle Boldklub, AGF and AC Horsens from the Danish football leagues, clubs such as RC Strasbourg, St Mirren and Polonia Warsaw from outside Denmark as well as the North Queensland Cowboys of the Australian NRL and shinty clubs Newtonmore and Skye Camanachd. Kits for Aston Villa have worn hummel kits for two separate stints in the 1980s and the 2000s.

The hummel logo is a stylized bumble bee, as hummel is German for bumble bee.[1]

Sponsorships

The following teams wear uniforms and apparel manufactured by hummel:

Basketball

Association football

National teams

Club teams

Asia
Europe

Futsal

Icehockey

Handball

National teams

Europe

Shinty

Karate

Volleyball

Unihockey

References

  1. http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/dings.cgi?service=deen&opterrors=0&optpro=0&query=hummel&iservice=
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  3. http://www.scfreiburg.com/node/15818