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Reebok International Limited, a subsidiary of German sportswear giant Adidas, is a producer of athletic footwear, apparel, and accessories.Joe and Jeff Foster founded Mercury Sports. In 1960, Joe and Jeff Foster renamed the company Reebok in England, having discovered the name in a dictionary won in a race by Joe Foster as a boy. The name comes from the Afrikaans spelling of rhebok, a type of African antelope or gazelle. The dictionary was a South African edition, hence the spelling. - Source: Wikipedia

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