Athletics – Page 5

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    Suffering K-swiss Buys Another Brand

    2010-08-06T00:00:00Z

    K-Swiss has bought Form Athletics, a California-based company that specializes in lifestyle wear and gear for mixed martial arts, with a surf-and-skate flavor. It will be a division of K-Swiss, and will continue to be led by Mark Miller, the chief executive of the company who started it early this ...

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    Asics Takes Over Haglöfs At A Premium To Hike Into The Outdoor Sector

    2010-07-13T00:00:00Z

    In a major diversification move that surprised several observers, Asics Corporation announced that it has reached an agreement to buy 100 percent of the shares of Haglöfs Holding, the leading Swedish brand of outdoor products. After multiple discussions with Ratos AB, which has owned Haglöfs since 2001, Asics’ board of ...

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    Bread & Butter Finds Its Stride In Berlin

    2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Bread & Butter, the denim and sports fashion fair, will strive to draw more exhibitors and visitors from the active sportswear sector for its next edition in July. After a vibrant fair earlier this month, organizers have intensified talks with sportswear brands that often exhibit at Pitti Uomo in Florence, ...

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    Brown Shoes Performed Better Than Athletics In 2008

    2009-11-05T00:00:00Z

    The casual segment of the so-called brown shoe market rose by 6.8 percent in U.S. dollars at the wholesale level worldwide last year, reaching an estimated level of $12.6 billion, with increases of 1.8 percent in the U.S. to $3.8 billion and 9.1 percent in the rest of the world ...

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    Timberland Posts Higher Profits And Some Sales Increases

    2009-11-05T00:00:00Z

    A turnaround is finally in sight. The revenues of Timberland were flat at $421.8 million in the third quarter, but rose by 1.7 percent excluding foreign currency effects, which decreased the total by about $9 million. The sales figures reflected strong growth in boots in Europe and in the SmartWool ...

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    Financial Indicators Worsen At Timberland, Despite Strength In Boots

    2009-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Revenues fell by 14.4 percent at Timberland in the second quarter ended July 3, hitting $179.7 million. The gross margin fell by 1.9 percentage points to 42.0 percent of sales due to higher product costs, currency effects, lower margins on off-price business and higher provisions for inventories. The company’s operating ...

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    British Authorities Want More Active Citizens

    2009-05-14T00:00:00Z

    British government authorities and the City of London have pledged new funding to raise sports participation in the country as it gets ready organize the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Hopefully, this will help to stop the negative slide in sporting goods sales highlighted by NDP Group’s figures on page ...

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    Champion Europe Expands Its Footprint

    2009-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Champion Europe has signed new important distribution deals in the last few weeks in several countries including Russia and the Ukraine, the states of the Persian Gulf, South Africa and Lebanon. It has also appointed a new country manager for Spain, Alberto Sanchez, who worked previously for Nestlé. Royal ...

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    Secondary Brands Help Timberland To Report A Profit

    2008-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Timberland’s profit grew by 18.5 percent to $30.7 million for the third quarter ended Sept. 26, but the management is concerned about its numbers for the year as customers curb their spending. The company had a 2.2 percent drop in sales for the quarter to $423.6 million. This number was ...

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    Secondary Brands Help Timberland To Report A Profit

    2008-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Timberland’s profit grew by 18.5 percent to $30.7 million for the third quarter ended Sept. 26, but the management is concerned about its numbers for the year, however, as customers curb their spending. The company had a 2.2 percent drop in sales for the quarter to $423.6 million. This number ...

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    Giacomelli Becomes Game 7 Athletics

    2008-06-27T00:00:00Z

    Champion Europe, which bought Giacomelli Sport two years ago, when it was still losing money, has decided to reposition the Italian sporting goods chain after its inability to generate profits under its older format. It will keep only 30 of the 43 remaining stores in Italy and rename them Game ...

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    Sales Decline At Puma

    2007-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Puma continues to suffer from a sharp downturn in its U.S. sales, but the company enjoyed comparable sales growth in other regions, an inflated gross margin and a remarkable jump of more than 12 percent for orders in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at the end of the ...

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    Taf Announces New Initiatives

    2007-06-27T00:00:00Z

    The Athlete’s Foot will sport a new logo and a simplified new banner, TAF, on any new stores opened anywhere around the world from November onward. The initiative goes along with a new modular merchandising system, the launch of an exclusive line of sports apparel and increased support for the ...

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    Hi-tec Reshuffles The Deck On Strong Gains In Outdoor

    2006-08-10T00:00:00Z

    In yet another senior executive change at Hi-Tec Sports, Peter Lawson, international sales manager, left the British-based outdoor and court sports company in June. The executive has switched to Tula, a British brand of women’s bags that is headed up by Roger Best, who was a former colleague of his ...

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    Mizuno Sells Many Football And Running Shoes In Europe

    2006-06-14T00:00:00Z

    Mizuno is making a certain statement in several European markets with its football and running shoes, offering good technology at a relatively reasonable price. Its footwear sales in Europe have been growing at an annual rate of about 25 percent over the last few years. Combined with sports bags and ...

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    Intersport Enters Other New Markets, Steps Up Sports Marketing

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Intersport is signing up for three years as a sponsor of the Tour de France, ensuring a lot of signage along the famous French bike race, which runs on July 1-23. Some co-branding action is planned with Nike, another important sponsor of the Tour. A special bike model from Intersport’s ...

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    Cultures Clash Or Complement Each Other At Adidas And Reebok

    2006-04-26T00:00:00Z

    When he traveled to London two weeks ago to make a speech on the benefits of Reebok’s costly acquisition, Herbert Hainer, Adidas’ chief executive, carried with him a pair of Reebok’s Premiere running shoes to try them out. Hainer admitted that he had yet to buy his first pair of ...