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Sport 2000 International’s CEO is pushing its specialist concept
In part two of our interview, CEO Margit Gosau shares what Sport 2000’s new specialist concept might look like and her predictions for 2023.
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Margit Gosau: “In times of crisis, sport seems to become more important”
In an exclusive interview, Margit Gosau CEO Sport 2000 reveals the group’s most successful categories and why Finland and Sweden are leaving
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Arena CEO Peter Graschi discusses turnover, sales and growth of the swimwear company
CEO Peter Graschi explains how Arena plans to expand its growth even further and why Arena has no difficulty with the shortage of skilled workers.
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Motoi Oyama: “Asics’ challenge now is to set up our running ecosystem”
We sat down with Motoi Oyama, chairman and director of Asics Corporation to talk about the strategy and the economic situation of the company. His years of global experiences were seen in every answer.
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Luca Palermo: Covid highlighted the importance of trade shows
The Covid-19 outbreak demonstrated that digital solutions “on their own” could not replace trade shows canceled due to the pandemic, noted Luca Palermo, the chief executive of Fiera Milano, which manages the Rho exhibition hall as well as exhibition pavilions in Milan and the Allianz MiCo convention center. The Italian ...
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Hummel’s hybrid recipe with a wholesale bias drives sustainable success
Hummel has reached 2B DKK revenue. We sat down with their CEO Allan Vad Nielsen to talk about the success strategy.
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Private Sport Shop and SportPursuit merge to form Sportscape Group
CEOs Adam Pikett and Sebastien Rohart gave some insights about one of e-com’s most exciting mergers in this exclusive SGI Europe interview.
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Jeff Chen, CEO of NetVirta: “It’s about turning millions of dollars into cost savings”
In the current online and in-store technology race to help consumers get a better fit and simultaneously assist retailers in lowering their return costs from their customers’ ill-fitting online orders, Boston-based NetVirta thinks it has a leg, and an arm, up other rivals in the space. Pun intended.
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Tecnifibre-CEO Nicolas Préault: “We are a player’s company”
Nicolas Préault, CEO of Tecnifibre since 2018, explains what the company’s targets are, and how they want to triple net sales until 2025.
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Patrik Frisk: The last interview before stepping down as Under Armour CEO
“The difficult thing about brands is – you’ve got to make choices”. Patrik Frisk explains what he learned on his journey as a decision-maker in the sporting goods industry.
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Ulrika Björk: “Appoint more women to the board of directors!”
We spoke to Polygiene-CEO Ulrika Björk. She says ”I encourage diversity, but it will never come with a cost of performance or for the sake of.”
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Mathias Boenke: New Balance sees European sales of €1 bn doubling
New Balance recently predicted that its sales would grow by about 30 percent to $4.5 billion in 2021, which would likely keep it as the sixth largest sports brand in the world. Reaching a new record level, a similar increase was booked last year in Europe, said Mathias Boenke, a ...
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Sébastien Rohart: The precipitous rise and future plans of Private Sport Shop
Private Sport Shop CEO Sébastien Rohart reveals the secrets behind the growth of the sporting goods giant and how the company will adapt to a fast-changing market.