All Corporations articles – Page 140
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Columbia Sportswear is asking shareholders to elect Malia Wesson, former...
Columbia Sportswear is asking shareholders to elect Malia Wesson, former president of the U.S. Bank of Oregon, to a full term on its board of directors, which would be expanded to 11 members
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RCG Corporation of Australia, which has the license for The...
RCG Corporation of Australia, which has the license for The Athlete's Foot in Australia and New Zealand, has agreed to acquire Accent Group (AGL), a company in New Zealand that owns the Platypus chain of sneaker stores and distributes seven international brands including Dr. Martens, K-Swiss, Skechers, Timberland and Vans. ...
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Tony Bates, president of GoPro, has been named to the...
Tony Bates, president of GoPro, has been named to the board of directors of eBay
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Kipsta, Décathlon's private label brand for team sports products, opened...
Kipsta, Décathlon's private label brand for team sports products, opened its own head office in the north of France earlier this month. Kipstadium, as the complex is called, is built on a plot of land that straddles the municipalities of Roubaix, Tourcoing and Wattrelos. Kipsta has reportedly invested about €12 ...
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Netshoes, the world's largest internet retailer for sporting goods, has...
Netshoes, the world's largest internet retailer for sporting goods, has secured $45 million in new funding from Riverwood Capital and the International Finance Corporation, which belongs to the World Bank, to further expand its presence in Argentina and Mexico. It should also help the Brazilian company to develop its own ...
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The planned sale of Planet Sports to 21sportsgroup (SGI Europe...
The planned sale of Planet Sports to 21sportsgroup (SGI Europe n° 26-1+2 of Jan. 16) is off. In the course of the due diligence process, the latter stopped the transaction at the beginning of March. A few days later, the parent company of the German action sports retailer, Puccini Germany, ...
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Four investment funds have expressed interest in the acquisition of...
Four investment funds have expressed interest in the acquisition of Bogner, according to Reuters, but they are giving it a valuation of between €250 million and €300 million. That would be close to one year worth of revenues and ten times the company's operating profit before amortization (Ebitda), which amounted ...
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Migros has announced that it has taken over all shares...
Migros has announced that it has taken over all shares of Ryffel, the specialty running retailer. The Swiss retail chain had already acquired a majority stake from the founders, Urs and Markus Ryffel, in 2011. The brothers have now sold to Migros the remaining shares. SportXX, Migros' sporting goods chain, ...
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Following a pattern already established in China, apparel factories in...
Following a pattern already established in China, apparel factories in Vietnam reported that only half of their workers showed up on Feb. 26 to resume production after the Lunar New Year holiday, although more workers were expected to return by March 3. Vietnam exported $25.4 billion worth of textiles and ...
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XXL ASA, which went public last October, announced on March...
XXL ASA, which went public last October, announced on March 4 a program to repurchase up to 130,000 of its own shares. As part of this program, it has bought a total of 54,000 own shares as of today, March 10, representing 0.04 percent of the Norwegian sporting goods retailer's ...
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A list of the factories that make apparel for the...
A list of the factories that make apparel for the Adidas Group shows that it has added one in Myanmar for the first time. Combined with low labor costs, the recent lifting of international sanctions on the country, formerly called Burma, evidently played a role. Some 2,000 workers were reported ...
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Mission Athletecare, the six-year-old company behind the EnduraCool line of...
Mission Athletecare, the six-year-old company behind the EnduraCool line of instant cooling towels, skull caps, sleeves and hats, has raised $35 million in new venture capital. It has also added Hap Klopp, the founder and former chief executive of The North Face, to its board of directors. The new round ...
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Boardsport Source reports that the Austrian snowboard factory of Global...
Boardsport Source reports that the Austrian snowboard factory of Global Sports Technologies (GST) will cease production at the end of July. The plant's 85 staff were apparently informed on 25 February that the activity in Antiesenhofen had become untenable because production costs are relatively high in Austria while selling prices ...
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Bodybuilding.com will open next month a new fulfillment center in...
Bodybuilding.com will open next month a new fulfillment center in Dunstable, England, serving customers in the U.K. and other parts of the European Union. U.K. customers will get next-day delivery. The U.S.-based online retailer of fitness equipment has been servicing European customers from a third-party warehouse in the Netherlands, selling ...
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Skilynx, the investment company that took over the Vuarnet brand...
Skilynx, the investment company that took over the Vuarnet brand of sunglasses a few years ago, has reached an agreement to take over the rights to the Vuarnet brand for all kinds of products in an asset deal with Jean Vuarnet, the famous French ski champion, and his son ...
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Non-executive directors at Naibu Global International, a Chinese sports footwear...
Non-executive directors at Naibu Global International, a Chinese sports footwear company listed on the AIM stock exchange for fast-growing companies in London, have lost contact with the company's chairman and chief executive. The directors reported through a stock market announcement on 18 Feb. that their enquiries to these two managers ...
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Kinetic, a division of Kurt Manufacturing, has doubled the size...
Kinetic, a division of Kurt Manufacturing, has doubled the size of its global logistics warehouse in Minneapolis, Minnesota and has relocated its European warehouse from the Netherlands to Austria. The warehouse in Minneapolis has expanded from 3,000 square feet to 6,000 square feet. The extension was made necessary by the ...
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The Riverside Company is investing in Bike24, the German cycling...
The Riverside Company is investing in Bike24, the German cycling e-commerce specialist. The private equity firm focuses on acquiring growing businesses valued up to $250 million and has an international portfolio of more than 75 companies. The details of the deal were not disclosed. Bike24 sells an array of bike ...
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Zoot Sports, part of Jarden Corporation, has completed the acquisition...
Zoot Sports, part of Jarden Corporation, has completed the acquisition of Squadra, a designer and manufacturer of custom cycling, racing and triathlon apparel based in Carlsbad, California. Squadra was founded by Dan Weatherford in 1996, initially as the licensee for the Italian brand Castelli, whose apparel was worn by cycling ...
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Groupe Royer has finally reached an agreement for the acquisition...
Groupe Royer has finally reached an agreement for the acquisition of Noël Soccer, the subsidiary of the Noël group that holds the Umbro license for France. Noël is known in the shoe market primarily for its Sledgers and Babybotte brands. As previously reported, a French court pronounced the insolvency of ...
