All Corporations articles – Page 46
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News briefsBasicNet to open “Basic Village” in Milan
Italian group BasicNet will open its “Basic Village” in Milan on Sep. 21 during Fashion Week. The 4,500-square meter space will feature offices, showrooms, restaurants, commercial activities and lofts. BasicNet Group is the parent company of the Kappa, K-Way, Sebago and Superga brands. K-Way accounts for 65 to 70 percent ...
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ArticleGymshark opens first brick-and-mortar store
Gymshark has announced it will open its previously announced flagship store on Regent Street in London on Oct. 1. This first-ever brick-and-mortar store for the British brand will span around 1,700 square meters and feature several other functions in addition to the sale of Gymshark products and apparel. For example, ...
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News briefsAndrés Iniesta launches new sportswear brand Capitten
Spanish footballer Andrés Iniesta has launched Capitten, a new sportswear brand. Capitten’s debut line features the One 888, the flagship product of the brand’s collection. It’s a limited-edition football boot for adults and children, designed in partnership with Japanese firm Shimpei Inoue and inspired by the 1980s. The shoe is ...
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News briefsLululemon at Club Pilates studios in Spain
Lululemon has begun distributing its products at the Club Pilates studios in Spain, Palco23 has reported. The Canadian athletic apparel retailer already has similar agreements with Club Pilates in other countries, including the U.K. and U.S. Club Pilates, which is owned by California-based Xponential Fitness, which currently has three studios ...
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Partnership between Porsche and Red Bull does not materialize
In the course of a possible Formula 1 entry by Porsche, Porsche AG and Red Bull have held talks in recent months. Both companies have jointly concluded that these talks will not be continued, Porsche said in a press release. The premise was always a partnership at eye level, including ...
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ArticleCanada Goose shows optimism about consumer demand
Canada Goose is optimistic that its fiscal 2023 income statement will not include any red figures, as its luxury consumer base remains relatively unfazed by the market’s current woes. At the Goldman Sachs Global Retailing Conference, the company said the North American market will remain very healthy in 2023, while ...
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News briefsSkechers expects situation in China to ease
Skechers still sees the international market as key to its goal of reaching $10 billion in sales by 2026, despite ongoing headwinds in China. The company said at the Goldman Sachs Global Retailing Conference that it expects the situation in the People’s Republic to improve within two quarters. It will ...
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News briefsSnowsports year-round in the heart of Stockholm
SkiStar, a company that runs Scandinavia’s biggest resorts, has worked with dry slop surface manufacturer Neveplast to create SkiStar SummerSki, a new 470-meter long dry ski slope in the heart of Stockholm. With an overall skiable surface of 9,000 square meters, the slope is one of Europe’s longest and largest ...
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News briefsCallaway completes name change
Source: Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp. New name and logo On Sep. 6, 2022, Callaway Golf Company changed its corporate name to Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp., as previously announced, pursuant to a certificate of amendment to the company’s second restated certificate of incorporation filed with the Delaware Secretary ...
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ArticleSport 2000 Austria well positioned for upcoming challenges
Source: SPORT 2000 Holger Schwarting, CEO Sport 2000 Austria, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, is expecting slight sales growth in its anniversary year. ”The times are very eventful at the moment. On the one hand, sports retailers are benefiting from the megatrends of sports ...
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News briefsCastore secures £50 million debt facility
Sportspromedia reports that Castore has secured a new £50 million (€58.2 million) revolving credit facility (RCF). This would increase the value of the British sportswear brand to £750 million (€872 million). The RCF has an initial term of three years and includes banks HSBC, BNP Paribas and Silicon Valley Bank. ...
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ArticleNew Wave Group acquires B.T.C. Activewear
New Wave Group, the Swedish parent company of Craft, Seger, Auclair, Derby of Sweden, D.A.D. Sportswear, Speedo and a dozen other sports and leisure brands, as well as roughly three dozen corporate, gift and home furnishings brands, has acquired 100 percent of B.T.C. Activewear Limited, a British promotional, corporate and ...
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News briefsSports Direct’s owner wants to buy MySale
Frasers Group, the owner of Sports Direct, has made a cash offer for Australian off-price marketplace MySale, in which Frasers Group is already the largest shareholder. Frasers acquired a 28.7 percent stake in MySale earlier this summer, as reported by SGI Europe at the time. The retail group has now ...
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News briefsPeloton with delayed annual report
Peloton Interactive will need up to 15 additional days to file its 10-K report for the fiscal year ended June 30, which was due Aug. 29, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The reason given is that the company is still calculating the impairment ...
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News briefsiFit Health & Fitness reportedly loses key executives as CEO search continues
IFit Health & Fitness, the U.S. connected fitness company that formally withdrew its registration statement for an initial public offering in early April, is losing two top senior executives, according to a report by the NY Post yesterday. CFO Steve Barr, named co-president in February, and Tony Smith, a 28-year ...
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ArticleCallaway Golf to change company name
Callaway Golf Company announced plans to change its corporate name to Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp. Following the company’s merger with Topgolf in 2021, “the name change reflects Callaway’s dynamic brand portfolio that has unmatched scale and reach across the full modern golf and active lifestyle ecosystem, including on- and off-course ...
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News briefsMycel Project closes $10m financing round for new production facility
The South Korean biomaterials start-up company Mycel Project, a spin-off of the Hyundai Motor Group, has just closed a new pre-Series A funding round, raising a total of $10 million. Six main investors (a Hyundai Motor fund among them) are now involved in the company funding, most of them based ...
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News briefsGoPro's subscription service surpasses two million subscribers
GoPro, which celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2022, announced that its highly profitable GoPro subscription service has surpassed the two million subscriber mark. The GoPro subscription offers customers unlimited cloud storage, the ability to automatically upload footage directly from GoPro cameras to the cloud, premium editing tools in the Quik ...
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Article“This is bullshit”: Burton objects to article hinting at sale of company
Bloomberg News published an article speculating about a possible sale of Burton, without disclosing any details on the source or the potential buyer’s identities. According to Bloomberg, “the Burlington, Vermont-based company is working with an adviser on the potential sale, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing confidential ...
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News briefsUSTA sells Western and Southern Open
Beemok Capital has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cincinnati’s Western and Southern Open from the U.S. Tennis Association (USTA). The firm, described as the “family office of Benjamin Navarro,” has not disclosed terms, but Sports Business Journal reports that early bidders had made offers ranging from $200 to ...
