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Columbia continues to struggle in Europe ? and elsewhere
In the last three months of 2012, Columbia Sportswear managed to lift its net income by 8 percent to $39.5 million, while consolidated net sales fell by 5 percent to $501.1 million during the quarter. For the full year, the group's sales dipped by 1 percent to $1.67 billion and ...
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Helly still on the rise
Helly Hansen is set to double its sales in North America this year as it reaps the benefits of several years of investments. The Norwegian ski and outdoor brand already expanded its sales by more than 20 percent in North America in each of the last two years, partly based ...
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Peak Performance adds to international distribution
Peak Performance, the Swedish ski, outdoor and golf brand, has inked a deal with Vermont Holding in the Czech Republic, covering distribution in that country along with Slovakia and Hungary. Vermont already has an agreement to sell Gant in the same countries, where it has opened 58 stores for that ...
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Rapala's quarterly sales go up by 12%
Rapala has reported net sales of €67.9 million for the fourth quarter ended last Dec. 31, up by 12 percent from the equivalent period a year ago, and net sales of €290.7 million for the year, up by 4 percent. Both quarterly and full-year sales figures represent an all-time record ...
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Johnson Outdoors turns around in the quarter
Johnson Outdoors posted a 9 percent increase in revenues to $87.3 million during its first fiscal quarter ended Dec. 28, 2012, as compared to a year ago. The growth during the period, where the group's sales are typically the lowest in the year, was driven by higher sales in Marine Electronics ...
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Hi-Tec intensifies Polish partnership but takes over apparel
Hi-Tec, the Dutch-based outdoor and sports footwear brand, has reorganized its distribution in Eastern Europe by attributing more rights to Martes Sport, its Polish partner. Martes has long held a license for Hi-Tec footwear in Poland, along with a global license for Hi-Tec apparel, and three years ago its remit ...
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Dosenbach presents Fila's return to performance roots
Dosenbach-Ochsner, the Swiss subsidiary of Deichmann, the huge German shoe retailer, took the opportunity of Ispo Munich to relaunch Fila, the originally Italian brand for which Dosenbach has held the European license for nearly two years, excluding the British Isles and Russia where the rights are held by JD Sports ...
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Carlo Boroli concentrates on Briko
Carlo Boroli, the Italian entrepreneur who took over Briko in 2008, has sold his publishing company and is now concentrating completely on this Italian brand of sports eyewear, helmets and clothing for snow sports and cycling. Gianluca Pellegrinelli, the former manager of Intersport Italia who joined Briko as managing director ...
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Therm-ic comes back under Stangl's management
August Stangl is returning to Therm-ic in the role of managing director of a newly created company, STC Distribution, which will be responsible for the product development, distribution and marketing of the Therm-ic brand. STC Distribution is owned at 100 percent by Sidas, the French-based supplier of insoles for sports ...
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German Sport 2000 explores new strategies for medium-sized retailers
The German Sport 2000 is not very optimistic about the future development of the number of sports retailers in Germany, notably when it comes to the traditional family-run generalist sports stores. According to the buying group's management, the number of stores has decreased from some 6,400 doors 10 years ago ...
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The German industry stays under pressure
A survey recently conducted among the members of the German sporting goods industry federation, BSI, showed that 91 percent of them are satisfied with the current state of their business, and 51 percent assess it as good or very good. In addition, about half of the members saw their annual sales rising ...
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Puma launches the “Nature of Performance”
This year, Puma is introducing a new cross-category platform, called the “Nature of Performance,” to underscore its more performance-oriented positioning. The new theme is supposed to serve as inspiration for new products in football, running, training and fitness, and it will underpin the brand's marketing campaigns. The platform should ensure ...
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Uncertainty in the European market calls for new opportunities
A few days before the start of Ispo Munich, the event's organizers, Messe München, brought together leading personalities of the European sporting goods industry at a press conference to discuss trends and prospects. Werner Haizmann, president of Fedas, the European retailers' federation, pointed out that sales trends strongly varied from one ...
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The market situation seems to be improving
The European market situation for winter sports products is improving, judging from an online survey of sales and order trends that SGI Europe conducted at all levels of the supply chain at the international level earlier this week. In general, producers, distributors and retailers all expect higher orders for the ...
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Intersport grows by 3% worldwide, with lower margins
In a preliminary statement, Intersport International Corporation (IIC) reports an increase of around 3 percent in the sales of its affiliated retailers in Europe and the rest of the world in the course of 2012, with widely diverging levels of performance from one country to the other. After the small ...
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Eybl axes 11 percent of its staff; needs fresh money
It was just a brief release sent out through ASA/OTS, the Austrian news agency, but it hit the Austrian sporting goods industry like an earthquake a few days ago. In the release, Sport Eybl & Sports Experts, the country's leading retailer in the sector, announced that it is about to ...
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Austrian Sport 2000 and Gigasport sign strategic partnership
Effective Feb. 1, Gigasport, the banner of the Kastner & Öhler chain of department stores, and Sport 2000 Austria will form a purchasing partnership that is set to boost the buying group's turnover significantly. The new alliance adds 18 Gigasport doors to the existing 321 Sport 2000 stores in Austria, ...
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Stadium will enter Germany
Stadium, the large-scale Swedish sports retailer with nearly 140 stores across Sweden, Denmark and Finland, is preparing to move into Hamburg next year. The company's chief executive, Gustaf Öhrn, said that Stadium had picked Hamburg because its concept was right for that particular market; the weather conditions were not unlike ...
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Sport 2000 sees the light again in France
Sport 2000 went through a difficult period in France after it tried to set up its own corporate stores in 2008 with the financial help of an investment group, Activa Capital, which obtained a controlling interest in the cooperative in 2010. The stores have since been closed down, and after a long ...
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German Sport 2000 retailers post healthy growth for 2012
Sport 2000 Deutschland reports a sales increase at retail prices of 4.3 percent to €1.55 billion in 2012 compared with the previous year. The figures are for German retailers alone and exclude affiliated retailers in Switzerland. The increase is in line with the average increase of 4 percent over the past ...
