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The North Face opened another company-owned single-brand store last week,...
The North Face opened another company-owned single-brand store last week, this time in Glasgow. It now operates five corporate stores across Europe plus 35 points of sales that are operated by retail customers. TNF intends to open three more stores this year in Israel, where it already has two points ...
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Groupe Go Sport has promoted Dominique Prévost to the rank...
Groupe Go Sport has promoted Dominique Prévost to the rank of assistant managing director of Courir, its big chain of sports shoe shops, handing purchasing, merchandising, store development, controlling, human resources, marketing and communication. He was formerly sales manager of Go Sport, a position in which he is going to ...
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Klas Elm will quit the helm of Svensk Sportforum, the...
Klas Elm will quit the helm of Svensk Sportforum, the Swedish sports industry federation grouping suppliers and retailers, which he runs on a part-time basis, on March 31. Elm wants to focus his activities on the cycling, fishing, hunting and game sports segments. He has done so in the past, ...
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Adidas has recruited Michael Stanier, an executive with an impressive...
Adidas has recruited Michael Stanier, an executive with an impressive track record in the retail business, as global head of retail for the Adidas brand. This is the prelude to the launch of an entirely new global retail structure at Adidas, which will be put in place within three months ...
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Justin McCarthy, who joined IllumiNITE as vice president for apparel,...
Justin McCarthy, who joined IllumiNITE as vice president for apparel, has been named its acting president. IllumiNITE, based in Massachusetts, is owned by ReFlec of the U.K. It sells its own label performance running and cycling apparel in addition to marketing its patented reflective fabrics to industrial and commercial firms. ...
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Deutsche Bank’s New York branch will be the new administrative...
Deutsche Bank’s New York branch will be the new administrative agent for Jarden Corporation, replacing Lehman Commerical Paper, an affiliate of Lehman Brothers, which has filed for bankruptcy. Deutsche Bank will also take over all of Lehman’s administrative duties related to Jarden’s credit facility. Jarden has agreed to settle all ...
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Merrell has named Louis Carlton creative director for apparel and...
Merrell has named Louis Carlton creative director for apparel and Melora McGilligan materials manager for the unit. Both of them will report to Jordan Wand, the vice president and general manager for Merrell Apparel. Carlton and McGilligan will have input on Merrell designs starting with the autumn 2010 collection.
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Berghaus has created the position of vice president Asia-Pacific, to...
Berghaus has created the position of vice president Asia-Pacific, to be filled by its former operations director, Michael Lockett. He will be based in Hong Kong, headquarters for the recently created Berghaus Asia. The move comes as Berghaus has new distribution and licensing agreements in Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan and ...
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Andrew Stark is the new chief executive for Surfing Australia,...
Andrew Stark is the new chief executive for Surfing Australia, the national governing body for that sport. He was previously the CEO for the similar regional group Surfing Queensland, a position he held for eight years.
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The Shoe Manufacturers Association of Canada is requesting that the...
The Shoe Manufacturers Association of Canada is requesting that the Canada Border Services Agency conduct a national investigation of pricing on waterproof rubber footwear and bottoms exported from or originating from China or Vietnam. The demand follows similar anti-dumping actions taken against imported footwear by the European Union, Brazil, Argentina, ...
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Adidas has signed a deal to be the outfitter of...
Adidas has signed a deal to be the outfitter of all teams in the Football Federation of Ukraine, replacing Lotto in this role. Effective as of last Jan. 1, the deal goes through 2016 and also entails partnering to promote the sport of football in the Ukraine. The national team ...
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Dutch suppliers of ice skates enjoyed outstanding sales last year,...
Dutch suppliers of ice skates enjoyed outstanding sales last year, as cold weather conditions in the country enabled hundreds of thousands of Dutch people to skate on lakes and canals for 10 days in a row during the Christmas holidays. The notoriously skate-crazy Dutch leapt at the opportunity to hit ...
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As incredible as it might seem, Fjällräven, the all-classic Swedish...
As incredible as it might seem, Fjällräven, the all-classic Swedish outdoor brand, is becoming a favorite among wealthy British football fans. The British brand manager, Geoff Walters, believes that the company might have just found a niche market, and is carefully selecting new retailers to carry its T-shirts and sweatshirts ...
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Accell Group has been consolidating its fitness equipment operations in...
Accell Group has been consolidating its fitness equipment operations in the last months, in reaction to continued sales declines in this relatively marginal segment of the Dutch conglomerate’s business. It has moved to the Far East the remaining production of fitness equipment that was being carried out by Jallax, a ...
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Icon Health & Fitness is launching a partnership with Nike...
Icon Health & Fitness is launching a partnership with Nike and Apple that will make it possible for runners exercising on their home treadmills to take part in the Nike+ community. The Nike+ program enables runners to measure their performance through a chip inserted in a pair of Nike shoes ...
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Mavic USA, the U.S. subsidiary of the French company in...
Mavic USA, the U.S. subsidiary of the French company in Masschusetts, is recalling approximately 12,000 of its bicycles with R-SYS front wheel rims that were made by its sister company, Salomon SAS, in France. The spokes on the front wheel rim can break during use. The recall pertains to R-SYS ...
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CORRECTION: Green Fitness is the distributor in Germany, Austria, the...
CORRECTION: Green Fitness is the distributor in Germany, Austria, the Benelux countries and Eastern Europe of RFE, a company in the U.K. that has the license for Reebok fitness equipment worldwide with the exception of North America.
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European Retailers Echo Obama’S 'Yes, We Can'
In 2008, specialty sports retailers in the main European countries reached total sales worth some €37.5 billion, marginally up compared with €37 billion in the previous year, according to Fedas, the European federation of sporting goods retailers (our own sales estimates for the European market are higher). Its president, Werner ...
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Winter Sports Industry Thrives In France
The French winter sports business expanded last year, judging from preliminary findings by NPD Group. The expected growth stems from the fact that more French people headed for the slopes with their families instead of booking far-away breaks, and they were rewarded with outstanding snow conditions. This more than made ...
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British Online Retailers See Double-digit Growth
While most British sporting goods retailers saw sales plunge in the second half of 2008, a few companies came out strong. Sports PLC reported that sales were up by 28 for its U.K.-based website www.thesportshq.com and by 22 percent for the American www.golfoutletsusa.com for 2008. The British site saw a ...
