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A total of 50 awards were given out at the...
A total of 50 awards were given out at the last ISPO, but we are not going to list all of them. The winners of the Global Sportstyle Award at ISPO, presented by Volvo at the GQ Style Night, were Willy Bogner for the “Brand of the Century,” Kaspar Frauenschuh ...
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Sport Communication Group, the joint venture between Messe München and...
Sport Communication Group, the joint venture between Messe München and Staraya Krepost in Moscow that organizes ISPO Russia, has bought the Jeans Expo show that has been held simultaneously in the same fairgrounds, hosting some 120 exhibitors. The plan is to create synergies between the two shows, taking advantage of ...
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Denmark’S Sport-master Goes For A Sale, Too, Joining Intersport Danmark
Only a few weeks after Intersport Danmark’s announcement that it was going for a possible change of ownership (see SGI Europe #17-41 of Dec. 21), Sport Danmark, a voluntary group of about the same size that trades under the Sport-Master banner, said that its board of directors had decided to ...
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Shareholdings Are Changing Or About To Change In Sports World And Jjb Sports
New share transactions are brewing in British sports retailing. According to the Financial Times, Mike Ashley is making strong progress with his plan to go public with Sports World, the UK’s largest sports retailer and owner of numerous brands from Dunlop to Karrimor, mooting a flotation on the London Stock ...
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Restructured United Brands Tests Out A Multi-brand Boardsports Concept
Marc Piessens, chief executive of United Brands, has regained nearly full control of this Belgian sports retail company by buying back a 15 percent stake that he had sold to Beluga, a private equity fund. Piessens had leaned on these investors a few years ago to help finance an aggressive ...
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Columbia Reports Good Growth
Columbia Sportswear saw its sales increase by 8.1 percent in Europe to $199.2 million in 2006, with a 7.7 percent increase in local currencies. The biggest growth took place in Italy, where orders are also up sharply for 2007, and in Scandinavian countries generally. Denmark, where Columbia switched from a ...
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Head Bucks The Trend In Snow Sports
In an unusual announcement ahead of its financial report for 2006, which is due at the end of February, Head confirms the strong progress of its winter sports division already outlined in connection with its results for the first nine months of last year, in spite of a difficult market ...
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Vf Again Shuffles The Deck In Europe
The departure of Martin Berendsen, who formerly headed up VF Corporation’s action sports brands outside the USA, has triggered the establishment of a new organizational structure for the international operations of its “outdoor and sportswear coalition,”, which are still headed up by Karl Heinz Salzburger out of Lugano, Switzerland. Under ...
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Chervo Moves Into Retail And Brand Management
Chervò, an Italian leader in golf apparel that is going to show in the IspoVision section of the ISPO fair at the end of this week,, is going through an interesting phase of vertical integration after six years of intense growth. It has taken on the management of seven pro ...
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Awards At Ispo
Among many old and new award ceremonies, ISPO will give its traditional ISPO Cup this time to Dr. Vitali Klitschko, the retired boxer and sports science doctor from the Ukraine. The award recognizes outstanding sporting achievements by sports personalities that can serve as a role model for younger people. Klitschko, ...
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French consumers are getting more responsive to price promotions on...
French consumers are getting more responsive to price promotions on sports footwear throughout the year. According NPD’s regular quarterly surveys of the market, discounted sports shoes represented 43 percent of French retailers’ sales in the 12-month period ended in June 2006, as compared to nearly 36 percent five years earlier.
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Boards & More, the Austrian-based boardsports bought by Airesis in...
Boards & More, the Austrian-based boardsports bought by Airesis in 2003, is thought to be wrapping a deal for the sale of its F2 surfing brand. The intended buyer is Reinhard Hofbauer, former owner of Flow, the snowboarding brand of Neilpryde. F2 has been in competition with other brands of ...
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Le Coq Sportif, the French sports brand that was recently...
Le Coq Sportif, the French sports brand that was recently acquired by Airesis, the Swiss-based investment company, has bought back the rights to its brand name in the USA from Itochu. The Japanese company had obtained the U.S. rights in 2005 and struck a management deal with Jon Epstein, former ...
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Jan Valdmaa has decided to leave as president and chief...
Jan Valdmaa has decided to leave as president and chief executive of Helly Hansen, following its now completed takeover by Altor Equity Partners. However, he has agreed to stay on until up to May 31, pending the appointment of a successor. Helly Hansen’s former controlling shareholder, Investcorp, brought in the ...
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Nike has promoted Clare Hamil to be president and chief...
Nike has promoted Clare Hamil to be president and chief executive of Exeter, its New York-based subsidiary for the mass market. Hamil has 25 years’ experience at the Swoosh and has been vice-president and general manager of global footwear and vice-president of new business development. She replaces Lisa Kempa, a ...
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Robert Appelt, a long-time veteran connected with the Silvretta brand...
Robert Appelt, a long-time veteran connected with the Silvretta brand of ski bindings, most recently in charge of sales, has left the Salewa group. Appelt’s functions have been split between a sales manager for Germany, Thomas Gröger, who is in charge of the hardware products of the Salewa group in ...
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Lafuma boasts a 21 percent increase in its order backlog,...
Lafuma boasts a 21 percent increase in its order backlog, compared with one year ago, but cautions investors that the atypical winter 2007 season may affect the final revenue flow. For the 1st quarter ended last Dec. 31, the French outdoor group reports a 2.4 percent sales increase to €47.7 ...
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Markus Zaversnik, an Austrian executive who left as sales director...
Markus Zaversnik, an Austrian executive who left as sales director of SIGG Switzerland at the end of 2005, has set up an international consultancy, and its first client in the sporting goods sector is X-Action, a 2-year-old Austrian brand of functional socks and underwear for ski, hiking, trekking, running and ...
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Dobotex, the successful European licensee of Puma for socks, recently...
Dobotex, the successful European licensee of Puma for socks, recently signed a 5-year European license with Tommy Hilfiger, starting next August. The Dutch company, founded in 1979, sells about 70 million pairs of socks annually. Its revenues grew last year to nearly €70 million, with Puma representing the majority of ...
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Andrew Peters, 53, will become the new chief executive of...
Andrew Peters, 53, will become the new chief executive of ISM, the 21-year-old British executive recruitment agency, from March 1. He comes from Puma, where he has served as UK managing director for 15 years. He previously worked as senior product manager with Slazenger and as buying and merchandise director ...
