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    New Controlling Shareholder For Kneissl

    2006-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Fritz Unterberger, the biggest car dealer in the Tyrol region; has acquired a majority stake of 70 percent in Kneissl, the small ski company in Kufstein. The remaining 30 percent is in the hands of Fritz Obholzer, an auditor and tax advisor in the city. The two local entrepreneurs have ...

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    Cercley Becomes Coleman’S Eurochief

    2006-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Bruno Cercley, the 46-year-old French executive who left as president and CEO of the Rossignol Group following its recent takeover by Quiksilver, is rebounding as president of Coleman EMEA, the subsidiary of Coleman Group responsible for Europe, the Middle East and Africa based in Lyon. He replaces Alain Brunelle, who ...

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    Low Margins Hurt Ashworth, Which May Be Up For Sale

    2006-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Ashworth says it continues to explore strategic alternatives and options, including the sale of the company, acting through the U.S. investment bank of Houlihan, Lokey, Howard & Zukin. One of its major shareholders, Discovery Equity Partners, has suggested that a sale of the California-based golf apparel company could yield $168 ...

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    Sgma Stops The Super Show

    2006-01-09T00:00:00Z

    SGMA International, the U.S. sporting goods manufacturers’ association, has decided to kill The Super Show after its next session in Orlando, Florida later this month. Starting in 2007, it will be replaced by smaller events in Las Vegas in June and somewhere on the U.S. East Coast in October. SGMA ...

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    Italy’S Fitness Festival Moves To Florence

    2006-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Between next May 24 and May 28, tourists visiting Florence and the local people will be able to “attack the fortress” in the middle of the city, climbing by rope over its medieval walls, to win a free entry into the Fitness Festival, Europe’s largest sports fest, taking home a ...