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100-year-old Luhta Sponsors Santa Claus
Luhta, the oldest and best known brand of Finland’s L-Fashion Group, has secured the rights to act as official supplier of clothing to Santa Claus, who is supposed to live in Rovaniemi, a little Finnish town along the Arctic Circle where he has his own postal office to handle more ...
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Macintosh Offers To Buy Brantano
Brantano, a large-scale player in Belgian and British footwear, is likely to be bought in the next weeks by the Macintosh Retail Group, a Dutch retailing conglomerate selling footwear as well as cycling, furniture and telecom products. Among other measures, Macintosh plans to optimize joint buying of sports footwear: The ...
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Anta Triples Sales
Anta Sports Products, which claims a 3.2 percent share of the Chinese sports footwear and apparel market; is yet another big Chinese producer/wholesaler/retailer involved in the sporting goods market that went public recently, in the wake of Belle International and other such companies. Anta says its turnover jumped by 203 ...
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Blacks Antagonizes Suppliers
Several weighty suppliers are terminating their relationships with Blacks Leisure, apparently due to some tightened purchasing conditions that the British outdoor retailer sought to impose earlier this year in an effort to redress its sagging margins. Mountain Boot Co., the British distributor for Deuter backpacks and Scarpa climbing shoes, ...
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Sport 2000 Stops The Deal With Amazon
Deeply attached to their traditions, the retail members of Sport 2000 in Germany have responded with furor to the letter circulated a few days ago by the management of the buying group, announcing the board decision to strike a strategic alliance with the Amazon.de internet portal. As a result, Sport ...
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Sport 2000 Welcomes Amazon As A Retail Member In Germany
Amazon.de, the German subsidiary of Amazon.com, was going to set up its own sporting goods portal. To this effect, it approached Sport 2000 last November to explore opportunities for cooperation. After some initial scepticism and a series of discussions and the consent of its advisory board, Sport 2000 Deutschland has ...
