Latest Short Stops – Page 9
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Sept. 15 Short Stops: Adidas – Deals - Frasers Group – Louis Vuitton
Corporate: +++ Christopher Wootton, chief financial officer of Frasers Group, has been awarded 600,000 shares in the company, currently worth around £6.30 each, in the framework of an executive share scheme Statistics: +++ Quoting Refinitiv as the source, the Financial Times notes that the number of deals ...
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Oct. 14 Short Stops: Carver Skateboards - New Balance - Roland Mouret – Skechers - Tonal
Corporate: +++ LeBron James is the latest athlete to join Tonal as an investor and brand partner Management: +++ Dave Root, who recently led Absolute Boards, will be the new president of Carver Skateboards, replacing Neil Carver, the company’s founder, who will concentrate on product innovation ...
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Oct. 12/13 Short Stops: Adidas – Allbirds - Black Crows – GoPro - Havaianas – IMG – Intersport Austria - Lacoste – Maje/Varley – Odlo - On Running – Santini/Le Coq
Management: +++ Odlo has promoted two executives – Thomas Krichel and Angelika Wratschko - as sales managers for the markets of Germany and Austria, and Pia Knapik to the position of key account manager for e-commerce +++ Shaz Kahng, a former Nike executive and CEO of Lucy Acitvewear, ...
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Oct. 7/8 Short Stops: Lululemon – Puma - Royer - Sergio Tacchini - Slinger
Corporate: +++ The French Groupe Royer, which recently lost a big licensing agreement with New Balance, is holding discussions with potential new financial partners, according to fashionnetwork.fr Retail: +++ Like in the U.S., Lululemon will offer its interactive home gym, Mirror, in 40 stores and online ...
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Oct. 6 Short Stops: Bogner – K2 – Oxbow - Rapala VMC – Umbro – X-Bionic
Corporate: +++ Nicolas Warchalowski, the new president and CEO of Rapala VMC, announced that it will be able to repay a €25 million “hybrid bond” on Nov. 15, thanks to a strong turnaround Product: +++ Bogner’s first line of snow boots, which comes with Michelin soles, ...
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Oct. 5 Short Stops: ABG – Adidas – Arc’teryx - Benetton - Black Crows – JD Sports Fashion – Polartec - Stadium
Corporate: +++ With the company’s share price having risen above 1,000 pence, the board of JD Sports Fashion is proposing a five-for-one stock split, asking for its approval at a general meeting set for Oct. 28 +++ Stadium’s main owner, Eklöf Invest, is reportedly forming a joint venture ...
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Oct. 4 Short Stops: Decathlon - iFIT - Isbjörn - Sports Direct
Management: +++ Frasers Group, parent of Sports Direct International, announced the appointment to its board of directors of Anouska Kapur, a specialist in high-value real estate who is a partner in the law firm Child and Child +++ Selma Jakobsson, former product developer at H&M, has joined Isbjörn ...
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Oct. 1 Short Stops: MDV Sports – Nike - Puma
Corporate: +++ MDV Sports, which owns the Marker, Dalbello and Völkl brands, has relocated to a new U.S. head office at the historical River Mill Commercial Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire to house its administrative and commercial staff, while offering a new showroom and meeting spaces +++ Phil ...
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Sept. 29 Short Stops: Canada Goose – Deckers – Foot Locker -¥ Lolë – Rip Curl – Sports Direct – VF Corp.
Corporate: +++ The annual general meeting of Frasers Group, parent of Sports Direct International, approved all the resolutions put forward, with only 1.16% of the votes cast against the re-election of Mike Ashley, CEO a major shareholder, as a director of the company +++ Foot Locker is launching private ...
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Sept. 27/28 Short Stops: Bangladesh – Bauer Hockey - Cambodia - Lloyd – Puma - SHER - Tecnifibre –UYN
Corporate: +++ Without mentioning a specific date, Puma’s CEO, Bjôrn Gulden, has told Germany’s Handelsblatt that he wants to double the company’s sales in the longer term, compared with last year’s level of $5.2 billion +++ Asos plans to invest £14 million in a new “Tech Hub” in Belfast ...
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Sept. 23/24 Short Stops: Canyon Bicycles - Nike - Quiksilver – Lululemon – Rossignol - Silva – Starter - Suunto
Management: +++ Armin Landgraf will quit as CEO of Canyon Bicycles at the end of this month “for personal reasons,” but will continue to support the company as executive chairman of its advisory board while its chief financial officer, Winfried Rapp, takes over the CEO’s functions on an interim ...
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Sept. 20/22 Short Stops: Amer Sports – Asics - Macron – Norspo - Rapha/POC - Zalando
Management: +++ Mike Adams, vice president of winter sports equipment for Salomon and manager of Atomic in the U.S., will be retiring on Dec. 31, after 25 years with the brands’ parent, Amer Sports, and 45 years in the sporting goods industry overall +++ Ralf Helbrich has left ...
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Sept. 17 Short Stops: Decathlon - Hyperice - New Balance
Corporate: +++ The captain of Indian cricket team and of the Royal Challangers of Bangalore, Virat Kohli, has joined the list of sports professionals acting as investors and brand ambassadors for Hyperice DTC: +++ New Balance has opened its third store in Madrid CSR ...
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Sept. 16 Short Stops: Chamatex/Salomon – Decathlon - Gym & Coffee - Uhlsport
Corporate: +++ Inaugurated on Sept. 16, Chamatex’ new and automated Advanced Shoe Factory 4.0 (ASF 4.0) at Ardoix, in France, plans to make 15,000 pairs of shoes by the end of this year with about 20 workers, starting with the production of a trail running and active hiking shoe ...
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Sept. 14/15 Short Stops: 361° - Adidas - Arc’teryx- Brexit – Columbia – Crocs - Deporvillage – Diadora – Helly Hansen – Hoka - Luanvi – Macron - UYN
Management: +++ 361° Europe has appointed a new European marketing manager, Bryce Sage, who worked for Nike and Hi-Tec Sports before spending two and a half years at the European office of Brooks Running DTC & E-Commerce: +++ Arc’teryx is opening a 1,500-sqft Arc’type store in ...
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Sept. 10/13 Short Stops: Bergamont – Billabong - Canterbury – Fila - IHRSA – Moncler – Ping - Puma - Reebok - TNF -Velcro – XXL
Management: +++ After working with Deuter for many years, Gregor Cerwinski has joined Bergamont, a bike brand owned by the Scott Sports Group, in the role of head of marketing, replacing Pamela Busch +++ Velcro Companies has a new CEO, Gabriella Parisse, who spent 26 years at Johnson ...
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Sept. 9 Short Stops: Candide - Decathlon – JD Sports Fashion – On – Signa - SMS
Corporate: +++ The shares of On Holding, parent company of On Running, will start trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ONON symbol on Wednesday, Sept. 13 +++ JD Sports Fashion is one of several potential investors in Missguided, an international online retailer of women’s clothing ...
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Sept. 7/8 Short Stops: Allbirds - China Fish - Decathlon – Dior - FootJoy – Head - Jordan - Lenzing - Life Fitness - Prince/Reebok - Racer - The Athlete’s Foot
Corporate: +++ A private equity company, Capidea, has acquired the majority of the shares in the Westin and Kinetic brands of fishing tackle products from Denmark’s Fairpoint Outdoors, without a change in their top management +++ Racer, a French manufacturer of ski and other sports gloves ...
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Sept. 6 Short Stops: Craft - Eisbär - IFTD - Intersport - Keen - Lidl - Nike - Puma - Rip Curl - Superdry - Unisport - Wilson - Zalando
Corporate: +++ Puma and Zalando is going to be upgraded from the MDAX to the DAX index of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on Sept. 20, joining Adidas and 28 other companies Management: +++ Riccardo Rossi, who joined Nike Europe a year ago as digital account merchandiser ...
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Sept. 1+2 Short Stops: Adidas - Arc’teryx – Black Diamond Canada Goose – Jack Wolfskin - JD – Lionel Messi - Moncler - Opro - Pulseroll - Vans
Management: +++ Creating a new position, Jack Wolfskin has named Patrick Berresheim, the former digital chief of Gerry Weber, Hugo Boss and Birkenstock, as its own vice president of digital operations, covering Europe, Russia, China and the U.S. +++ Ludivine Pont, who joined Moncler in 2016 as marketing ...
