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Amer’s new investors want total board control
After receiving pledges for about 94.98 percent of the voting shares in Amer Sports, even before the deadline of March 29 set for the completion of the tender offer, the Mascot Bidco consortium proposed yesterday to change completely the composition of Amer's board of directors at an annual general meeting ...
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Strong sales for Fila, helped by Anta
Although its sales and operating profits soared, Fila saw its net income for the fourth quarter of 2018 tumble by 74 percent from the year-ago period, down to 3,872 million Korean won (€3.0m-$3.4m).Including the results of Acushnet, the golf company in which Fila holds a 53 percent stake (see the ...
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A new design chief for Under Armour
The shoe designer Dave Dombrow has made his second exit from Under Armour in three years. The Baltimore-based company has confirmed the departure but made no further comment. However, it has since hired Kasey Jarvis to replace Dombrow as of April. For the past months, Jarvis has been director of ...
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Amer Sports has announced the sale of Mavic, the brand...
Amer Sports has announced the sale of Mavic, the brand of bicycle components inherited from Salomon, to an American equity company, Regent. The price being paid for Mavic, which represented only about 3 percent of the group's sales, was not disclosed. There was no comment by the group about the ...
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Adidas has named the candidates standing for election to its...
Adidas has named the candidates standing for election to its supervisory board at the annual general meeting on May 9, as Frank Appel, Katja Kraus and Willi Schwerdtle will not be standing for reelection. New on the board would be Jing Ulrich, managing director and vice chairman for Asia-Pacific at JPMorgan ...
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Mike Jensen has been made president of Reef, the beach...
Mike Jensen has been made president of Reef, the beach lifestyle brand recently divested by VF Corp. He was most recently the general manager and brand manager of DC Shoes at Boardriders. He previously worked for Asics, Spy and Converse. Jensen will report directly to Gregg Ribatt, the new chief ...
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Lurbel is releasing the Lurbel Pro Line, which is entirely...
Lurbel is releasing the Lurbel Pro Line, which is entirely made in Spain and manufactured with a seamless, bidirectional weave. The Spanish brand of technical sportswear says the collection is at the leading edge of its R&D in terms of materials, thread and finish. The central component is what the ...
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Rapha, the London-based cycling clothing brand, is launching its first...
Rapha, the London-based cycling clothing brand, is launching its first custom clothing program, which allows customers to personalize products from the brand's core collection. Customers can create their bespoke cycling kit online, and this will be printed on demand and delivered within six weeks. The program is made possible by ...
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Chiemsee, the German brand of boardsports clothing, has granted a license for...
Chiemsee, the German brand of boardsports clothing, has granted a license for footwear to another German company, MCB. Directed by Markus Bennemann, MCB has already made the second shoe collection for Chiemsee. The first collection for spring/summer 2019 is currently being delivered to the trade. For winter 2019/20, MCB recently presented the new ...
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Adidas is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its Predator football...
Adidas is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its Predator football boot with three limited-edition boots and a commercial featuring Zinedine Zidane and David Beckham
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Keller Sports, the German retailer for premium sports products, won...
Keller Sports, the German retailer for premium sports products, won the “Royal Class” award as the best online retailer in Germany from Internet World Business magazine. The new award recognizes a company's excellence as both a pure player and a multi-channel retailer. Keller was praised for a “perfect” product range ...
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Asics has teamed up with iRewind to provide the runners...
Asics has teamed up with iRewind to provide the runners of its 10K race in London this summer with video footage of their performance. Based in Zurich, iRewind has developed a system that can capture footage, upload it to a cloud server, edit it automatically in accordance with previously set ...
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Lacoste has signed an apparel endorsement deal with Daniil Medvedev,...
Lacoste has signed an apparel endorsement deal with Daniil Medvedev, the current number 15 in the ATP rankings for men's tennis. He will be wearing Lacoste as of this year's Miami Open, scheduled for March 18-31. Medvedev's previous sponsor was Lotto. This is actually Lacoste's second deal with the Moscovite, ...
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Leki, the German brand of poles, folding chairs and accessories...
Leki, the German brand of poles, folding chairs and accessories for skiing, trekking and trail running, has signed a two-year endorsement deal with Xavier Thevenard, the 31-year-old French trail runner. No one else has ever won Europe's “Triple Crown” – Camp Cedar Cliff (CCC), Traces des Ducs de Savoie (TDS) ...
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Adidas has announced a multiyear partnership with Alex Bregman. The...
Adidas has announced a multiyear partnership with Alex Bregman. The baseball star from Albuquerque, New Mexico, who plays for the Houston Astros, will be featured in upcoming Adidas brand marketing campaigns. The player will also collaborate on the creation of future baseball products. Bregman made his debut in Major League ...
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Callaway Golf has announced that Francesco Molinari has joined its...
Callaway Golf has announced that Francesco Molinari has joined its Tour Professional Staff. Molinari, a native of Turin, Italy, is currently ranked as the 10th player in the world. In 2018, he won his first major at The Open Championship. Last year, he also won the BMW PGA Championship and ...
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Reebok's new online campaign for the launch of its “sole...
Reebok's new online campaign for the launch of its “sole fury” sneaker collection for the 2019 spring/summer season has posted short Instagram films – under the hashtag SplitForm – of celebrities wearing the sneakers
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Puma had no comment on a report that it will...
Puma had no comment on a report that it will replace Nike as the supplier of the match ball for the first-division Spanish football tournaments of La Liga through the 2021-22 season for an amount of €5 million
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Rip Curl and the World Surf League (WSL) have worked...
Rip Curl and the World Surf League (WSL) have worked out a three-year renewal for two events on the WSL Championship Tour (CT), the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach and the Meo Rip Curl Pro Portugal
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After three years with Poc, the Swedish Cycle Federation has...
After three years with Poc, the Swedish Cycle Federation has launched a new sponsorship agreement with Pearl Izumi, which will provide clothing for the athletes competing in seven cycling disciplines
