News briefs - Distribution – Page 38
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Seven has licensed out the development and distribution of a...
Seven has licensed out the development and distribution of a line of clothing and footwear under the Invicta brand name to Global Brand Management, the Italian licensee of Umbro. The contract starts with the spring/summer 2011 season, focusing initially on the Italian market, and will last for three years. Invicta, ...
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Patagonia is taking the European distribution of its footwear range...
Patagonia is taking the European distribution of its footwear range in its own hands to optimize its sales in specialist outdoor stores. The brand’s footwear business has been handled by Wolverine World Wide, but with meager results outside the U.S., and Patagonia Europe indicated that it wanted to deploy more ...
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Umbro has announced that is taking over the distribution in...
Umbro has announced that is taking over the distribution in Spain and Portugal from its current licensees as contracts with them expire at the end of this year, but the company says that its “successful” Spanish licensee, Umbro S.L., is going to continue to be involved as a wholesaler and ...
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Seabase will be the European distributor for Green Foam surfboard...
Seabase will be the European distributor for Green Foam surfboard blanks starting this summer. Green Foam blanks are eco-friendly, and are made by U.S. Blanks at its environmentally friendly factory in California. The blanks will be sold in France, Portugal and the U.K., and will cost a little more than ...
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Scantrade, which is the licensee and distributor of Umbro in...
Scantrade, which is the licensee and distributor of Umbro in Norway, has extended the brand’s exclusive partnership with the Norwegian Football Federation for six years. The new deal is said to be worth 100 million Norwegian kroner (€12.7m-$15.3m). It will involve outfitting about half of the football teams affiliated with ...
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Accell Group has decided use national distributors everywhere for the...
Accell Group has decided use national distributors everywhere for the products of its Accell Fitness division. In Germany, it will transfer them as of June 1 from its own subsidiary to a specialist, RFG Sportvertrieb, selected after an analysis of the market. In building up its own Accell Fitness division, ...
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Kelme has announced new distribution agreements for South Korea and...
Kelme has announced new distribution agreements for South Korea and Indonesia, both covering the 2010-14 period. The partners are B&J for Korea and Miracle Sports Indonesia, a recently established company, for the other market. Kelme has already been present over the last five years in Indonesia, where it has decided ...
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Asics Corporation, along with its Singapore distributor, Runners’ World Pte.,...
Asics Corporation, along with its Singapore distributor, Runners’ World Pte., is an official apparel sponsor of the Singapore Marathon, for the next three editions of the race starting with this year’s, on Dec. 5. The event includes a marathon, a half marathon and a 10-kilometer race, and is expected to ...
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Rapala VMC is restructuring its Eastern European distribution operations as...
Rapala VMC is restructuring its Eastern European distribution operations as business in that region and in Russia continues to show strong growth. Saku Kulmala, the head of East European distribution and managing director of group distribution in Finland, will focus on the latter, but will still be a board member ...
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Freddy has signed a five-year license and distribution agreement with...
Freddy has signed a five-year license and distribution agreement with the South Korean group In the F Co Ltd for the brands Freddy and Freddy the Club. The agreement starts with the spring/summer 2010 collection of the Italian brand of fitness and dancewear and is expected to generate at least ...
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The Mountain Boot Company has signed a new distribution contract...
The Mountain Boot Company has signed a new distribution contract with Ski Trab for the British market. The Italian supplier of free-ride and ski touring equipment joins a list of brands that include Contour, Deuter, Grivel and Scarpa. The most other recent contract was with Outdoor Research one year ago. ...
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GPG, a big French distributor that already markets brands such...
GPG, a big French distributor that already markets brands such as Pony, Trezeta and Avia in the country, has taken on the distribution of JanSport, the higher-end brand of backpacks of VF Corp., which had been sold to only a few French accounts from the company’s Belgian office.
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Polar has signed a distribution agreement with Sport Agent in...
Polar has signed a distribution agreement with Sport Agent in Slovenia, covering also the markets of Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia, and with Living Well for Romania.
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Momentum Distribution of the U.S. has formed a new company,...
Momentum Distribution of the U.S. has formed a new company, Endorphin Group, to distribute Look Cycle’s line of Rossignol branded apparel in the North America.
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Fischer has taken over the distribution of its hockey sticks...
Fischer has taken over the distribution of its hockey sticks in Germany from a former distributor, Hockey Corner Sportartikel.
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Dicaltex, the new distributor of Speedo in Spain, has signed...
Dicaltex, the new distributor of Speedo in Spain, has signed an endorsement deal with a Spanish swimming champion, Aschwin Wildeboer. The Spanish Triathlon Federation is being sponsored through 2012 by Mosconi, the swimwear brand of Joluvi.
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X-Function Benelux has taken over the distribution of Nordica and...
X-Function Benelux has taken over the distribution of Nordica and Rollerblade in the Benelux countries from the beginning of February. X-Function already deals with the X Socks and X Bionic brands. It belongs to the larger TCK Sports group, which further includes Lowa Benelux BV (Lowa, Schöffel, Deuter, Ortlieb, Leki, ...
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Chris Sports Europe, the distributor of Bjørn Dæhlie, Nabholz and...
Chris Sports Europe, the distributor of Bjørn Dæhlie, Nabholz and Powderhorn in France, Germany and Austria, has added many new brands in certain countries. The Swiss-based company (profile in our market research on Austria and Switzerland), has been doing well in the past couple of years as distributor of New ...
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Limited Sports has taken on the distribution of Völkl Tennis...
Limited Sports has taken on the distribution of Völkl Tennis in the German-speaking countries. The team of 10 sales representatives is headed by Hermann Olschewski, a former sales director of Reebok Germany. It will start with the sales of equipment and accessories, adding apparel later on.
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Sport-Garmisch is taking back the distribution of Goldwin in Austria,...
Sport-Garmisch is taking back the distribution of Goldwin in Austria, after a two-year intermezzo with Phenix. The German distributor, which represented Goldwin between 2001 and 2007, has also taken on board a Norwegian knitwear brand, Nordstrikk, for the German and Austrian markets. Sport-Garmisch is also the German distributor of Daily ...
