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Puma has made some changes in management for sourcing and...
Puma has made some changes in management for sourcing and production. Tichard Oetting will be in charge of sourcing development, value engineering and prices, while still overseeing performance development under Rosendo Pera and lifestyle development under Joel Wharton. Giles Fowler is taking over all of Puma’s production branches, commercialization and ...
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Johan Vikman, the former chief executive of the Fenix Group...
Johan Vikman, the former chief executive of the Fenix Group who switched to the same position at Norrwin last July, jumped ship again earlier this month to set up Travel Heroes, a store specializing in travel products in Stockholm. Norrwin is the new Swedish-based outdoor group comprising Five Seasons, Tenson ...
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Kristin M. Coleman is the new vice president, general counsel...
Kristin M. Coleman is the new vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Brunswick Corporation. She comes from Mead Johnson Nutrition Company, where she was vice president and associate general counsel. She worked for Brunswick before, from 2003-2008. She is replacing Lloyd C. Chatfield, who is leaving the company ...
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Exel Composites, which is the new company name for Exel...
Exel Composites, which is the new company name for Exel Oy due to its new concentration on composite materials, reports an 11.4 percent decline in sales of continuing operations to €18.5 million for the first quarter of 2008. The operating margin on these operations declined to 10.8 percent from 12.9 ...
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The Swedish protective gear company POC had the highest growth...
The Swedish protective gear company POC had the highest growth rate in the country’s sports industry in 2008-09, according to the magazine Sportfack. The company expanded by 110 percent. Its founder and chief executive, Stefan Ytterborn, said that for the coming season POC will produce almost 70,000 ski helmets, after ...
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JD Sports Fashion is reported to be considering a takeover...
JD Sports Fashion is reported to be considering a takeover of the struggling JJB Sports. The Sunday Times reported this week that JD, which is capitalized at £196 million (€218.7m-$298.5m), or nearly three times JJB’s market value, would be making its move in the next few months. JD already has ...
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Intersport continues to expand in France, with sales up by...
Intersport continues to expand in France, with sales up by nearly 2.5 percent to €1.1 billion in 2008. This has enabled Intersport to lift its market share in specialty retailing, but Intersport lost yet more ground to Décathlon, the French market leader, which grew at a pace of 3.9 percent. ...
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Décathlon is planning to enter the Czech market early next...
Décathlon is planning to enter the Czech market early next year. According to local reports, the French giant should start up there in the spring of 2010 with a store of 3,700 square meters in the winter sports resort of Liberec, 110 kilometers north of Prague, but company officials indicate ...
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Messe München has decided to suspend this year’s Outdoor Running...
Messe München has decided to suspend this year’s Outdoor Running Show due to poor bookings from the brands. Instead, there will be regional order days for sporting goods at MOC, Munich’s order center, on June 6 and 7. We hear that a decision on the premiere of TheRedFlag, the avant-garde ...
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Quiksilver’s technical division has opened its first store exclusively dedicated...
Quiksilver’s technical division has opened its first store exclusively dedicated to technical accessories. Located at Figueira da Foz, a trendy sea resort in Portugal, this small pilot store of about 10 square meters displays the entire range of sunglasses, goggles, helmets, watches and jewelry developed by the company under the ...
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Hi-Tec has teamed up with a dedicated U.S. distributor, Izzo...
Hi-Tec has teamed up with a dedicated U.S. distributor, Izzo Golf, to sell its golf footwear range in the country. Izzo Golf has started selling a limited range for 2009 and starting at the end of June it will offer the full range for next year. Hi-Tec’s golf products were ...
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Fenix Outdoor says it is in due diligence for the...
Fenix Outdoor says it is in due diligence for the acquisition of Rosker, a company in the U.K. that distributes a variety of outdoor products including those that the Swedish group markets under its Primus and Hanwag brands. Indicating that the acquisition could help it to establish itself more firmly ...
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Karin Theegarten, an experienced professional in product management and other...
Karin Theegarten, an experienced professional in product management and other areas who has worked for several important sports and fashion brands, has been appointed team manager for fashion, sports and lifestyle at Group Nymphenburg, a German consultancy in Munich. She occupied leading management positions at Puma, Reebok, Arena, Etienne Aigner, ...
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Gabel, the Italian producer of skiing, trekking and Nordic walking...
Gabel, the Italian producer of skiing, trekking and Nordic walking poles, reports an increase of about 20 percent in its order intake as of last month, compared with the same time a year ago. In the first two months of the year, its sales were up by 22 percent from ...
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Reebok and JJB Sports will no longer be the principal...
Reebok and JJB Sports will no longer be the principal sponsors of the Bolton Wanderers and Wigan Athletic of the Premier League, both of which have signed two-year deals with the online gambling firm 188Bet starting with the 2009-10 season. Terms of the deals were not released. Reebok will continue ...
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In an extraordinary feat, on April 1 Josef Lüke, the...
In an extraordinary feat, on April 1 Josef Lüke, the super-active 65-year-old export manager of Kettler, celebrated his 50th year of service for the German company, founded by the late Heinz Kettler 60 years ago. Lüke worked for Kettler in various functions, mostly related to its export activities, and in ...
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Giant Manufacturing expects a 10 percent growth in shipments of...
Giant Manufacturing expects a 10 percent growth in shipments of its bikes this year, with a target of 10 million units after 2014. Earnings for 2009 are expected to be flat or just slightly higher than last year, though the company did not release specific figures. Giant’s net profit for ...
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Ariston-Nord-West-Ring, parent company of Sport 2000 in Germany, has announced...
Ariston-Nord-West-Ring, parent company of Sport 2000 in Germany, has announced the departure of Roland Schwerdtfeger as chief executive of the big international German-based buying group on April 30. He is being replaced by Günter Althaus, who has been running ANWR’s bank, DZB. According to company officials, the board of directors ...
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Quiksilver reopened a store of 250 square meters on the...
Quiksilver reopened a store of 250 square meters on the Rue de Rivoli in Paris. This is one of the brand’s most prominent outlets in France, which is its largest market in Europe. It was renovated with the same elements of design as Quiksilver’s flagship store in Anglet, on the ...
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Cybex saw a sales drop of 27 percent to $28.9...
Cybex saw a sales drop of 27 percent to $28.9 million for the first quarter ended March 28, which it said was caused by lower sales to fitness clubs and exercise facilities. It had a net loss of $1.4 million for the quarter, compared with a profit of $1.3 million ...
