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Italy has honored the chief executive of Fila Korea, Gene...
Italy has honored the chief executive of Fila Korea, Gene Yoon, with the Knight of the Order of the Merit of the Italian Republic, crediting his commitment to bring Korea and Italy together with his management of the Italian brand, whose global operations Fila Korea bought in 2007. ...
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Sports participation seems to be climbing in the U.K., as...
Sports participation seems to be climbing in the U.K., as the second Active People Survey conducted by MORI has found. There were 311,000 more men who regularly play sports for a total of 4.04 million men, the survey found, while 240,000 more women were active in sports for a total ...
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The Outdoor Industries Women’s Coalition has named Mary Margaret Sloan...
The Outdoor Industries Women’s Coalition has named Mary Margaret Sloan to be its new president and Lori Harrod its new president-elect.
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The textile manufacturer Opelontex Company has come up with the...
The textile manufacturer Opelontex Company has come up with the first dyeable – by cationic dye – polyurethane elastic fiber for use in swimwear. Lycra Fiber T-909B stands up better to chlorine, stretches softly and shrinks quickly. Mizuno and Descente have already placed orders. Opelontex, a joint operation of DuPont ...
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Nike has a new sales director for the region comprising...
Nike has a new sales director for the region comprising Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Slovenia. Marco Dippe replaces Bahri Kurter in the post. The latter has left both the company and the sporting goods industry. Dippe has been with the Swoosh company for 11 years now and was most recently ...
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Odlo has extended its multi-year contracts with NSSF, the Norwegian...
Odlo has extended its multi-year contracts with NSSF, the Norwegian biathlon federation, and the country’s top athlete, Ole Einar Bjørndalen.
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Le Coq Sportif has opened its second Italian single-brand store...
Le Coq Sportif has opened its second Italian single-brand store in Como.
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Dunham Sports will open a store in a mall in...
Dunham Sports will open a store in a mall in Brookings, South Dakota, this Spring.
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Employees at Nike’s headquarters in Oregon got a little extra...
Employees at Nike’s headquarters in Oregon got a little extra time off during Christmas week, as snow covered the area and the company didn’t want to put employees at risk. It closed its headquarters, where more than 6,000 people work, for the entire week, reopening on Dec. 29. It’s the ...
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While negotiating a possible extension of his master license to...
While negotiating a possible extension of his master license to Belgium and Switzerland, the French licensee of BasicNet for France, François-Xavier Chupin, has appointed a country manager for the Iberian Peninsula to take care of the Kappa and Robe di Kappa brands. He is Francisco Cuesta Barruga, who has been ...
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Puma has paid $10 million to be the official supplier...
Puma has paid $10 million to be the official supplier of equipment – and official founding partner – to the Women’s Professional Soccer League in the USA, which starts in April. Puma will provide balls, uniforms, goalkeeper equipment and sports bras, and if a team does not have another sponsor ...
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For 2010, ISPO Winter will shift its dates forward to...
For 2010, ISPO Winter will shift its dates forward to Feb. 7-10. Messe München made this decision before the background of changes in the American trade show calendar. SnowSports, the trade show of SIA, the SnowSports Industries America, has decided to move from Las Vegas to Denver and to adjust ...
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Lotto Sport Italia is planning to open 25 new single-brand...
Lotto Sport Italia is planning to open 25 new single-brand stores in Italy and a further 50 abroad in 2009. The company has just opened a flagship store of 150 square meters, on two floors, on one of the streets of Milan with the highest footfall, Corso Buenos Aires, using ...
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After a bleak November, New Wave Group has revised its...
After a bleak November, New Wave Group has revised its forecast for the fiscal year. It previously had expected sales and income higher than last year’s, but its decline in November was so significant that it is now predicting a profit less than in 2007. November typically is the biggest ...
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Daiwa Seiko has bought all of the share capital of...
Daiwa Seiko has bought all of the share capital of Fourteen Golf, a Japanese company that makes clubs for such manufacturers as Titleist and Wilson. Noted usually for its wedges and hybrids, Fourteen Golf was started almost 30 years ago, and started its own brand in 2000 and did well ...
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Amer Sports joins the chorus of companies that are revising...
Amer Sports joins the chorus of companies that are revising their full-year guidance negatively. Because of weaker than expected performance for Precor and the group’s winter sports business, Amer now expects its sales to be flat from last year, when they were €1.65 billion. Precor was keeping up with 2007 ...
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Andy Lukasch, marketing manager at Elan Germany, is preparing to...
Andy Lukasch, marketing manager at Elan Germany, is preparing to switch to Elan snowboards at the beginning of next year, as sales and marketing manager for Central Europe. He replaces Ulf Jenson, who is leaving the company at his own request. Before his appointment at Elan in 1998, Lukasch worked ...
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Sport-Master in Denmark has announced that John Viborg-Larsen, its purchasing...
Sport-Master in Denmark has announced that John Viborg-Larsen, its purchasing manager, will leave the company on Feb. 28. According to SportLight, a Danish news source on the segment, the decision to ask Viborg-Larsen to leave was related to company strategy. Viborg-Larsen was considered a controversial personality because of fraught relations ...
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The Lotto brand is giving China another go, having hired...
The Lotto brand is giving China another go, having hired the advertising firm McCann Erickson Guangming Beijing to relaunch it there. Lotto began a 20-year partnership in China with Li Ning last August.
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Mike Stöhr has been appointed as the new country manager...
Mike Stöhr has been appointed as the new country manager of Peak Performance in Austria, along with his same duties in Germany. On top of this, new people have been hired to cover the Austrian market. Clemens Kratsch, most recently serving Tommy Hilfiger and before that for Adidas in the ...
