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After 14 years at Reebok, Donna L. Flood will become...
After 14 years at Reebok, Donna L. Flood will become the new chief operating office for Easton-Bell Sports effective Jan. 7. When she was at Reebok, she was part of several SAP implementation projects.
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K2 Sports has named a new country manager for France....
K2 Sports has named a new country manager for France. Ivan Cecotti, 39, will be in charge of sales and marketing for its ski, snowboarding and inline skate brands. He most recently was international sales director for Roxy and Quiksilver hardgoods.
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Nominees for Sportfack’s Gear of the Year Awards in 2008...
Nominees for Sportfack’s Gear of the Year Awards in 2008 are listed below; winners will be announced on Jan. 10, 2009. This year’s newcomer: Full Tilt, Springyard and Teko. This year’s Swedish brand: 8848, Didriksons and Houdini. This year’s footwear: Adidas Adipure, MBT Sport and Heelys Five-O. This year’s hardware: ...
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At Hongxiang, third-quarter revenues increased by 45.9 percent over the...
At Hongxiang, third-quarter revenues increased by 45.9 percent over the same period last year to 698.2 million renminbi (€79.3m-$102.4m). Gross profits went up by 33.9 percent to RMB 280.8 million (€31.9m-$41.2m) for the Chinese company. All product segments experienced revenue growth, with apparel having gained the biggest jump up by ...
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Accell Group says it expects net profit from ordinary operations...
Accell Group says it expects net profit from ordinary operations to increase by 15 percent for 2008 compared with 2007, up from earlier guidance of 10 percent growth. It based the revision on sales through October along with expectations for the last two months of the year. It said that ...
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CORRECTION: MBT has not been acquired Berkshire Hathaway, the publicly...
CORRECTION: MBT has not been acquired Berkshire Hathaway, the publicly listed company of Warren Buffet. Berkshire Partners, a private equity firm based in Boston that has nothing to do with that company, took over last year 20 percent of the shares from Klaus Heidegger and Hermann Oberschneider, who are still ...
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Wipeout Distribution, a Swedish distributor in the action sports segment,...
Wipeout Distribution, a Swedish distributor in the action sports segment, has two new brands in its portfolio: Hoven Vision sunglasses and Ninthward skis, both from California. The skis are manufactured by Elan and will be made available at the retail level in Sweden for the coming winter season.
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Lotto Sport Italia will run commercials from its new ad...
Lotto Sport Italia will run commercials from its new ad campaign on the new satellite television channel SuperTennis. The spots, running approximately every 30 minutes for 24 hours a day, will air from Nov. 10 to Dec. 31. One emphasizes the activities that Lotto Sport Italia makes products for: tennis, ...
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Adidas will launch its new SLVR (for silver) label in...
Adidas will launch its new SLVR (for silver) label in February, calling it a contemporary yet timeless line of apparel, footwear and accessories with the key message “simply perfect.” The collection is in black and white with maroon, orange or blue accents, and some pieces in gun-metal gray. Examples of ...
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Adidas has extended and amplified its partnership with the International...
Adidas has extended and amplified its partnership with the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF). From 2009 until 2019, Adidas will be the official IAAF athletic sponsor, including global sponsorship rights for the IAAF’s World Athletic Series events – meaning all the world championships held by the IAAF, in nine categories. ...
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After two decades of monopoly, L’Equipe, the leading French daily...
After two decades of monopoly, L’Equipe, the leading French daily sports newspaper, whose circulation recently declined to an average 320,000 copies per day, saw the launch of two competitors on the same day. 10 Sport was introduced to the market last Nov. 3 by Michel Moulin, and is partly owned ...
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Alain Bernard, the French Olympic swimming champion, has decided to...
Alain Bernard, the French Olympic swimming champion, has decided to switch sponsors from Speedo to Arena. He will act as Arena’s spokesman from next Jan. 1 through the 2012 Olympic Games in London. The 25-year-old free-style specialist, who got a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics, will also become Arena’s ...
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São Paulo Alpargatas of Brazil has concluded a year of...
São Paulo Alpargatas of Brazil has concluded a year of negotiations by buying a 60.17 percent stake in Alpargatas Argentina, giving it the largest footwear market share in Latin America. The deal should help the Argentinian company’s Topper brand, which already sells 33 percent of the footwear in that country. ...
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Head is expected to announce soon an important sponsorship deal...
Head is expected to announce soon an important sponsorship deal with Novak Djokovic, the 21-year-old Serbian tennis start that won the Masters Cup in Shanghai earlier this month and is now No. 3 on the ATP Tour. His endorsement contract with Wilson should finish just before the Australian Open next ...
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K-Swiss has announced that it will give a special dividend...
K-Swiss has announced that it will give a special dividend of $2.00 per share to its stockholders next month for a total of about $70 million. This is in addition to a cash dividend of 5 cents a share for the fourth quarter, to be paid in January. The company ...
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Two new managers have been appointed at Sugoi Performance Apparel,...
Two new managers have been appointed at Sugoi Performance Apparel, a division of Dorel Industries. Kara Hurry will be in charge of communications, events and market research as the new marketing manager, and Cara Young-Minichiello is the new creative services manager.
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Ullfrotté, a Swedish company that sells natural wool apparel, has...
Ullfrotté, a Swedish company that sells natural wool apparel, has officially been renamed Woolpower after its main brand in order to make it easier for the company to expand its foreign sales. Of the 55 million Swedish kronor (€5.35m-$6.9m) generated in turnover last year, 70 percent came from sales made ...
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Fischer Sports has appointed Jan-Hein Habes as its new managing...
Fischer Sports has appointed Jan-Hein Habes as its new managing director in charge of sales, marketing and production. Habes, who was Burton Europe’s marketing director until 2001, most recently served in a similar position for Tommy Hilfiger’s ski and sailing division. He replaces Gregor Dietachmayr, who left Fischer earlier this ...
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A shoe producer in Italy has been arrested and authorities...
A shoe producer in Italy has been arrested and authorities seized about 25,000 pairs of counterfeit Crocs from China in his warehouse. The police said that the businessman, from Petrer in Alicante, had used the distribution network he built up for his own shoes to sell the fake sandals all ...
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Chris Passarell has left Russell Athletic, where he was vice...
Chris Passarell has left Russell Athletic, where he was vice president for marketing, to take the position of senior marketing manager for global sports with New Balance. He will be in charge of integrated marketing for the “performance SBUs” (running, sport, outdoor and children) and creative services. He will be ...
