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Bushnell Outdoor Products has acquired Millett Industries, a company in...
Bushnell Outdoor Products has acquired Millett Industries, a company in Huntington Beach, California, that sells sighting and scope mounting hardware, riflescopes, red dot scopes and spotting scopes for hunting, tactical and law enforcement purposes. Known for its telescopes and binoculars, Bushnell recently acquired another company in a similar segment, Simmons ...
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The Acushnet Company is planning to gradually move its Massachusetts...
The Acushnet Company is planning to gradually move its Massachusetts production of Titleist Pro-V1 golf balls to Asia in three to five years, trimming its production by about 20 percent and its workforce by about 100 people, without any layoffs. High costs of energy, shipping and labor in the USA ...
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Adidas is launching a range of tennis racquets and balls...
Adidas is launching a range of tennis racquets and balls for the 2009 season on a global basis. It is putting out three adult models and a children’s racquet. They are meant to complement the brand’s offering of tennis apparel and footwear. Adidas marketed a range of racquets more than ...
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After two to three years of friction between the two...
After two to three years of friction between the two Norwegian retail groups, Anton Sport and Sport 1 have decided to work together again. While remaining separate entities, the two groups will become part of the same retail chain, in a structure similar to the one they shared until Sport ...
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Ronhill has made some changes in its sales team after...
Ronhill has made some changes in its sales team after reporting that orders for winter are up by 30 percent. It has moved Jon Wild into the position of U.K. sales manager from his previous job as sales manager for northwest England, Scotland and Ireland. Andrew Norman will take over ...
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Andrew Palmer, a co-founder of Animal who built up the...
Andrew Palmer, a co-founder of Animal who built up the British action sports company’s U.S. operations, has been recruited to head up Ocean Minded, the action sports brand recently acquired by Crocs. Palmer also acted for a while as global sales director of Dragon Optical. He has also worked for ...
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Johan Lövqvist, sales director of Didriksons, will join another Swedish...
Johan Lövqvist, sales director of Didriksons, will join another Swedish outdoor company, Tenson, as chief executive in October, replacing Hans-Olof Ljungqvist. The move comes just weeks after Johan Vikman, former chief executive of the Fenix group, was placed at the helm of Norrwin, the company that owns Tenson along with ...
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Petzl, the French climbing company, has appointed Patrick Werlé as...
Petzl, the French climbing company, has appointed Patrick Werlé as its new global sales director in charge of both the brand’s sports and work protection business. Werlé’s position was vacant for about half a year after his predecessor, Henri de Rocca-Serra, left the company at the beginning of this year. ...
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Michael Nendwich is new managing director of VSSÖ, Austria’s sports...
Michael Nendwich is new managing director of VSSÖ, Austria’s sports industry federation. Nendwich, who operates a ski school, succeeds Franz Arthold of Head Austria. Gernot Kellermayr, the former sales director at Fischer, has been re-elected as VSSÖ’s president.
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Met Helmets, Italy’s leading maker of bicycle helmets, has made...
Met Helmets, Italy’s leading maker of bicycle helmets, has made its 2009 line 100 percent recyclable, no disassembly required. Its new green packaging line will also be made entirely of recycled materials, as well as being 100 percent recyclable. At Eurobike’s Demo Day on Sept. 3, proceeds from sales of ...
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The new group finance director for Blacks Leisure Group, Marc...
The new group finance director for Blacks Leisure Group, Marc Lombardo, has started his new job. As reported in May, he was previously the group financial planning director for Greene King, the U.K. brewer. He replaces Keith Fleming.
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Bonvita, a major Danish distributor for footwear, will introduce K-Swiss...
Bonvita, a major Danish distributor for footwear, will introduce K-Swiss and Wolverine to the Swedish market. The K-Swiss brand was distributed in Sweden by various companies up until a few years ago, although it has now disappeared from retail shelves. Bonvita will set up major showrooms in Stockholm and Gothenburg ...
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Start Holding, owned by the Nilsen family, has bought a...
Start Holding, owned by the Nilsen family, has bought a majority share in Outdoor, the distributor of The North Face in Norway, after seven months of negotiations. The Nilsen family was the former owner of the Sporthuset retail chain before it was bought by Gresvig. It is also a long-time ...
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Hestra, the Swedish brand of winter gloves, is opening its...
Hestra, the Swedish brand of winter gloves, is opening its first retail store on Norrlandsgatan in Stockholm this month. The shopping street is fast becoming a reference for outdoor brands, with SOS Sportswear and Röhnisch opening concept stores there this Fall and The North Face and Quiksilver already trading with ...
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Oxylane Group, parent company of Décathlon, has started work on...
Oxylane Group, parent company of Décathlon, has started work on a big new distribution center at Dourges, in the north of France and not far from its head office, that will supplement its logistic facilities, handling between 5,000 and 8,000 containers per year. It will also have training facilities. This ...
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Scan Trade Holding, the large Norwegian distribution company, recently took...
Scan Trade Holding, the large Norwegian distribution company, recently took over the rights to distribute Nordica and Rollerblade in Sweden and Finland from Seger United, which wants to tighten up activity in its New Wave Sports division. Scan Trade will run the business through a new subsidiary, Scan Trade Scandinavia. ...
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A high-profile executive, Olivier Motteau, started as French country manager...
A high-profile executive, Olivier Motteau, started as French country manager for New Balance at the beginning of this month, replacing Christophe Cance who left to Puma as a field sales director in May. Formally appointed as country sales manager, Motteau moves to New Balance with an impressive track record, including ...
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A Norwegian distributor, Skigutane, has taken over the right to...
A Norwegian distributor, Skigutane, has taken over the right to sell Bula, the Canadian outdoor brand of headgear, in Sweden. It has set up a company-owned structure that will manage distribution, sales and marketing there. Skigutane and Bula have had an agreement since 1988 for the Norwegian market and the ...
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The sales of Enervit, the manufacturer of energy tablets listed...
The sales of Enervit, the manufacturer of energy tablets listed on the Italian stock exchange in July, dropped by 1.2 percent to €19.7 million in the first half from €19.9 million a year earlier due to a decline of more than €400,000 at Zest12, a unit which distributes its products ...
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In the midst of serious financial problems that are expected...
In the midst of serious financial problems that are expected to result in the sale of some of its divisions, NexCen Brands, parent of The Athlete’s Foot, has lost its chief executive, Robert W. D’Loren. Kenneth Hall, the company’s executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer, will take his ...
