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Sport 2000 Germany has won this year’s award for creativity...
Sport 2000 Germany has won this year’s award for creativity from ZGV, the German federation of buying groups, for programs called V+5 and 6 aus 49 (6 out of 49). V+5 is an incentive program to encourage affiliated retailers to place considerable pre-orders for basic products. Those who do this ...
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Fabrice Faurie, since January 2008 category manager of Samsonite’s outdoor-related...
Fabrice Faurie, since January 2008 category manager of Samsonite’s outdoor-related sub-brand OutLab, has been promoted to the company’s global marketing director for outdoor products. In this newly created position, the 29-year-old reports directly to Marcello Bottoli, the chief executive officer of Samsonite. Before he joined the company, Faurie served as ...
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Puma has appointed Giorgio Belloli, a 33-year-old Italian manager, as...
Puma has appointed Giorgio Belloli, a 33-year-old Italian manager, as chief executive of the recently acquired London-based fashion firm Hussein Chalayan. Belloli was most recently worldwide marketing director of Prada. He previously worked for other fashion brands such as Donna Karan, Giorgio Armani and Helmut Lang.
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Aigle has signed a 5-year European eyewear licensing contract for...
Aigle has signed a 5-year European eyewear licensing contract for prescription frames with Aoyama, the large Japanese eyewear manufacturer specializing in titanium frames. The collection will be presented at the next SILMO fair in Paris. Currently licensed to a French firm, Filtral, Aigle sunglasses by Aoyama will follow at the ...
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Marius Rovers, the 59-year-old managing director of Euretco Sport in...
Marius Rovers, the 59-year-old managing director of Euretco Sport in the Netherlands and president of Sport 2000 International, is appointed chairman of the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry’s Committee for International Sport Organizations, CISO. The committee represents the industry’s consensus voice with all the sports federations and organizations ...
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The 7th Isea Sports Engineering conference will be held in...
The 7th Isea Sports Engineering conference will be held in Biarritz on June 2-6. Talks and workshops will revolve around innovation and technology (notably the use of aerodynamics and biomechanics) in sport categories such as: swimming, mountain climbing, baseball, snowboarding, cycling, running, hockey, skiing and golf.
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Germany’s Arcandor Group reports a 70 percent reduction in the...
Germany’s Arcandor Group reports a 70 percent reduction in the adjusted operating loss before depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) for the second quarter ended March 31, which fell to only €53 million in this seasonally soft period. The adjusted EBITDA loss at Karstadt declined by 13.6 percent to €23 million on ...
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Spyder Active Sports hires a consultant, Gary De Bay, as...
Spyder Active Sports hires a consultant, Gary De Bay, as executive vice president of global strategy and marketing, responsible also for the recently acquired Cloudveil Mountain Works brand and reporting directly to Jake Jacobs, president and chief executive of the group. De Bay’s 20-year career included stints at Nike, Coca-Cola, ...
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Messe München continues to add experienced marketing managers from within...
Messe München continues to add experienced marketing managers from within the sporting goods business to its ISPO team. After the recruitment of Susanne Fischer, a former marketing director of Malden Mills and Timberland, who took over ISPO’s marketing at the beginning of this year, Maud von Hoff is now joining ...
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A Turkish counterfeiting suit has reached American courts, revolving around...
A Turkish counterfeiting suit has reached American courts, revolving around a shipment of allegedly fake shoes under the hot Converse brand. The lawsuit was initially filed in Istanbul by Conteks, licensee and distributor of Converse in Turkey, about a batch of supposed Chuck Taylors bought by Gurer, a Turkish retailer, ...
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Vaude, the German outdoor gear company, has appointed a couple...
Vaude, the German outdoor gear company, has appointed a couple of new top managers. Gernot Moser will be responsible for strategic control of all sales operations for bicycle-related goods in the entire European region. Moser’s position is new within the company and should meet the demands of increasing sales of ...
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Kelme has signed an exclusive license with Swarovski, the Austrian...
Kelme has signed an exclusive license with Swarovski, the Austrian luxury brand, for a limited collection of football boots to be studded with jewels. The footwear will be available for online purchasing within the next few weeks at www.kelme.es. The products are being launched in connection with the Euro 2008 ...
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Oxbow, the French boardsports label, has opened its first single-brand...
Oxbow, the French boardsports label, has opened its first single-brand store in Germany. The Düsseldorf flagship store with a surface of 100 square meters is operated by Westend Sport, a brick-and-mortar and mail-order retailer. Oxbow’s parent company, the Lafuma Group, plans to open one or two stores a year in ...
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Puma has had its new racing boat, Il Mostro (Italian...
Puma has had its new racing boat, Il Mostro (Italian for "the monster"), christened by the actress Salma Hayek in the harbor of Boston, in advance of the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09. The Puma Ocean Racing Team started in May 2007 and its new boat, shaped like a "flying shoe," ...
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Paul Stratta, The Coleman Company’s general manager/commercial director for Europe...
Paul Stratta, The Coleman Company’s general manager/commercial director for Europe North and brand director for the EMEA region, has been given more responsibility. In addition to promoting Coleman, Campingaz and Sevylor in the U.K., Ireland and the Benelux countries, he will also drive the brands in the Nordic countries. Stratta ...
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Contrary to U.S. press reports, Le Coq Sportif will not...
Contrary to U.S. press reports, Le Coq Sportif will not pull out of the American market but is closing down its office in Portland, Oregon, and moving out of tennis specialty retailers to concentrate on the fashion circuit. Le Coq Sportif, a French brand belonging to Airesis, a Swiss holding ...
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Dan Jelinek is leaving as president of Easton-Bell’s team sports...
Dan Jelinek is leaving as president of Easton-Bell’s team sports division and his position is being eliminated. Team sports and action sports both raised operating results by 19 percent in the first quarter of this year, but while team sports sales fell by 1 percent to $100.8 million, action sports ...
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Messe Friedrichshafen and its partner iF, the International Forum Design,...
Messe Friedrichshafen and its partner iF, the International Forum Design, invite the industry to participate in the contest for the OutDoor Industry Award 2008. The top products in apparel, footwear, backpacks/travel gear, mountaineering equipment, camping equipment, sleeping bags, water sports and accessories will be selected by a jury of experts ...
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The New York Post reported that Phil Knight, founder and...
The New York Post reported that Phil Knight, founder and chairman of Nike, has sold 15.5 million shares of his Nike stock since early April, when the stock reached a one-year high of $70 per share. As of the end of 2007, he owned about 100 million shares of his ...
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Go Sport reports a 1.8 percent drop in revenues to...
Go Sport reports a 1.8 percent drop in revenues to €180.1 million for the first quarter. In France, while the Go Sport chains saw its sales decline by 3.4 percent, the Courir chain continued its progress, raising its own sales by 11.3 percent. Sales outside France grew by 5 percent ...
