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Brunswick Corporation reports flat operating earnings of $8.1 million for...
Brunswick Corporation reports flat operating earnings of $8.1 million for Life Fitness on a 3 percent top-line growth in sales to $149.2 million for its first quarter, ended March 29. This was despite a 30 percent decrease in sales of consumer equipment to U.S. specialty fitness retailers. Excluding sales of ...
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Intersport Austria said that its retailers’ sales grew by 11...
Intersport Austria said that its retailers’ sales grew by 11 percent in the first six months of the group’s current fiscal year, but cautioned that such an impressive increase stood against those of the previous bad winter season. For the current fiscal year, ending next Aug. 31, the company expects ...
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Timberland celebrated Earth Day by working on 160 environmental projects...
Timberland celebrated Earth Day by working on 160 environmental projects in 27 countries and contributing a total of 60,000 volunteer hours. The company also announced that it plans to "green" 300 communities in the next two years and to plant one million trees by 2010. The company also seeks to ...
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Matja Šarabon, president of Elan since 2004, has resigned for...
Matja Šarabon, president of Elan since 2004, has resigned for personal reasons. He served for the Slovenian company for 17 years. He has been replaced by Ivan Štrlekar, a member of the supervisory board.
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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 be 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 ...
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Organizers have set new dates for Ispo China 2009 in...
Organizers have set new dates for Ispo China 2009 in Beijing. It will be held on Feb. 19-21 in the China International Exhibition Center of the International Convention Center. There will be additional exhibition space, 25,000 square meters instead of this year’s 20,000 square meters.
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Looking to innovate on MP3 players for sport users, Bays.I.C.S,...
Looking to innovate on MP3 players for sport users, Bays.I.C.S, a Swiss design company, has come up with what it claims is the world’s smallest fully integrated MP3 headset for water sports and any other kind of sports and outdoor activities. It baptized the cordless unit as Ubanana (pronounced “You ...
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Puma’s revenues rose by 6.6 percent on a constant currency...
Puma’s revenues rose by 6.6 percent on a constant currency basis and reached €673.3 million in the first quarter, says PPR Group, which took control of the company last year. Retail stores accounted for 15 percent of the brand’s revenues, showing double-digit growth. Footwear performed poorly because of the slowdown ...
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The GMB trade union in the U.K. is taking action...
The GMB trade union in the U.K. is taking action against JJB Sports, which recently announced that it would be closing 72 stores and eliminating 800 jobs. GMB said that the company must give 90 days’ notice for the firings, but is only giving two weeks to 30 days. The ...
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Adidas has kicked off a summer-long football campaign around a...
Adidas has kicked off a summer-long football campaign around a film project called "Dream Big," whose tagline takes the place of the previous "Impossible is Nothing" campaign. In it, famous football players including David Beckham, Kaká and Lionel Messi go to Andorra, San Marino and the Isles of Scilly off ...
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Nouveau Eyewear and Umbro International have signed an agreement to...
Nouveau Eyewear and Umbro International have signed an agreement to make a line of Umbro brand eyewear and sports sunglasses. The collection, expected to come out in January 2009, will be sold in the Americas, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The eyewear will be modeled after street-ready athletic wear, and ...
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Glenmuir, the British maker of golf apparel, has introduced a...
Glenmuir, the British maker of golf apparel, has introduced a new line of shirts. Called Hi-Cool, these shirts offer stretchiness and draw moisture away from the body. The men’s line consists of three shirts starting at £33.50 (€42.85-$66.07) while the five women’s shirts start at £32.55 (€41.64-$64.20).
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Hans Muench has been appointed European director for the International...
Hans Muench has been appointed European director for the International Health, Racket & Sports Club Association (IHRSA), a Dutch-based post in which he succeeds Herman P. Rutgers. Before, the Canadian executive worked for Life Fitness and took care of key accounts for Nautilus in Austria and southern Germany.
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Thomas Middelhoff, chief executive of Arcandor (former Karstadt-Quelle), predicts that...
Thomas Middelhoff, chief executive of Arcandor (former Karstadt-Quelle), predicts that the German retail group will achieve a gross operating profit (EBITDA) of more than €800 million in the financial year ending next Sept. 30, compared with an adjusted profit of €527 million in the previous nine-month fiscal year. He sees ...
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Martin Sjöström will be the new business area manager for...
Martin Sjöström will be the new business area manager for the fashion label Björn Borg’s clothing unit. He will also be part of the brand’s management team. He was previously president of the fashion company Whyred.
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Arena says its high-performance swimsuits will offer three technologies that...
Arena says its high-performance swimsuits will offer three technologies that athletes can choose from in competing at the Olympic Games in Beijing. Meanwhile Tyr says its Tracer Rise swimsuit, made of woven high-performance urethane fabric, has been approved by FINA, the governing body of international swimming. The Tracer Rise uses ...
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Harry Wielheesen has set up a new company with Belowzero...
Harry Wielheesen has set up a new company with Belowzero to help the creative Swiss sports apparel to expand more internationally. Called BW Sport Options, the new company will be particularly active in Germany, Austria and the Benelux countries, where new agents have been hired for the brand. The Wielheesen ...
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Kappa is moving into tennis sponsorship. The Italian brand is...
Kappa is moving into tennis sponsorship. The Italian brand is one of the 30 sponsors of a new ATP tournament in France, in preparation for Roland Garros, called BNP Päribas Primerose. Named after the Villa Primrose club of Bordeaux, it will be held in that city on May 12-18.
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A Swiss brand, Zimstern, was voted as the SOURCE Breakthrough...
A Swiss brand, Zimstern, was voted as the SOURCE Breakthrough Brand of the Year at the European Snowboard Industry Forum organized by the magazine by the same name for EuroSIMA’s mountain division in Livigno, Italy. Burton’s Mini Shred collection was elected as the ISPO Product of the Year. At the ...
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IC Companys, parent company of Peak Performance and other brands,...
IC Companys, parent company of Peak Performance and other brands, says Mikkei Vendelin Olesen will resign as chief operating officer next Oct. 31 to become chief executive officer of another company. The change overlaps with the arrival of a new CEO for IC Companys, Niels Mikkelsen, who will take up ...
