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The relationship between Adidas and French consumers has deepened over...
The relationship between Adidas and French consumers has deepened over the last three years, with the Three Stripes scoring much higher than its competitors in the rankings of France’s favorite brands in a survey by LH2, a French research institute, whose findings were reported by Adidas earlier this week. In ...
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Adidas has extended its marketing deal with U.S. Youth Soccer...
Adidas has extended its marketing deal with U.S. Youth Soccer until 2010 with options to stretch the relationship up to 2014. It has been aligned with the organization since 1989. Under the deal, Adidas will supply athletic apparel and footwear to all programs within the organization, including the U.S. Youth ...
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Michael G. Staffaroni has resigned from Heelys after seven years...
Michael G. Staffaroni has resigned from Heelys after seven years as its chief executive officer. Ralph T. Parks, the former president and CEO of FootAction USA, will serve as its interim CEO. He became a member of Heelys’ board of directors on Jan. 29. Staffaroni, who joined the company at ...
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Aigle has appointed Romain Guinier to become its managing director...
Aigle has appointed Romain Guinier to become its managing director from the end of February, following the departure of a company veteran, Frédéric Chaigneau, who has acted lately as deputy managing director in charge of marketing and communication. Guinier will start by leading marketing and communication before becoming responsible for ...
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Six more retailers with outlets all over the UK joined...
Six more retailers with outlets all over the UK joined STAG during the month of January. The alternative British buying group, which has no private label , is working with more than 170 sports brands and has more than 400 affiliated members operating over 600 shops.
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André Gorgemans, a seasoned sporting goods industry executive who led...
André Gorgemans, a seasoned sporting goods industry executive who led the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry for many years, has set up his own consultancy in Switzerland. Called Synergy Consult, it specializes in relations between sporting goods companies and international sports federations. As an expert in the field ...
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Another new start-up, not yet introduced on the market, is...
Another new start-up, not yet introduced on the market, is a special golf shoe developed by Mario Di Pippo, a former product manager who has worked for Raichle, Head and Bally. Called Spirit of Green, it’s a shoe that uses the Flexitec technology of Bally’s golf shoes, which is based ...
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Li Ning, the Chinese sports footwear and apparel company, has...
Li Ning, the Chinese sports footwear and apparel company, has opened a U.S. head office in the Pearl District of Portland, Oregon, and hired Alan Hardy, formerly a senior designer at Nike and a design executive at Converse, to lead the new operation. According to a local newspaper in Oregon, ...
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Black Diamond has created the position of an area sales...
Black Diamond has created the position of an area sales manger for Sweden, Denmark, Finland, the Benelux countries, Poland, and Slovenia. It is occupied by Magnus Raström who has served in the last two and a half years in the customer service of this North American brand, which has its ...
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Assosport, the Italian sporting goods industry association, has elected Luca...
Assosport, the Italian sporting goods industry association, has elected Luca Toni, the Italian striker for Bayern München sponsored by Lotto, as “ambassador” of Italian style and fashion taste. Toni was invited to make an appearance in the Assosport lounge of the ISPO fair in Munich.
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Gazal has sold Mambo to an Australian investment group, Equity...
Gazal has sold Mambo to an Australian investment group, Equity and Capital Finance, for an undisclosed amount. It had already sold the European rights to this Australian surf and lifestyle brand to its British licensee, Blacks Leisure Group, for £1 million last October. The new owner is a company headed ...
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Tory Webler, an avid Canadian inventor, has come up with...
Tory Webler, an avid Canadian inventor, has come up with a system to heat the blades on ice skates in order to reduce friction from the ice on skaters’ movements. In 2001, he set up a company called Therma Blade in Canada, which now markets this brand of skates of ...
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More buying groups in Spain are banding together to strengthen...
More buying groups in Spain are banding together to strengthen their distribution on the sporting goods retail market. Point Sport-Anzamar, Total Sport and Deportes Cronos have agreed to stop competing against each other and to re-group their orders in the first stage of a new relationship. They may consider creating ...
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Technogym has been named the exclusive supplier of training equipment...
Technogym has been named the exclusive supplier of training equipment for athletes at the Olympic Games in Beijing. This marks the fourth time that the Italian company has been chosen to supply equipment for the games, following Sydney in 2000, Athens in 2004 and Turin in 2006. Its equipment will ...
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Frank van der Klaauw, global chief operations officer and board...
Frank van der Klaauw, global chief operations officer and board member at O’Neill, has left the company at the end of January under amicable terms. He spent 7 years with the board sports brand, becoming COO of O’Neill Europe in 2002 and chief executive officer of the same entity in ...
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Odlo, the Swiss brand with Norwegian roots for technical sportswear,...
Odlo, the Swiss brand with Norwegian roots for technical sportswear, managed to repeat in 2007 the same turnover it had in 2006. Sales were stable at a level of 140 million CHF, close to €88 million. The result is remarkable because Odlo usually does good business with cross-country apparel, a ...
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LK International, the Swiss company that markets the Kjus brand...
LK International, the Swiss company that markets the Kjus brand named after the Scandinavian ski champion Lasse Kjus, has a new management. The company’s chief executive and majority shareholder, Didi Serena, has appointed his son Nico as sales director. Daniel Schaffo is new marketing director. The latter appointment makes clear ...
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Profile Outdoors estimates that the British outdoor market rose by...
Profile Outdoors estimates that the British outdoor market rose by 3.1 percent to £1,340 million (€1.79bn-$2.66bn) in 2007, and predicts that the sector will continue to grow at an annual rate of 3-3.5 percent. Travel apparel may have peaked, but overall sales of clothing have increased, according to the British ...
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Life Fitness, owned by Brunswick Corporation and comprising Life Fitness,...
Life Fitness, owned by Brunswick Corporation and comprising Life Fitness, Hammer Strength and Parabody equipment, has reported a 12 percent increase in operating profit to $32.4 million for the 4th quarter ended on Dec. 31, 2007, on 11 percent higher sales of $214.5 million. For the full year, the unit ...
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Canterbury of New Zealand has taken on Robert Chapman as...
Canterbury of New Zealand has taken on Robert Chapman as the new general manager for its South African subsidiary, as Paul Zacks left to join the Global Brands Group. Chapman has been working in the advertising sector for the last few years after having helped his brother run the Aztec ...
