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Terry Carlson, a keen and former chief executive of Raymarine’s...
Terry Carlson, a keen and former chief executive of Raymarine’s Americas business unit, has been appointed to lead Jarden Outdoor Solution’s fishing businesses, consisting of Abu Garcia, Berkley, Fenwick, Mitchell, Penn, Pflueger, Pure Fishing, Shakespeare, SpiderWire, Stren and Trilene. He will report to Greg Shearson, president and CEO of Jarden ...
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Sports Direct International (SDI) is moving into China on a...
Sports Direct International (SDI) is moving into China on a large scale through a partnership with ITAT Group Limited, a multi-brand apparel retailer based in Shenzhen that will set up shop-in-shops for brands owned by SDI in about 120 of its larger stores. SDI described ITAT as the largest retail ...
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Christian Vogel is the new European sales director at Gramicci,...
Christian Vogel is the new European sales director at Gramicci, the American brand of outdoor clothing, after holding a similar position at Easton-Bell Sports. Vogel will be working out of the company’s new European office based in Munich to expand the brand’s sales across the continent. He will be looking ...
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ISPO was the occasion to launch the first collection of...
ISPO was the occasion to launch the first collection of protective adult and children’s skiwear under the name with Marc Girardelli, the world ski champion whose children’s skiwear has been licensed since four years ago to Liegelind. The new more technical lines have been licensed to the new W&O Sports ...
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Erima, the German team sports company, continued its growth with...
Erima, the German team sports company, continued its growth with a sales increase of nearly 10 percent to about €47 million last year, owing to the launch of new ranges and deepening sales of existing products. As reported in previous quarters, the growth was stimulated by substantial marketing investments, for ...
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Didriksons, the Swedish company specializing in rainwear, has opened a...
Didriksons, the Swedish company specializing in rainwear, has opened a subsidiary in Norway as it continues to build up international sales. The brand had almost disappeared from the market when it was taken over in 1998 by Sören Andreasson, but in 2007 it grew to achieve sales of about SEK ...
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Völkl continues to be number four on the global ski...
Völkl continues to be number four on the global ski market with more than 400,000 sold units, based on company information. Sales were stable and they helped the K2 subsidiary to improve its worldwide market share from 10 to 11 percent. K2’s brand of ski bindings, Marker, is supposed to ...
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Eastpak has just opened its first corporate store in Germany....
Eastpak has just opened its first corporate store in Germany. The 80-square-meter surface is located in the prestigious CentrO shopping mall in Oberhausen in the Ruhr basin. More stores are planned for Germany, but no locations in other cities of the country have been contracted so far. The VF subsidiary ...
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Speculation that Metro will sell its Kaufhof department stores and...
Speculation that Metro will sell its Kaufhof department stores and other national retail operations to concentrate on cash & carry is mounting following the publication of the group’s general sales results for 2007. Total group sales increased by 10 percent to €65.9 billion, with the share taken by foreign operations ...
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John Hoke, vice president of global footwear design at Nike,...
John Hoke, vice president of global footwear design at Nike, is moving to Converse, one of Nike’s subsidiaries, to become its vice president of global footwear. In this newly created position at Converse, he will lead footwear design and development. Converse, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, enjoyed 40 ...
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In disclosing excellent quarterly sales results, whose details were not...
In disclosing excellent quarterly sales results, whose details were not quite understandable at the time of going to press, ASICS Corp. formally announced that it has appointed Motoi Oyama as its president and «representative director.» Oyama, who is the son-in-law of Kihachiro Onitsuka, the company’s founder and chairman who passed ...
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Spyder is rumored to be discussing a possible takeover of...
Spyder is rumored to be discussing a possible takeover of Cloud Veil. Neither side has confirmed an acquisition deal but sources have suggested that it could be announced shortly. Cloud Veil has been competing with Arc’teryx in the ski specialty market as the coolest brand in the market but it ...
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Johnson Outdoors saw its net loss more than double to...
Johnson Outdoors saw its net loss more than double to $4,581,000 in its first quarter, ended last Dec. 28, as compared to a loss of $2,233,000 in the same period a year ago. Group revenues rose by 6.4 percent to $75,967,000, growing by double digits in all its operating except ...
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Fjällräven has taken on Jerry Engström as its new marketing...
Fjällräven has taken on Jerry Engström as its new marketing manager. The 30-year old recruit was the former Nordic brand manager at Unilever for Flora margarine, after having worked at the multinational for a variety of its brands over about six years. He replaces Lars-Ola Brolinson who is promoted to ...
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Felix Kubat, who has worked for many years in Migros’...
Felix Kubat, who has worked for many years in Migros’ purchasing office in Hong Kong, has become the new executive in charge of Migros’ sports division, responsible for its SportXX chain and other retail operations of the Swiss cooperative in the sector. Kubat has taken the place of Hanspeter Meier ...
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Platzhirsch is a German word that means “lead of the...
Platzhirsch is a German word that means “lead of the pack.” It has been chosen for an interesting new range of sports apparel shown at ISPO for the first time. Big accounts like Sport-Scheck in Germany and Jelmoli in Switzerland have already committed themselves to carry the new brand, partly ...
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PPR Group has quietly raised its stake in Puma to...
PPR Group has quietly raised its stake in Puma to 64.4 percent, up from 62.1 percent last July, after its second tender offer expired. There is no indication as to whether PPR wants to build it up to 100 percent, as it did gradually with Gucci Group before, Anyhow, Jochen ...
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Sportler plans to open Italy’s largest specialty store in its...
Sportler plans to open Italy’s largest specialty store in its class, measuring 6,000 square meters, in Treviso next month. It will be as big as its two neighboring sporting stores in Bolzano, which feature complementary product assortments. Meanwhile Himalaya, the largest outdoor retailer in Romania, is opening its third store ...
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Lafuma reports an almost imperceptible sales increase of 0.4 percent...
Lafuma reports an almost imperceptible sales increase of 0.4 percent to €46.7 million for the 1st quarter ended Dec. 31. Three of its four business units saw no change in revenues, while the Oxbow brand went up by 7.6 percent. Sales of Lafuma branded products were affected slightly by a ...
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Wolverine World Wide has reported net income of $25,596,000 for...
Wolverine World Wide has reported net income of $25,596,000 for its 4th quarter of 2007, ended on Dec. 31, which was up by 8 percent from the previous year’s quarter, and revenue growth of 4.6 percent to $357,423,000. Full-year earnings rose by 11.0 percent to $92,886,000 on 5.0 percent higher ...
