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A 14-year-old Romanian tennis champion, Ciprian Porumb, ranked as #1...
A 14-year-old Romanian tennis champion, Ciprian Porumb, ranked as #1 in Europe for his age, has signed a one-year sponsorship contract with Fischer.
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Pacific Cycle saw a 10% decline in third-quarter operating income...
Pacific Cycle saw a 10% decline in third-quarter operating income to $6 million on 2 percent higher revenues of $81.3 million.
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Cross Sportswear has added Oscar Scherlin, a 16-year-old rising star...
Cross Sportswear has added Oscar Scherlin, a 16-year-old rising star in freestyle skiing, to its team of sponsored athletes.
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As reported before (see SGI vol. 18, no. 29, Aug....
As reported before (see SGI vol. 18, no. 29, Aug. 10, 2007) Bergans, Norway’s market leader in outdoor equipment and apparel, will have its own subsidiary for the German-speaking countries in Norderstedt outside Hamburg. However, contrary to older plans, the German company will be a 100 percent subsidiary of Bergans. ...
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Jens Petersson, Craft’s managing director since 1999, has been promoted...
Jens Petersson, Craft’s managing director since 1999, has been promoted to business area manager for the consumer division of the Swedish brand’s parent company New Wave Group AB. New Wave has a large portfolio of apparel companies, and it recently acquired Cutter & Buck. Petersson has been replaced by Hans ...
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Décathlon will probably have to wait until 2009 for the...
Décathlon will probably have to wait until 2009 for the opening of its first store in Romania, which will be probably located in Bucharest, sprawling over a surface of around 4,000 square meters. The large French-based sporting goods retailer opened last month its first distribution center in Russia, and this ...
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Sales of sporting goods grew by 3.5 percent for Swedish...
Sales of sporting goods grew by 3.5 percent for Swedish retailers in August and by 6.9 percent for the first eight months of 2007.
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A majority of Oakley’s shareholders, representing about 83% of its...
A majority of Oakley’s shareholders, representing about 83% of its shares, have approved its merger into Luxottica Group (more details in EyeWear Intelligence.
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Achim Viehmeister joins Intersport Deutschland as new buyer for hardgoods,...
Achim Viehmeister joins Intersport Deutschland as new buyer for hardgoods, replacing Arno Metzer, who leaves the buying group by June 30 at his own request.
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Garmont has acquired an exclusive license from Rottefella to produce...
Garmont has acquired an exclusive license from Rottefella to produce compatible boots for its New Telemark Norm (NTN) binding system. It is the third boot manufacturer to join the NTN system along with Crispi and Scarpa, which worked with Rottefella from the start to conceive boots compatible with NTN. Garmont ...
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Adidas is acquiring Mitchell & Ness, an American sports apparel...
Adidas is acquiring Mitchell & Ness, an American sports apparel company specialized in high-end licensed clothing and retro jerseys, at an undisclosed price. Generating annual sales of about $15 million, M&N is based in Philadelphia and was entirely owned by its president, Peter Capolino. It has licensing deals with the ...
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Paul Boerboom, former sales manager at Adidas Benelux, has been...
Paul Boerboom, former sales manager at Adidas Benelux, has been appointed from the beginning of this month as general manager for the same entity. The change comes after an international review of the company’s European structure, under which the continent was divided into a handful of multi-country zones. While this ...
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Adidas has extended its sponsorship deal with Dwight Howard, the...
Adidas has extended its sponsorship deal with Dwight Howard, the NBA All-Star basketball champion who plays with the Orlando Magic team.
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Nike’s logistic center for European, Middle Eastern and African (EMEA)...
Nike’s logistic center for European, Middle Eastern and African (EMEA) region, located in Laakdal, Belgium, officially opened a few weeks ago a new distribution center for equipment and accessories, enlarging the capacity of the whole complex by some 30,000 square meters. The construction of the new equipment distribution center began ...
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O’Neill has signed a sponsorship deal with the South African...
O’Neill has signed a sponsorship deal with the South African surfing champion Jordy Smith, 19, a likely candidate to win the 2008 World Championships.
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After its heavy investments in Central and Northern Europe over...
After its heavy investments in Central and Northern Europe over the last years, Jack Wolfskin, the German outdoor brand, has begun to move into retailing in Eastern Europe with the opening of its first franchised mono-brand stores in Poland and Romania. Jack Wolfskin has already been sold in Poland for ...
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Pearl Izumi is again for sale after the bike and...
Pearl Izumi is again for sale after the bike and running wear brand was bought in 2005 by Nautilus, the American fitness company, for about $70 million. Nautilus considered then the purchase to be a good move to develop its own fitness apparel business. Disappointed by the results, Nautilus’s new ...
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After some difficulties with direct deliveries of its poles from...
After some difficulties with direct deliveries of its poles from Finland, One Way Sport has appointed a new importer for Germany, Huka, which is also local distributor for related brands like Energiapura, Degré7, Maplus and Vertical.
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Alan Fletcher, the founder and chairman of Fletcher Leisure Group,...
Alan Fletcher, the founder and chairman of Fletcher Leisure Group, Canada’s leading supplier of branded apparel and golf equipment, has taken the helm at Ashworth He replaces Peter M. Weil, who has resigned but will continue as a consultant for the next three months. Dealings with Fletcher will be overseen ...
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Russell Athletic’s chief executive officer, Doug Kelly, will also oversee...
Russell Athletic’s chief executive officer, Doug Kelly, will also oversee Spalding starting in 2008. He will replace Scott Creelman, a company veteran who will retire next March and become a consultant for the company. Kelly, a former head of Easton Sports, will be in charge of Spalding as well as ...
