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Nike is said to be negotiating hard to wrest the...
Nike is said to be negotiating hard to wrest the coveted sponsorship of the French Football League and its high-performance national team away from Adidas. Evidently, the Swoosh wants to bring to France the battle it recently lost for the German football team. Adidas and Nike would not comment on ...
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Stadium of Sweden is launching a new online store, projecting...
Stadium of Sweden is launching a new online store, projecting that it will generate an annual turnover of €150 million within three years.
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Already fully booked with a total exhibition area of 180,000...
Already fully booked with a total exhibition area of 180,000 square meters, the Winter ISPO show scheduled to be held in Munich on Jan. 27-30 will present a new layout. Fulfilling a request by the outdoor sector for greater independence, the Outdoor Community will occupy Halls A5-A6 and B5-B6, with ...
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Nike’s sales in China are expected to total soon $1...
Nike’s sales in China are expected to total soon $1 billion a year, making the country the second-largest market after the USA. Sales of the Nike brand are increasing by over 50 percent a year in China as it gears up for the 2008 Olympic Games. Nike has some 3,000 ...
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Intersport Eybl has opened its 10th Austrian megastore in Innsbruck,...
Intersport Eybl has opened its 10th Austrian megastore in Innsbruck, the capital of Tyrol, claiming that it is the largest one in the region. With 12,000 square meters, the new outlet is also one of the biggest ones in the whole of Europe. The focus of the store concept is ...
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Sport 2000 France is launching a new winter sports banner,...
Sport 2000 France is launching a new winter sports banner, called Ski Way, for sporting goods retailers in mountain regions. The buying group hopes to convert at least 40 stores in France and ten in Andorra during the current Fall/Winter season, but the concept may also be adopted elsewhere in ...
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Sport 2000 International has appointed a business unit manager for...
Sport 2000 International has appointed a business unit manager for textile products, Pedro de Andrade, reporting to the retail group’s chief executive, Wolfgang Schnellbügel, in a position that had remained vacant for many years. The 34-year-old Dutch native has been working lately at Perry Sport, the Dutch chain owned by ...
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Exel Oyi informed its shareholders yesterday about the effect of...
Exel Oyi informed its shareholders yesterday about the effect of continued problems with its pole and floorball businesses, indicating that the Finnish group is still looking for a strategic partner interested in developing its sports business in the long term. According to company information, the shift of production to China ...
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Adidas has appointed for the first time a general manager...
Adidas has appointed for the first time a general manager for Portugal. Mercedes Arrybas, who acted in the last two years as sales manager of Adidas Iberia, responsible for Spain and Portugal, will assume this new position on Jan. 1, reporting to Günter Weigl, president and managing director of Adidas ...
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Adidas has extended its sponsorship of the Hellenic Football Federation...
Adidas has extended its sponsorship of the Hellenic Football Federation (HFF) until Dec. 31, 2012. It began sponsoring the HFF in 2004, when Greece won the European Championships. Significantly, Greece qualified on Oct. 17 for the UEFA Euro 2008, which Adidas sponsors by supplying the official match ball and equipment. ...
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Adidas has launched the Official Match Ball for the MTN...
Adidas has launched the Official Match Ball for the MTN Africa Cup of Nations, due to be played in Ghana next year. Called the «wawa aba,» the ball features the national colors of Ghana (red/yellow/green) and is named after the seed of the wawa tree, which is said to be ...
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After its buying spree on the retail side, with the...
After its buying spree on the retail side, with the acquisitions of the Time Out Sport franchise in the Netherlands and Primo stores in Belgium, Unlimited Sports Group (USG) has obtained a license for Diadora in the Netherlands, running until 2015. The Italian brand is relatively well-known in the country ...
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Hi-Tec has signed a distribution and licensing agreement for the...
Hi-Tec has signed a distribution and licensing agreement for the North American market with Bordan Shoe Company, based in Los Angeles, which describes itself as the major reseller of branded athletic footwear in the USA. The company specializes in selling excess or discontinued inventory from premium brands such as ASICS, ...
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Two former managers of Rossignol, Jacques Lacroix and Christian Alary,...
Two former managers of Rossignol, Jacques Lacroix and Christian Alary, have set up a company in France, called KaOrigin (www.kaorigin.com), that will shortly start offering personalized skis, snowboards, helmets and other types of sports equipment with specific graphics over the internet. Lacroix was previously in charge of R&D at Rossignol, ...
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POC, a Swedish company that designs protective gear for alpine...
POC, a Swedish company that designs protective gear for alpine skiing, is launching new products this month for the current Fall/Winter season. It has designed a series of light-weight protective headwear for children aged 4-9, called POCito, which are equipped with Recco reflectors in case of avalanche. Citing a report, ...
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Torspo Hockey is boasting a big comeback in North America...
Torspo Hockey is boasting a big comeback in North America and Europe, where this former hockey brand will become available in more than 800 retail stores this season, driven by two highly innovative products: a one-piece zip-on hockey suit for children, the Ice Armor, and an ice skate with a ...
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Erima, the German brand of team apparel, continues with its...
Erima, the German brand of team apparel, continues with its impressive growth spurt with a sales increase of about 15 percent for its third quarter ended on Sept. 30, spread evenly across all its European markets. Since the beginning of the fiscal year, Erima’s sales have jumped by 7 percent ...
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Robert Louis-Dreyfus was found guilty on appeal this month for...
Robert Louis-Dreyfus was found guilty on appeal this month for money laundering – after 15 unexplained bank transfers were investigated from the 1997-1999 years at OM, the football club from Marseille, of which he is the owner since 1997. RDL received a 10-month suspended sentence and a fine of €200,000 ...
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Bicycle brands, too, are trying to get into retail business...
Bicycle brands, too, are trying to get into retail business with single-brand stores. In Germany, Giant and Specialized are both opening concept stores operated by bike retailers. Most recently, a Nuremberg-based dealer opened the first Specialized store in the country, and another will follow next Spring in a small town ...
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Sportitaly, the new Italian sporting goods fair in Bolzano, has...
Sportitaly, the new Italian sporting goods fair in Bolzano, has hired a call center to invite the buyers of more than 4,000 sporting goods stores throughout the country to make sure that they are going to visit the show, scheduled for next Feb. 10-12. A travel agency will offer special ...
