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Hi-Tec Sports has appointed Jeff Street as it global golf...
Hi-Tec Sports has appointed Jeff Street as it global golf sales director, a new position within the company. He joins from ECCO, where he spent 12 years launching and managing the ECCO Golf and Receptor brands in the USA. As global sales director, he is charged with overseeing sales and ...
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Tim Chen has been appointed as chief executive of NBA...
Tim Chen has been appointed as chief executive of NBA China, a new company that has been launched to manage the league’s business in China. Since 2003, Chen has been CEO of Microsoft China after being chairman and president of Motorola in the country from 2001 to 2003. Prior to ...
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The second edition of Asia Outdoor in Nanjing, China, last...
The second edition of Asia Outdoor in Nanjing, China, last August welcomed around 8,200 visitors, mostly from China and neighboring Asian countries. That was 20 percent more than on the first edition in the summer of 2006. The surface rented by exhibitors at the fair grew by 10 percent to ...
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Northland, the Austrian outdoor company, will open by the end...
Northland, the Austrian outdoor company, will open by the end of the month its first franchise store in Switzerland. The 100-square-meter store is located in Zermatt. It will be operated by Toni Taugwalder who runs a ski school at the same place. Outside Switzerland, Northland has 14 franchised surfaces in ...
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Jelmoli, the prestigious department store on Zurich’s plush Bahnhofstrasse, is...
Jelmoli, the prestigious department store on Zurich’s plush Bahnhofstrasse, is not going to join Sport 2000. After various rumors in the media, Jelmoli felt the urge to communicate that its concept does not really fit into the German buying group’s community. Jelmoli offers sporting goods on a surface of not ...
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The recovery of the Dutch sporting goods market has been...
The recovery of the Dutch sporting goods market has been softening lately, due mainly to unseasonable weather conditions in the spring and summer months. For the first seven months of the year, the market went up by only 1.3 percent, with increases of 9 percent in footwear and 1.3 percent ...
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Willi Darr, who has been managing director of Karstadt Sport...
Willi Darr, who has been managing director of Karstadt Sport since the beginning of this year, will join the board of Otto Group’s retail division on Dec. 1, where he will be in charge of purchases. He succeeds Hans-Otto Schrader, the group’s new chief executive. The 46-year-old Darr has worked ...
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Birgit Pototschnig, who has been in charge of licenses at...
Birgit Pototschnig, who has been in charge of licenses at Escada, has taken up a similar job at Willy Bogner, replacing Jadranka Frank. On the other hand Rudolf Kränzlein, the manager responsible for production and sourcing, is leaving Bogner. His functions are being taken over temporarily by Herbert Kiessling, the ...
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While Euro Shoe in Belgium is getting out of the...
While Euro Shoe in Belgium is getting out of the sporting goods sector (see separate article in this issue), a big shoe retailer in France, Eram, is intensifying its presence in this segment. The company will open five new stores early next year in major French cities under the Staggy ...
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Harald Bierbaumer, the former long-time managing director of Exel in...
Harald Bierbaumer, the former long-time managing director of Exel in Germany, takes over the distribution of Icebug in Germany and Austria from Rono, a German wholesaler specialized in running. Bierbaumer is also in charge of the footwear brand Cloggens and of some key accounts of One Way Sport in Austria.
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Freddy, the major Italian brand of fitness and dance clothing,...
Freddy, the major Italian brand of fitness and dance clothing, will be the technical sponsor and the official supplier of the Italian team at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Its 1,000-odd members will wear Freddy’s official uniforms during the inauguration ceremony and afterwards. Representing an investment of about €20million, ...
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Tunturi will take care of its German business through its...
Tunturi will take care of its German business through its Dutch parent company Accell Fitness instead of a local subsidiary. Etienne Reinders, who has so far acted as head of sales and marketing for Germany, keeps this function but assumes the same responsibilities for the Benelux markets as well.
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Callaway Golf Co. filed a suit in Portland, Oregon in...
Callaway Golf Co. filed a suit in Portland, Oregon in late September in which it accused Nike and Robert L Arluna, a former Callaway executive, of “misappropriating trade secrets.” The judge has temporarily prevented Arluna from beginning his new job as Nike Golf’s marketing director while looking into these allegations. ...
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Champion Europe is closing its German office in Freising near...
Champion Europe is closing its German office in Freising near Munich, in line with the regionalization strategy that the company is pursuing in other parts of the continent. The brand’s sales reps and the showrooms remain in place, but the national sales director, Peter Hammer, has left. Customer service will ...
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Keen has come up with a series of promotional events,...
Keen has come up with a series of promotional events, related to the protection of the environment, that will culminate with a festival near its head office in Portland, Oregon in June 2008. The campaign is being steered by Bobbie Parisi, the former Dr. Martens official who is now Keen’s ...
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MPC Münchmeyer Petersen, a German company with investments in various...
MPC Münchmeyer Petersen, a German company with investments in various industries including stock brokering, steamboats and international trading, has taken over Venice Beach, a German label of fitness clothing that has gone through various vicissitudes, through a unit specialized in garments, Miles Fashion GmbH, that develops products under various labels ...
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Pub Factory, a small French printing company, Rip Curl and...
Pub Factory, a small French printing company, Rip Curl and Nidecker were the winners in the fourth edition of EuroSima Innovation Competition, organized by the non-profit European boardsports industry association in conjunction with the Boardsports Cluster, a publicly funded boardsports promoter in Southwest France, to reward the accessories that showed ...
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Stephan Huber, sales and marketing director for Exel in Germany,...
Stephan Huber, sales and marketing director for Exel in Germany, has been promoted to the position of sales manager for Central Europe. His successor for the German business alone is Daniel Hicking.
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Nike has elevated Jill Stanton to the rank of vice...
Nike has elevated Jill Stanton to the rank of vice president of global apparel for the Nike brand, replacing Roger Wyett who becomes chief executive of Hurley International. Stanton, 44, joined Nike in 1997 in the UK as apparel business director. She successively led the brand’s apparel operations in the ...
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Molten has scored its first netball sponsorship in the UK...
Molten has scored its first netball sponsorship in the UK with Netball South West (NSW). Molten has also become the official match ball supplier to the Easter & Spring Festival of Football (ESFF), the UK’s leading provider of youth football festivals, during ESFF’s 20th anniversary in 2008.
