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Heelys has appointed a vice president of international sales, John...
Heelys has appointed a vice president of international sales, John W. O’Neil, to support foreign distributors in building up sales of this fast-growing American brand of shoes with removable wheels. An expert in relations with foreign distributors, O’Neil worked previously for Converse and for New Balance. He was at Converse ...
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R.G. Barry Corp. has been appointed as sole distributor and...
R.G. Barry Corp. has been appointed as sole distributor and licensee of Superga footwear in the USA under a contract that will be extended to Canada from 2008. The present contract, which runs from this month to December 2010, calls for minimum royalties of $1.6 million on revenues of $17.6 ...
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Dieter Bauer will leave as German country manager of ASICS...
Dieter Bauer will leave as German country manager of ASICS at the end of this year, but this successful 63-year-old executive will continue as a board member of ASICS Europe, responsible for projects such as the planned establishment of a Polish sales subsidiary. ASICS Europe is now looking for a ...
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Uhlsport has stopped working with Redler Sports of Austria in...
Uhlsport has stopped working with Redler Sports of Austria in handling the Austrian and Swiss markets. Different agencies in the two countries will take care of Uhlsport and its sister brand Kempa. Kolm & Partner will sell them in Austria, while Comprax will sell them in Austria and Liechtenstein.
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Henri Lloyd is coming back to the French market through...
Henri Lloyd is coming back to the French market through a company owned by Danielle Azerraf, who also distributes Garmin. Targeting this time the fashion segment of the market, the English brand of sailing wear has used this vehicle to open its first store in Paris. A former joint venture ...
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Berkshire Partners, a private equity company based in Boston, has...
Berkshire Partners, a private equity company based in Boston, has made an investment reportedly totaling 20 percent in Swiss Masai International, the company that owns the Masai Barefoot Technology (MBT) brand of orthopedic footwear. Two other major shareholders – Klaus Heidegger and Hermann Oberschneider – retain a majority stake in ...
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The Russian resort city of Sochi has been named the...
The Russian resort city of Sochi has been named the home of the 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic games. The decision followed a close decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which edged Sochi above the Korean city of Pyeongchang by four votes. Russian president Vladimir Putin personally went to ...
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Exel Sports has struck a partnership with BJ Sport in...
Exel Sports has struck a partnership with BJ Sport in Norway through an agreement to market its Bjørn Dæhlie brand of clothing in Germany and Austria. As reported last February, after the break-up of the Norwegian ski champion with Odlo, Exel is already distributing its line in Finland and Sweden. ...
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General Electric (GE) has named Robert “Bob” Muscat as product...
General Electric (GE) has named Robert “Bob” Muscat as product line manager for its membrane technologies business segment, well known for its eVent technology. He was previously at Rock-Tenn Company, where he was the American company’s vice president of marketing for paperboard, packaging and display products. GE plans to open ...
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Diverse, the Polish sportswear brand, has doubled its export business...
Diverse, the Polish sportswear brand, has doubled its export business over the last two years, sealing new distribution agreements and opening stores in Southern and Central Europe. In Spain, the brand has switched distribution to Grupo Panos, and opened stores in Cartagena and Murcia last year. At the same time ...
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Vaude has reorganized the structure of the group’s business units....
Vaude has reorganized the structure of the group’s business units. The brands Markill (stoves, bottles) and Lucky (Spanish climbing gear, acquired in 1999) are now under the roof of Edelrid, a company that Vaude acquired last year. Edelrid continues to distribute two product lines that don’t belong to the group ...
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The European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) has drafted proposals that...
The European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) has drafted proposals that would harmonize the sizing system for clothing items across the European Unions, annoying some nationalists, especially in the UK. The proposals call for a fixed sizing system based on metric units for both bust and hip measurements. If implemented, such ...
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Salewa has just opened a company-owned store in Davos, Switzerland,...
Salewa has just opened a company-owned store in Davos, Switzerland, on a net surface of 177 square meters. It is the second Salewa store in the country, but the other one in Pontresina is operated by a retailer. Later this year, another corporate store is planned for the touristic hotspot ...
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Polar is rolling out a new shop-in-shop concept that features...
Polar is rolling out a new shop-in-shop concept that features grey, futuristic, metallic displays and sales counters and expects to have 100 of them installed before the end of the year in the Germanic and Benelux countries. The Finnish company plans to set them up in 2008 with interested partners ...
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Nike has promoted Craig Zanon as vice president and general...
Nike has promoted Craig Zanon as vice president and general manager of global basketball. He replaces Larry Miller, who has left the company to become president of the Portland Trailblazers, a U.S. National Basketball Association (NBA) team in Oregon. Zanon was previously vice president and general manager of Nike’s U.S. ...
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Shimano has introduced its new XTR rear derailleur, dubbed the...
Shimano has introduced its new XTR rear derailleur, dubbed the RD-M972, developed with the company’s “Shadow” technology. According to Shimano, the new device is smaller and thinner than others on the market, allowing less of a chance of this speed-changing mechanism hitting a rock, tree or other obstacles. In addition, ...
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Jason Lynch has left as Quiksilver’s sales director for the...
Jason Lynch has left as Quiksilver’s sales director for the UK. The brand’s European sales manager, Peter Skelton, will assume Lynch’s responsibilities until someone is found to fill this role. Quiksilver recently ended its supply agreement with Freespirit, a UK-based chain of boardsports stores owned by Blacks Leisure Group, after ...
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News reports say that thousands of disgruntled workers have protested...
News reports say that thousands of disgruntled workers have protested outside of Nike’s office in Jakarta, Indonesia, and on Monday there were demonstrations at the Jakarta Stock Exchange. The protests were related to Nike’s decision to cut orders in the country by 12 percent, mainly stemming from the planned discontinuation ...
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Unlimited Sports Group (USG), the Dutch sports retail and wholesale...
Unlimited Sports Group (USG), the Dutch sports retail and wholesale conglomerate, is holding advanced talks for the acquisition of Primo Sport, a large-scale retail player with over 40 sports stores in Belgium. USG already owns Perry Sport and Aktiesport, two leading chains in the Netherlands, but neither of them has ...
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Playgolf Holdings has introduced its PowerPlay Golf form of playing...
Playgolf Holdings has introduced its PowerPlay Golf form of playing the sport in Scotland as part of the company’s large sports complex in the town of East Kilbride. PowerPlay Golf involves two flags – one white, one black with a skull and crossbones - on each green of a 9-hole ...
