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ECCO Golf has signed a deal with Carin Koch, two-time...
ECCO Golf has signed a deal with Carin Koch, two-time winner of the LPGA Tour .
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Kevin Wulff has left as president and chief executive of...
Kevin Wulff has left as president and chief executive of American Sporting Goods, the parent company of Avia and other brands, which has been for sale for some time. A former top executive of Nike and Adidas, Wulff joined ASG at the beginning of 2005 and got a minority stake ...
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TaylorMade-Adidas Golf will be the official partner of the China...
TaylorMade-Adidas Golf will be the official partner of the China Golf Association.
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Columbia Sportswear, which recently closed its first franchise in Paris,...
Columbia Sportswear, which recently closed its first franchise in Paris, has opened a 300-square-meter concept shop in the Galeries Lafayette flagship department store in the French capital.
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Sun Valley has opened its third French company-owned store at...
Sun Valley has opened its third French company-owned store at Montgenèvre.
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Le Coq Sportif has extended its licensing deal for the...
Le Coq Sportif has extended its licensing deal for the Benelux with FL Sport, a licensing and distribution subsidiary of the Unlimited Sports Group, until at least 2017.
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Retail sales of winter sporting goods in the USA during...
Retail sales of winter sporting goods in the USA during the August-December 2006 period totaled $1.69 billion, including internet sales that generated $234.9 million, according to Sporting Goods Industries of America. Excluding internet sales, sales of winter sports equipment and apparel (in specialty and chain stores) declined by 3 percent ...
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Jean-Pascal Papin, a French executive who has spent many years...
Jean-Pascal Papin, a French executive who has spent many years with pan-European responsibilities at The North Face and at Patagonia, has been hired by Columbia Sportswear to take care of its sales in France and Belgium, replacing Roland Kastner who left last September.
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Messe München, joint venture partner in the ISPO Russia exhibition...
Messe München, joint venture partner in the ISPO Russia exhibition in Moscow, wants to improve the fair’s concept further, especially in terms of location and show dates. Attendance at the show last Feb. 19-22 was off slightly from the total of 6,871 visitors recorded one year earlier, comprising 4,311 trade ...
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Lotto Sport Italia opens a store in Verona, with an...
Lotto Sport Italia opens a store in Verona, with an area reserved to products developed for the local Chiervo football club.
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Murphy & Nye has opened a store in Valencia that...
Murphy & Nye has opened a store in Valencia that only sells its line of licensed products for the America’s Cup.
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Peak Performance has opened two stores in Sweden and plans...
Peak Performance has opened two stores in Sweden and plans to soon open another two in Stuttgart and Hillerod.
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Some 4,000 counterfeit Nike sportswear products have been seized by...
Some 4,000 counterfeit Nike sportswear products have been seized by customs authorities at Luton Airport after arriving on board a cargo plane from Pakistan. The goods – comprising some 2,000 tracksuit bottoms and 2,000 tracksuit tops - were packed into 174 cardboard boxes. They had a retail value of $112,000 ...
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Lotto Sport Italia has signed a sponsorship deal for 18...
Lotto Sport Italia has signed a sponsorship deal for 18 football teams participating in the Clericus Cup, an Italian championship for priests and trainee priests. Lotto will provide the teams with balls and strips, which about 300 players will wear during the matches. This includes producing a ‘Magma’ Jersey for ...
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K2 has promoted J. Wayne Merck to be its president,...
K2 has promoted J. Wayne Merck to be its president, chief executive and a company director. Richard J. Heckmann, formerly chairman and CEO, has become executive chairman. Merck’s and Heckmann’s long-term employment agreements include annual bonuses. Merck, who has been with the company since 1995, will receive an annual fee ...
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Airwalk has added Rodney Jones, a professional skateboarder, and Anastasia...
Airwalk has added Rodney Jones, a professional skateboarder, and Anastasia Ashley, a professional surfer, to its Airwalk Footwear endorsement team. Ashley, who is 20 and ranked 13th in worldwide rankings, will appear in Airwalk’s Fall 2007 and Spring 2008 advertising campaigns.
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Kneissl has appointed a new managing director, Andreas Gebauer, who...
Kneissl has appointed a new managing director, Andreas Gebauer, who worked before for a textile company nearby, in the Tyrolian capital of Innsbruck. He takes over a position held by Fritz Unterberger, one of the controlling shareholders. Meanwhile the Kufstein-based company has lost three of its other former four shareholders, ...
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Pony International has appointed Nathan Crary as vice president of...
Pony International has appointed Nathan Crary as vice president of research and development and David Corsi as vice president of sales. Crary was formerly president of Velocy Performance Footwear, and has also been vice president of R&D at Dada Footwear and worked at Nike’s advanced products division and at Avia. ...
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Sports Marketing Surveys is merging its Australian office with that...
Sports Marketing Surveys is merging its Australian office with that of S-Comm Australia, in a move to further expand its global research network. S-Comm Australia evaluates sponsorship and sporting rights holders in Australia, and its services are used by Cricket Australia, ALF, NRL, Rugby Union, FFA and Tennis Australia. The ...
