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Rip Curl has appointed Harald Siebold, former key accounts manager...
Rip Curl has appointed Harald Siebold, former key accounts manager at Killtec and Chiemsee, as the new sales manager of its German subsidiary. Like the UK, Germany is not the brand’s best market right now. Rip Curl is doing much better in France and Spain, which are contributing to an ...
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Adidas’ chief executive, Herbert Hainer, tells a German news agency...
Adidas’ chief executive, Herbert Hainer, tells a German news agency that the group is looking at opening 5,000 stores in China under the Adidas brand in the next three years, and 2,000 under the Reebok brand. In India, where Reebok claims a market share of 50 percent, followed by Adidas ...
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Messe München has decided to again split Fairway from Golf...
Messe München has decided to again split Fairway from Golf Europe, after holding them simultaneously last October. A date has not yet been chosen for the next Fairway, the leading 12-year-old European event for the construction, maintenance and management of golf courses, but it will likely take place in the ...
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Nike is pitting Maria Sharapova, the famous tennis star, against...
Nike is pitting Maria Sharapova, the famous tennis star, against Lebron James, NBA superstar, in a challenge to run the biggest number of miles this month. Consumers will be able to add their own miles to those of either one of the two competitors on a new program carried on ...
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Although the organizers of Bread & Butter have decided against...
Although the organizers of Bread & Butter have decided against a trade fair in Berlin this month they will still be hosting something in the city - a new kind of event called BBB Kraftwerk-Berlin Mitte. The organizers emphasize that this will not be a tradeshow, although it will run ...
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Last November the Fifth Ambassador’s IPR Roundtable Conference was held...
Last November the Fifth Ambassador’s IPR Roundtable Conference was held in Beijing with the goal of furthering intellectual property protection in China. Dahon was in attendance along with Microsoft and Honeywell, representing the leading victims of IPR violations in China. Also in attendance were the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Carlos ...
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Groupe Go Sport has appointed Laurent Gontharet as supply chain...
Groupe Go Sport has appointed Laurent Gontharet as supply chain manager and Laurent Hanot as manager of human resources. Gontharet, who comes from the home improvement sector, replaces Jean-Michel Fabre, who has moved into another sector. Hanot, who has been with the large Vivarte group, replaces Jean-Claude Chereau who has ...
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Dögg ármannsdóttir, who ran for the last five years the...
Dögg ármannsdóttir, who ran for the last five years the export department of Nikita, has left this Icelandic brand dedicated to streetwear and snowboard fashion for girls to do basically the same job for another Icelandic firm specializing in outerwear, 66° North. ármannsdóttir replaces a long-time veteran, Hilmar Abastenson, who ...
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Nike has assigned Jörg Balle to the newly created position...
Nike has assigned Jörg Balle to the newly created position of retail director for the AGSS region, which covers Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Slovenia. He will be in charge of the presentation of the Nike brand at retail as well as the management of existing and new retail projects, evidently including ...
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Garmin, which recently expanded its line of “personal travel assistants,”...
Garmin, which recently expanded its line of “personal travel assistants,” equipping them with the maps of more than 30 European countries, has acquired EME Tec Sat, the exclusive distributor of its consumer products in France. The purchase will contribute positively to the U.S. listed company’s earnings as of this year. ...
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NexCen Brands, the U.S. company that bought The Athlete’s Foot...
NexCen Brands, the U.S. company that bought The Athlete’s Foot (TAF) last year, had indicated at the time of the takeover that it wanted to buy more brands. It has done so with an agreement to acquire an American fashion firm, Bill Blass Holding Co., for $54.6 million. Through the ...
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Loose talk of Nike buying Timberland has begun to resurface....
Loose talk of Nike buying Timberland has begun to resurface. It would seem feasible that Nike should pick up a legitimate outdoor brand, as Nike has limited presence in this category in Europe and in the USA. However, skeptics point out that Nike has never gobbled up a business as ...
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Blizzard Sport USA, a division of the Tecnica Group, has...
Blizzard Sport USA, a division of the Tecnica Group, has begun operating at its new location in Lebanon, New Hampshire. The new operation, which is responsible for sales of Blizzard products in the USA, comes after Nordica’s recent acquisition of the Austrian ski brand and replaced Blizzard’s former U.S. distribution ...
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Décathlon has decided to set up a new international logistic...
Décathlon has decided to set up a new international logistic platform at Dourges, bordering the A1 highway 20 kilometers south of Lille where its campus is based. It will be housed in a 51,000-square-meter building that is expected to come on stream in December 2008, employing up to 300 people ...
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A raid by the local police on a warehouse at...
A raid by the local police on a warehouse at La Puente, California has netted about $25 million worth of fake products, 30 percent of which were branded as Nike. Many of the counterfeit Nike products were Air Jordans, according to local officials.
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Flow International and K2 Sports have ended a dispute over...
Flow International and K2 Sports have ended a dispute over patents for snowboard bindings. Terms of the arrangement have not been disclosed, but a company spokesman from Flow said that both companies will continue to make bindings for the snowboard market. That goes also for K2’s Cinch bindings, which were ...
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Nike and Adidas are reportedly scrambling for the right to...
Nike and Adidas are reportedly scrambling for the right to be endorsed by Micah Richards, a defender in the Manchester United football club. Richards has been under contract with Adidas, but he was seen wearing Nike boots during a recent game against Liverpool. There are allegations that he did this ...
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Nordica and Icon Health & Fitness are again in a...
Nordica and Icon Health & Fitness are again in a legal dispute over trademark rights, as Nordica filed a complaint in a U.S. court stating that Icon breached a 3-year-old contract by continuing to pursue the NordicTrack trademark for certain items in some countries. In a 2003 settlement it was ...
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Ariston-Nord-West-Ring’s board of directors has appointed Roland Schwerdtfeger as chief...
Ariston-Nord-West-Ring’s board of directors has appointed Roland Schwerdtfeger as chief executive of the ANWR group, a German service company which is among others the parent of Sport 2000 Deutschland and of ANWR Schuh, an international buying group with 3,800 affiliated shoe shops. He will replace Joachim Siebert who will leave ...
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Four new promotions at Nike include Dermott Cleary to vice...
Four new promotions at Nike include Dermott Cleary to vice president of sport culture and category marketing, Diana Crist to global apparel vice president of merchandising operations, Larry Harper to vice president of U.S. geographical business units and Bob Woodruff to vice president and treasurer. Cleary and Crist both served ...
