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The North Face is sponsoring the “Prodigy Ski Challenge,” where...
The North Face is sponsoring the “Prodigy Ski Challenge,” where 60 amateurs between the ages of 12 and 18 will be selected to compete in a European ski resort for three days next December. The event is being organized by Baralo & Partners, an agency that has already worked for ...
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Tomasoni Topsails, the Italian company that markets the North Sails...
Tomasoni Topsails, the Italian company that markets the North Sails and Outrage brands of apparel internationally, has promoted Donald Mulazzani as its export manager, replacing Stefano Straforini who has left the company. The new 31-year-old executive had entered the group in 2004 as area manager. He had previously worked in ...
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Consumer-oriented trade shows fare well in Spain. The organizers of...
Consumer-oriented trade shows fare well in Spain. The organizers of Deporte Total, a new sports fest celebrated in Madrid last Nov. 3-6, have reported a total of about 100,000 visitors. The recent Nautical Fair in Barcelona welcomed 175,000 visitors, the same as one year ago. A new bike show is ...
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Johannes Ehling was resigned as international sales manager of Willy...
Johannes Ehling was resigned as international sales manager of Willy Bogner after two years on the job. The 38-year-old executive, who was previously in charge of sales at Escada, had been hired to push Bogner’s turnover outside Germany from 40 to 60 percent of the total. He recently hired a ...
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Meeting has opened the first flagship store for its new...
Meeting has opened the first flagship store for its new Deha brand of dance and fashion apparel, which has replaced its Dimensione Danza license. Located on the trendy via del Corso Ticinese in the center of Milan, the 100-square-meter outlet has been followed by a store in Bari. Others are ...
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Nikita has opened a U.S. sales office in San Francisco,...
Nikita has opened a U.S. sales office in San Francisco, taking over from its former distributor, Deep Distribution. Members of the distributor’s sales and marketing staff have been rehired to market this 6-year-old Icelandic brand of women’s sports clothing.
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An old hand of the sector, Peter Thürl, reveals that...
An old hand of the sector, Peter Thürl, reveals that Pierre Ryser, the first secretary general to have led the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry, died last Sept. 22 from a heart attack in his native Switzerland. According to Thürl, who knew him well, Ryser was largely forgotten ...
