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Vuarnet has opened a store in New York. Located at...
Vuarnet has opened a store in New York. Located at 35 Spring Street, close to the Supreme shop in the heart of Little Italy, the 100-square-meter store features its new lifestyle apparel collection, in addition to its traditional line of sunglasses. The apparel line has been developed in collaboration with ...
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On June 20, five days after the publication of its...
On June 20, five days after the publication of its stellar results for the last financial year (see the article in this issue), Canada Goose announced a secondary offering for 10 million subordinate voting shares by three of its shareholders, corresponding to about 9 percent of its equity. Bain Capital, ...
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Jon Sinko, who spent the last 20 years in the...
Jon Sinko, who spent the last 20 years in the action sports division of the Adidas Group, has joined Element as vice president in charge of merchandising and design. Sinko was most recently global head of product marketing for skate apparel, footwear, accessories and snowboarding at the Adidas group, based ...
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Schuhe24.de, a company founded and run by Dominik Benner, a German...
Schuhe24.de, a company founded and run by Dominik Benner, a German shoe retailer who was formerly a member of ANWR's supervisory board, aims to diversify from footwear by entering the sporting goods and fashion sectors. A new internet portal, Sportmarken24.de, was launched in February. It is managed by Benner's wife, Valeska ...
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Adidas said it was made aware on June 26 that...
Adidas said it was made aware on June 26 that an unauthorized party had gained access to customer information from its e-commerce platform in the U.S. A preliminary investigation indicates that a few million records were stolen including contact information, user names and encrypted passwords, but there was no evidence ...
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Sport Heroes has raised €4 million from Genairgy, an investment...
Sport Heroes has raised €4 million from Genairgy, an investment firm for the family behind Decathlon, to support its expansion. The four year-old startup strives to encourage more people to practice sports, by rewarding physical activity measured through digital devices with discounts on partner brands and services. The company is ...
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The L-Fashion Group is acquiring a stake of 49 percent...
The L-Fashion Group is acquiring a stake of 49 percent in Dachstein, the venerable Austrian brand of outdoor shoes. The shares are being sold by the controlling shareholder, Austro Holding, and by the company's chief executive, Oliver Wieser. Christian Wolsegger, Dachstein's sales manager, is taking over his place. More in ...
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Foot Locker has announced that it is about to test...
Foot Locker has announced that it is about to test a new retail format called Power Store. The information has been released by the retailer's senior management during a conversation with financial analysts, according to reports by Fashion Network. The new format is supposed to offer customers an immersive experience ...
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Kasper Rorsted, the Adidas Group's chief executive, has expressed concerns...
Kasper Rorsted, the Adidas Group's chief executive, has expressed concerns about potential over-commercialization of football and dilution of the game's quality, due to an increasing number of competitions and participants. In an interview with Kicker, a German football magazine, he said that Fifa's decision to increase the number of teams ...
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Oberalp has decided to start exhibiting again at the Ispo...
Oberalp has decided to start exhibiting again at the Ispo Munich show, after an absence of two years. It will have a corporate stand for all its brands – Salewa, Dynafit, Pomoca and Wild Country – but it will continue to hold its sales conventions in late October and May. ...
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Amer Sports has appointed Jon Hoerauf as president in charge...
Amer Sports has appointed Jon Hoerauf as president in charge of the sports apparel category, a function that is meant to enable faster growth and to take more advantage of synergies in the Finnish group's apparel business. It has re-formed an apparel category structure that includes the Arc'teryx, Salomon and ...
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Eddie Bauer and Pacific Sunwear, two struggling American retail chains...
Eddie Bauer and Pacific Sunwear, two struggling American retail chains that together have a total of 700 stores, are being merged into a single operation for all their back-office functions. They were both taken over by Golden Gate Capital through bankruptcy auctions.
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The World Snowboard Federation (WSF) has announced a new president...
The World Snowboard Federation (WSF) has announced a new president and board. Satu Järvelä has been elected as WSF's new president on a four-year mandate. Järvelä previously sat on the board of the Ticket to Ride (TTR) World Snowboard Tour. She is a former ISF World Champion snowboarder, a US ...
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Quiksilver has announced that its recycling program in collaboration with...
Quiksilver has announced that its recycling program in collaboration with Repreve has reached the 100 million-bottle milestone. The process starts with Repreve turning used plastic bottles into plastic flake. This is converted into Repreve chips, which are then melted before turning into yarn that acts similarly to conventional polyester. Since ...
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Speedo has announced a three-year partnership with Disney for the...
Speedo has announced a three-year partnership with Disney for the launch of a collection of swimwear and accessories for its junior swimwear range. Designed for children between the ages of 6 and 16, the new range features characters from Star Wars and includes swimsuits, jammers, aqua shorts, briefs, water shorts ...
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Uniqlo, the Japanese apparel brand that sponsored Novak Djokovic from...
Uniqlo, the Japanese apparel brand that sponsored Novak Djokovic from 2012 to 2017, is said to be paying $30 million a year to Roger Federer under a new ten-year contract. The Swiss tennis champion has been earning an estimated $7.5 million to $10 million a year under a ten-year contract ...
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World Rugby has appointed Canterbury as the official sports apparel...
World Rugby has appointed Canterbury as the official sports apparel supplier for its 2019 World Cup in Japan and for the global organization. The two-year deal covers the World Cup in Japan, the World Rugby under-20 Championship, elite 15s and sevens match officials, and World Rugby technical official apparel. The ...
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Christian Fischer has been appointed as the new product manager...
Christian Fischer has been appointed as the new product manager for Central Europe at Ecco. From July, the 41-year-old replaces Annette Wächtler, who will continue to work as senior category manager for Ecco's shoe collection for women at the company's headquarters in Denmark. Before joining Ecco, Fischer worked for the ...
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In the autumn, Jens Nyström will make a switch from...
In the autumn, Jens Nyström will make a switch from Haglöfs to Björn Borg, where he will assume the comparable position of chief financial officer at the Swedish sportswear and underwear brand. Nyström has a varied resumé, having held the same position with a pharmaceutical company, Sanofi, in Sweden. Previously, ...
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Intersport PSC Holding, the Swiss licensee for the Intersport banner,...
Intersport PSC Holding, the Swiss licensee for the Intersport banner, is proposing to merge with its parent company, Zelfi Sports Holding, which owns more than 91 percent of its shares. Nothing would change for the employees and the customers. The proposal is set to be endorsed by an extraordinary meeting ...
