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Nate Smith is leaving Oakley to become president of the...
Nate Smith is leaving Oakley to become president of the Americas region at Boardriders, the former Quiksilver group, which owns the Quiksilver, Roxy and DC Shoes brands. He takes over from Greg Healy, who will return to Australia to lead the group's business in Asia-Pacific. Healy had moved to California ...
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Bernd Mayer, international sales manager at Leki, has left at...
Bernd Mayer, international sales manager at Leki, has left at his own request after 30 years with the German supplier of poles. Mayer was responsible for Leki's sales in Asia and Eastern Europe. Leki aims to focus more intensely on North America, Asia and Scandinavia in the near future. Michael ...
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Cambodian workers in garment factories supplying some of the biggest...
Cambodian workers in garment factories supplying some of the biggest sportswear brands in the world suffer from repeated fainting due to poor work conditions. According to the investigation carried out by The Observer in collaboration with Danwatch, a Danish investigative media group, more than 500 female workers in four Cambodian ...
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Creating a buzz in the younger communities, Louis Vuitton has...
Creating a buzz in the younger communities, Louis Vuitton has started an interesting collaboration with Supreme, the New York-based streetwear label, giving it visibility through the social networks. The products will be briefly available at pop-up stores in Paris, Tokyo, Beijing, London, Miami and Los Angeles. Their addresses are given ...
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Canada Goose has opened its fifth factory, the first one...
Canada Goose has opened its fifth factory, the first one in Quebec, as part of its commitment to Canadian manufacturing. The 95,000-square-foot facility, which is located in Boisbriand, has already created more than 125 jobs and is expected to create 325 more by the end of 2018. The company has ...
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Puma is reorganizing the distribution of its products in Canada....
Puma is reorganizing the distribution of its products in Canada. Its national head office is being moved from Montreal to Toronto, but the company will retain a showroom in Montreal. Some back-office functions will be moved to its North American headquarters in the U.S. The logistics will be outsourced to ...
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Powakaddy is launching what it claims to be the world's...
Powakaddy is launching what it claims to be the world's first electric golf trolley with fully integrated GPS technology. A British competitor, Motocaddy, has upgraded its free GPS app in preparation for the launch of a new electric trolley, the S5 Connect, which can be connected to the GPS via ...
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Groupe Rossignol presented this week its first collection of racquets...
Groupe Rossignol presented this week its first collection of racquets for paddle tennis. They will be manufactured at its Spanish ski factory at Artés and distributed not only on the Spanish market, where the practice of this type of racquet sport is quite widespread, but also in the rest of ...
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Nike and Tottenham Hotspur have confirmed a multi-year partnership, starting...
Nike and Tottenham Hotspur have confirmed a multi-year partnership, starting from the upcoming football season and taking over from Under Armour. The agreement between Nike and the Premier League club from North London had been anticipated in British newspapers for several months, and it was estimated at £25 million to ...
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Speedo has signed an endorsement contract with Ryan Murphy, a...
Speedo has signed an endorsement contract with Ryan Murphy, a 22-year-old Canadian swimming champion who was the first to win three Olympic gold medal in the same summer games last year. Speedo has also extended its contract with Mireia Belmonte, the Spanish swimmer.
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Nike has signed a long-term sponsorship contract with a major...
Nike has signed a long-term sponsorship contract with a major French rugby club, Stade Toulousain, starting with the 2017/18 season. The Swoosh had been its technical sponsor until BLK took over the contract three years ago. The club looked for a new sponsor after the Australian brand ran into financial ...
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Converse is opening its first stand-alone store in the U.K....
Converse is opening its first stand-alone store in the U.K. It will be an outlet store located in Wembley Park's London Designer Outlet center. Converse already has a corner in Nike's outlet in the same center. Vans and Dr. Martens are also coming to the center with their own outlet ...
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The families of John Wardle and David Makin, founders of...
The families of John Wardle and David Makin, founders of JD Sports, are reported by The Sunday Times to be offering the sale of a 40 percent stake in Footasylum for £40 million (€44.8m-$51.4m). The chain operates 58 physical stores in the U.K., plus a web shop. Footasylum reported a ...
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Decathlon is reportedly negotiating the installation of one of its...
Decathlon is reportedly negotiating the installation of one of its small-surface Decathlon City stores in a landmark building at 16 Calle Fuencarral, the famous shopping street in the center of Madrid. Decathlon already operates 12 Decathlon City stores in the Spanish capital and 15 regular, large Decathlon stores in the ...
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As predicted, Denver has won the race to replace Salt...
As predicted, Denver has won the race to replace Salt Lake City after 22 years as the host of both the winter and summer editions of the Outdoor Retailer trade show between 2018 and 2022. The outdoor industry asked for a new venue with similar access to the mountains after ...
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Sports Direct International (SDI) has slightly reduced its interest in...
Sports Direct International (SDI) has slightly reduced its interest in Finish Line, the U.S. sports retailer. It previously amassed contracts amounting to an interest of 19.9 percent in Finish Line through 19 purchases, from May 6 to June 19, but the seven transactions thereafter were all sales and the latest ...
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Munich will be the site of the fifth edition of...
Munich will be the site of the fifth edition of the World Manufacturers Forum of the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) on Nov. 14-15. It will be organized together with Messe München and the Ispo Academy. Registrations are already open for the conference, whose central topic will ...
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The European Fishing Tackle Trade Exhibition (Efftex) will return to...
The European Fishing Tackle Trade Exhibition (Efftex) will return to Brussels in 2019, after an absence of five years. The other cities under consideration for the event included Helsinki, Prague, Vienna, Madrid, Rimini, Hannover and Nuremberg. The 38th edition of Efftex will take place on June 13-15, 2019. It will ...
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JD Sports Fashion informed investors at its shareholders meeting on...
JD Sports Fashion informed investors at its shareholders meeting on June 29 that its comparable store sales and significant growth in online sales have been in line with expectations since it reported its results for the fiscal year up to Jan. 28. Peter Cowgill, chief executive of the sports and ...
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Sportleader, one of the major sporting goods retailers in the...
Sportleader, one of the major sporting goods retailers in the Levante region of Spain, has decided to switch over to Intersport from another voluntary group, Base Detall Sport, that operates only in Spain. With its seven stores, it will raise the number of points of sale affiliated with Intersport España ...
