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Blue Tomato has opened another store in Münster, expanding the...
Blue Tomato has opened another store in Münster, expanding the action sports retailer's network to 30 stores in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Owned by Zumiez since 2012, the group has been multiplying store openings in the last years: It moved into Vienna, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Munich, Stuttgart, Hamburg and Berlin, and ...
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Oxbow, the surf and surf-inspired apparel brand of the Lafuma...
Oxbow, the surf and surf-inspired apparel brand of the Lafuma Group, is adding a line of stand-up paddle boards that will be made by Bic Sport based on its own designs. Oxbow already has a specific line of SUP apparel. Martin Vitry, an 18-year-old French athlete who became the French ...
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The global footwear and apparel sectors have made significant progress...
The global footwear and apparel sectors have made significant progress as far as labor practices across their supply chains are concerned. However, according to a study released by KnowTheChain (KTC), many Western firms still show minimal commitment to addressing labor issues within their factories and across the supply chains, despite ...
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K-Swiss has appointed Mike Miringoff as its new global director...
K-Swiss has appointed Mike Miringoff as its new global director of tennis. He will report directly to Barney Waters, K-Swiss' brand president. In his new role, Miringoff will be responsible for the sales, marketing, products and all aspects of the performance tennis business in North America. He brings to K-Swiss ...
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Marmot has appointed Patrice Christensen as its new director of...
Marmot has appointed Patrice Christensen as its new director of brand. Most recently, Christensen managed key components of marketing at VF Corp.'s Lucy brand, which specializes in women's athleisure apparel. She has also served in marketing management positions at The North Face, PowerBar and Chevron. Christensen is herself an outdoor ...
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Poc, the Swedish producer of innovative helmets, eyewear, body armor...
Poc, the Swedish producer of innovative helmets, eyewear, body armor and apparel, will have a new chief executive, Jonas Sjögren, from next Feb. 1. He will join the company, which was bought by Investcorp and merged with the Dainese group in October 2015, after 15 years of experience in the ...
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Under Armour will present three new “smart shoes” at the...
Under Armour will present three new “smart shoes” at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month. The three UA Record Equipped running shoes will provide digital tracking of cadence, real-time pace, lifetime mileage and other statistics, extending the capabilities of the company's MapMyRun app.
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Under Armour, Fanatics and Major League Baseball (MLB) have signed...
Under Armour, Fanatics and Major League Baseball (MLB) have signed a 10-year partnership that makes Under Armour (UA) the official uniform provider to MLB. The agreement marks UA's first-ever uniform deal for a professional league. The partnership will begin in the 2020 MLB season. Majestic Athletic, which has long been ...
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In a further change of management at Rapala VMC, Arto...
In a further change of management at Rapala VMC, Arto Nygren will become executive vice president in charge of lure manufacturing as of Jan. 1, taking the place of Juhani Pehkonen and reporting to Stanislas de Castelnau, executive vice president of manufacturing operations and global supply chain development for the ...
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The Australian Financial Review reports that L Capital Asia, a...
The Australian Financial Review reports that L Capital Asia, a private equity arm for the LVMH group, is eying the Tigerlily brand of swimwear owned by Billabong International. L Capital already has stakes in other Australian brands including 2XU, which specializes in compression garments, and Seafolly, another swimwear brand. Billabong ...
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Sports Tech Asia is a new trade show for the...
Sports Tech Asia is a new trade show for the presentation of innovative machinery and technologies for the manufacture of sports garments. Organized by Messe München in a joint venture with Adsale Exhibition Services, it will be held in a space of 2,000 square meters next to Ispo Shanghai on ...
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Asics and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) have...
Asics and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) have signed up a new multiple-year partnership which makes Asics an Official IAAF Partner. The Japanese firm will become the new top-tier sports brand sponsor, and will replace Adidas, which has prematurely ended its relationship with IAAF. The 11-year sponsorship deal ...
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The funeral was held in Asolo on Friday for Luigi...
The funeral was held in Asolo on Friday for Luigi Parisotto, an Italian shoemaker who was closely connected with the history of the Italian ski and mountain boot manufacturing industry. He passed away on Dec. 20 at the age of 86. Luigi Parisotto started to work at the age of ...
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Rossignol has put on the back-burner its previous project to...
Rossignol has put on the back-burner its previous project to come out with a line of lifestyle-oriented sunglasses under its own name following a French court's decision to liquidate the assets of its prospective licensee, Logo Eyewear, after its failure to lure a new investor. Logo went bankrupt in May ...
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Matthias Bärtels, who had been serving as one of the...
Matthias Bärtels, who had been serving as one of the two managing directors for the Intersport Voswinkel chain in Germany since 2012, has died at the age of 53. Responsible for purchasing, sales, marketing and merchandising, he led a refitting program at Voswinkel and introduced a CRM system. Soon after ...
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Engelhorn, the German sports and fashion retailer based in Mannheim,...
Engelhorn, the German sports and fashion retailer based in Mannheim, has started to sell its products online through Zalando's marketplace. Since Dec. 15, Engelhorn has been a member of Zalando's partnership program. Zalando will start by selling ski and snowboard products that were not available for purchase from the e-tailer's ...
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Keller Sports has become a retail member of the Sport...
Keller Sports has become a retail member of the Sport 2000 buying group in Germany. The partnership will give the company access to the private label offerings and special make-ups of Sport 2000. With a premium positioning in the market, Keller Sports offers a narrow selection of branded products online ...
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Corinne Gensollen has been confirmed as the new general manager...
Corinne Gensollen has been confirmed as the new general manager of Intersport France, responsible also for Belgium. She has taken the place of François Neukirch, the French industry expert, who is planning to open the biggest Intersport store in the Paris region, located at Herblay. Gensollen, 48, started her career ...
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Ispo Beijing is getting bigger. Messe München said on Dec....
Ispo Beijing is getting bigger. Messe München said on Dec. 14 that 439 exhibitors had already registered by then to participate in its next session of the fair, or 7 percent more than at the same time a year earlier. On Feb. 15-18, the next show will feature a Start-Up ...
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At least five institutional investors are considering bids to the...
At least five institutional investors are considering bids to the takeover of Performance Sports Group (PSG), the parent company of Bauer, Mission and Easton. One of them is a former owner of Bauer, Hohlberg Kreavis Roberts (KKR). The others are Apollo Investment Corp., Bain Capital, TPG Capital and Sycamore Partners. ...
