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Donna Carpenter is to take over from Mike Rees as...
Donna Carpenter is to take over from Mike Rees as chief executive of Burton Snowboards at the beginning of February. John Lacy, who has long been employed by Burton, will take over her job as the brand's president. Donna Carpenter is a co-owner of Burton Snowboards and the wife of ...
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Snipes, the German-based chain of sneaker stores, is reportedly planning...
Snipes, the German-based chain of sneaker stores, is reportedly planning to launch a women-specific format of shoe stores under a different name, which would also offer high-heeled shoes and clothing. Meanwhile, Snipes has opened its first Spanish store in the Gran Casa shopping center of Zaragoza. It is said to ...
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Dunlop Sports Co. has suspended payment of its dividend and...
Dunlop Sports Co. has suspended payment of its dividend and reduced executive pay for three months from January, after a sharp sales decline at Cleveland Golf Company and a large impairment loss on the shares of this subsidiary. Dunlop Sports said in a statement that the golf company is struggling ...
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Working in collaboration with two other organizations, Eurosima and Sporaltec,...
Working in collaboration with two other organizations, Eurosima and Sporaltec, Outdoor Sports Valley has sponsored and published the first research study on ceramics-lined garments, comparing their effect during exercise to placebo garments. The purpose was to determine whether ceramics-lined apparel modifies skin temperature, improving the feeling of comfort, and whether ...
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OIC Columbia Sportswear is making a significant expansion into the...
OIC Columbia Sportswear is making a significant expansion into the performance underwear category through an exclusive global licensing agreement with Delta Galil Industries. Under the contract, the Israeli firm, which is already Columbia's global licensee for socks, will produce a range of Columbia branded products including men's and women's underwear ...
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Primaloft is coming out with a new insulation for high-output...
Primaloft is coming out with a new insulation for high-output sports activities, called Primaloft Gold Insulation Active, as a step-up to the Primaloft Silver Insulation Active solution introduced one year ago. Both use proprietary manufacturing and finishing processes that lock its fibers in place, preventing them from migrating through fabrics. ...
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OIC The European Commission is proposing for the first time...
OIC The European Commission is proposing for the first time to enforce a simplified, fast-track procedure to check the presence of nearly 300 carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic substances in textile and apparel items sold in the European Union. To this end, the Commission has published a consultation requesting information on ...
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Zalando is taking over Nugg, a German company that supplies...
Zalando is taking over Nugg, a German company that supplies targeted digital marketing solutions, from the German Post Office, in order to address specific target groups in different ways. In the U.S., meanwhile, Amazon is reportedly planning to set up its own fleet of cargo airplanes to avoid delayed deliveries ...
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Our subscribers at SGI Europe and The Outdoor Industry Compass...
Our subscribers at SGI Europe and The Outdoor Industry Compass were wondering where Mathias Basedow was going to land after leaving the European Outdoor Group, where he recently acted as marketing manager. Basedow, who had previously worked at Oakley Europe, is now running a brand-new office and showroom of Icebug ...
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El Corte Inglés has started to offer home delivery within...
El Corte Inglés has started to offer home delivery within two hours for items ordered through its website. The service is limited for the moment to the cities of Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Málaga, Sevilla and Bilbao. The initiative is regarded as a pre-emptive move against Amazon, which is reportedly considering ...
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Fouad Gross is leaving as country manager of Timberland for...
Fouad Gross is leaving as country manager of Timberland for Germany, Austria and Switzerland after more than ten years in the job. His role will be taken over on a temporary basis by Mariano Alonso, vice president of sales of Timberland for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Timberland ...
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One of the two Go Sport stores in Dubai has...
One of the two Go Sport stores in Dubai has been reopened and is now the largest one in the French retail group's chain with a total surface of 3,200 square meters. Operated by its master franchisee for the Gulf States, Al Mana Fashion Group, the store has benefited from ...
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OIC The Fair Wear Foundation, Greenroom Voice and the Sustainable...
OIC The Fair Wear Foundation, Greenroom Voice and the Sustainable Apparel Coalition will present their approaches to the rating of the brands' sustainability performance at a round-table discussion during the Ispo Munich show at 4 PM on Tuesday, Jan. 26. The challenges faced in the transparent and factual measurement of ...
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The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in the U.K. reports that...
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in the U.K. reports that Chris Ronnie, former chief executive at JJB Sports, the defunct British sports retailer, has been ordered to pay about £633,000 within three months or face another five years in jail. Ronnie, who led JJB Sports from 2007 to 2009, is ...
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Sport Partner reports that Mizuno's French subsidiary will no longer...
Sport Partner reports that Mizuno's French subsidiary will no longer distribute the brand in Belgium and Luxembourg from the beginning of April, and that sales in the two countries will instead be supervised from the Netherlands. The publication indicates that the change fits with wide-ranging investments by Mizuno in European ...
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Himaraya, the Japanese sporting goods retailer, said that it suffered...
Himaraya, the Japanese sporting goods retailer, said that it suffered a loss of nearly 2.5 billion yen (€19.0m-$20.8m) for the first quarter of its fiscal year, to the end of November. This compares with a loss of ¥955.8 million (€7.3m-$7.9m) for the same period last year. Sales were off by ...
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Issuing its second profit warning in three months, Pittards, the...
Issuing its second profit warning in three months, Pittards, the U.K.-based leather producer, said it will make a reasonable profit for this year, but it will be materially below forecasts, due to the slowdown in China and Russia. These two factors are apparently offsetting the impact on margins from lower ...
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Belle International reports a same-store increase of 6.0 percent in...
Belle International reports a same-store increase of 6.0 percent in the third quarter through the end of November for its sportswear and apparel business, which consisted of 6,796 directly operated stores for major sports brands in Mainland China, mostly single-brand, at the end of the period. With 20,506 stores at ...
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Johnson Outdoors turned around to a net profit of $1,167,000...
Johnson Outdoors turned around to a net profit of $1,167,000 in its fourth quarter ended Oct. 2 from a loss of $876,000 in the year-ago period. Sales increased by one percent to $85.7 million in the seasonally slow period, but they were flat at $47.6 million in outdoor and fell ...
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Reiner Pichler will become on April 1 the new chief...
Reiner Pichler will become on April 1 the new chief executive of Calida Holding, the Swiss lingerie group that controls Lafuma with 59.9 percent of the shares. He will replace Felix Sulzberger, who spent 14 years at the helm of Calida and engineered the takeover of the French group. According ...
