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    Odlo has completed the reorganization of its management structure with...

    2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Odlo has completed the reorganization of its management structure with the appointment of Antoine Sathicq as chief sales officer. The position is new, but it covers most of the functions of the previous sales director, Claes Broqvist, who left the company a few weeks ago. The other members of the ...

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    The Scott Sports group continues its strong external growth strategy....

    2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

    The Scott Sports group continues its strong external growth strategy. We understand that it is already working on another acquisition, which may be sealed before the end of this year, after striking a preliminary agreement last month for the takeover of Dolomite from the Tecnica Group. Scott's management indicates that ...

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    Working through its new Japanese distributor, SSK Corporation, Schöffel has...

    2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Working through its new Japanese distributor, SSK Corporation, Schöffel has opened three stores in the cities of Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo. Two more are planned for next year. In addition to Schöffel's apparel collections, the stores carry Lowa shoes and Deuter backpacks.

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    Jorcani Sports will distribute the Polaroid line of sunglasses produced...

    2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Jorcani Sports will distribute the Polaroid line of sunglasses produced by Safilo in the sporting goods channel in Spain and Andorra. Jorcani is already the Spanish distributor of Safilo's higher-end lines of Smith and Carrera sports glasses.

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    Dutch sports retailers who took part in the Inretail Sport...

    2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Dutch sports retailers who took part in the Inretail Sport Monitor raised their sales by 2.5 percent for the third quarter, Sport Partner reports, compared with smaller rises of 0.7 percent in the first quarter and 0.8 percent in the second quarter. The third quarter got off to a promising ...

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    Sport Eco reports that Go Sport, the French sports retailer,...

    2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Sport Eco reports that Go Sport, the French sports retailer, has acquired Tool Sport, a French online retailer that went into receivership earlier this year. Go Sport declined to comment but the customer service department at Tool Sport said that the company has been renamed Go Sport Développement. For the ...

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    Golf Europe did not take place this year, and will...

    2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Golf Europe did not take place this year, and will not in 2016 either. The organizers of the trade show in Augsburg, Germany, said an industry survey carried out last month clearly showed continued disagreements about a suitable date. Further discussions and consultations will be held with partners and key ...

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    The North Face has opened its newest flagship store at...

    2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

    The North Face has opened its newest flagship store at 290 Regent Street in London. The 400-square-meter location features on-site lockers to allow customers to leave their belongings and “explore” London freely. Screens will show the latest adventure films. Sponsored athletes will make appearances at the store.

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    The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) has...

    2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

    The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) has enlisted two more speakers for its Manufacturers Forum in Hong Kong on Dec. 2-3. Elena Fanjul-Debnam, director of Micro Solutions at Workplace Options, is to discuss ways to reduce employee stress by providing wellbeing services in emerging market factories. She ...

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    Oslo Sportslager, the Norwegian sporting goods retailer specializing in ski...

    2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Oslo Sportslager, the Norwegian sporting goods retailer specializing in ski and bike products, recently organized a successful public exhibition in Oslo, collecting sales of 9.5 million Norwegian kroner (€1.0m-$1.1m) over a single weekend. The exhibition brought together 36 different suppliers in a local arena. More than 3,000 people visited the ...

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    Haglöfs has hired a number of key people in recent...

    2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Haglöfs has hired a number of key people in recent weeks. The latest recruit is Robert Olsson, who has become the company's new senior designer for apparel. In the ‘90s, Olsson was one of Sweden's biggest freeride skis stars. At the peak of his career, he began designing garments for ...

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    Haglöfs is launching an online store in Sweden and preparing...

    2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Haglöfs is launching an online store in Sweden and preparing to open others across the Nordic markets and Europe. The company described the Swedish online store as part of a wider digital initiative for the company, with Europe to be covered shortly and online stores to be opened in all ...

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    Hoka One One turned out as the third most prominent...

    2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Hoka One One turned out as the third most prominent brand of running shoes in last month's Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Based on the shoe count carried out by Shoe Ranger, it was worn by 11.6 percent of the participants in the triathlon event. The top two brands ...

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    The Saarbrücker Nachrichten published an unconfirmed report that ZEG, the...

    2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

    The Saarbrücker Nachrichten published an unconfirmed report that ZEG, the German-based buying group for bicycle dealers, could purchase the bicycle production unit of Kettler, the German supplier of fitness and garden equipment, which went into self-administered receivership in June. As reported in our previous issue, Kettler said it was working ...

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    GoPro reported a 43.0 percent sales increase to $400.3 million...

    2015-10-31T00:00:00Z

    GoPro reported a 43.0 percent sales increase to $400.3 million for the third quarter, falling short of analysts' estimates due to disappointing sales of cameras. Sales in Europe, the Middle East, Africa (EMEA) jumped by 179 percent to $156.6 million, while the Asia-Pacific region booked a 178 percent increase to ...

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    Li Ning Company has agreed to sell a 10 percent...

    2015-10-31T00:00:00Z

    Li Ning Company has agreed to sell a 10 percent stake in Shanghai Double Happiness for about 125 million renmimbi (€18.0m-$20.0m) in cash to the Viva China Group. The transaction will reduce Li Ning's share in the Chinese table tennis company to 47.5 percent, leaving it still as its largest ...

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    Asics will celebrate the 2015 TCS New York City Marathon...

    2015-10-31T00:00:00Z

    Asics will celebrate the 2015 TCS New York City Marathon with the “World's Biggest Selfie Stick,” an eight-story-tall interactive structure at Gansevoort Plaza in Manhattan. Asics America is the official footwear and apparel partner of the marathon, while Tata Consulting Services (TCS) is premier partner and the title sponsor. Asics' ...

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    Beating analysts' expectations, Alibaba Group Holdings reported a 32 percent...

    2015-10-31T00:00:00Z

    Beating analysts' expectations, Alibaba Group Holdings reported a 32 percent increase to $3.49 billion in revenues for the second quarter of its financial year, ended on Sept. 30. Sales through mobile devices nearly tripled to $1.66 billion. The total gross merchandise volume on its Chinese marketplaces went up by 28 ...

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    361 Degrees, one of China's leading sports apparel and footwear...

    2015-10-31T00:00:00Z

    361 Degrees, one of China’s leading sports apparel and footwear brands, said that its comparable store sales increased by 8.1 percent in the third quarter. The channel inventory reached a level of 4.1 months of stock held for resale. The average retail discount for the period was 23 percent. The ...

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    Sales at Intersport Finland shrank by 4.5 percent to €46...

    2015-10-31T00:00:00Z

    Sales at Intersport Finland shrank by 4.5 percent to €46 million for the third quarter, according to the quarterly results released by Kesko, the large Finnish retail group that owns the Intersport license in Finland and Russia. For the first nine months of the year, sales for Intersport Finland were ...