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Top-Sport, a privately owned company with 20 stores in Finland,...
Top-Sport, a privately owned company with 20 stores in Finland, has warned that it may have to dismiss about 140 of its 250 employees to get out of its financial problems. To this end, the chain's management has started consultations with the personnel and indicated that some stores may be ...
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Martti Uusitalo, who ran Halti between 2009 and 2014, has...
Martti Uusitalo, who ran Halti between 2009 and 2014, has sold his shares in the Finnish company to the Ingman Group of shareholders, which now owns nearly 90 percent of the equity. Uusitalo, who recently acquired control of another Finnish firm, Vauhti Speed, has also left Halti's board of directors, ...
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Almost 6,500 pairs of counterfeit Nike and Converse sports shoes...
Almost 6,500 pairs of counterfeit Nike and Converse sports shoes were seized at the Puces de Saint-Ouen flea market, in the north of Paris, at the beginning of October. In addition to the 6,270 pairs of fake Nike and 150 pairs of fake Converse the police, accompanied by two employees ...
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Sales of sporting goods in Sweden continue to grow. According...
Sales of sporting goods in Sweden continue to grow. According to HUI Research, July was the fifth month in a row with positive growth. Sales in July were up by 2 percent compared with July 2013, which places sales growth at 4 percent for the first seven months of 2014. Swedish ...
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Preston Innovations, the England-based fishing brand, has been acquired by...
Preston Innovations, the England-based fishing brand, has been acquired by Zebco Brands, the fishing tackle business based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition of Preston brings its Korum, Avid Carp and Sonubaits brands under the Zebco banner. Zebco is owned by W.C. Bradley ...
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Wiggle will move its warehouse operations out of Portsmouth after...
Wiggle will move its warehouse operations out of Portsmouth after signing a lease on a 323,000-square-foot unit at a logistics facility at Bilston, near Wolverhampton. The retailer currently has a total of 95,000 square feet of warehousing across a number of sites in Portsmouth. The new location will measure nearly ...
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Investors who bought shares in GoPro after it went public...
Investors who bought shares in GoPro after it went public in June are questioning the release by J.P. Morgan of 5.82 million shares from a lock-up restriction. The shares have been gifted by the action camera maker's founders, Nicholas and Jill Woodmann, to a charitable foundation with effect from Oct. ...
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Fibo China will be held again at yet unspecified dates...
Fibo China will be held again at yet unspecified dates next year, after the first edition held in Shanghai in September drew more visitors than expected. The organizers said that some 4,238 visitors came from 40 countries to find out about the latest trends in the Chinese market at the ...
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Forbes again ranked Nike as the most valuable sports brand...
Forbes again ranked Nike as the most valuable sports brand at $17.3 million. It was followed by ESPN at $15 million and Adidas at $7.1 million. Meanwhile, Nike and Adidas were again cited by Interbrand among the world's most valuable brands. Nike came in 22nd position in its annual ranking, ...
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Shimano has signed an agreement with the European Cyclists' Federation...
Shimano has signed an agreement with the European Cyclists' Federation (ECF) to join the ECF Cycling Industry Club. Shimano has become the fifth company to sign up to the Club since Eurobike. The Cycling Industry Club was founded at Eurobike in 2011 to improve cycling advocacy. It now has more ...
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Original Buff has opened its second store in Barcelona's airport....
Original Buff has opened its second store in Barcelona's airport. The first one was opened in Terminal 1 in March. The new one is in Terminal 2 and measures 75 square meters. It offers a special line designed for the Pilgrimage to Santiago on an exclusive basis.
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Bob Carr, a highly respected American journalist who we knew...
Bob Carr, a highly respected American journalist who we knew well, died on Sept. 28 of a heart attack at the age of 72, after many years of valiantly fighting against a series of health challenges. He became the editor of Sporting Goods Business when the U.S. magazine was founded ...
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Nike has announced that Cindy Davis, president of Nike Golf,...
Nike has announced that Cindy Davis, president of Nike Golf, plans to retire from Nike. Davis joined Nike Golf USA as general manager and has served as president of Nike Golf since 2008. Before joining Nike in 2004, she had been a senior vice president at Golf Channel and worked ...
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Yesterday, Wolverine announced the appointment of a new member of...
Yesterday, Wolverine announced the appointment of a new member of its board of directors, Roxane Divol. The 42-year-old is senior vice president of Alliances for Symantec Corporation, one of the world's largest software companies that specializes in personal and organizational security, storage and availability solutions. She previously worked for McKinsey ...
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VF Corporation has announced that Robert K. Shearer, the group's...
VF Corporation has announced that Robert K. Shearer, the group's senior vice president & chief financial officer, will retire in March 2015, after 28 years with the company. VF has named Scott A. Roe, currently vice president, as controller and chief accounting officer, to replace Shearer in the role of ...
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Keen footwear and its partner Respect The Mountains have announced...
Keen footwear and its partner Respect The Mountains have announced that this summers' eight events for the Envirotrek Clean Up Series yielded the campaigns' greatest ever returns with 5,120kg of rubbish being collected, almost double that collected during the 2013 campaign. The 2014 series, in its sixth year, visited six ...
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Anta Sports Products announced yesterday a partnership with NBA China,...
Anta Sports Products announced yesterday a partnership with NBA China, taking the place of Peak Sports. The Chinese company will launch a complete line of co-branded league and team-identified footwear and accessories that will be sold in Anta's 2,000-plus stores around the country and at its online stores in the ...
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The European Surf Manufacturers Association (Eurosima), gave its annual Innovation...
The European Surf Manufacturers Association (Eurosima), gave its annual Innovation Prize to Newtis, a French start-up that has developed a new polycarbonate-based layering process for surfboards. It is said to be more automated and less toxic than traditional processes based on fiberglass. It also allows for easier customization. To market ...
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IC Companys, the Danish apparel group that owns Peak Performance...
IC Companys, the Danish apparel group that owns Peak Performance and other brands, has officially renamed itself IC Group. The company's annual meeting also appointed Henrik Heideby as chairman, replacing Niels Martinsen. Heideby was previously vice chairman. Martinsen will act as vice chairman along with another former director of the ...
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Scott Otte has been appointed marketing director of Brooks Sports...
Scott Otte has been appointed marketing director of Brooks Sports for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Based at the company's new European office in Amsterdam, he replaces the German-based Bastian Hübschen, who has been made country manager for the German-speaking countries. Otte has worked for Nike, Levi's, Wrangler ...
