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Building on the growing success of its Ispo Beijing fair,...
Building on the growing success of its Ispo Beijing fair, Messe München has finally announced a summer edition of its Chinese show and decided on the timing and the venue of the new event, which will be called Ispo Shanghai. After polling exhibitors and visitors and holding extensive one-on-one meetings ...
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Bernd Hummel, the licensee for KangaROOS in Germany and many...
Bernd Hummel, the licensee for KangaROOS in Germany and many other European countries, has a new distributor in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Since July, Urban Shoes has been working as sales agent for the brand with some retailers and as distributor for other accounts. In the U.K., Bernd Hummel ...
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Sport Zone, the big Portuguese sporting goods retail chain owned...
Sport Zone, the big Portuguese sporting goods retail chain owned by Sonae Group, has launched its online store, offering some 25,000 different items. It has also launched a blog, connected with social networks, that will be updated daily. The new web shop is accessible to customers in Spain, where the ...
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Sport Schuster, the big Munich-based sports retailer, has introduced a...
Sport Schuster, the big Munich-based sports retailer, has introduced a special new loyalty card for its customers. Instead of collecting points through their purchases, they collect “meters of elevation.” Registered card-holders get two meters for every euro spent. Once they reach a certain altitude, they obtain a special discount. For ...
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Billabong Europe has named Jean Kress as head of merchandising...
Billabong Europe has named Jean Kress as head of merchandising and design and Nicolas Burger as sales manager. They will both work out of Billabong's head office in Hossegor, in south-western France, and report to Jean-Louis Rodrigues, general manager of Billabong Europe. Kress will be overseeing Billabong Europe's design and ...
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Karstadt, the embattled German department store group, is bracing itself...
Karstadt, the embattled German department store group, is bracing itself for significant cost reductions and perhaps store closures, after several managers indicated that further restructuring measures would have to be taken at the company. This came after the abrupt departure of Eva-Lotta Sjöstedt, the company's chief executive, after just five ...
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Mountain Force, the Swiss brand of higher-end snow and outdoor...
Mountain Force, the Swiss brand of higher-end snow and outdoor wear, has founded a sales subsidiary for the Austrian market. Mountain Force Austria will be led by Bent Jensen as managing director from Aug. 1. The Dane has worked as a sales representative in Austria for Peak Performance for over ...
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Outer Known will be the name of the new brand...
Outer Known will be the name of the new brand that Kelly Slater is going to launch with the support of Kering, the parent company of Puma, Volcom and Electric, according to an Australian surf magazine, Stab. The former surf champion, who was previously sponsored by Quiksilver, is said to ...
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Jarden Corporation's stable of sports brands continues to widen. Its...
Jarden Corporation's stable of sports brands continues to widen. Its K2 Sports subsidiary has signed an agreement for the takeover of an American brand of triathlon clothing, Squadra, and its business at an undisclosed price. Squadra started in 1996 as the U.S. licensee of Castelli, the Italian brand of bikewear. ...
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ISA TanTec, a German-owned tannery supplying top footwear brands globally,...
ISA TanTec, a German-owned tannery supplying top footwear brands globally, is setting up its first leather manufacturing facility in the U.S. The site will be located in Vicksburg, Mississippi and the project will be known as Mississippi TanTec Leather. ISA TanTec currently has operations in Saigon, Vietnam and Heshan City, ...
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Sequential Brands, which owns and licenses out Heelys, DVS and...
Sequential Brands, which owns and licenses out Heelys, DVS and Revo, among other brands, has reported a financial turnaround for the fiscal year ended last Dec. 31. On a pro forma basis, it generated income of $4,173,000 from continuing operations, versus losses of $39,161,000 in the previous year. Revenues, which ...
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Macintosh Retail Group, parent company of Brantano, Scapino and other...
Macintosh Retail Group, parent company of Brantano, Scapino and other major shoe retail chains in the Netherlands, Belgium and the U.K., has outlined a €180 million refinancing package intended to strengthen its shoe formats and its omni-channel retail operations. After a rise of 7.8 percent in the first quarter of ...
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Olivier Ciaravino, the French-based president of the Global Eyewear Division...
Olivier Ciaravino, the French-based president of the Global Eyewear Division of Bushnell Performance Optics, is adding the title of managing director of the whole group for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). In connection with his appointment, Gernot Trebsche, managing director of Bushnell for Germany and Austria, is adding ...
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Manifattura Valcismon, the Italian company that owns the Sportful and...
Manifattura Valcismon, the Italian company that owns the Sportful and Castelli brands of sports clothing, has set up a German sales subsidiary, taking over the distribution of its products from Kops, with effect from July 1. The new entity is run by Berthold Blattmann who has been in charge of ...
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The District Court in Kranj, in Slovenia, has reportedly launched...
The District Court in Kranj, in Slovenia, has reportedly launched debt restructuring proceedings at Alpina, which makes outdoor and skiing footwear as well as a wider range of urban shoes. It has accumulated debts worth €42 million, chiefly due to a management buyout. The company, based in the small eastern ...
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Derby Cycle wants to strengthen its sporting segment and has...
Derby Cycle wants to strengthen its sporting segment and has appointed Marc Faude as head of the newly created Product Unit Performance. Derby Cycle is the largest bicycle producer by revenues in Germany and its sporting brands include Focus, Cervélo and Univega. Faude brings more than 20 years of experience ...
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Martes Sport, the Polish distribution and retail group, has expanded...
Martes Sport, the Polish distribution and retail group, has expanded its licensing and distribution agreement with Hi-Tec Sports to 19 countries around Eastern Europe. While it previously covered Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the Ukraine, another 15 countries were added, from the Baltics to the former Yugoslav republics, Bulgaria, ...
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Superga has opened several new mono-brand stores outside its domestic...
Superga has opened several new mono-brand stores outside its domestic Italian market in the last couple of months and signed distribution contracts for new markets. Its first mono-brand store in South America was opened earlier this month. The store is located in the JK Iguatemi mall in São Paulo and ...
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Halfords Group registered higher revenues in the first quarter ended...
Halfords Group registered higher revenues in the first quarter ended June 27, driven by strong growth in bicycle sales. The British retailer said comparable store sales of cycling products grew 21.3 percent, compared with a consolidated comparable store sales increase of 7.9 percent across all its retail segments, which include ...
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The European Outdoor Group (EOG) reported at the OutDoor fair...
The European Outdoor Group (EOG) reported at the OutDoor fair that the European outdoor market increased by 3.1 percent to an estimated level of €4,776 million at the wholesale level last year, based on its annual market research study. Extrapolating mark-ups, the EOG has calculated that the market was worth ...
