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Eduardo Roldan has been appointed managing director of Shimano's new...
Eduardo Roldan has been appointed managing director of Shimano's new Italian sales subsidiary, which will be called Shimano Italy Bicycle Components and will commence operations on July 1. Roldan has been for 17 years the marketing director at Shimano's distributor in Spain, Macario Llorente, where he will be succeeded by ...
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Eduardo Eceizaberrena has been appointed new contry manager of Regatta...
Eduardo Eceizaberrena has been appointed new contry manager of Regatta Group for Spain and Portugal. He worked for Décathlon for 12 years before joining a distributor, Altitud Sport Evasion, and the Pimkie fashion retail chain. Eceizaberrena succeeds Olivier Pelous, who did an excellent job for the British group over the ...
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Sporting goods retail sales increased in Sweden in April for...
Sporting goods retail sales increased in Sweden in April for the second consecutive month. According to HUI Research, they grew by 1.5 percent compared with the same month last year. Based on the same number of working days, sales increased by 9 percent. This brings the cumulative growth in the ...
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Under Armour is the recipient of the Clio Sports Brand...
Under Armour is the recipient of the Clio Sports Brand Innovation Award, the international competition honoring creative excellence in sports. The award ceremony will take place on July 17 at Cipriani Midtown in New York, hosted by ESPN Radio's Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg of Mike & Mike in the ...
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Décathlon continues to expand in Eastern Europe and Asia. Confirming...
Décathlon continues to expand in Eastern Europe and Asia. Confirming a report in Sport-Guide, Décathlon says it plans to enter the Croatian market towards the end of this year with a 3,500-square-meter store in Zagreb. It will likely be supplied out of Hungary, where Décathlon already has 12 stores. The ...
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Quoting GfK and Asmas, the Swiss sporting goods retailers' association,...
Quoting GfK and Asmas, the Swiss sporting goods retailers' association, the Swiss Sport+Mode reports a 2.4 percent drop in the Swiss market for the first quarter of 2014, after an increase of the same magnitude in the fourth quarter of 2013. Here also, the weather was the main cause of ...
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Eurosima, the European surf industry association, has decided to spice...
Eurosima, the European surf industry association, has decided to spice up the program for this year's Surf Summit and Waterman's Ball, which will be held on Oct. 2-3 at Seignosse on the Basque Coast of France. It will introduce a new exhibit, the Surfing Lounge, to showcase the expertise, creativity ...
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Nike has launched a custom sports bag and ultra-light shin...
Nike has launched a custom sports bag and ultra-light shin guard using 3D printing technology. The Nike Football Rebento Duffel is said to be the world's first 3D printed performance sports bag. Only three bags were created prior to the Fifa World Cup to be carried by Neymar Jr., Wayne ...
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Barry Bown, who left the position of chief executive at...
Barry Bown, who left the position of chief executive at JD Sports Fashion a few days ago, is getting a relatively long three-year consultancy contract, accompanied by a non-competition clause. A spokesman for the company stressed that the relationship between Bown and other members of the top management “was and ...
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Performance Sports Group (PSG), the company based in Exeter, New...
Performance Sports Group (PSG), the company based in Exeter, New Hampshire that was previously called Bauer Performance Sports, raised about $126.5 million in a secondary offering of 8,1561,291 shares in the U.S. and Canada, after exercising an over-allotment option. It sold the shares at $15.50 each, but they were valued ...
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Nike has released a range of basketball socks designed with...
Nike has released a range of basketball socks designed with its new Elite Digital Ink printing process, a proprietary technology that enables the brand's designers to emblazon the Nike Elite sock with high-definition graphics and vivid colors, free of distortion or fading. The first edition of Nike Elite Digital Ink ...
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Ole-Henrik Skirstad has been chosen as the new chief executive...
Ole-Henrik Skirstad has been chosen as the new chief executive for Sport 1, the Norwegian sporting goods chain. The 44-year-old will take over management of the chain from Johnny Austad by December. Skirstad has an MBA and more than 15 years of management experience in franchising from chains such as ...
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Nike has promoted Reenie Benziger to vice president of global...
Nike has promoted Reenie Benziger to vice president of global apparel, replacing Jan Singer who is no longer with the company. Benziger was previously vice president and general manager in charge of global young athletes, a category that grew rapidly under her leadership. She has been replaced in that role ...
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This year, Helly Hansen had its best quarter ever with...
This year, Helly Hansen had its best quarter ever with a sales increase of 24 percent as compared to a year ago. The Norwegian outdoor company is predicted to reach a sales increase of 25 percent for the full year. Currently, Scandinavia, the U.K. and Canada are the focus markets ...
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Trek and Scott are each recalling thousands of mid-priced bikes...
Trek and Scott are each recalling thousands of mid-priced bikes sold between 2010 and 2013 because of concerns over the SR Suntour suspension forks used on them. The recall is because the front forks, which were made in Taiwan and China, can break. The recall affects 11 models of Trek and ...
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Puma has signed up with Nova International, the British company...
Puma has signed up with Nova International, the British company chaired by Brendan Foster, to become the official sportswear and merchandise supplier for its Great Run Series. The Wild Cat has also added to its U.K. stable of sponsored athletes, including Susan Partridge, the fastest British woman in the 2013 ...
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Stephanie L. Kwolek, the DuPont chemist who invented Kevlar, died...
Stephanie L. Kwolek, the DuPont chemist who invented Kevlar, died after a brief illness on June 18. She was 90. Initially, she wanted to be a fashion designer. The light, sturdy and flexible material that she developed from a liquid crystalline solution in 1965, when she was 42, is now ...
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Grey and wet winter weather resulted in a small decline...
Grey and wet winter weather resulted in a small decline of 0.58 percent in sporting goods retail sales in Norway in the first quarter of 2014, despite a record month in January, according to Sportsbransjen. As reported by a Norwegian newspaper, DN, XXL was a clear winner with an increase ...
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As previously reported, Fros International is losing the distribution of...
As previously reported, Fros International is losing the distribution of Berghaus in the Benelux countries but is taking on the distribution of the lifestyle collection of Aigle in Belgium. In contrast with a previous report, Fros is the new agent for Havaianas in the Netherlands. It is not acting as ...
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The number of exhibitors at Efftex, the European fishing tackle...
The number of exhibitors at Efftex, the European fishing tackle show held in Brussels on June 13-15, increased slightly to 247 from 245 at last year's session in Vienna, but the number of visitors was off by 9.1 percent to 2,826. Wholesalers made up 48 percent of the total attendance, ...
