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AL&SA (Anthony L&S Athletics), in partnership with Samsung North America,...
AL&SA (Anthony L&S Athletics), in partnership with Samsung North America, has announced a new agreement with Symphony Holdings that grants AL&SA an exclusive perpetual license for Pony in North America. Pony was founded in Manhattan in 1972 by Uruguay-born entrepreneur Roberto Muller. After repeated changes of ownership in the last ...
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We also had not spotted this one: Olivier Richard has...
We also had not spotted this one: Olivier Richard has joined Electric, not Element, as EMEA sales and marketing director.
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Quabaug, the American company that makes soles for Vibram, has...
Quabaug, the American company that makes soles for Vibram, has announced a joint investment of $1.2 million with Vibram in product research and development. The goal is to develop new types of soles in response to a new directive from the U.S. Department of Defense that requires all new military ...
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Crocs has appointed a new president, Andrew Rees, who founded...
Crocs has appointed a new president, Andrew Rees, who founded an led a global management consulting company for 14 years after working at Reebok International as vice president of strategic polanning and vice president of retail operations. Crocs' current chairman, Tom Smach, has agreed to act as interim chief executive ...
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SRAM Europe has announced that Robert Priest, its long-standing director...
SRAM Europe has announced that Robert Priest, its long-standing director of OE sales and dealer marketing, will leave the company in early June. In a statement, the company referred to his “declining kidney condition” and the required cures as the reason behind his decision to step away. John Nedeau, SRAM's ...
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Shimano has announced that it will start its own office...
Shimano has announced that it will start its own office for bikes in Italy as of July 1. The move will put to an end its collaboration with M.I.C. and Amedeo Colombo for the sales of bike parts in Italy, which had lasted since 1979. Shimano Europe has a long ...
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Schöffel, the German marketer of outdoor and snow sports apparel,...
Schöffel, the German marketer of outdoor and snow sports apparel, has appointed a couple of new managers in the sales and product development departments. Effective July 1, Bernd Dietrich will switch from Vaude to Schöffel and will assume the new role of international sales manager, reporting to the brand manager, Christophe ...
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Salewa has appointed a new sales director, Olivier Gouby,...
Salewa has appointed a new sales director, Olivier Gouby, who has worked for Norrøna for eight years, most recently as European sales director. Based at the company's sales office in Bolzano, the Frenchman will report directly to the company's chief executive, Massimo Baratto. In another move, Bernhard Zhou, who worked ...
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Aqua Lung and Suunto will equip the world's deepest pool....
Aqua Lung and Suunto will equip the world's deepest pool. Filled with thermal water, the so-called Y-40 pool will be 40 meters deep and will open in Padua, Italy, on June 5. Nicknamed The Deep Joy, the pool is described as an architectural and engineering masterpiece. It features different depth ...
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Mike Ashley is said to be planning a big move...
Mike Ashley is said to be planning a big move into the gym business through the likely acquisition of about 30 clubs operated by LA Fitness in the U.K. The controlling shareholder of Sports Direct International would thus emulate the strategies implemented by his rival, Dave Whelan, many of whose ...
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Zumiez reports that Blue Tomato, the Austrian-based online and offline...
Zumiez reports that Blue Tomato, the Austrian-based online and offline action sports retailer that it bought at the end of 2012, has been enjoying continuous quarterly sales increases on a comparable store basis since its acquisition. Blue Tomato was responsible for most of the growth of 9.7 percent to $162.9 ...
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Black Diamond Equipment has promoted Tim Bantle to the...
Black Diamond Equipment has promoted Tim Bantle to the new position of managing director of the Black Diamond brand, responsible for both apparel and equipment and reporting to the company's chief operating officer, Mark Ritchie. He takes the place of Ryan Gellert, president of the Black Diamond brand, who has ...
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Future Brands, a subsidiary of the Indian-based Batra Group, has...
Future Brands, a subsidiary of the Indian-based Batra Group, has signed a licensing agreement with Lotto Sport Italia for the U.K. and Ireland, where the Italian company has been selling its products directly recently. The agreement takes effect with orders for the spring/summer 2015 collections. Until a few years ago, ...
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Maier Sports has been given the prestigious Plus X...
Maier Sports has been given the prestigious Plus X Award, “the best product of the year 2014,” in the category of shoes and apparel for its Tamesi outdoor jacket. The PFC-free outdoor jacket from Maier won another Plus X Award in the category of high quality, design and functionality. Other ...
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Shortly before the football World Cup, a new team sports...
Shortly before the football World Cup, a new team sports brand is about to hit the German market. The new label is called Geco Sportswear, and it proposes an interesting value-for-money ratio. Retailers are not required to place pre-orders or to order a certain minimum quantity of merchandise. Instead, the ...
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Sundog Eyewear, the high-tech sunglasses brand, has introduced a new...
Sundog Eyewear, the high-tech sunglasses brand, has introduced a new range of TrueBlue glasses for golfers that is said to block ultraviolet rays while filtering harmful blue light, also known as “near UV.” Blue light creates veiled glare in the eye and leads to visual fatigue, sometimes artificially produced by ...
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Burton Snowboards has promoted Mike Rees to the role of...
Burton Snowboards has promoted Mike Rees to the role of chief executive. Rees joined the Vermont-based company in 2009 and was most recently the company's chief operating officer. With Rees now running day-to-day operations, Jake Burton will once again become the company's chairman. As chief executive, Rees will head up ...
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A former senior buyer and category manager at Sport Eybl...
A former senior buyer and category manager at Sport Eybl & Sports Experts, Wolfgang Gaffal, has launched his own retail business. Since early May he has been operating an 80-square-meter outlet in Linz, Austria. It called Wolf-Sport and is exclusively dedicated to sports shoes. The concept is low-budget and offers ...
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Sportringen, the Swedish voluntary sporting goods chain, is in a...
Sportringen, the Swedish voluntary sporting goods chain, is in a growth phase. Since January, seven stores have joined it and there are more deals in the works. One store planned to open this fall will be located in the Norwegian ski resort town of Trysil, near the border with Sweden. ...
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Charlotte Kalla, two-time Olympic champion and one of the strongest...
Charlotte Kalla, two-time Olympic champion and one of the strongest athletes in cross-country skiing, has joined the One Way World Cup racing team. The partnership with the Finnish Nordic sports brand will continue for four years until the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. A Swedish national, 27-year-old ...
