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Hervis Sports, the price-driven Austrian retail chain, reports a sales...
Hervis Sports, the price-driven Austrian retail chain, reports a sales decline of 3.4 percent to €424 million before VAT for the financial year ended on Dec. 31. The company had already suffered a 2 percent drop in the previous year. In 2013, there was an increase in Hungary and Romania, ...
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Head has launched a new tender offer to buy back...
Head has launched a new tender offer to buy back its shares, but this time it's not conditional on the number of shares tendered, and the company is offering to pay only €1.60 a share instead of the previously offered price of €1.90. According to Head, shareholders who own more ...
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Stadium, the Scandinavian sporting goods retailer based in Sweden, has...
Stadium, the Scandinavian sporting goods retailer based in Sweden, has closed three of its stores in Denmark, where it has reported a decrease in sales of just over one million Swedish kronor, down to SEK 63 million (€7.07m-$9.73m) for the financial year ended last Aug. 31. Profits before tax remained roughly ...
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Lunettes Grasset has presented its first line of eyewear based...
Lunettes Grasset has presented its first line of eyewear based on a global partnership with Skis Lacroix, a French brand of high-end skis named after a famous former French ski champion, Léo Lacroix. The line features eight styles of sunglasses and four styles of prescription frames made with magnesium, titanium ...
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Restating some of its previously released preliminary figures, Basicnet reported...
Restating some of its previously released preliminary figures, Basicnet reported a net profit of €4.5 million for the 2013 financial year. The pre-tax profit grew more than fourfold to €8.4 millin from €1.8 million in 2012. Operating earnings before amortization (Ebitda) jumped by 87.5 percent to €22.8 million. After amortization ...
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Intersport Sverige has become a sponsor of the Swedish Ice...
Intersport Sverige has become a sponsor of the Swedish Ice Hockey Association, saying that the aim of the cooperation is to make it easier for parents to find the right equipment at the right prices for their children. The sports federation already has a close collaboration with Reebok CCM Hockey. ...
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Women have been nominated for the first time to represent...
Women have been nominated for the first time to represent shareholders on the supervisory board of the Adidas Group. They are Katja Kraus, 43, and Katherin Menges, 49 – and they are set to take the places of Christian Tourres and Alexander Popov. Kraus is a former player in the ...
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Shock Doctor Sports, best known for its mouth guards, has...
Shock Doctor Sports, best known for its mouth guards, has been acquired by Bregal Partners, a middle-market New York-based private equity firm, for an undisclosed amount. Shock Doctor had been owned since 2008 by Norwest Equity Partners, an investment firm based in Minneapolis. Bregal's portfolio of investments focuses on consumer ...
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Vietnam is extending to footwear its “Better Work Vietnam” initiative...
Vietnam is extending to footwear its “Better Work Vietnam” initiative to improve the country's industrial performance by 2019. The program is intended to better align private sector expectations with the country's legislation and with international labor standards. Started in 2009, the program has already impacted 200 garment factories employing nearly ...
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Xti, a big and fast-growing Spanish supplier of casual shoes...
Xti, a big and fast-growing Spanish supplier of casual shoes made in Asia, is launching a line of sports fashion sneakers for men, women and children, addressing sporting goods retailers with a range of 150 SKUs in the low-medium price segment. The project is led by a Spanish sales rep, ...
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Iconix Brand Group has promoted Seth Horowitz to the position...
Iconix Brand Group has promoted Seth Horowitz to the position of chief operating officer and hired Jeff Lupinacci as chief financial officer and Rodney Hutton as executive vice president of the men's division. As the former president of Iconix' men's division, Horwitz led the reorganization of Umbro based on the ...
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Sergio Tacchini is launching a new marketing campaign in cooperation...
Sergio Tacchini is launching a new marketing campaign in cooperation with the Sunny Milano agency. One of the visuals features the tennisman Tommy Robredo jumping in the area and the script “Dress the Passion.” The other visual, with the script “Dress the Italian Style,” show a couple of youngsters riding ...
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Carl Zeiss Vision Sunlens has launched a special polycarbonate lens...
Carl Zeiss Vision Sunlens has launched a special polycarbonate lens for ski goggles engineered to soften the shock of passing from bright sun on snow to zones of shadow. The lens consequently improves vision in the shadow. The same technology is adapted to sunglasses used for driving. The company is ...
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Foot on Mars, the new Spanish chain of franchised sports...
Foot on Mars, the new Spanish chain of franchised sports fashion stores of Twinner Iberia, has opened its own pages on Facebook and Instagram and launched a blog. It is accompanying the opening of the first two stores in Lugo and Santiago de Compostela in the past few weeks and ...
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Urs Michael Müller has resigned as chief executive of Intersport...
Urs Michael Müller has resigned as chief executive of Intersport PSC, the Swiss licensee of Intersport International, after five years in the post. He has been replaced by the chief financial officer, Patrick Bundell. Officially, Müller is leaving of his own accord. Nicholas Berry, the British investor who controls Intersport ...
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Reed Exhibitions is launching a Chinese version of Fibo, its...
Reed Exhibitions is launching a Chinese version of Fibo, its successful fitness show in Cologne. The new Fibo China fair will take place in Shanghai next Sept. 10-12, with the goal of acting as a platform for the whole Asian continent. The third day of the show will be open ...
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Puma has closed its last remaining full-price store in Scandinavia,...
Puma has closed its last remaining full-price store in Scandinavia, located on the Hamngatan in Stockholm. It is retaining a factory outlet in Denmark. The brand has already shut down 73 of the 91 single-brand stores that it had selected for elimination. The others should follow over the balance of ...
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Reebok is partening with Club Med Gym, which has the...
Reebok is partening with Club Med Gym, which has the largest network of fitness clubs in Paris. Starting in April, Club Med Gym will be renamed CMG Sports Club and its 22 trainers will start dressing in Reebok. The brand and Club Med Gym are currently in the process of ...
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Experts from several companies that are members of the European...
Experts from several companies that are members of the European Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi), joined experienced investigators and enforcement officers from across the 28 member countries of the European Union, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), the World Customs Organization (WCO) and Brazil's National Council on Combating ...
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A group of companies involved in pádel, the Spanish-Argentinian racquet...
A group of companies involved in pádel, the Spanish-Argentinian racquet sport known also as paddle tennis, has set up an international association of manufacturers of the related products. Its foundation took place in the framework of the first edition of the Pádel Pro Show in Madrid, which coincided with the ...
