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Daniel Gottschall has been appointed as Head's new executive vice...
Daniel Gottschall has been appointed as Head's new executive vice president for sportswear. Recruited through Fusion Associates, Gottschall previously worked for Reebok International in various functions, most recently as global head of apparel excellence. Gottschall takes the place of Klaus Thurner, who has been running Head's sportswear division since the ...
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Asics will open a new boutique store at Harrods, London's...
Asics will open a new boutique store at Harrods, London's most famous luxury department store, on March 10. The store will be located on the fifth floor and set over 35 square meters. It will be the largest Asics concession in the U.K. to date and the fourth biggest outlet ...
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Fletcher Europe has hired Peter Bannington as regional manager for...
Fletcher Europe has hired Peter Bannington as regional manager for the Midlands of England and North Wales. He will be responsible for Tommy Hilfiger golf, Sunice and AUR brands. He has a 30-year career in the clothing industry moving into golf apparel in 1991. While with Abacus from 2010, Bannington ...
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Two major sports nutrition brands, Powerbar and Musashi, have been...
Two major sports nutrition brands, Powerbar and Musashi, have been sold by Nestlé to an American group, Post Holdings. Powerbar is better known in Europe than Musashi, which is mainly sold in Australia. Reportedly, the two brands of premium bars, powders and gels have been sold for twice their annual ...
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Oxylane, the French group behind Décathlon, is calling on sports-minded...
Oxylane, the French group behind Décathlon, is calling on sports-minded people around the world to participate in a collaborative design program called Open Oxylane. They are invited to register on a dedicated website, openoxylane.com, by April 1. Operating in English, Open Oxylane is intended to form an international community of ...
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Ispo Beijing continues to grow fast. Industry professionals spent a...
Ispo Beijing continues to grow fast. Industry professionals spent a total of nearly 30,000 days at the fair, 8 percent more than a year ago. Focusing on outdoor, action sports, ski and sports fashion, 637 brands exhibited at the show, up from 567 in 2013. The newcomers included big players ...
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Poc Sweden has established a partnership with Ritte Bicycles to...
Poc Sweden has established a partnership with Ritte Bicycles to provide apparel, helmets and eyewear to the California-based road racing team. The initiative will be known as the POC + Ritte Cycling Team and will compete at the amateur level in the western U.S. The team is made up of ...
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Customers and employees of the Hohenstein Institute in Bönnigheim voted...
Customers and employees of the Hohenstein Institute in Bönnigheim voted in a competition to decide on the name for a new sweating thermal articulated manikin. The latest piece of test equipment in the Clothing Physiology department will now be called “Sherlock.” The manikin is the latest in a large family ...
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Cato Fernández is retiring as Spanish country manager of Hi-Tec...
Cato Fernández is retiring as Spanish country manager of Hi-Tec Sports. His position will be taken on by his son Roberto, who has already worked with him for a while. Fernández opened the Spanish market for Hi-Tec back in the 1960s, earning a high reputation within the company and among ...
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Puma collaborated with the U.S. designer Sophie Chang for the...
Puma collaborated with the U.S. designer Sophie Chang for the design and development of its new autumn/winter 2013-14 collection, presented for the first time in Berlin in January this year. Puma also worked with the French fashion label Brooklyn We Go Hard, BWGH, in the development of a premium collection ...
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Last month's Outdoor Retailer Winter Market in Salt Lake City...
Last month's Outdoor Retailer Winter Market in Salt Lake City received about 7 percent more visitors than a year ago, according to preliminary figures, including 4 percent more buyers. They represented nearly 11 percent more stores than in January 2012. Attendance from the outside the U.S. grew by 14 percent. ...
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Despite tough competition in Scandinavia and unfavorable weather at the...
Despite tough competition in Scandinavia and unfavorable weather at the end of the year, the Fenix Outdoor Group lifted its turnover by 8 percent to 1,865.7 million Swedish kronor (€209.4m-$286.3m) last year. Sales of the group's brands, led by Fjällräven, jumped by 11 percent to SEK 1,264.4 million (€141.9m-$194.0m) for the ...
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GoPro, which has confirmed its wish to go public, has...
GoPro, which has confirmed its wish to go public, has hired Filip Good for the new position of European marketing manager. He worked previously for Red Bull as country manager in Ireland and sports marketing manager in the U.K.
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Following a decision by the district court in Gothenburg, Sweden,...
Following a decision by the district court in Gothenburg, Sweden, Team Sportia's reorganization process is now complete, which means that the company can continue its operations. In a press release, the company's chief executive, Anders Edvardsson, indicated that the reorganization was made possible in part by the organizational changes that ...
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Sportrade, an e-commerce platform for trading in new and used...
Sportrade, an e-commerce platform for trading in new and used sports products among vendors, retailers and consumers based in Berlin, filed for insolvency last Feb. 6 in the Charlottenburg district court. Björn Gehde has been appointed by the court as receiver, but the business is said to be running as ...
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Following intense lobbying by the Federation of the European Sporting...
Following intense lobbying by the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi) and other trade organizations, the European Parliament has voted to let customs authorities in the member countries of the European Union stop imported products to verify whether they are counterfeits even if they are marked as goods ...
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The Red Fox group started its retail expansion outside Russia...
The Red Fox group started its retail expansion outside Russia and the other CIS countries with the opening last week of a corporate mono-brand store in the Swiss mountain resort of Pontresina. Another one is scheduled for May at Lyons, Colorado. A Red Fox store that was going to be ...
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Intersport France said that operations at its factory in Machecoul,...
Intersport France said that operations at its factory in Machecoul, in the French region of Loire-Atlantique, are progressing steadily, reaching higher levels of production than initially planned. In March 2013, Intersport took over a French factory there, formerly owned by Cycleurope, which was placed in liquidation, to assemble about 200,000 ...
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The OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen will shift from Thursday-Sunday to...
The OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen will shift from Thursday-Sunday to a Wednesday-Saturday schedule, starting in 2015, reflecting the growing professionalism of the industry and in tune with similar changes at other trade shows. While it will still start on Thursday, July 10, this year, it will start on Wednesday, July ...
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Newton Running has hired Mike Nesladek as vice president of...
Newton Running has hired Mike Nesladek as vice president of marketing. He joins the American running shoe company from Anheuser-Busch InBev, where he spent over six years working on brand development and integrated marketing strategies including digital, social and traditional media. During his tenure at Anheuser-Busch, he served as a ...
