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Finn Carlsen, who ran Sport 2000 International between 2001 and...
Finn Carlsen, who ran Sport 2000 International between 2001 and 2004, will gradually become the new owner of two leading European recruitment consultancies, International Sports Marketing (ISM) and Sports Brokers (SB), and he will run both of them. Carlsen, who is now 59 years old, had bought half of the ...
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Brekka, the 26-year-old Italian brand of headwear and other accessories,...
Brekka, the 26-year-old Italian brand of headwear and other accessories, has signed two new distribution agreements in Germany and Finland. The first one is Tradegroup, which already represents Volcom, Hurley and Sweet SKTBS in Germany. The Finnish distributor is a family-owned company founded 40 years ago, Scanman Oy, which represents ...
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Like a year ago, buyers from nearly 300 stores paid...
Like a year ago, buyers from nearly 300 stores paid a visit to Annecy Showroom Avant-Première, the early trade show organized by Sportair in Annecy for the autumn/winter 2014/15 season last Jan. 13 and 14. A total of 60 brands showed their collections, and ten of them were new exhibitors: ...
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Sports Direct International has resold a share of 4.6 percent...
Sports Direct International has resold a share of 4.6 percent that it had acquired in Debenhams, the big department store operation in the U.K. The British sporting goods and lifestyle retailer, which operates about 400 stores in the country and more and more in the rest of Europe, had bought ...
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In a preliminary statement, Go Sport reports a 5 percent...
In a preliminary statement, Go Sport reports a 5 percent decline in total revenues for 2013, down to €641.9 million. They fell by 4.6 percent on a comparable store basis across the French-based retail group, with a drop of 7.2 percent for the generalist Go Sport banner in France and ...
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Casey Sheahan is leaving next Feb. 7, as chief executive...
Casey Sheahan is leaving next Feb. 7, as chief executive and president of Patagonia, a role that he held since March 2006, to return to his family in Colorado. His positions are being taken over by Rose Macario, CEO of the parent company, Patagonia Works. Both have been working closely ...
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The North American subsidiary of Accell Group in Kent, Washington...
The North American subsidiary of Accell Group in Kent, Washington has integrated Seattle Bike Supply and Raleigh North America. The changes will raise the range of services that Accell North America will provide to independent bike dealers, including improved ease and efficiency in the processing of orders, stronger fill rates, ...
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Accell Group has decided to shelve the Bremshey brand and...
Accell Group has decided to shelve the Bremshey brand and to concentrate all its resources in the fitness sector on Tunturi. The company will launch a new range of fitness products at Ispo, positioned in three segments of the market. It will also launch a new slogan, “It's Easy to ...
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Sugoi Performance Apparel, a brand of Dorel Industries, has acquired...
Sugoi Performance Apparel, a brand of Dorel Industries, has acquired Sombrio, the mountain bike and lifestyle apparel brand with Freeride at its core. The purchase price was not disclosed. Sombrio was founded in 1998 by Dave Watson, an early pioneer of Vancouver's North Shore gravity-fueled Freeride movement. For Sugoi, the ...
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With the purpose of promoting snow sports activities among children,...
With the purpose of promoting snow sports activities among children, the International Ski Federation (FIS) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) and the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI). The agreement will focus on the FIS Bring Children ...
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The Adidas Group, which is targeting an annual turnover of...
The Adidas Group, which is targeting an annual turnover of €500 million in the outdoor sector, was ranked as the 8th most sustainable company in the world in an authoritative chart made public on Wednesday, Jan. 22, at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Compiled every year by Corporate Knights, ...
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Under Armour is taking the place of Adidas as official...
Under Armour is taking the place of Adidas as official supplier of footwear, apparel and equipment for the famous collegiate sports teams of the University of Notre Dame, in the U.S. state of Indiana. Adidas has been the sponsor of the university's athletic teams, nicknamed as the Fighting Irish, for ...
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Fila has announced a multi-year endorsement agreement with Sam Querrey,...
Fila has announced a multi-year endorsement agreement with Sam Querrey, the American tennis star and member of the U.S. Davis Cup Team. Querrey, 26, has been ranked in the Top 50 on the ATP World Tour for five of the past six years, reaching a career-high ranking at number 17 ...
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Wolsey has signed multi-year agreements with Robert Rock, Tom Lewis...
Wolsey has signed multi-year agreements with Robert Rock, Tom Lewis and James Heath to wear its recently re-launched historic Sports Line Sportsman Collection. The three British professional golfers will represent the clothing brand on the European Tour. Rock, 36, is a two-time European Tour winner. Tom Lewis, 23, made history ...
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Mizuno USA has renewed its long-standing commercial partnership with Alpargatas,...
Mizuno USA has renewed its long-standing commercial partnership with Alpargatas, the Brazilian distributor of performance footwear and clothing, until 2026. The 13-year agreement renewal, focusing on business growth in the Latin American region, retains Alpargatas as the sole licensing and distribution rights holder for Mizuno, with an option to renew ...
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Chris Parkhurst, who has been running MSR's alpine and snow...
Chris Parkhurst, who has been running MSR's alpine and snow tools division, has been promoted to vice president of MSR, with profit and loss responsibility and tasked with creating new product, marketing and sales strategy for the brand, which belongs to Cascade Designs. Parkhurst is said to have been instrumental ...
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Blake Mycoskie, the American social entrepreneur and author who funded...
Blake Mycoskie, the American social entrepreneur and author who funded Toms Shoes, is joining the B Team, the not-for-profit initiative of Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin, and Jochen Zeitz, the former chief executive of Puma International who initiated the environmental profit and loss accounting system adopted by Kering. The ...
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Two well-known former sports champions are among the investors in...
Two well-known former sports champions are among the investors in Hyperice, one of the start-ups that won the right to a free stand at this year's Ispo Munich show in the context of the Ispo Brandnew Awards. They are Bixente Lizarazu, the former French International team player and defender for ...
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Claudio Angaran has been named international sales and marketing manager...
Claudio Angaran has been named international sales and marketing manager of Garmont. The Italian executive has worked in the past 15 years for three other Italian outdoor firms: Trezeta, La Sportiva and Aku. Angaran takes the place of Gian Luca Farinazzo, who has left the company to work for Lowa. ...
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Outdoor Sports Valley (OSV), the association based in Annecy, France,...
Outdoor Sports Valley (OSV), the association based in Annecy, France, announces a new Bachelor's degree program for “International Sales Specialists in Sports” in collaboration with the Technical Institute of the Université de Savoie. Held in English and targeting students from all over the world, it will start next September, rounding ...
