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Puma has appointed JWT as its lead creative agency. The...
Puma has appointed JWT as its lead creative agency. The sports company had been with the agency Droga5 since 2008 but the two split earlier this year. With immediate effect, JWT will assume a leadership position over all of Puma's advertising and creative activities on a global basis. The Puma ...
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Tecnica Group and Altana have signed a five-year licensing agreement...
Tecnica Group and Altana have signed a five-year licensing agreement for the baby, kids and junior clothing lines branded Moon Boot. Altana will be in charge of the design, production and marketing of these ranges. For Tecnica, the move is part of its brand-extension strategy named “Moonbotizing the world,” revolving ...
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Widening its base of debt investors to Central Europe, Amer...
Widening its base of debt investors to Central Europe, Amer Sports has signed a “Schuldschein” worth a total of around €70 million. For Amer, this typically German certificate of indebtedness is made up of a bundle of loans in euros and U.S. dollars with a maturity of five years that ...
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Amer Sports has extended the number of employees benefitting from...
Amer Sports has extended the number of employees benefitting from its Performance Share Plan from about 80 to 200 for the 2013-15 period. The amount of net rewards to be paid on the basis of the plan has been raised from a maximum total of 1.2 million shares to 1.4 ...
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Kanye West, a well-known American rapper, has signed an endorsement...
Kanye West, a well-known American rapper, has signed an endorsement deal with Adidas. According to The New York Post, it is worth $10 million plus royalties. He had been previously sponsored by Nike.
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The Lafuma Group announced today that Calida Holding has carried...
The Lafuma Group announced today that Calida Holding has carried out its planned acquisition of 2.5 million new shares in the company at a price opf €14 per share, for a total investment of €35 million. It thus holds now 50.65 percent of Lafuma's equity and voting shares. In a ...
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Dorel Industries has announced the departure of Robert P. Baird,...
Dorel Industries has announced the departure of Robert P. Baird, group president and chief executive of the company's Recreational/Leisure segment. Peter Woods, the segment's chief financial officer, has been named interim president until a new president is found. Both changes are effective immediately. The Recreational/Leisure segment of the Montreal-based group ...
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Messe München has publicly announced its plans to start a...
Messe München has publicly announced its plans to start a summer trade show in China in 2015, in response to demands by participants from the sporting goods industry in its ten-year-old Ispo Beijing show and in last June's Ispo Academy in Shanghai, where almost 250 industry representatives were on hand ...
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Puma has announced a longterm endorsement deal for its football...
Puma has announced a longterm endorsement deal for its football boots with Mario Balotelli, an iconic Italian striker who moved from the Manchester City team to the Italian AC Milan club last January. He was previously wearing Nike boots. Unconfirmed reports indicate that Puma won a contest for the deal ...
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Schöffel is launching a line of ski and outdoor apparel...
Schöffel is launching a line of ski and outdoor apparel for children aged 8 to 14 for the autumn/winter 2014/15 season. Reportedly, the German company has been suffering flat sales, in spite of a big advertising campaign in the past year, but the orders that it has collected for the ...
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Eva-Lotta Sjöstedt has been appointed as the new chief executive...
Eva-Lotta Sjöstedt has been appointed as the new chief executive of Karstadt, the German chain of 83 department stores, starting from Feb. 24. The 47-year-old Swedish official will take the place of Andrew Jennings, a native of the U.K. She comes from Ikea, where she acted lately as deputy global ...
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The Schmidt Group has appointed a new manager for Chiemsee...
The Schmidt Group has appointed a new manager for Chiemsee in charge of sales, product and marketing, Michael Doerell. He comes from Mexx, where he acted lately as wholesale country manager in Germany.
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L Capital Asia Investment, a private equity fund sponsored by...
L Capital Asia Investment, a private equity fund sponsored by LVMH, has agreed to acquire a 40 percent stake in 2XU, an Australian brand of compression garments for triathletes, cyclists and runners, for 75 million Australian dollars (€49.0m-$66.9m). The acquisition will cut the combined shareholdings of the eight-year-old company's founders ...
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Pentland Brands has chosen Asos as the exclusive retailer of...
Pentland Brands has chosen Asos as the exclusive retailer of its Ellesse brand in the U.K. The British online retailer is thus joining other exclusive partners such as Cisalfa in Italy, Go Sport in France, Primo in Belgium or Perry Sport in the Netherlands.
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Zoggs, the Australian brand of swim goggles and swimwear, has...
Zoggs, the Australian brand of swim goggles and swimwear, has signed a two-year agreement with Entertainment One to produce the Peppa Pig learn-to-swim range. Zoggs' new product line will be co-branded with the license giant. Available from January 2014, the range will comprise a selection of essential learn-to-swim products featuring ...
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Bain Capital has taken over control of Canada Goods at...
Bain Capital has taken over control of Canada Goods at undisclosed conditions. Dani Reiss, the chief executive of the Canadian company, will retain a significant minority stake. Bain is the private equity firm that bought Jack Wolfskin from Johnson Outdoors in 2002 for €42 million and sold it for €93 ...
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Keller Sports, an online retailer based in Munich, is reportedly...
Keller Sports, an online retailer based in Munich, is reportedly coming out with a dedicated transactional website for the Swiss market. Its German online store already has pages in English, French, Dutch and Spanish. According to a report, the company has customers in 30 countries.
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Fros International has become the distributor of Reima, the Finnish...
Fros International has become the distributor of Reima, the Finnish brand of children's sports apparel, in the Benelux countries. Meanwhile, a sister company of Fros, Brandfusion Holland, is dropping the distribution of Quick sports shoes and sneakers in the Netherlands by mutual agreement with the owner of the brand, Ferrini, ...
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Burton, which has been distributing its products directly in Switzerland...
Burton, which has been distributing its products directly in Switzerland since the summer of 2012, has appointed Dani Bühler as sales manager for the country, starting Feb. 1. He worked with a previous Swiss distributor for the brand, E-motion. Reporting directly to Andreas Rauter, sales director of Burton Europe, Bühler ...
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Strong sales of snow-sports equipment by Blue Tomato in Europe...
Strong sales of snow-sports equipment by Blue Tomato in Europe contributed to a 1.5 percent increase in comparable store sales at Zumiez in the third quarter ended Nov. 2, coming on top of a 3.7 percent increase during the same quarter a year ago. A further 1.7 percent increase was ...
