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Kaufhof Sportarena has launched its virtual store, offering a first...
Kaufhof Sportarena has launched its virtual store, offering a first selection of 1,300 sports items that should go up to 2,000 in due course. A link with social networks allows customers to share their impressions with friends. The chain, which belongs to Kaufhof, manages 13 Sportarena stores and four Wanderzeit ...
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SportScheck, Germany's largest sporting goods retailer, has opened its new...
SportScheck, Germany's largest sporting goods retailer, has opened its new high-tech flagship store in Munich on a net sales surface of 10,200 square meters. The store employs a staff of 250 people and offers some 30,000 different products under 530 brands, arranged by sports category and led by outdoor, running ...
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Skechers has launched a limited-edition range of glow-in-the-dark running shoes...
Skechers has launched a limited-edition range of glow-in-the-dark running shoes that use photoluminescent technology. The technology is applied to specific portions of the upper on the new Nite Owl shoes to produce a glow effect in darkness or low-light conditions, even with short exposure to any light source. The pigments ...
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NPD Group is taking over the retail sales tracking and...
NPD Group is taking over the retail sales tracking and consumer research business of Leisure Trends, an American market research firm that has been providing statistical data in the sports, outdoor and recreation industries. The combined operation will be based in Boulder, Colorado, collecting information from over 26,000 stores in ...
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Sergio Tacchini has a new head office in Milan, on...
Sergio Tacchini has a new head office in Milan, on Via Savona 97. It is located in a former industrial area that has been renovated, becoming one of the new landmarks in town for fashion and design. The brand moved its showroom from a lakeside town to Milan last July ...
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Prince has signed a license for socks and other hosiery...
Prince has signed a license for socks and other hosiery items with Interloop North America (ILNA), which is owned by an vertically-integrated Pakistani producer of socks by the same name that works for other athletic and lifestyle brands. The license covers the U.S., Canada, Europe, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. ILNA ...
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Polartec has launched a new synthetic insulation technology that should...
Polartec has launched a new synthetic insulation technology that should enable the development of what the company has described as the “first-ever breathable ‘puffy' garments.” The new technology, unlike down and existing synthetic insulation batting, features a highly stable layer allowing for more open and breathable fabrics to be used ...
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The store network of Intersport Russia underwent significant restructuring in...
The store network of Intersport Russia underwent significant restructuring in the nine-month period ended last Sept. 30, says Kesko. Sales and profitability remained at a good level for Intersport Finland and Budget Sport, with Intersport's revenues rising by 8.1 percent to €50 million in the quarter, but sales at Intersport ...
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Quiksilver reports the sale of its snowboard manufacturing operations to...
Quiksilver reports the sale of its snowboard manufacturing operations to Extreme Holdings for an undisclosed amount of cash, as part of a profit improvement plan announced last May. The operations consist of Mervin Manufacturing and its Gnu and Lib Tech brands. Extreme Holdings is described as a company “advised” by ...
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Sales of sports clothing fell by 1.1 percent in France...
Sales of sports clothing fell by 1.1 percent in France to €3.1 billion during the 12 months ended last June 30, according to NPD Group, with a particularly strong drop of 4.2 percent in the second quarter of 2013. Specialty sporting goods retailers saw their sales of these products decline ...
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Adidas has been selected for the 14th consecutive year to...
Adidas has been selected for the 14th consecutive year to be listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, which tracks the performance of globally operating companies in terms of sustainable business conduct, eco-friendliness and social responsibility. The Three Stripes was rated as industry leader in the category of textiles, apparel ...
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Mikhel Ruia, 24, started a transition period on Sept. 2...
Mikhel Ruia, 24, started a transition period on Sept. 2 as managing director designate of Glenmuir, the Scottish golf knitwear and clothing company taken over by the Indian Ruia Group in 2002. He will work for a while side by side with the current 66-year-old managing director, Colin Mee, who ...
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Nike was promoted on Sept. 20 to the Dow Jones...
Nike was promoted on Sept. 20 to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the star index of the New York stock exchange, along with Goldman Sachs and Visa. They take the place of Hewlett-Packard, Bank of America and Alcoa.
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Like in Italy in 2011, consumers bought more bicycles than...
Like in Italy in 2011, consumers bought more bicycles than cars in Spain in 2012 for the first time since statistics on bike sales started to be tracked. A total of 780,000 bikes and around 700,000 cars were sold in Spain last year. While bike sales rose by 4 percent ...
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Stanley Silverstein, who has worked for Warnaco for 29 years,...
Stanley Silverstein, who has worked for Warnaco for 29 years, driving its international expansion, has been named president of international development and global licensing at Perry Ellis International. He has already indicated that there are significant opportunities for expanding the presence of sports and lifestyle brands such as Original Penguin ...
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Tern has secured a US$4.3 million round of funding from...
Tern has secured a US$4.3 million round of funding from private investors. The two-year old company, which specializes in bicycles and accessories for urban transport, said that it will use the funding to accelerate global expansion and to increase investments in product development. The founder, Joshua Hon, and his mother, ...
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Sales of bicycles declined by 4 percent in France during...
Sales of bicycles declined by 4 percent in France during the first half of 2013, due to the weak economy and to bad weather. However, sales of electric and folding bicycles grew by 17 percent and 25 percent in terms of value. In contrast, mountain bikes were down by 3 ...
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Greenmaster, the Taiwanese manufacturer of fitness equipment, is about to...
Greenmaster, the Taiwanese manufacturer of fitness equipment, is about to introduce its Yowza Fitness brand in Europe. It will do so through its Germany-based subsidiary, Green Fitness. In return, Green Fitness will no longer distribute another fitness label, FitCrew. Yowza is already on the North American market and is successful ...
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Messe München will provide free wireless access to the internet...
Messe München will provide free wireless access to the internet with a bandwidth of 1.5 Mbit per second over the entire fairgrounds during the Ispo Munich show. However, it will not be able to guarantee the availability and quality of data transfer, which is naturally subject to data traffic, show ...
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DB Apparel has been accused of price fixing by the...
DB Apparel has been accused of price fixing by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), the British competition regulator, which has issued a “Statement of Objections” against its U.K. subsidiary, inviting the parties involved in the case to make their observations. The company, a maker of sports bras based in ...
