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There has been some agitation in Billabong International's stock quotation...
There has been some agitation in Billabong International's stock quotation in the past few days, which rose to a high of 65 Australian pennies earlier today. It was probably linked to an investment by Coastal Capital International, which now has 5 percent of the voting shares. Meanwhile, Paul Naude, the ...
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Columbia Sportswear has announced an agreement with Chogori India Retail...
Columbia Sportswear has announced an agreement with Chogori India Retail to be its exclusive distributor in India, effective immediately. Founded by Hernant Sachdev, who climbed to the summit of Mount Everest in May 2013, Chogori distributes other outdoor brands such as Béal, Black Diamond, Scarpa, Cascade Designs, Julbo and Thorlo. ...
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Alpen, which remains the largest sporting goods retailer in Japan,...
Alpen, which remains the largest sporting goods retailer in Japan, reported an annual net profit of ¥6.63 billion yen (€51.7m-$68.9m) for the 12 months ended last June 30, up from ¥5.26 billion in the previous fiscal year. Sales increased by 4 percent to ¥203.7 billion (€1,587.4m-$2,117.8m), and they generate 5 percent ...
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Skins has announced its official partnership with Anna Tunnicliffe, the...
Skins has announced its official partnership with Anna Tunnicliffe, the two-time Olympian and leading CrossFit athlete. Tunnicliffe, 30, who was born in England but moved to the U.S. when she was 12, began her career in sailing and later expanded her athletic activities to other disciplines. At the 2008 Olympic ...
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Dakine has announced that François Carrete has stepped down as...
Dakine has announced that François Carrete has stepped down as president, following the completion of the sale of the company to Altamont Capital Partners on July 23. Carrete had been president for the past 18 months. Leslie Lane will assume the role of chairman and chief executive. Lane has served ...
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Kelme has announced the appointment of a new Indian partner,...
Kelme has announced the appointment of a new Indian partner, Shivas Group, that will take over the distribution of the Spanish brand in India from Global Overseas. The latter had already started working with Shivas, a retail management company specializing in running networks of franchised single-brand stores for many international ...
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Toni Sailer, the brand of snow sports apparel, has appointed...
Toni Sailer, the brand of snow sports apparel, has appointed a new marketing director replacing Markus Schneider who left the company. He has been replaced by Andreas Lehnig, who previously worked for Gabor, a German marketer of footwear, where he was in charge of new media and market research.
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Nike is making a new application available widely to designers...
Nike is making a new application available widely to designers to help them choose the most environmentally friendly fabrics. Called Making, the new app is based on the Nike Materials Sustainability Index, a database that the Swoosh has developed over the past seven years, rating materials from 0 to 50.
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Asics has appointed Stefan Heinrich to the newly created role...
Asics has appointed Stefan Heinrich to the newly created role of head of emerging markets, effective Aug. 1, following the athletic equipment company's creation of a new region covering emerging markets. Heinrich is currently general manager at Asics Austria, where he is responsible for Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia ...
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K-Swiss has appointed Eric Sarin as its new vice president...
K-Swiss has appointed Eric Sarin as its new vice president of product, reporting directly to Barney Waters, K-Swiss' chief marketing officer. Sarin will oversee all aspects of the brand's product design, development and strategy globally and will be based in Westlake Village, California. He brings to K-Swiss 17 years of ...
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Marian Homburger has been appointed European marketing coordinator of Line...
Marian Homburger has been appointed European marketing coordinator of Line Skis and Full Tilt, K2's specialty brands for freeride skis and boots, respectively. He has replaced Korbinian Resenberger. The 26-year-old will be in charge of all marketing activities and of sponsored athletes. Before joining K2 Europe in his new role, ...
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Gore-Tex presented the finding of its latest life-cycle assessment study,...
Gore-Tex presented the finding of its latest life-cycle assessment study, developed in cooperation with the Öko-Institute Freiburg, during the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen. In the first half of 2013, Gore-Tex expanded its LCA work to a representative functional outerwear jacket, Gore-Tex Windstopper branded apparel, in order to measure its environmental ...
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PrimaLoft has awarded a license to Mitsui Bussan Techno Products...
PrimaLoft has awarded a license to Mitsui Bussan Techno Products to design, develop and sell fabrics using its own technological yarns. Mitsui has already started the development process and plans to put them out in the autumn of 2014. Mitsui Bussan owns the Pertex brand since 2005.
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Following its recent change of ownership, Bailo has launched a...
Following its recent change of ownership, Bailo has launched a new logo, based on its Italian roots, and signed up a new testimonial, Armin Holzer, joining Benni Kofler. Holzer, an Italian freerider and a slackline and highline champion, was previously sponsored by Adidas Outdoor. He became famous in 2011 by ...
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X-Technology, the marketer of the X-Bionic brand of functional base...
X-Technology, the marketer of the X-Bionic brand of functional base layers and X-Socks, has opened its first single branded store in Germany. The shop is located in Hofstatt-Passage, a shopping mall in downtown Munich, and has a selling surface of 40 square meters. The store is operated by Tre Vertriebs ...
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Danny Feuerstein has launched a new high-performance line of base...
Danny Feuerstein has launched a new high-performance line of base layer garments, called Komafram, which use natural alpaca wool. He is the son of Aaron Feuerstein, founder of Malden Mills, parent company of Polartec. Based in Chicago, the new brand is supposed to blend functionality with comfort and style, in ...
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Ecco has been named the official footwear supplier to the...
Ecco has been named the official footwear supplier to the 2013 European Solheim Cup team. The Danish footwear brand will create special-edition shoes exclusively for the players and captains. For this edition of the women's golf tournament, the fourth during which Ecco has supported Team Europe, the company will also ...
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Coalision, the holding company behind brands such as Lolë and...
Coalision, the holding company behind brands such as Lolë and Paradox, has announced the sale of Orage, the Canadian ski outerwear brand, to Orage's co-founder, Eric D'Anjou, and a freeskier, Mike Nick. D'Anjou, the original founder of Orage in 1989, will act as Orage's president, overseeing product development, finance and operations. ...
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Bianca Galijee has returned to the Sports Business Center in...
Bianca Galijee has returned to the Sports Business Center in Leusden as project manager. She had started off at the Dutch trademart 12 years ago as office manager, but then she moved to Brandboxx Almere, a Dutch retail center for the fashion industry, where she acted as project manager. Galijee's ...
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K-Way is opening its first boutique in France. As of...
K-Way is opening its first boutique in France. As of the beginning of September, the brand, which already has a boutique in New York, will have a shop in rue de Charonne, near place de la Bastille, a young and trendy area of Paris. Originally founded in France, K-Way is ...
