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After only six months in his new function as joint...
After only six months in his new function as joint managing director of Sport 2000 Germany, a subsidiary of ANWR, Daniel Hermann is leaving the company for personal reasons. ANWR says the move was due to recent developments in his personal environment and had no connection with his tasks or ...
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After Nike sold Umbro to Iconix in October last year,...
After Nike sold Umbro to Iconix in October last year, Kiefer Sport cancelled the license agreement with effect from next November even though it was supposed to continue until the end of 2014. Kiefer Sport has distributed the brand in Germany since June 2008. Officially, Kiefer Sport has the distribution ...
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Li-Ning has suspended its sponsorship of Asafa Powell after the...
Li-Ning has suspended its sponsorship of Asafa Powell after the Jamaican sprinter was formally placed under criminal investigation in Italy for possibly violating doping laws earlier this month. Italian police confiscated unidentified substances in a raid on the hotel where Asafa Powell, Jamaican teammate Sherone Simpson and their Canadian physical ...
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Hummel was once again official sponsor of the Roskilde festival...
Hummel was once again official sponsor of the Roskilde festival held in Copenhagen from June 29 to July 7. The brand launched a special Roskilde festival shoe for the occasion, limited to 12 pairs of shoes sold in each of the 20 participating stores in the country. By buying the ...
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The Swiss renting agency Rent A Bike and the Swiss...
The Swiss renting agency Rent A Bike and the Swiss Intersport, whose equipment rental operations specialize in winter sports equipment, have signed a long-time cooperation for bike rentals in Switzerland, starting with the spring of 2014. Rent A Bike and Intersport will develop a network of rental stations together via ...
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Puma has signed a multi-year agreement with the ESPN Wide...
Puma has signed a multi-year agreement with the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida to become the official soccer equipment sponsor of Disney Soccer, a series of tournaments for players from around the world that takes place each year at the complex. As part of this collaboration, ...
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Boa Technology has appointed Alois Badegruber to run its sales,...
Boa Technology has appointed Alois Badegruber to run its sales, marketing and customer service operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, after several years of steady growth in the region. The Austrian manager started off at W.L. Gore Associates and worked for eight years at Salomon, where he was ...
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Icebug has appointed Evan Wert as North American director of...
Icebug has appointed Evan Wert as North American director of sales and marketing, for both Icebug Footwear and ArchFlex Insoles. Wert joins Icebug at a crucial time for the company as it is restructuring its North American operations and beginning the distribution there of its proprietary traction footwear and ArchFlex ...
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Fletcher Leisure has appointed its first country manager in Europe...
Fletcher Leisure has appointed its first country manager in Europe outside the U.K. to market its Sunice line of outerwear and its Tommy Hilfiger and AUR collections of golf clothing. Ingo Neufink will be responsible for sales of the Canadian company's products in Germany, reporting to Jon Camp, managing director ...
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Icebreaker has appointed Rob Fyfe as its new executive chairman...
Icebreaker has appointed Rob Fyfe as its new executive chairman to replace Noel Todd, who is stepping down after 18 years. Fyfe will assume the new role at the outdoor clothing brand in September, after serving on the company's board for 12 months. Fyfe led Air New Zealand as chief ...
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Arc'teryx is opening in London its first stand-alone store in...
Arc'teryx is opening in London its first stand-alone store in Europe, in partnership with the British Snow+Rock chain. The new door will be located at the St Martin's Courtyard, in London's Covent Garden, a stylish shopping and dining destination, not far from the existing Snow+Rock's store in Mercer Street. The ...
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Claude Benoit is retiring as president of Asmas, the Swiss...
Claude Benoit is retiring as president of Asmas, the Swiss sporting goods retailers' association, which he entered in 1975 and led since 1977, starting off as secretary general. He will continue to act as a consultant to Asmas, and he will also continue to run Fedas, the European sporting goods ...
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Freddy has assigned Keen On Fashion as new distributor for...
Freddy has assigned Keen On Fashion as new distributor for Germany and Austria. Deliveries start from spring/summer 2014. Previously, the distribution of the Italian brand in these markets was handled by Media Systems. Keen On Fashion also distributes Tom Tailor and Just Cavalli in Germany and Austria.
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The global athletic shoe market is expected to rise at...
The global athletic shoe market is expected to rise at a compound annual average growth rate of 1.8 percent between 2011 and 2018, according to Transparency Market Research, reaching a level of $84.4 billion at retail at the end of the period. That is roughly twice the size of the ...
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Wintersteiger, the Austrian supplier of ski services and storing solutions...
Wintersteiger, the Austrian supplier of ski services and storing solutions and owner of the Boot Doc brand of insoles, has appointed Günter Kostrhon international sales director of its sports division. Before he joined Thalinger-Lange, the Austrian wholesale trader of bicycle- and sports-related products, Kostrhon worked for Intersport and Sport Service ...
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Diadora's parent company, LIR, has reportedly bought back the rights...
Diadora's parent company, LIR, has reportedly bought back the rights to the brand for China, Hong Kong and Macau for €9.2 million from Win Hanverky, a big Chinese apparel manufacturer that has also been a licensee of Umbro for many years. Without quoting the price of the transaction, a statement ...
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Diadora has signed a distribution contract with XPlus, based in...
Diadora has signed a distribution contract with XPlus, based in Munich, for the distribution of its heritage line in Germany starting with the spring/summer 2014 season. XPlus also sells three other shoe lines: Nobrand, Satori Sun and Cycleur de Luxe. In Switzerland, Diadora has engaged La Croisette, a sales agency, ...
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Première Vision, the big French textiles exhibition, has signed an...
Première Vision, the big French textiles exhibition, has signed an agreement for the acquisition of Eurovet's fashion fairs for lingerie and swimwear brands and fabrics. The agreement is dependent on all the required approvals being obtained. It covers the fashion manufacturing shows Fatex, Zoom by Fatex, Made in France, as ...
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Peak Sport Products, the Chinese sports brand, warned that its...
Peak Sport Products, the Chinese sports brand, warned that its profit for the first half of the year should “decrease considerably” compared with the same period last year, amid sluggish demand and the continuing inventory cleanup in the Chinese sports market. Peak Sport was one of the Chinese sports companies ...
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Tickets for next year's World Cup in Brazil should be...
Tickets for next year's World Cup in Brazil should be the cheapest ever sold in the competition's history, according to a statement by Fifa, the international governing body of football. Jérôme Valcke, Fifa's secretary general and the organization's No. 2, said that 70 percent of the tickets will be cheaper ...
