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Anthony Cazottes has been recruited by PPR, alias Kering, to...
Anthony Cazottes has been recruited by PPR, alias Kering, to act as sales director of Electric for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He was most recently the sales director of Oxbow, the French surf brand. He has worked for 15 years in the action sports industry, first at Quiksilver ...
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Favorable exchange rates allowed Giant Manufacturing to raise its sales...
Favorable exchange rates allowed Giant Manufacturing to raise its sales by 3.5 percent to 13.24 billion Taiwanese dollars (€345m-$448m), and they pushed up its net income by 32.7 percent to TWD886 million (€23m-$30m). U.S. sales were negatively affected by unfavorable weather conditions. European sales were flat due to abnormal weather ...
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The number of visits to North American ski resorts reached...
The number of visits to North American ski resorts reached a 30-year record of 56.6 million in the past autumn/winter season. In the U.S., snow sports retailers saw their sales go up by 3 percent to $3.4 billion for the season, and while equipment was flat, apparel was up by ...
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Bestseller, the Danish group that owns J. Lindeberg, Jack &...
Bestseller, the Danish group that owns J. Lindeberg, Jack & Jones, Selected, Vero Moda and other brands, will have a huge stand of 6,000 square meters at the next Bread & Butter show, taking place in Berlin on July 2-4. Observers are wondering whether the organizers of the young fashion ...
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Pontetorto has announced that its factory in Prato, in Tuscany,...
Pontetorto has announced that its factory in Prato, in Tuscany, is now generating all the energy it needs from solar panels and is operating independently of the public electricity network. The Italian maker of activewear fabrics has set up a network of 7,000 solar cells covering an area of 10,000 ...
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Ecco has appointed Buffalo Communications as its lead global PR...
Ecco has appointed Buffalo Communications as its lead global PR agency for its Ecco Sport line to raise international awareness of the brand and its market share in the areas of outdoor and running shoes. Based in Washington, D.C., Buffalo has already helped Ecco to grow for more than ten ...
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Arena has decided to introduce a new generation of Powerski...
Arena has decided to introduce a new generation of Powerski Carbon-Pro swimsuits following a request last February by Fina, the international authority for water sports, to comply with its regulations for racing models used in its competitions. The Italian company says it launched a new series of quality control checks ...
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The Norwegian Design Council has given an Award for Design...
The Norwegian Design Council has given an Award for Design Excellence to Helly Hansen for its innovative H²Flow mid-layer jacket, whose ventilation system keeps body temperature constant. The system, which is about to be patented, will be used in other parts of Helly Hansen's collection for the next autumn/winter season.
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Three banks have been reported, in the last few days,...
Three banks have been reported, in the last few days, as shareholders with more than 5 percent of the Adidas Group, a threshold that requires publication under German stock market rules. Two of the holdings were reported by the company as having risen above 5 percent on Monday: Commerzbank increased ...
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Rob Barker has been promoted to the position of president...
Rob Barker has been promoted to the position of president of Amer Sports' Fitness business, with effect from June 1. As a member of the group's executive board, he will directly report to the president and chief executive, Heikki Takala. Barker will take the place of Paul Byrne, who will ...
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Nautilus benefited from improved consumer credit conditions in the U.S....
Nautilus benefited from improved consumer credit conditions in the U.S. in the first quarter, as its consumer-direct operations recorded a 26 percent hike in sales to $42.4 million and a 122 percent jump in operating income to $6.7 million, thanks also to strong demand for its cardio products, led by ...
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Forum Sport, a big Spanish sporting goods retail chain with...
Forum Sport, a big Spanish sporting goods retail chain with a strong position in the Basque region, has decided to join Sports Trade Marketing International (STMI) as a member of Twinner International. STMI is the European purchasing group created last year by the French-based Groupe Go Sport and Hervis Sport, ...
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The U.K. Trade and Investment department (UKTI) of the British...
The U.K. Trade and Investment department (UKTI) of the British government has decided to almost double the amount of funding available to British trade associations for the participation of U.K. exporters in international trade shows during the 2013/14 and 2014/15 financial years. Acting through the Federation of Sports and Play ...
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Brunswick Corp., parent company of Life Fitness, plans to sell...
Brunswick Corp., parent company of Life Fitness, plans to sell $150 million worth of senior notes, due in 2021, in a private placement with qualified institutional buyers. The net proceeds of the offering and cash on hand would be used to finance the redemption of all of the company's senior ...
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Retail News is reporting that Lululemon, the fast-growing Canadian yoga...
Retail News is reporting that Lululemon, the fast-growing Canadian yoga and sports apparel brand, is preparing to move into the Dutch market. The specialized Dutch newspaper was told by Jessica Edwards, international community manager at Lululemon, that the company intended to open its first store in Amsterdam before the end ...
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Lenzing, a major supplier of rayon and other cellulosic fabrics...
Lenzing, a major supplier of rayon and other cellulosic fabrics to the sportswear sector, suffered a 6.0 percent decline in total sales to €496.5 million in the first quarter although sales volumes for its fibers were 13 percent higher than a year ago. The Austrian company generated nevertheless a better-than-expected ...
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Dynafit is establishing a research and development center in Åre,...
Dynafit is establishing a research and development center in Åre, Sweden called the Dynafit Development Centre Åre. Dynafit will share offices in the Alpine National Arena with Åre's National Winter Sports Center, which provides access to cutting-edge research opportunities and the possibility to test products right on the slopes. Fredrik ...
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Peak Performance, which went through wide-ranging management changes last year,...
Peak Performance, which went through wide-ranging management changes last year, saw its sales drop by 6 percent to 267.5 million Danish kroner (€35.9m-$46.3m) for the three months until the end of March. This is the third quarter in the fiscal year of IC Companys, the Danish company that owns the ...
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The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), a non-profit organization that...
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), a non-profit organization that draws together over 90,000 Indian companies from more than 250 national and regional sectorial associations, has taken over the Asia Golf Industry Show, whose 6th edition will be held in New Delhi next Sept. 20-22. It aims to grow the ...
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Columbia Sportswear has hired Shawn Cox as senior vice president...
Columbia Sportswear has hired Shawn Cox as senior vice president of retail to oversee the development of Columbia's brick-and-mlortar and e-commerce operations in Europe, the U.S. and Canada. Cox has been working in Amsterdam since 2009 for Mexx, the international Dutch-based fashion group controlled by Liz Claiborne between 2001 and ...
