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By next October at the latest, Chris Bigler is going...
By next October at the latest, Chris Bigler is going to quit the post of chief financial officer at IC Companys, the Danish-based parent company of Peak Performance and other brands. He started at the company in 2002 as finance director and was promoted to his current position in 2004. ...
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Michael A. Clarke has joined Quiksilver's board of directors, which...
Michael A. Clarke has joined Quiksilver's board of directors, which has been expanded for this purpose from eight to nine members. He acted as chief executive of Premier Foods in the U.K. from August 2011 until last February. Prior to that, among other positions, he worked at Reebok in the ...
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Jeff Bowman is taking the place of Brad Poorman as...
Jeff Bowman is taking the place of Brad Poorman as the new chief executive of Cocona, the U.S.-based developer of active particle technologies used in technical apparel, footwear and other products. Bowman was most recently chief operating officer and technical officer at Massif in Ashland, Oregon. Like Poorman and other ...
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GMS, a German buying group for shoe retailers formed nine...
GMS, a German buying group for shoe retailers formed nine years ago, has presented a new concept, SportXtreme, which addresses about 80 of its 1,000-odd retail members in Germany, Austria and the Benelux countries that carry some sports brands in the stores. It is also targeting sporting goods retailers specializing ...
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Canada Goose is on the lookout for new equity investors...
Canada Goose is on the lookout for new equity investors through a Canadian investment bank, Canaccord, says Reuters. The family-owned firm is apparently seeking new equity to support its strong growth, especially in the lifestyle segment of the market. For example, its sales in Germany have grown by 500 percent ...
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A Nike-backed waterless-dyeing company, DyeCoo Textile Systems, recently gained a...
A Nike-backed waterless-dyeing company, DyeCoo Textile Systems, recently gained a significant new investor in Ikea GreenTech, a venture capital division of the Swedish retailer. In February 2012, Nike announced that it would invest in DyeCoo Textile Systems, a Dutch company that developed the first commercially available waterless dyeing technology. DyeCoo's ...
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Oxbow is inviting consumers to discover the Waterman culture through...
Oxbow is inviting consumers to discover the Waterman culture through a contest giving them the right to follow the week-long exploits of three sponsored surfers on the Basque coast of France. The winner will take photos and videos of them, feeding contents into the social networks.
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Intersport continued its progress in Finland during the first three...
Intersport continued its progress in Finland during the first three months of 2013 with a 14.1 percent sales increase to €51 million, according to Kesko's quarterly income statement, as the number of stores increased to 62 as compared to 58 a year earlier. Sales fell instead by 23.6 percent to ...
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A.T. Cross continued to grow in the first quarter of...
A.T. Cross continued to grow in the first quarter of 2013, with sales up by 5.9 percent to $44.4 million compared with the first quarter of 2012. This was driven by a 9.1 percent increase to $23.8 million for its Cross Optical Group (COG), which runs the Costa and Native ...
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Speedo USA, now division of PVH Corp., has a new...
Speedo USA, now division of PVH Corp., has a new multi-year deal to be the exclusive swimwear licensee of Zumba Fitness. It will also launch an “Aqua Zumba by Speedo” collection in North America. The collection will include more than 20 unique pieces, from swimwear to aquatic accessories, footwear and ...
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Thomas Seifert is new German country manager of Polar Electro...
Thomas Seifert is new German country manager of Polar Electro Oy, taking the place of Dierk Feyerabend, who had led the subsidiary for 22 years, and of the interim manager, Lars Adloff, who has filled the position since last January. Seifert left Coleman a few months ago after four years ...
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Nike SB is going to replace DC Shoes as the...
Nike SB is going to replace DC Shoes as the sponsor of the Street League of Skateboarding (SLS) and of the SLS World Tour for the next few years. The competition, which involves the 20 best skateboarding professionals, will be renamed SLS Nike SB World Tour. It will feature a ...
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The trade show Prowinter, dedicated to ski rentals and related...
The trade show Prowinter, dedicated to ski rentals and related services, achieved a record of more than 6,000 attendees. This figure is for Prowinter alone, not including the visitors to Alpitec, the show for investors in ski resorts that ran simultaneously on the fairground of Fiera Bolzano/Messe Bozen. Altogether 234 ...
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Norway's Wenaas Sport og Fritid, a distributor of Diadora, Dunlop,...
Norway's Wenaas Sport og Fritid, a distributor of Diadora, Dunlop, Camelbak, Julbo and other sports brands, will take over the distribution of the football collection of Reusch in Sweden. The company already distributes the German brand's winter sports and football collections in Norway, and took on the distribution of its ...
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The German Federal Ministry responsible for families, elder people, women...
The German Federal Ministry responsible for families, elder people, women and young people has granted the so-called “Logib-D” award to Uvex, the manufacturer of sports helmets and goggles. The seal of quality is given by the ministry for successful efforts to create gender equality in salaries. Uvex accepted the ministry's ...
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The protracted winter weather in Europe and the U.S. did...
The protracted winter weather in Europe and the U.S. did not prevent Adidas Golf from reaching record sales of golf shoes in the first quarter of this year, with significant sales increases and higher market shares in the U.S., the U.K. and Japan, says TaylorMade-Adidas Golf, thanks largely to the ...
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The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi) has...
The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi) has been assured that ski boots will be included in the talks on a free trade agreement between Japan and the European Union (EU), which had a positive first round in Brussels in mid-April. Fesi officials will discuss the timeline and ...
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João Havelange, the former president of Fifa, has resigned as...
João Havelange, the former president of Fifa, has resigned as honorary president of football's global organization amid accusations of bribery relating to ISL, the agency that formerly handled marketing and broadcasting rights for Fifa. The departure of the 96-year-old Brazilian last month is mentioned in a report compiled by the two-chamber ...
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Head has set up a partnership with a German sports...
Head has set up a partnership with a German sports injury clinic, Arcus of Pforzheim. Members of Team Head in Germany can arrange individual appointments for preventive medical checkups at the clinic and, in case of injury, they can see specialists. An annual checkup is also included in the partnership ...
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Michael Spillane, who ran Umbro International prior to its recent...
Michael Spillane, who ran Umbro International prior to its recent divestiture by Nike as the company's president and chief executive, is going to be Nike's new president and general manager of the Greater China region. Starting on June 1, he will replace Craig Cheek, a 23-year veteran of the Swoosh, ...
