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This month Polar issued a limited-edition sports watch with an...
This month Polar issued a limited-edition sports watch with an integrated GPS and various new functions to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Tour de France. Featuring a bracelet whose color is inspired by the famous yellow jersey of the race, the RC3 Tour de France provides data on speed, ...
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Wintersteiger, the large manufacturer of ski service solutions and other...
Wintersteiger, the large manufacturer of ski service solutions and other machinery, has appointed Christian Rauscher to the executive board in charge of production and technology. The 45-year-old has served various companies in the transportation and machinery industries such as Liebherr, Magma Steyr, HTP Automotive and KTM motorcycles. Rauscher completes the executive top ...
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With a special tee-shirt launched in the wake of the...
With a special tee-shirt launched in the wake of the deadly bomb attacks at the Boston Marathon last month, the Adidas Group has raised more than $1 million to support the victims of the blasts and their families. The tee-shirt, proclaiming that “Boston stands as one,” is sold in the ...
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Foot Locker had 590 stores in Europe last Feb. 2,...
Foot Locker had 590 stores in Europe last Feb. 2, at the end of its latest financial year, or 5.2 percent more than a year earlier. Globally, its total door count under various banners went up by just 1 percent to 3,335 units. It had 42 franchised stores, half of ...
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Sport 2000 has appointed Gérard Barin as its new purchasing...
Sport 2000 has appointed Gérard Barin as its new purchasing director, effective April 8. Barin, 55, brings 25 years of experience in purchasing functions in the sporting goods sector. He began his career in 1980 working for Go Sport in France, where he climbed the ladder from store manager to ...
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In the 2012 financial year, SportXX, the Swiss sporting goods...
In the 2012 financial year, SportXX, the Swiss sporting goods retail chain under the helm of the Migros cooperative, managed to increase its sales by 2.9 percent to 257 million Swiss francs (€211.2m-$276.3m) before VAT. Given an average deflation of retail prices for the chain of 1.0 percent, the actual increase ...
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We had reported in the Compass on Feb. 21 that...
We had reported in the Compass on Feb. 21 that Tecnica Group was exploring the possibility of selling its controlling stake in Lowa, after receiving an expression of interest from an unnamed investor. Last week, the new chief executive of Tecnica Group, Peter Weaver, officially announced to us that ...
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Joe Weider died on March 22 of heart failure in...
Joe Weider died on March 22 of heart failure in a Los Angeles hospital, aged 93. During his long career as a fitness coach, he coached the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, the former actor and governor of California, who called him the godfather of fitness. Weider built up a multi-billion-dollar ...
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The French sporting goods market grew by 3 percent to...
The French sporting goods market grew by 3 percent to €9.6 billion in 2012, according to the French sporting goods retailers' federation (FPS), but specialty sporting goods retailers raised their own sales by 4 percent. Most of the growth took place in the first half of the year. The NPD ...
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The Spanish sporting goods market fell by 5 percent to...
The Spanish sporting goods market fell by 5 percent to €3.7 billion in 2012, according to a Spanish market research company, Dbk, leading to a further concentration of the retail network around the buying groups and the integrated retail chains. The five major retail players, led by Décathlon, already controlled ...
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Adidas filed a federal complaint last Apr. 8 in Miami,...
Adidas filed a federal complaint last Apr. 8 in Miami, accusing 150 Chinese-operated websites of infringing on the trademarks of Adidas, Reebok and Mitchell & Ness through the sale of counterfeit products. The sites listed in the lawsuit include domain names such as www.classicsneakers.com, www.soccerstarshop.net and www.zigtechshoesbuy.com. The complaint ...
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Accell Group is adapting its organization in the Netherlands, following...
Accell Group is adapting its organization in the Netherlands, following the decline of the bicycle market in the country. The Dutch group has decided to merge the production of bikes for Batavus and Sparta at the Heerenveen site. The production for Sparta is currently located in Apeldoorn. In addition, the ...
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French people like running. According to a study by Kantar...
French people like running. According to a study by Kantar Media and Uniteam Active, conducted for a French bank, Caisse d'Epargne, around 5.9 million French people aged over 15 - 3.9 million men and 2 million women - run either regularly or occasionally. Of them, 1.5 million took part in ...
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Sportscheck, the leading integrated sports retail chain in Germany, achieved...
Sportscheck, the leading integrated sports retail chain in Germany, achieved a gross turnover of about €394 million for the fiscal year ended in February, down by just 3.4 percent compared with its record sales in the previous year. The company said that it still managed to lift its operating profit. ...
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JD Sports Fashion has agreed in principle to acquire five...
JD Sports Fashion has agreed in principle to acquire five of the six Made in Sport stores operating in France and plans to convert them to the JD format, starting in the autumn, according to sport-guide.com. The Made in Sport chain had been created by the Printemps department store group, ...
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Sequential Brands Group, the company that acquired Heelys a few...
Sequential Brands Group, the company that acquired Heelys a few weeks ago, reported a net loss attributable to common stockholders of $7.35 million for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2012, bigger than the $3.4 million loss it had in the same quarter the previous year. Licensing and other revenues ...
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Storeage, the Amsterdam-based retail design agency, will provide support to...
Storeage, the Amsterdam-based retail design agency, will provide support to Asics for the retail brand strategy for its Onitsuka Tiger brand in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The agency has already created the brand's shop windows for spring 2013. The Retaildesign blog gave a “best” note to its booth ...
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Starting next June, headgear will be banned in amateur boxing...
Starting next June, headgear will be banned in amateur boxing competitions to reduce concussions, as is already the case in professional matches. The International Boxing Association has decided on the ban following widespread publicity about head injuries in other games such as American football.
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The Snowsports Industries America (SIA) federation reports that winter sports...
The Snowsports Industries America (SIA) federation reports that winter sports sales in the U.S. were up by 2 percent from August through February compared with the same period the previous year. Retail sales of winter sports products reached $3.1 billion, of which $1.7 billion was generated by specialty shops. This ...
