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According to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the leading German daily newspaper,...
According to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the leading German daily newspaper, Andrew Jennings, chief executive of Karstadt, the big chain of department and sporting goods stores, has informed the company's staff about the generally challenging situation in retailing ? which has prompted Karstadt's competitors to reduce retail prices significantly to counter the ...
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JD Sports Fashion has acquired Gio Goi, a British young...
JD Sports Fashion has acquired Gio Goi, a British young fashion brand that fell into administration, a former of bankruptcy, last month. The brand was previously controlled by Pentland Group, which is also JD's majority shareholder. According to reports in the British press, Sports Direct International had shown interest in ...
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Adidas Action Sports launched its new snowboard collection during Ispo...
Adidas Action Sports launched its new snowboard collection during Ispo through a side event in a former garage of the German postal service in Munich. The collection includes three snowboard boots and about 60 other items including snow goggles and a variety of garments. The Adidas snowboard team was presented ...
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Lululemon, the fast-growing Canadian-based marketer of yoga-inspired apparel, has added...
Lululemon, the fast-growing Canadian-based marketer of yoga-inspired apparel, has added Robert Bensoussan to its board of directors to help increase its international focus, which has been so far limited for the most part to the U.S. The company's management indicated at a recent conference for investors that it is planning ...
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Adidas is launching in New York today the Energy Boost,...
Adidas is launching in New York today the Energy Boost, a new lightweight running shoe with a midsole material made of thermoplastic beads that are fused together. The cushioning technology has been developed together with BASF, the large German chemical group. It is said to be providing more comfort as ...
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Adidas has won the Best Brands of the year award...
Adidas has won the Best Brands of the year award in the category “sports brands.” The award goes to companies in various categories such as “best company brand,” “best product brand,” “best brand in terms of growth” and others that are not tied to a certain industry. One prize, however, ...
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Julbo launched a big TV advertising campaign this past month...
Julbo launched a big TV advertising campaign this past month of January on Eurosport and Eurosport 2. Coinciding with the winter sports races covered by these channels, the campaign is expected to reach more than 12 million impacts. The French sports eyewear company used the opportunity of the Ispo show ...
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Tecnica Group and its advisors have stopped looking for companies...
Tecnica Group and its advisors have stopped looking for companies that may be interested in buying its 60 percent interest in Lowa. They are currently evaluating the opportunity to accept the offer of an unnamed strategic investor. While the sale of Lowa could bring in fresh money, Tecnica would lose ...
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Cybex International will be “going private” after shareholders overwhelmingly approved...
Cybex International will be “going private” after shareholders overwhelmingly approved the sale of the outstanding publicly traded shares to the company's largest shareholder, UM Holdings, on Feb. 6. The merger was approved in October by the company's board of directors. Based in Medway, Massachusetts, the manufacturer of fitness equipment will now ...
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After opening new corporate stores in Lyon, France and Cologne,...
After opening new corporate stores in Lyon, France and Cologne, Germany, at the end of last year, The North Face will be opening four additional corporate stores in Germany, France and Poland in 2013. In March, a new store directly operated by TNF will be inaugurated in Düsseldorf, to be followed by ...
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SGI Europe already reported exclusively a few weeks ago on...
SGI Europe already reported exclusively a few weeks ago on the appointment of Matthias Baümer, former general manager of Puma Germany, at the helm of a new regional unit covering Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH). This is one of the seven regional units formed by Puma in Europe as part ...
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Asics has inked a major sponsoring agreement with the Los...
Asics has inked a major sponsoring agreement with the Los Angeles Marathon. The mega-event will be renamed Asics LA Marathon through 2015. For the first time ever, Asics will give its name to a major marathon in the U.S.. In this new role, the Japanese sporting goods brand will replace Honda, ...
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Vans has signed a three-year agreement to support the U.S....
Vans has signed a three-year agreement to support the U.S. Open of Surfing, including a title sponsorship. Described as the summer's biggest U.S. youth culture festival, the nine-day event has been drawing up to one million people. This year it will be held in Huntington Beach from July 20. The ...
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Intersport International Corporation has signed an agreement with Fiba, the...
Intersport International Corporation has signed an agreement with Fiba, the International Basketball Federation, as its official sports retailer for all the men's and women's competitions organized by the international body between 2013 and 2015. This includes events such as the 2014 Fiba Basketball World Cup in Spain, the 2014 Fiba ...
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Asics' Austrian subsidiary has revamped its organization to strengthen its...
Asics' Austrian subsidiary has revamped its organization to strengthen its market position in the country and to work more effectively with its retail customers. Lorenz Staudinger, who worked in both sales and purchasing of local sporting goods retailers, will be in charge of the key accounts ? Sport Eybl & ...
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An Austrian sporting goods retailer operating at Dorfgastein near Salzburg,...
An Austrian sporting goods retailer operating at Dorfgastein near Salzburg, Franz Egger, has registered a patent for a ski boot construction where the front part is positioned higher than the rear part. This allows the toes to move more freely, thus avoiding freezing, and according to Egger, it gives the ...
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+++ Jen Bak-Holder, a former consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, has replaced...
+++ Jen Bak-Holder, a former consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, has replaced Thomas Otto Rohold as investor relations manager at IC Companys, parent of Peak Performance +++ Christian Bahr, who has worked for Puma and New Balance, has been appointed European sales manager of On Running, the fast-growing Swiss brand of running ...
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An institutional investor based in Chicago, Winona Capital Management, has...
An institutional investor based in Chicago, Winona Capital Management, has acquired a minority stake in LK International, the Swiss company that markets the Kjus brand of activewear, through a capital increase. A partner in Winona, Luke Rees, has been appointed to LK's board of directors. As he was for many ...
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Snowgoose has become the distributor of Trespass in the Netherlands....
Snowgoose has become the distributor of Trespass in the Netherlands. The company, headed by Marcel Koomen, is strongly established in the outdoor and ski markets as the former Dutch distributor of Haglöfs, La Sportiva and Dale of Norway, among others. Snowgoose temporarily halted its activities two years ago, when Haglöfs ...
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Technolyt in the Netherlands has become the distributor of Original...
Technolyt in the Netherlands has become the distributor of Original Buff for the Benelux countries. The Dutch company already sells several brands of outdoor accessories, including Nathan, Timex, Sea to Summit, Bynolyt and Zeiss. The Spanish brand was previously distributed in both the Netherlands and Belgium by R.A. Company, which ...
