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Confirming previous plans, the Twinner France cooperative, which groups the...
Confirming previous plans, the Twinner France cooperative, which groups the owners of some 200 sporting goods retail stores, has acquired a 20 percent stake in Pros du Sport, a network of 350 technical sports stores. The latter will benefit from the same conditions offered to Twinner's members in purchasing and ...
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Skullcandy has lowered its projections for the current financial year...
Skullcandy has lowered its projections for the current financial year due to uncertainty in Europe and increasing promotional activity leading into the holiday season. Nevertheless, the company's sales went up by 17.1 percent to $71.0 million in the third quarter ended Sept. 30. The gross margin improved to 48.0 percent ...
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The Unicorn Group is Molten's new distributor for the U.K....
The Unicorn Group is Molten's new distributor for the U.K. and Ireland. The company also is made up of Unicorn Darts, Gunn & Moore and PowerGlide. It takes over from Bob Hope, who had been Molten's previous distributor for the countries since 2004. He is retiring, but will stick around ...
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Eurojersey is launching a new range of intelligent fabrics in...
Eurojersey is launching a new range of intelligent fabrics in its Sensitive product line. Developed together with a Swiss high-tech company, HeiQ, the new products feature properties such as temperature adjustment and better perspiration control, thanks to an innovative polymer that changes the fabric's properties in response to body temperature. ...
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Taking its inspiration from the famous Oktoberfest in Munich, Scott...
Taking its inspiration from the famous Oktoberfest in Munich, Scott has create a replica near its U.S. headquarters in Idaho, calling it the Crosstoberfest and targeting bike lovers who are also beer fans. A group of about 120 racers participated in the cyclocross event in Old Cutters Park, competing for ...
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Jack Wolfskin is opening its first store in Slovenia. The...
Jack Wolfskin is opening its first store in Slovenia. The 85-square-meter shop is located in the City Park shopping mall of Ljubljana. The German producer of outdoor clothing, footwear and equipment is focusing on Eastern Europe, France, the U.K., the Benelux countries and China for its foreign expansion.
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Kelme is planning to introduce a special interactive system for...
Kelme is planning to introduce a special interactive system for runners in 2015. The Spanish firm says it is developing an innovative running shoe with a special device that will allow the user to better plan his or her training routine and to avoid possible injuries – taking into account ...
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More than 40,000 players registered to take part in the...
More than 40,000 players registered to take part in the World Squash Day on Oct. 21, for matches that were played all over the world. Organizers claim a world record for the biggest sports match in history. World Squash Day was launched in 2002 in honor of Derek Sword, a ...
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Bauer Performance Sports has announced a 10-year global initiative designed...
Bauer Performance Sports has announced a 10-year global initiative designed to raise hockey participation by an extra one million players, on top of current participation growth projections, by 2022. The first phase, which was announced at the annual Bauer World event early in October, will consist of a Canadian research ...
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Nike has signed an 11-year extension of its sponsorship deal...
Nike has signed an 11-year extension of its sponsorship deal with Football Federation Australia (FFA). It is the third consecutive agreement between the two organizations over nine years, continuing a partnership that began in 2004, and the largest single commitment between an Australian national sports team and an apparel manufacturer. ...
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August marked the first month of 2012 that bicycle sales...
August marked the first month of 2012 that bicycle sales in the Netherlands increased. GfK's Retail and Technology Panel found that, compared with August 2011, sales were up by 4 percent. The average price rose by 7 percent. The boost was attributed partly to August's weather, which had 25 more ...
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Li Ning is selling 25 percent direct stake in his...
Li Ning is selling 25 percent direct stake in his eponymous firm to Viva China Holdings, a company in which his family has a 56 percent stake, for HK$1.36 billion (€135.6m-$175.4), but the shares will technically remain inside the family. The sum will be paid by Viva China to buy ...
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Effective Oct. 31, Walter Aumayr will leave the executive board...
Effective Oct. 31, Walter Aumayr will leave the executive board of Wintersteiger, the leading company of ski service and rental solutions. He has been in charge of technology and production for about 10 years and wants to accept a new professional challenge. His job will be executed on an interim ...
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For the first time in 65 years, Italians bought more...
For the first time in 65 years, Italians bought more bicycles than cars in 2011, evidently reacting to the economic problems in their country and sharply inflated gasoline prices, which have become higher than in many other parts of Europe. A total of 1,750,000 bikes were reportedly sold in Italy ...
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EA7 Emporio Armani will dress up the ski instructors of...
EA7 Emporio Armani will dress up the ski instructors of the Italian region of Valle d'Aosta for the next four years. Providing these professionals with the technical clothing that they will be wearing all through the season, the large product line developed by EA7 aims to combine technical needs with ...
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David Joel Stern, who turned 70 years old last Sept....
David Joel Stern, who turned 70 years old last Sept. 22, has decided to stop running the National Basketball Association (NBA) in February 2014, after serving for 30 years as its commissioner. He had joined the NBA in 1966 as an outside attorney. Stern will be succeeded by Adam Silver, ...
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British high-street retailers are bouncing back, according to September figures...
British high-street retailers are bouncing back, according to September figures from a national accountancy firm, BDO. Comparable sales grew by 3.5 percent that month, in part thanks to heavy storms at the end of the month that prompted consumers to buy winter clothing. Fashion alone grew by 3 percent. Last ...
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+++ Mirko Läpple, former regional key account manager at Nike,...
+++ Mirko Läpple, former regional key account manager at Nike, has been appointed sales director for Germany of Newline, the Danish sportswear brand +++ Urs Egli, formerly with Oakley, is new product manager for Kjus' skiwear at LK International, replacing Kenneth Kurtzweg +++
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Novomania, the Chinese young fashion and action sports fair, will...
Novomania, the Chinese young fashion and action sports fair, will move its dates next year to July 17-19, just after Bread & Butter in Berlin and Who's Next in Paris. It will move from the World Convention Center of Pudong to the Shanghai Mart, where it started. An investment of ...
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Sports-Contacts, the agency of Michael Plank, has found distributors and...
Sports-Contacts, the agency of Michael Plank, has found distributors and agents for several brands in Germany and Switzerland over the past few months, including Green Grass in Germany for Röhnisch, as well as Wesano and Sport & Import for West Scout and Skylotec in Switzerland, respectively. After establishing a solid ...
