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After months of speculation, a decision was made by organizers...
After months of speculation, a decision was made by organizers to merge the European Freeride World Tour, the North American Freesking World Tour and The North Face Masters of Snowboarding into one, unified global championship series. The new world tour will be named the “Swatch Freeride World Tour by The ...
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After H&M announced the opening of a couple of sports...
After H&M announced the opening of a couple of sports fashion stores in London for the Olympics, Mango announced that it is considering the development of a new line of sportswear and “homewear” within the next two-three years. This adds to recent announcements by the company in May about a ...
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Cristian Deville has had a gondola named after him at...
Cristian Deville has had a gondola named after him at the Austrian skiing resort of Kitzbuehel. Cristian won the slalom there in January and tradition has it that the winner of the Kitzbuehel round of the Alpine Skiing World Cup is awarded this special prize. One of the red gondolas ...
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Kappa has signed a sponsorship agreement with U.E. Santboiana, the...
Kappa has signed a sponsorship agreement with U.E. Santboiana, the rugby team of Sant Boi de Llobregat in Catalonia, covering the next two seasons. The Italian brand will supply sportswear to all the teams of the Spanish club as well as its rugby school. Kappa started its presence on Spain's ...
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Rossignol has signed a partnership with Best of the Alps...
Rossignol has signed a partnership with Best of the Alps – The Classic Mountain Resorts, to produce a limited edition of alpine skis that will only be available through authorized dealers at member resorts. Best of the Alps is a group of prestigious alpine resorts, from Chamonix Mont-Blanc to Cortina ...
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Bread & Butter is going to start one day earlier,...
Bread & Butter is going to start one day earlier, on Tuesdays instead of Wednesdays, from next January on. It will continue to run for three days. The organizers said they wanted to optimize its position between the dates of other major fashion-related trade shows in Florence, Milan and Paris. ...
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Direct Golf UK has appointed Simon Corp as offline marketing...
Direct Golf UK has appointed Simon Corp as offline marketing manager. A PGA professional, Corp has been working with Direct Golf UK for eight years, moving from sales to store manager/teaching professional, and then with John Letters brand manager. He will oversee the company's direct mail, print advertising, Direct Golf ...
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L-Fashion Group has appointed Marco Bava sales director and country...
L-Fashion Group has appointed Marco Bava sales director and country manager for Italy. Bava, 45, has a long-standing knowledge of the sporting goods sector. Prior to the Finnish brand, he worked for Invicta and Tecnica, holding sales and marketing responsibilities, as well as IDS and Bata. He also worked for ...
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The North Face has appointed Pierre Caillat to be sales...
The North Face has appointed Pierre Caillat to be sales and key accounts manager for The North Face France. Caillat, who will replace Sébastian Plasson, previously worked for Sidas, X-Socks and Rossignol.
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Oakley is making a big splash at the London Olympics,...
Oakley is making a big splash at the London Olympics, where it is supplying more than 80 percent of the athletes who are wearing sunglasses. It has deals with more 700 athletes competing in the Games in 19 disciplines and coming from more than 200 countries. They are being invited ...
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The Bos Group has obtained a license to source and...
The Bos Group has obtained a license to source and distribute O'Neill footwear all around Europe, Sport Partner reports. The deal covers footwear for men, women and children in all seasons, and the first delivery is expected for the second half of 2013. It also involves O'Neill branded socks. Entities ...
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Warrior Sports has signed Vinnie Jones as the brand's latest...
Warrior Sports has signed Vinnie Jones as the brand's latest football ambassador. He will also become the face of “Face Off,” the new online Premier League prediction game that the American company is launching. Jones is an English actor and retired footballer who represented and captained the Welsh national football ...
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The two major British sporting goods retailers are likely to...
The two major British sporting goods retailers are likely to get a little boost from the Olympics in London, according to Verdict Research. Sports Direct's share of the total U.K. clothing market is predicted to increase by 0.2 percentage points to 1.8 percent, and its share of the footwear market ...
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The fitness segment of Brunswick Corp., consisting essentially of Life...
The fitness segment of Brunswick Corp., consisting essentially of Life Fitness and Hammer Strength, grew by only 1 percent in the second quarter to $143.3 million. Sales outside the U.S. represented 48 percent of this amount and declined by 7 percent. Strong U.S. sales were partially offset by a decline ...
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The merger of Golf Town from Canada and Golfsmith from...
The merger of Golf Town from Canada and Golfsmith from the U.S. has been completed through a $97.1 million transaction. Golfsmith has asked Nasdaq to delist its common stock.
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Mizuno has opened a pop-up Mizuno Performance Center at London's...
Mizuno has opened a pop-up Mizuno Performance Center at London's iconic Center Point building, running from July 24 to Aug. 12 in connection with the Olympics. The center will feature activity zones based around sprinting, football and handball, with athletes dropping in. It will also host artwork by Hidekichi Shigemoto, ...
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Halfords Group of the U.K. has sacked its chief executive,...
Halfords Group of the U.K. has sacked its chief executive, David Wild, after four years at the helm. The company released an interim management statement for its first quarter up to June 29 in which it reported a drop of 5.6 percent in same-store sales, mainly due to a 7.5 ...
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The community of Navarre, in northern Spain, has released the...
The community of Navarre, in northern Spain, has released the findings of its campaign “Juega, come y diviértete on Tranqui” (Play, eat and have fun with Tranqui), devoted to fighting childhood obesity. Data show that the number of overweight children in the territory has gone down by 17 percent since ...
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With company officials estimating that the snow sports market has...
With company officials estimating that the snow sports market has contracted by 20 percent, Tecnica Group has asked public authorities to finance 118 temporary layoffs from its staff of 418 employees at Giovera del Montello, where its Italian head office and production unit is located. This would be in addition ...
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Oxylane, the parent company of Décathlon, plans to open a...
Oxylane, the parent company of Décathlon, plans to open a big new distribution center in the autumn of 2013 at Rouvignies, near Valenciennes and the French border with Belgium, to service its stores in Northern Europe. The new logistic platform will start on a surface of 57,000 square meters, building ...
