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Gary Smith has been promoted to vice president of international...
Gary Smith has been promoted to vice president of international sales at Brunswick Bowling. The former U.S. Air Force official has been with the U.S. company since 1988. He has served most recently as director of marketing for capital equipment. Reporting to him in this new position are Bob Jackson, ...
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The Russian market has been identified by Michael Rupp, the...
The Russian market has been identified by Michael Rupp, the new chief executive of Jack Wolfskin, as one of the most promising targets for investment by the German outdoor brand in the coming years. The former Adidas Group executive, who started at Jack Wolfskin a few weeks ago, wants to ...
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The brothers Xavier Berneda Martín and David Berneda Martín left...
The brothers Xavier Berneda Martín and David Berneda Martín left the Spanish sports shoe brand Munich at the beginning of July. Xavier Berneda, marketing director, and David Berneda, chief financial officer, will no longer be part of the companies Berneda S.A., Bernher SA and Munich SL. The two brothers will ...
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Netshoes, a big Brazilian online retailer of footwear, sporting goods...
Netshoes, a big Brazilian online retailer of footwear, sporting goods and other products, has launched the first online NBA store in Brazil. The new LojaNBA.com website offers a comprehensive assortment of NBA merchandise including the NBA sports apparel and footwear line licensed by Adidas, basketballs by Spalding and other NBA ...
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Scientists at the Hohenstein Institute in Bönnigheim, Germany, are working...
Scientists at the Hohenstein Institute in Bönnigheim, Germany, are working to create virtual hand models and hand measurement tables that will be provided for glove manufacturers to aid in making customized ergonomic gloves. The scientists have compiled actual hand measurements in a database, inputting them with 3D scanners to make ...
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Brunotti, the Dutch surf brand, has come up with quick-dry...
Brunotti, the Dutch surf brand, has come up with quick-dry boardshorts featuring the famous “Sunflowers” painting by Vincent van Gogh, which will be sold through usual sports stores as well as museums such as the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the ...
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Ken Reeve, buying and merchandising director at Cotswold Outdoor, has...
Ken Reeve, buying and merchandising director at Cotswold Outdoor, has been hired by JD Sports Fashion, the British sports retailer, to become managing director of Blacks from November. JD bought the British outdoor retailer out of administration for about £20 million (€24.7m-$32.3m) in January. The top slot at Blacks was previously ...
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Puma has launched its largest ever campaign with a football...
Puma has launched its largest ever campaign with a football club to kick off its partnership with Borussia Dortmund. The team has topped the Bundesliga rankings in the last two seasons and achieved a double in the last season by also winning the DFB-Pokal. The Puma jerseys for Borussia Dortmund ...
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Hummel launched a new marketing campaign at this year's summer...
Hummel launched a new marketing campaign at this year's summer edition of the Bread & Butter show in Berlin. The title of the campaign, which is aimed to be ongoing, is “Change the world through sport.” The campaign will be communicated and activated across major international events and activities such ...
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Hannover Finanz says it wants to cash out of Runners Point,...
Hannover Finanz says it wants to cash out of Runners Point, reselling the 75 percent stake that it acquired in 2005 in this big German sporting goods retail chain from the former Karstadt Quelle group. The German private equity firm has asked Deloitte to find new investors for the company. Runners ...
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Polartec has started searching for a new chief executive as...
Polartec has started searching for a new chief executive as its shareholders, led by Versa Capital Management, are considering a sale of this supplier of performance fabrics. Polartec's current president and chief executive, Andrew Vecchione, said he was stepping aside, leaving the company once a replacement is found. He will ...
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Italy's largest sporting goods retailer, Cisalfa Sport, has nothing to...
Italy's largest sporting goods retailer, Cisalfa Sport, has nothing to say yet about a possible change in its ownership structure. Meanwhile, the company reports a 4.9 percent drop in its revenues to €370 million for the financial year ended last February, excluding the revenues from Intersport Italia, which is controlled ...
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Lotto Sport Italy and the Genoa Cricket and Football Club,...
Lotto Sport Italy and the Genoa Cricket and Football Club, commonly referred to as Genoa, have signed a new partnership agreement for the next four years, until June 30, 2016. Lotto becomes the technical sponsor and official supplier for Genoa's main team, the youth teams and its school of football, ...
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Vans has come out with a recyclable sandal in a...
Vans has come out with a recyclable sandal in a new partnership with Plus Compound Technologies, the maker of PLUSfoam recyclable material. The Nexpa sandal is available worldwide through select retailers. Michael Carr, the associate general manager at Plus Compound Technologies, noted that for the manufacturing run of Nexpa sandals, ...
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The International Olympic Committee and the International Cycling Union have...
The International Olympic Committee and the International Cycling Union have agreed to allow bicycles ridden in the Olympics to display brand logos on stems, handlebars, bar extensions and cranks, following requests by the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) on behalf of the bicycle industry. The initial agreement ...
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Rapala, the Finnish company specializing in fishing products, said it...
Rapala, the Finnish company specializing in fishing products, said it would restructure its reporting categories after the divestment of its gift business last December. This made up nearly half of the Other Group Products division. It was therefore decided to bundle the remaining parts of this division, mostly consisting of ...
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New Era recently signed new distribution contracts with Sportmaster for...
New Era recently signed new distribution contracts with Sportmaster for Russia and with MIG for Poland. The company also hired a new country manager for Italy, Cristiana Zaccarelli, who started managing New Era's Italian office in Rome last month. Previously, she worked in different positions at Nike Italy. New Era ...
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VF Corporation has inaugurated a new, environment-friendly corporate head office...
VF Corporation has inaugurated a new, environment-friendly corporate head office for three brands of its outdoor division – The North Face, JanSport and Lucy activewear – on a 14-acre property in Alameda, California. Accommodating more than 470 employees, the 160,000-square-foot campus comprises a fitness center, an outdoor training area, an in-house ...
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On the eve of the first day of the U.S....
On the eve of the first day of the U.S. Olympic Swim Trials in Omaha, Nebraska, Arena North America announced that it would donate funds to the U.S.-based Edith Sanford Breast Cancer Foundation. For the first world record that is broken between now and the end of 2012, in any ...
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With only few days to go until the start of...
With only few days to go until the start of the Olympic Games in London, Ralph Lauren confirmed that the uniforms worn by Team USA were not made in the country that they are supposed to represent, but were actually made in China. The company promised that future outfits, starting ...
