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The Outdoor Retailer Winter Market in Salt Lake City, Utah,...
The Outdoor Retailer Winter Market in Salt Lake City, Utah, will start next January on a Tuesday and end on a Saturday to give retailers an extra day over the weekend to spend in their own stores. Instead of running from Wednesday to Sunday, OR will run from Tuesday, Jan. ...
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The European Outdoor Group has renewed its contract with Messe...
The European Outdoor Group has renewed its contract with Messe Friedrichshafen to keep its OutDoor trade show at Lake Constance for the coming years. The show has been held in Friedrichshafen since its inception in 1994. The 19th edition of OutDoor will be held on July 12-15.
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Odlo is responding to the fact that German customers have...
Odlo is responding to the fact that German customers have grown bigger over the past decades by adjusting the sizes of its garments to the latest research. The adjustments are being made by the Swiss marketer of functional sportswear on the basis of a long-term field research project called “Size ...
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Reed Exhibitions has decided to move the dates of Sports...
Reed Exhibitions has decided to move the dates of Sports Unlimited, the leading Spanish sporting goods fair, to March 5-7 next year, and to launch a new internationalization program of its “professional business club” concept for brands and retailers. About 1,000 trade professionals are expected at this year's event, which ...
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Dunlop is the new distributor of Diadora footwear in Germany....
Dunlop is the new distributor of Diadora footwear in Germany. For now, the new partnership is limited to tennis shoes, but other categories of footwear by Italian company, such as running and football, as well as apparel may follow. Before a break of about two years, Dunlop's German operations had ...
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Rick Randleman is the new director of U.S. operations for...
Rick Randleman is the new director of U.S. operations for Hi-Tec Sports , effective immediately. He is overseeing customer service, IT and distribution for the two brands the company sells in the U.S., Hi-Tec and Magnum. Based in the company's U.S. office in Portland, Oregon, he will report to Hi-Tec ...
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Peak Performance generated some growth in the three months ended...
Peak Performance generated some growth in the three months ended March 31, which corresponded to the third quarter in IC Companys' financial year, but without matching the double-digit increases recorded by Tiger of Sweden, Soaked in Luxury and Marlen Birger. Jackpot and Cottonfield suffered setbacks. Across the group's 11 ...
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Frank Koch, a German veteran of the fitness equipment industry,...
Frank Koch, a German veteran of the fitness equipment industry, has become managing director of a new company, Sportart 3, that will be responsible for the distribution of a new line of Adidas badminton racquets and other Adidas branded products for boxing and martial arts in the German-speaking countries and ...
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Tennis Warehouse Europe will now be included as part of...
Tennis Warehouse Europe will now be included as part of ATPWorldTourStore.com through an expanded retail partnership between Tennis Warehouse and the ATP. The two entities have been working together since 2000. The expanded website means that fans in Europe can get the same service as those in the U.S., while ...
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The Ziener family, which owns the German producer of gloves...
The Ziener family, which owns the German producer of gloves by the same name, has sold a 34.5 percent share of the company to an institutional investor. Sport-Fachhandel, the German trade publication, reports that the new partner is Hannover Finanz Gruppe, a private equity company that has 44 companies in ...
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Rectifying some recent press reports, the management of Regatta Group...
Rectifying some recent press reports, the management of Regatta Group indicates that the total number of its warehouse employees in the U.K. should grow from 165 to 220 as part of a reorganization of its logistics that will see each of its three brands – Regatta, Dare2b and Craghoppers – centralizing ...
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Sales declined by 7 percent to 140.5 million Swedish kronor...
Sales declined by 7 percent to 140.5 million Swedish kronor (€15.7m-$20.6m) at Björn Borg, due to cautious purchasing patterns by its clients last autumn. However, the Swedish brand of underwear saw growing sales for the brand including licenses, with an increase in smaller markets, and continuous progress with e-commerce. The ...
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Columbia Sportswear will pay $22,800 as a fine to the...
Columbia Sportswear will pay $22,800 as a fine to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for selling mislabeled pesticide-treated clothing. The agency requires that such apparel bear an EPA pesticide registration number, a proper ingredient statement, and a proper storage and disposal statement, and that they carry the statement “It is ...
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Skullcandy's revenues rose by 48 percent in the first quarter...
Skullcandy's revenues rose by 48 percent in the first quarter to $53.3 million, overtaking the $44.2 million projection that had been made by financial analysts for the period. On the other hand, the net income of the American supplier of special headphones rose by only 6 percent to $1.1 million ...
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Sven-Olof Karlsson, the 55-year-old Swedish manager who founded Abacus Sportswear...
Sven-Olof Karlsson, the 55-year-old Swedish manager who founded Abacus Sportswear in 1991, is looking for a new managing director to run the day-to-day operations of the Swedish company, which has an annual turnover of about €12 million. Karlsson wants to focus on strategy, brand positioning and market development, including the ...
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Klaus Lenhart died one day before his 57th birthday -...
Klaus Lenhart died one day before his 57th birthday - leaving behind his family, some 250 employees and an industry that has been impressed by his visions, passions and missions. Despite the tragic death of its leader, Leki is in good hands. The company is run by longtime employees such ...
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Swedish sporting goods retailers continue to show impressive growth. According...
Swedish sporting goods retailers continue to show impressive growth. According to HUI Research, their sales increased by 15.3 percent in March compared with the same month last year, and by 15.6 percent when calculated at fixed prices. So far this year, Swedish sporting goods sales have increased by 17 percent, ...
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Britney Obstar, a former senior marketing manager at Adidas America,...
Britney Obstar, a former senior marketing manager at Adidas America, has been sentenced to one year and one day in jail by a U.S. district judge for organizing a fraud scheme that cost Adidas $336,000. Obstar was ordered to pay full restitution to Adidas, and to serve three years of ...
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After a delay of several months, Go Sport inaugurated an...
After a delay of several months, Go Sport inaugurated an attractive new and more technical, fashionable and entertaining store concept after an investment of more than €10 million in the expansion and refurbishment of its flagship store in the Quatre Temps shopping center of Paris, the highest-traffic mall in France. ...
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After consulting its members, the leadership of Spaf, the Swiss...
After consulting its members, the leadership of Spaf, the Swiss association of sporting goods suppliers, has decided to postpone a possible merger with Asmas, the Swiss sporting goods retailers association, for at least one year. The board of Asmas has approved the project in principle, but it has agreed to ...
