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Pittards saw its revenues go up by 6 percent to...
Pittards saw its revenues go up by 6 percent to £38.2 million (€46.3m-$60.7m) in 2011, but the operating profit remained stable at £2.7 million (€3.3m-$4.3m) because of the increased cost of materials. In particular, Pittards and other tanners with factories in Ethiopia rushed to buy and process as much material ...
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Callaway Golf and Acushnet Company have jointly announced a settlement...
Callaway Golf and Acushnet Company have jointly announced a settlement of all the pending litigation and disputes between them. No money is changing hands, but under the terms of the agreement, each company will have specified rights to make ball and club products under patents owned by the other. Details ...
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Some top sporting apparel brands, including Adidas, Nike and Li...
Some top sporting apparel brands, including Adidas, Nike and Li Ning, have been accused of buying clothes from Chinese suppliers who illegally discharge polluted water. Several groups – Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPEA), Green Beagle, Envirofriends and Nanjing Greenstone – put out a ...
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Adidas is rolling out a new multi-channel advertising campaign in...
Adidas is rolling out a new multi-channel advertising campaign in the U.K., saying it's its biggest ever in the country. The centerpiece of its “Take the Stage” campaign is a 60-second TV commercial that features Victoria Pendleton, Louis Smith and Tom Daley, all members of Team GB, as well as ...
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Skullcandy has partnered with the Berrics, the Los Angeles indoor...
Skullcandy has partnered with the Berrics, the Los Angeles indoor skate park and corresponding website. Skullcandy's name and logo will appear prominently throughout the website and in the content that Berrics will upload to the site. A Skullcandy gaming zone and recording studio at the park will offer exclusive branded ...
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The U.S. Golf Manufacturers Anti-Counterfeiting Working Group has won another...
The U.S. Golf Manufacturers Anti-Counterfeiting Working Group has won another battle in its fight against the sale of fake golf clubs, balls and accessories over the internet. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida has issued a preliminary injunction against 130 defendants, ordering them to shut down ...
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The second Asics store in London, due to open this...
The second Asics store in London, due to open this summer at 527 Oxford Street, will feature new state-of-the-art technologies and facilities. Besides the full range of its running products, the store will also offer a selection of Asics products from the rugby, tennis, cricket, hockey and netball categories on ...
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Most Nike Golf athletes playing in the Masters tournament in...
Most Nike Golf athletes playing in the Masters tournament in the U.S., the first major golf championship of the season, will wear the company's limited edition Lunar Control footwear. The shoe is lightweight but provides stability through its Flywire technology, and is well-cushioned for walking the greens. Made of waterproof ...
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Atomic has extended its partnership contract with Carlo Janka until...
Atomic has extended its partnership contract with Carlo Janka until 2016. The new deal with the 26-year-old Swiss ski racer adds Atomic branded helmets and goggles to the standard package of skis, boots and bindings.
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Confirming a report in SAZ, a spokesperson for Bawag says...
Confirming a report in SAZ, a spokesperson for Bawag says the Austrian bank sold its last remaining stake in Atomic to Amer Sports last January, but declined to specify the terms of the transaction. Amer first took over a 90 percent stake in Atomic in 1994 from the bank, and ...
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Sport is probably going to suffer a big cut from...
Sport is probably going to suffer a big cut from the package of austerity measures taken by the Spanish government to reduce its indebtedness. The Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports has seen its annual budget slashed by 21.2 percent to €3,088 million this year. The total budget of ...
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The number of registration for the next Ispo Bike show...
The number of registration for the next Ispo Bike show in Munich has doubled compared with one year ago, as the show is benefiting from its integration into the “Ispo family” and the support of the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry, which will have a presence at the ...
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Willy Bogner is launching an online sales platform for its...
Willy Bogner is launching an online sales platform for its Fire & Ice brand of young sports fashion under the domain fire-and-ice.com. At the same time, the company has opened its first corporate Fire & Ice store at Tinnum, on the German island of Sylt, with a surface of 150 ...
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Décathlon's brand manager, Dominique Thomas, is moving to Brazil to...
Décathlon's brand manager, Dominique Thomas, is moving to Brazil to develop the banner in the country and to find new sources of local production for its private label products. His position at Décathlon is being taken over by François De Witte, another veteran of the big French retail group. De ...
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Thomas E. Wenzel is the new chief executive of MBT...
Thomas E. Wenzel is the new chief executive of MBT Group, replacing Jan Stig Andersen. The seasoned executive has been interim manager and consultant at several companies since 2001, after holding important sales and marketing positions since 1982 at various companies including Henkel, Mars and Villeroy & Boch. Andersen, who ...
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Snapdeal.com, which claims to be the largest e-commerce shopping portal...
Snapdeal.com, which claims to be the largest e-commerce shopping portal in India, has acquired eSportsbuy.com, an online sports store launched in the country last year. Snapdeal, which started in February 2010, claims to have 15 million members.
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Dobotex, the Dutch-based knitting company owned by Puma, is launching...
Dobotex, the Dutch-based knitting company owned by Puma, is launching a collection of socks associated with the European football championships planned for next June and July in Poland and Ukraine. The socks will feature the flag of several major participating countries – in particular England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands ...
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Tern, the young urban cycling company, has won a prestigious...
Tern, the young urban cycling company, has won a prestigious Red Dot Award for product design with its Verge Duo folding bicycle. The Taiwan-based firm was launched only last year by Joshua Hon, son of the founder of Dahon, the established specialist in folding bicycles. Since then, Tern has been distinguished three ...
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Nike and Reebok reached a settlement in a U.S. court...
Nike and Reebok reached a settlement in a U.S. court in a case involving new merchandise created by Reebok for Tim Tebow, the new quarterback of the New York Jets American football team. Nike sued Reebok on March 27 to prevent it from selling a line of jerseys and T-shirts ...
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Oxbow has developed a special new shop-in-shop format with the...
Oxbow has developed a special new shop-in-shop format with the help of a Swiss agency, Studioworks, to make it as modular and versatile as possible, with a minimum of elements. It uses wood generated along sustainable development guidelines and assembled without glue. The first module was recently installed on 60 ...
