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Amer Sports will apply for a listing on Helsinki's Nasdaq...
Amer Sports will apply for a listing on Helsinki's Nasdaq of two new series of euro-denominated bonds worth a total of €150 million, which have been allocated to more than 50 investors. One €50 million bond carries a floating rate and matures on March 6, 2014. The other €100 million ...
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Asics has appointed Stefan Heinrich country manager of its Austrian...
Asics has appointed Stefan Heinrich country manager of its Austrian sales subsidiary, responsible also for the markets of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia. He has already worked as marketing manager at the regional office of Asics in Germany for the past four years, after doing a similar job ...
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The licensees of Lacoste around the world reached a record...
The licensees of Lacoste around the world reached a record turnover of €1.6 billion in 2011. Philippe Chenu, general manager of Lacoste S.A. told the French newspaper Le Figaro that their sales rose by 11 percent, beating a previous record of €1.56 billion reached in 2007. Some of the progress ...
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Asics is going to be one of Eurosport's on-air presenting...
Asics is going to be one of Eurosport's on-air presenting sponsors for the London Olympics and the Paralympic Games this summer. Asics' TV ads will air around the Olympics as well as various marathons through the year. Eurosport plans to cover the London Games 24 hours a day, including 10 ...
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Globetrotter Ausrüstung, Germany's leading specialty outdoor retailer, managed to increase...
Globetrotter Ausrüstung, Germany's leading specialty outdoor retailer, managed to increase its total sales by 10 percent to €250 million in its 2011-12 fiscal year, ended Feb. 29. On a comparable basis without the new doors, sales dipped by 0.5 to 1.5 percent in Globetrotter's brick-and-mortar business while mail-order sales ...
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Spalding is the new official teamwear partner of Basketball Scotland,...
Spalding is the new official teamwear partner of Basketball Scotland, the governing body of the sport in Scotland. The deal also includes partnerships with Gilmour Sports and RJM Sports, two retailers that will help Basketball Scotland to announce its services to players, coaches, officials and clubs.
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Replacing Nike, Canterbury has become the official kit supplier to...
Replacing Nike, Canterbury has become the official kit supplier to the English Rugby Football Union for four years, starting next September and going beyond the 2015 Rugby World Cup to include other matches by the England senior team, the Saxons B team, the Sevens and the Women's teams. Canterbury, which ...
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Peter Jan Stormmesand has been named managing director of Halfords...
Peter Jan Stormmesand has been named managing director of Halfords Netherlands by the board of Macintosh Retail Group, Halfords' parent company. The 50-year-old has been working in the automotive business since 1983, most recently at Brezan. His declared goal at Halfords is to increase its market share in the Netherlands ...
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ZEG, Germany's leading buying group for bicycle retailers, has reached...
ZEG, Germany's leading buying group for bicycle retailers, has reached an all-time high in terms of sales. Centralized invoicing reached a level of €455.5 million in 2011. Compared with the previous year, this figure was up by 14.9 percent. Orders were not collected from bike dealers in Germany, but also ...
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Hero Cycles, the leading Indian bicycles producer, intends to double...
Hero Cycles, the leading Indian bicycles producer, intends to double its capacity to about 10 million units per year by 2015, after it reportedly clinched a huge supply deal with Walmart. The Business Standard reports that Hero Cycles already supplied bicycles to the cash-and-carry stores owned by Walmart in India, but ...
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Newton Running has brought Stuart Johnson on board to be...
Newton Running has brought Stuart Johnson on board to be its new vice president for marketing. He has worked in global marketing for 20 years for companies including Reebok, Starbucks and Microsoft.
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Skechers USA is going to start handling its own business...
Skechers USA is going to start handling its own business in Japan with its own subsidiary, Skechers Japan. Hirokazu Iwasaki, who has worked previously with Nike, Adidas and Puma, will lead the Japanese operations, which plans to fully enter the market with the coming fall/winter collection. Skechers hopes to double ...
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The Japan Fair Trade Commission has issued a cease-and-desist order...
The Japan Fair Trade Commission has issued a cease-and-desist order against Adidas Japan, asking it to stop pressuring Japanese retailers against discounting Reebok EasyTone footwear. According to the government agency, Adidas has threatened to cut them off unless they stop discounting the merchandise. In a statement, Adidas said it is ...
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Paul Fireman, the former chief executive and major shareholder of...
Paul Fireman, the former chief executive and major shareholder of Reebok, has reportedly agreed to sell his golf country club in Mashpee, Massachussets, to another company in the state at an unspecified price. He had bought the club at a public auction in 1991. He tried to sell it in ...
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Naibu Global International, a Chinese sportswear company whose orange logo...
Naibu Global International, a Chinese sportswear company whose orange logo resembles that of Nike, is said to be seeking a listing on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange next month. It would like to float about half of its equity, valuing the 10-year-old Fujian company at ...
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Twinner France has not taken majority control of Les Pros...
Twinner France has not taken majority control of Les Pros du Sport, and the latter is not a cooperative, as published on the front page of our previous issue. Twinner has only acquired a 20 percent stake in Les Pros du Sport, a group of 350 relatively small French stores ...
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Odlo is introducing what it describes as a global innovation...
Odlo is introducing what it describes as a global innovation at the biathlon world championships taking place in Ruhpolding, Germany: members of the Norwegian team have seamless, one-piece competition suits at their disposal. The “second skin” outfits were developed in partnership with Olympic medalists like Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Tarje Bø. ...
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John Zopfi takes over the responsibility of European sales director...
John Zopfi takes over the responsibility of European sales director for Sole Technology, the parent company of Etnies, Emerica, Altamont and ThirtyTwo. Zopfi, 44, has been working for Patagonia for the last eight years. The Dutchman will oversee all EMEA sales activities.
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At the end of February, Odlo shut down its factory...
At the end of February, Odlo shut down its factory outlet in the southern German town of Metzingen on schedule, after a five-month trial run. Metzingen is well known as a mecca for smart shoppers in the country, much like Troyes in France. The town is the base of Hugo ...
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The World Trade Organization has endorsed a proposal by the...
The World Trade Organization has endorsed a proposal by the European Commission to grant duty-free status to the imports into the European Union of 75 categories of products coming from Pakistan, including sports shoes, anoraks and many types of garments, because of the damage caused to the country by extensive ...
