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Lowa Sportschuhe's total sales increased from €107 million in 2009...
Lowa Sportschuhe's total sales increased from €107 million in 2009 to €132 million last year. The figures include those of the company's subsidiaries in the U.S. and Switzerland, and were partly boosted by new distribution contracts in Switzerland. The turnover of the Lowa brand alone jumped from €92 million to ...
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A total of 11 new Macron stores have opened so...
A total of 11 new Macron stores have opened so far this year, and seven more will follow over the balance of the year, bringing the total network up to 51 doors. The cities covered so far this year are Naples, Barcelona, Rome, Blois, Tallinn, Toledo, Miranda de Ebro, Faenza, ...
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Mammut Sports Group is investing some €22.5 million in building...
Mammut Sports Group is investing some €22.5 million in building a new warehouse in a small town, Wolfertschwenden, close to its current German office in Memmingen, Bavaria, which has become too small. The new logistics center, to be opened by the end of 2012, will have a gross surface of ...
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Dynafit will donate more than €5,500 (to be precise: €5,542.38)...
Dynafit will donate more than €5,500 (to be precise: €5,542.38) to the protection of the endangered species of the snow leopard, the animal that this subsidiary of Salewa features in its logo. The money came from the second edition of an event in seven countries called Snow Leopard Day, which ...
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Glenmuir of Scotland is supplying more than 460 Dublin and...
Glenmuir of Scotland is supplying more than 460 Dublin and Howth shirts and Finlay and Lauder knits for the players and the officials in the next Walker Cup of golf, pitting a British-Irish team against a U.S. team for the 43rd time. The Royal Aberdeen Golf Club, the sixth-oldest club ...
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Dainese is pushing the accelerator on the development of the...
Dainese is pushing the accelerator on the development of the international network of its D-Stores, which are conceived not only as selling points, but also as test areas for new trends and as hubs for special events and other initiatives in the area of impact protection. After opening stores in ...
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JD Sports continues to acquire British fashion brands in financial...
JD Sports continues to acquire British fashion brands in financial trouble. After the recent takeover of Fenchurch and Duffer of St. George, the British sports and fashion retailer controlled by Pentland Group has agreed to acquire the bankrupt Brand Acquisitions and its two brands, Peter Werth for menswear and Pink ...
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Warrior Hockey, a unit of New Balance, has acquired Smith...
Warrior Hockey, a unit of New Balance, has acquired Smith Hockey Company of Brockport, New York, which specializes in protective equipment for goalies. Warrior is restructuring its global product development team into four strategic business units for goalie protective equipment, player protective equipment, helmets and sticks. The goalie protective SBU ...
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Genesco has acquired H.S. Trask, an American brand of outdoor...
Genesco has acquired H.S. Trask, an American brand of outdoor and casual shoes that uses leather made from the skins of American bisons, elks and longhorns. Based in Montana, it has been for many years the property of a financially shaky U.S. company, Phoenix Footwear. Genesco, parent company of Journeys, ...
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Richard Prenderville, a former Adidas executive who has been running...
Richard Prenderville, a former Adidas executive who has been running global marketing for Reebok since September 2006, has left the company to pursue other opportunities. Viktoria Wallner, who headed up the digital marketing operations of the brand, will take over his place.
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Marcus Kuerner, senior environmental manager at Adidas, is the new...
Marcus Kuerner, senior environmental manager at Adidas, is the new chairman of the product safety committee of Fesi, the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry. Bruno Alves, government and public affairs director at Nike, has been elected chairman of Fesi's intellectual property rights committee. Alves will be assisted by ...
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Apparently, Adidas Outdoor is on its way to meet the...
Apparently, Adidas Outdoor is on its way to meet the target of €500 million in global sales by 2015. In 2010, the outdoor division of the Three Stripes managed to reach sales of more than €200 million, with significant double-digit growth. In the first quarter of this year, sales were ...
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Adidas may reduce its offering of Stan Smith, the iconic...
Adidas may reduce its offering of Stan Smith, the iconic white shoe named after an American tennis player of the 1970s. Since it was launched in 1971, the Stan Smith has become one of the best-selling sneakers of all time, and in the last years it was integrated into the ...
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Nike is launching a new global advertising campaign to support its...
Nike is launching a new global advertising campaign to support its sales in the action sports segment, which the brand wants to double by 2015-16 from last year's level of $390 million. Developed by a creative agency called 72and sunny under the title “The Chosen,” it will target skateboarding, surfing and ...
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Ralf Pütman quits as buying director of Galeria Kaufhof after...
Ralf Pütman quits as buying director of Galeria Kaufhof after 20 years with the German retail group, owned by Metro. Speculation is that the 46-year-old had been keen on replacing Lovro Mandac as chief executive in 2009, when the latter's contract was extended for another three years. Joachim Nowak remains ...
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Alain Sevellec, founder of the former Glissexpo fair, and Rémi...
Alain Sevellec, founder of the former Glissexpo fair, and Rémi Bertoche, a surfer and artist who founded Freesurfing Magazine, are going to organize a new European boardsports exhibition focusing on hardware with the blessing of EuroSIMA, the European surf industry association. Called Salon des Glisseurs, it will be held in ...
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Icon Health & Fitness announces that all its NordicTrack and...
Icon Health & Fitness announces that all its NordicTrack and ProForm treadmills, stationary bikes and ellipticals sold as of this month will be carbon-neutral. The American company has pledged to offset all CO² emissions deriving from the manufacture, transport, marketing, utilization and recycling of the equipment through a partnership with ...
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Amer Sports has created a new position of export director...
Amer Sports has created a new position of export director to supervise the distributors of all its brands throughout the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. It will be filled by Pascal Perrigaud, who had a similar job at Pentland Brands as vice president for international business development, handling ...
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Hi-Tec inaugurated its new head office in Amsterdam with a...
Hi-Tec inaugurated its new head office in Amsterdam with a dazzling get-together on May 9. The event was attended by more than 400 guests from around the world, from Hi-Tec salespeople and distributors to personal friends of Frank van Wezel, the company's Dutch founder. He was surrounded by his entire ...
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Head has launched a new short film created for Andy...
Head has launched a new short film created for Andy Murray, the leading British tennis player, on Facebook and YouTube. Called “Get Closer,” it depicts a fictional day in Murray's life. The viral campaign will accompany the champion through the Wimbledon tournament, inviting fans to gain access to exclusive contents, ...
