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Select Distribution of Costa Mesa, California, has secured a three-year...
Select Distribution of Costa Mesa, California, has secured a three-year license to sell skate decks and wheels under the Sims brand throughout the world except in Canada and Argentina. Re-issued models are already available for sale. The company started working with Tom Sims on skateboard products in 1984, eight years ...
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Globeride, the Japanese fishing tackle company formerly called Daiwa Seiko,...
Globeride, the Japanese fishing tackle company formerly called Daiwa Seiko, reports a 27 percent drop in net income to 215 million yen (€1.9m-$2.6m) for the financial year ended last March 31. Consolidated sales fell by 4 percent to ¥59.9 billion (€519.7m-$736.7m).
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Protest has launched its first major media campaign in London,...
Protest has launched its first major media campaign in London, working with Harvey Nichols. As part of the campaign, the Dutch boardsports brand has developed a special collection of women's sportswear for a specially designed pop-up shop housed in the fashion and lifestyle department of the retailer's flagship store in ...
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New England Footwear, the company started by former Timberland executives...
New England Footwear, the company started by former Timberland executives to continue production of GoLite footwear when Timberland decided to discontinue it, has won funding from the Green Launching Pad. This is a program run by the state of New Hampshire to promote sustainable business. Doug Clark, the chief executive ...
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Quiksilver is making strong investments in retailing in Europe. It...
Quiksilver is making strong investments in retailing in Europe. It has completely renovated its 1,200-square-meter store in the Bercy Village section of Paris, which previously belonged to the now defunct Andaska chain. Taking its cues from Quik's new Boardriders store reopened at Capbreton one year ago, it features a vast ...
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Gant is going to sponsor the European field hockey tournament,...
Gant is going to sponsor the European field hockey tournament, scheduled for Aug. 20-28 in the German town of Mönchengladbach. The brand, which is the property of Maus Frères, has sponsored the German national hockey teams for the past two years.
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Skechers is organizing the first underground fitness festival in Madrid...
Skechers is organizing the first underground fitness festival in Madrid in order to promote its Shape-ups toning shoes. From May 27 to May 29, the underground station of Nuevos Ministerios will turn into a huge gym where some 2,000 women will perform aerobic dancing, stretching, Latin dances, yoga, Pilates and ...
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Sergio Rodriguez Jaramillo, the founder and president of the PanAmerican...
Sergio Rodriguez Jaramillo, the founder and president of the PanAmerican Squash Federation, was shot and killed in his hometown of Medellín, Colombia. Police are offering a reward for information on the killing, which occurred when Rodriguez was a passenger in a car. Authorities say they know of no threats to ...
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Hugh Hamill will be heading up a new organization within...
Hugh Hamill will be heading up a new organization within Easton-Bell Sports, designed to centralize product development, design and product costing for the company's Easton, Bell, Giro and Riddell brands. His title is senior vice president of product creation and he will lead the formalized sharing of these duties among ...
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Robert Kröger, head of marketing at Sympatex for the last...
Robert Kröger, head of marketing at Sympatex for the last four years, has quit the company to join the German Sky TV channel. Kröger has been replaced by Beate Hoerl, who continues to run the marketing of Sympatex' parent company, Plouquet.
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Sales of sporting goods in Sweden increased by 0.2 percent...
Sales of sporting goods in Sweden increased by 0.2 percent in February, according to the DHI Retail Sales Index, resulting in a sales decrease of 4.7 percent for the first two months of 2011.
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On May 1, Wolf Dieter Kepplinger passed away at the...
On May 1, Wolf Dieter Kepplinger passed away at the age of 71. For more than three decades he was on the driver's seat of the Austrian trade show business thanks to his leading role at the top of Ösfa, the country's big trade show. He retired a few years ...
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Devanlay, holder of the Lacoste license, will invest €100 million...
Devanlay, holder of the Lacoste license, will invest €100 million in the brand this year compared with €25 million in 2010. Lacoste is expected to increase sales by a double digit figure this year after being stable in 2010, José Luis Duran, chairman of Devanlay, said in an interview with ...
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Briko finished 2010 with a 20 percent increase in sales...
Briko finished 2010 with a 20 percent increase in sales to €7 million. The increase is in line with the targets set by the B Holding, a company owned by the Boroli family, which took over the Italian firm in 2008. Briko achieved 65 percent of its revenues with winter ...
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Peak Performance has opened its 9th corporate general store in...
Peak Performance has opened its 9th corporate general store in Germany. The selling surface of 170 square meters is located in the pedestrian zone in the heart of Regensburg, Bavaria, and follows similar formats in Munich, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Kempten, Münster, Stuttgart and Rosenheim. The new store displays the whole ...
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Two vice chairmen have been added to the recently created...
Two vice chairmen have been added to the recently created bicycle technical committee of the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry, which is headed up by Dirk Bruynseraede of Ridley Bikes. They are Claudio Marra of Full Speed Ahead and Mark Schroeder of Specialized.
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The football star David Beckham is the global brand ambassador...
The football star David Beckham is the global brand ambassador of Samsung Electronics for the London Olympics in 2012. He will appear in advertising and public relations campaign to make people aware of Samsung's sponsorship of the Games as a Worldwide Olympic Partner.
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The competitive surfer Otto Flores is the new ambassador for...
The competitive surfer Otto Flores is the new ambassador for surf and fun for Dragon in Puerto Rico. As a member of the company's international surf program, he will help expand the brand in his home territory through grass-roots marketing events. He will also mentor Puerto Rico's amateur surf team.
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Billabong International is partnering with Modern Amusement for a line...
Billabong International is partnering with Modern Amusement for a line of eyewear and watches that will bear Modern Amusement's crow logo. The products will target the youth boardsports market and be available worldwide at surf shops, Pacific Sunwear stores, Bloomingdale's and Nordstrom. Billabong's other brands include Element, Von Zipper, Nixon, ...
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Angelo Caccia is returning to Gruppo Srl, the Italian maker...
Angelo Caccia is returning to Gruppo Srl, the Italian maker of bicycles under the Cinelli, Columbus and Bootleg brands, as vice president and a member of the board of directors. He worked there between 1982 and 1990, before a long career as commercial director at Campagnolo, the leading Italian supplier ...
