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Rip Curl has announced the nomination of Yann Tschumi as...
Rip Curl has announced the nomination of Yann Tschumi as its new European sales director. Based at the company's European head office at Hossegor, France, he basically takes the place of José Luis Sanz, a Spaniard recently appointed as country manager of Kappa in the Iberian Peninsula by the French-based ...
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Companies in Vietnam's apparel sector are having problems keeping up...
Companies in Vietnam's apparel sector are having problems keeping up with an increase in demand. Orders are up by 15 percent over last year, but the workforce is down, especially among small and medium-size businesses. In the first four months of this year, earnings in Vietnam's textile and garment industry ...
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The European Surf Industry Manufacturers Association, EuroSIMA, recently held its...
The European Surf Industry Manufacturers Association, EuroSIMA, recently held its Source European Snowboarding Industry Forum in St. Anton, Austria, with almost 70 international participants at the two-day seminar. To cap the event, EuroSIMA held its fifth annual Snowball, the party for the snowboard industry that also helps environmental charities. At ...
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Garmont is changing its distribution for outdoor footwear in Australia....
Garmont is changing its distribution for outdoor footwear in Australia. Effective immediately, the new distributor is Lifestyle Industries Group which also takes care of Keen down under. The company replaces Sitro Group Australia.
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Rainer Ziplinsky, a retailer from Kiel on the German Baltic...
Rainer Ziplinsky, a retailer from Kiel on the German Baltic Sea coast, has been appointed new managing director of LEX Laufexperten (“running experts”), the influential cooperative network of specialty running shops across Germany. The 59-year-old has been in the retailing business for about 28 years and will coordinate the actions ...
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Messe München, the organizer of Ispo Beijing, formerly known as...
Messe München, the organizer of Ispo Beijing, formerly known as Ispo China, has decided to run the next edition of the show over four days rather three as it was the custom over the past years. The organizers said they were making this move in response to requests from exhibitors ...
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In Munich, Bike Expo, the new bicycle show organized by...
In Munich, Bike Expo, the new bicycle show organized by Messe München, will be held on July 21-24 at its main fairgrounds. As a new event, the show operators offer a demonstration day at Samerberg Bikepark to give retailers a chance for intensive testing of street bikes, pedelecs and mountain ...
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As part of its plan to capitalize on growth potential...
As part of its plan to capitalize on growth potential in China, Adidas Group has opened a new and larger regional office in Chengdu, in the western part of the country. The office is intended to help the company penetrate the lower-tier cities in the region. It oversees 12 provinces, ...
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Casino, a French chain of supermarkets and hypermarkets, is testing...
Casino, a French chain of supermarkets and hypermarkets, is testing a sporting goods corner at one of its stores at Fontaine in the Isère region, according to sport-guide.com. Named Go Sport Basics, the area features only private label products by Go Sport, the French chain of sporting goods stores which, ...
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EFA says it has obtained European certification under the Personal...
EFA says it has obtained European certification under the Personal Protective Equipment directive for its EFA Aqua Shock line of swimwear, whose fabrics are already ISO and Oekotex certified. Under a special agreement, the line has become available in 72 stores of El Corte Inglés in Spain and Portugal. The ...
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Rusty has opened its first German collaboration store with Ride...
Rusty has opened its first German collaboration store with Ride n' Roll in at LidenStasse, in Potsdam. The company plans to open more Rusty Collaboration Stores throughout Europe. The goal of the stores is for the brand and the retailer to work together on sales.
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Nivalia, the consumer-oriented snow sports show, is due to be...
Nivalia, the consumer-oriented snow sports show, is due to be held again in Barcelona next Nov. 4-6, after a pause of four years. Fira de Barcelona, which previously acted as a partner in the event with another firm, will hold 100 percent of the shares in the operation, which will ...
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Nike has reportedly secured an extension of its contract with...
Nike has reportedly secured an extension of its contract with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for the equivalent of $60.66 million. The original five-year contract, signed in 2005, was worth $45 million and was stretched until last March to include the Cricket World Cup.
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Décathlon will open a store with a floor space of...
Décathlon will open a store with a floor space of more than 5,000 square meters in June in Ostrava, the third-largest city in the Czech Republic. It will be the country's largest sporting goods store. The record in terms of size had been held by a store of 3,700 m² ...
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Garmin has opened a pilot shop-in-shop at Engelhorn Sport in...
Garmin has opened a pilot shop-in-shop at Engelhorn Sport in Mannheim, whose selling surface of 9,600 square meters makes it one of the largest sports stores in Europe. The GPS specialty brand offers its range on a surface of some 20 square meters.
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Tennis Warehouse Europe has a partnership with the French Tennis...
Tennis Warehouse Europe has a partnership with the French Tennis Federation to be the order processor for the Roland-Garros tennis tournament this year. All French Open products sold at storerolandgarros.com will be fulfilled by Tennis Warehouse Europe, which will offer the complete line of official Roland-Garros products. The tournament's official ...
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Timberland said it will plant one tree in Haiti for...
Timberland said it will plant one tree in Haiti for every response to its “Virtual Forest” application on Facebook, up to a target of one million trees. Planting trees in the Dominican Republic, Beijing, Madrid and other locations is also part of the initiatives that will be taken by Timberland ...
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Jack Wolfskin is no longer for sale. The majority shareholders,...
Jack Wolfskin is no longer for sale. The majority shareholders, Quadriga Capital and Barclays Private Equity, have been busy trying to broker a great deal to sell the skyrocketing German brand, but apparently did not manage to get the money that they wanted. It was said that the bidding period ...
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Cybex reported net profit of $379,000 in the first quarter,...
Cybex reported net profit of $379,000 in the first quarter, against a loss of $753,000 one year prior. Revenues rose by 19 percent to $31.0 million and gross margins went up by 0.1 percentage points to 36.3 percent.
