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Jeff Lasher is the new chief financial officer at Crocs....
Jeff Lasher is the new chief financial officer at Crocs. Since January he had been the company's principal accounting officer and interim principal financial officer, in addition to his role since Jun 2009 as corporate controller. Before he joined Crocs he was with Connelly Consulting, a private financial services company.
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The U.S. District Court for the district of Delaware has...
The U.S. District Court for the district of Delaware has affirmed a ruling in favor of Acushnet in its long-standing patent dispute with Callaway Golf. Starting in 2006, Callaway claimed that Acushnet's Titleist Pro V1 golf balls violated several of its patents; Acushnet countered that the patents were invalid and ...
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Due to several years of steady growth for New Element,...
Due to several years of steady growth for New Element, the Swedish company is now expanding. The founder and owner, Ulf Waldekrantz, has hired Ola Gräsberg, former administrative director at Riksbyggen, as chief executive. Waldekrantz will focus on sales and development. At the same time, New Element adds the Norwegian ...
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The new global headquarters for Speedo, in Nottingham, England, moved...
The new global headquarters for Speedo, in Nottingham, England, moved from another location in the city in November, recently had its official opening ceremony featuring a visit by Princess Anne. The new Speedo House is 35,000 square feet on three floors, and includes the company's offices, design studio, and Aqualab ...
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Franklin Sports and Marvel Entertainment have sealed a partnership to...
Franklin Sports and Marvel Entertainment have sealed a partnership to create a line of sporting goods featuring Marvel heroes Thor, Captain America and The Avengers. It will include equipment for baseball, basketball, boxing, American football, hockey, football and tennis, among others, and be available to consumers for this year's holiday ...
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The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry is a...
The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry is a new member of the Fair Factories Clearinghouse, a New York-based nonprofit group that provides software to help companies collaborate on improving ethical sourcing and conditions in outsourced manufacturing. This way resources aren't wasted on repeatedly auditing the same factories again ...
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Peak Performance will open five new stores in Sweden within...
Peak Performance will open five new stores in Sweden within the next few months. First out is a 154-square-meter store at Frölunda Torg, Gothenburg. Locations for the other four stores have yet to be announced. Peak Performance is also expanding internationally. New stores are to be opened in Switzerland, Italy ...
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Gaëtan Le Guennec, a former regional sales manager of Rip...
Gaëtan Le Guennec, a former regional sales manager of Rip Curl, is appointed retail manager of Volcom for Europe as the company gets ready to open new stores in Berlin and at Falmouth in the U.K. Volcom recently opened a new store in Bordeaux, joining those it has in Hossegor, ...
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Röhnisch Sportswear is launching four models of women's sports jackets...
Röhnisch Sportswear is launching four models of women's sports jackets this autumn. Marie Jonson has designed the fashionable, functional jackets in collaboration with Helena Jacobsson, catalog manager for Röhnisch Sportswear. All four models have reflective padding in the shoulder area and are named after stars in the solar system. Pollux ...
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Isabelle Mille, who has worked for Quiksilver for many years,...
Isabelle Mille, who has worked for Quiksilver for many years, is appointed vice president of direct-to-consumer operations for Lolë, the Canadian brand of women's activewear and lifestyle clothing of Coalision. Stationed on the Basque coast of France and reporting directly to Bernard Mariette, the former president of Quiksilver who became ...
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Skate Out, a Swedish supplier of skate and snowboard products,...
Skate Out, a Swedish supplier of skate and snowboard products, adds Arbor skateboards and snowboards to its collection of brands. Arbor was founded in 1995 with the goal of creating products with as little environmental footprint as possible without sacrificing quality. Bamboo is used in both Arbor clothes and boards, ...
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A 45-year-old Swedish executive, Claes Broqvist is succeeding Rick Bühler...
A 45-year-old Swedish executive, Claes Broqvist is succeeding Rick Bühler as sales director of Odlo International. A former sales manager at Nike, Broqvist has been responsible for the international development of Hagl¨fs over the past seven years. After 11 years with Odlo, Bühler is leaving for the Luisa Cerano fashion ...
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Nike has promoted Simon Pestridge as global brand director for...
Nike has promoted Simon Pestridge as global brand director for Nike sportswear, a new position being created at the world headquarters in Portland. He will be replaced by Gino Fisanotti in his most recent role as Nike’s marketing director for the U.K. and Ireland. Fisanotti has been with Nike since ...
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Shimano's European entities have donated €150,000 to Red Cross organizations...
Shimano's European entities have donated €150,000 to Red Cross organizations helping tsunami victims in Japan, and the company is encouraging employees to donate separately. The Japanese company's headquarters already gave about €850,000 as well as sizeable apparel donation.
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Stockholm Outdoor Dagar, to be held on Aug. 13-15, changes...
Stockholm Outdoor Dagar, to be held on Aug. 13-15, changes name and location this year. The new name, Inköpsdagar Outdoor (IOD), emphasizes the focus of the fair, which is buying. The new location, the much larger Edsviks Art Hall in Sollentuna, not only accommodates more visitors but facilitates the testing ...
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K2 Europe has created the new position of sales promotion...
K2 Europe has created the new position of sales promotion and clinic coordinator. This job is filled by Stefan Stankalla, who will be in charge of trade marketing and training activities for point-of-sale staff members in the ski, snowboard and inline-skate categories. The 35-year-old has been with K2's ski development ...
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Sport 2000 Germany has sealed an interesting sponsoring deal with...
Sport 2000 Germany has sealed an interesting sponsoring deal with Adidas: The Three Stripes have granted the buying group the exclusive right to use its contractees in athletics, Jennifer Oeser and Norman Müller, as ambassadors for Adidas' Supernova collection in Sport 2000 shops. Additionally, the group has put together a ...
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Timberland fell short of its 2006 goal of cutting greenhouse...
Timberland fell short of its 2006 goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent in five years, but did manage to trim them by 38 percent in that time. It still plans to reach that goal – and beyond – by 2015. The company said that the economic recovery ...
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The 2011 Surfersvillage Awards have been created to honor creative...
The 2011 Surfersvillage Awards have been created to honor creative and technical talent in the media involving the surfing industry. The categories include Journalist of the Year, Photographer of the Year, Film/Video Producer of the Year, Social Media Blog of the Year, Web-documentary of the Year, Surf Event Webcast of ...
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Golf Digest magazine's Hot List of balls for 2011 has...
Golf Digest magazine's Hot List of balls for 2011 has awarded gold medals to Callaway and its subsidiary Top-Flite. Callaway won one gold medal in each price category: $20 and under per dozen (HX Diablo); $21-30 (HX Diablo Tour); and $40 and over (Tour i Series). Top-Flite's Gamer franchise also ...
