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Guido Weers started earlier this week as marketing manager at...
Guido Weers started earlier this week as marketing manager at Bever, the leading Dutch outdoor retailer. He formerly held the same position at Ziengs, a Dutch shoe retail chain. This is part of an extensive reorganization at Bever, which belongs to the same group as A.S. Adventure in Belgium and ...
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Keen Footwear plans to ramp up production at its new...
Keen Footwear plans to ramp up production at its new small factory in Portland, Oregon, the Oregonian newspaper reports. James Curleigh, the company's chief executive, said that Keen invested $2 million to $3 million in the so-called PM Factory, where it has been making the steel-toed Portland Boot since October. ...
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Vibram and Garmont have teamed up on Garmont's new PowerFrame...
Vibram and Garmont have teamed up on Garmont's new PowerFrame boot, which features Vibram's X-Powder sole. The interchangeable soles are made with Vibram Mont, a compound designed for enhanced grip and resistance to wear. The X-Power soles can be used on ISO Touring and Tech binding systems, which attach automatically ...
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Jan Willem Juffer, sales and marketing manager at Perry Sport,...
Jan Willem Juffer, sales and marketing manager at Perry Sport, the Dutch specialist sports retailer belonging to the Unlimited Sports Group (USG), has left the company. This comes after three other high-profile departures at Perry Sport, as its chief commercial officer, its chief financial officer and its buying manager all ...
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Nike has opened its first Nike 6.0 store in the...
Nike has opened its first Nike 6.0 store in the French alpine resort of Val d’Isère, in partnership with the Killy family, which operates other stores in the same town. Concentrating on the growing Nike 6.0 range of clothing and shoes for snow sports, surfing, wakeboarding, BMX and motocross, it ...
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More than 20,000 tourists head to Peru every year to...
More than 20,000 tourists head to Peru every year to surf at beaches such as Punta Rocas, Chicama and Cabo Blanco, according to Eduardo Ferreyros, the minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism. He said most of them visited from the U.S., Australia and Brazil. He also singled out the surfboard ...
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On Nov. 1, the Indian government set a limit of...
On Nov. 1, the Indian government set a limit of 5.5 million bales of raw cotton that could be exported from the country by Dec. 15. However, that limit was not met, so the country is extending the deadline. The Directorate General of Foreign Trade said that the total amount ...
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Effective Jan. 1, MBT will operate its own subsidiary for...
Effective Jan. 1, MBT will operate its own subsidiary for the Austrian market. The Swiss brand of toning shoes will therefore end its cooperation with the current distributor, Austro Masai Vertriebs GmbH, by the end of the year. MBT has picked Hubertus Effinger as the new country manager; he started ...
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Reebok is teaming up with MC10, a venture capital backed...
Reebok is teaming up with MC10, a venture capital backed firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to develop a new class of “intelligent” performance athletic apparel and equipment that could hit the market at the end of 2011 or in early 2012. MC10 uses advanced thin and bendable electronics, including chips and ...
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Li-Ning has launched its new F2 footwear collection, featuring a...
Li-Ning has launched its new F2 footwear collection, featuring a one-piece upper of injection-molded EVA material and foam frame technology. The line includes shoes for basketball, running and cross training.
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More managers have been leaving Sport 2000 France while the...
More managers have been leaving Sport 2000 France while the group is falling under the control of Activa Capital following its recent losses (see SGI Europe, Issue #21-39+40 of Nov. 24). Patrice Hournon has resigned as buying director of the group and of ISRD, its recently established common purchasing platform ...
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Adidas Group expects to boost its global staff by 4...
Adidas Group expects to boost its global staff by 4 to 6 percent in 2011, indicating the addition of between 1,700 and 2,500 new jobs to its payroll, which comprised a total of 42,659 people as of last Sept. 30. About 100 new employees will be hired in Germany. New ...
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Herber Hainer, the 56-year-old executive who has been running Adidas...
Herber Hainer, the 56-year-old executive who has been running Adidas Group since March 2001, has been crowned “Manager of the Year” by the German Manager magazine. His predecessor, the late Robert Louis-Dreyfus, received the same honor in 1997.
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Reinhold Messner, the famed Italian mountaineer and author about his...
Reinhold Messner, the famed Italian mountaineer and author about his outdoor experiences, will be the keynote speaker at the Outdoor Inspiration Awards at the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market in January. The awards, organized by the Outdoor Industry Association and sponsored by Adidas Outdoor, go to groups, companies and individuals who ...
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After three smaller openings at various locations in Italy, BasicNet...
After three smaller openings at various locations in Italy, BasicNet has inaugurated its first K-Way flagship store in its own home town of Turin. Like the 200-odd Robe di Kappa and Superga stores that the company operates in Italy, the new 300-m² K-Way flagship features a so-called “virtual shopper,” a ...
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TYR Sport has renewed its sponsorship agreement with the French...
TYR Sport has renewed its sponsorship agreement with the French Swimming Federation, FFN, through 2016. The two have worked together since 2002, with TYR sponsoring swimming, diving, water polo, open water swimming and synchronized swimming. The French athletes were strong performers at the 2010 European Championships in August, and were ...
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Puma beat out all other countries in the clothing/accessories/footwear category...
Puma beat out all other countries in the clothing/accessories/footwear category to rank No. 1 in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, which looks at sustainable investment worldwide. Puma’s score was 86 out of 100, and the average in the industry was 54. The index, devised by Dow Jones Indexes and SAM, ...
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Warren Vail is Allen Edmonds’ new category manager for golf,...
Warren Vail is Allen Edmonds’ new category manager for golf, which will include maintaining the company’s relationships with groups such as the PGA of America and the Association of Golf Merchandisers. He was formerly the chief executive of Parker McClain, working there with high-end custom golf shoes.
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Nutcase, an American specialty brand of sports helmets, has hired...
Nutcase, an American specialty brand of sports helmets, has hired Birgit Gosda as business development manager for Europe and Fabian Knauf as sales and marketing manager. The brand was founded five years ago by Michael Morrow, Nike’s former global creative director. Since 2007, its European operations have been run by ...
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Amplifi, the young German marketer of body protection gear for...
Amplifi, the young German marketer of body protection gear for snow sports, is expanding into new markets. Founded in December 2009, the company has picked a couple of European distributors and is also eyeing the U.S. market. Most of the distributors are also those of Flow, the maker of snowboard ...
