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Andrew Green has been named sales manager for the U.K....
Andrew Green has been named sales manager for the U.K. and Ireland for Nike Golf. Green, 42, joined the company in 2002 from Unilever. During his four-year stint as account manager from 2003 to 2007, apparel revenues climbed by 75 percent as he established accounts with retailers including JJB Sports ...
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One of the founders of JanSport has announced that he...
One of the founders of JanSport has announced that he will be retiring as of Dec. 31. Skip Yowell, who recently has been vice president for global relations, plans to continue his work as a kind of global ambassador for the brand, which has been part of VF Corporation for ...
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Broadening its offering of temperature-regulating products, Outlast Technologies announces the...
Broadening its offering of temperature-regulating products, Outlast Technologies announces the introduction of a new range of bi-component polyester fibers with phase-change materials (PCM). Staple products will come out first, to be followed by staple fibers later in 2011. Featuring all the typical benefits of polyester, the new products will be ...
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Sweden’s New Wave Group, the owner of the Craft apparel...
Sweden’s New Wave Group, the owner of the Craft apparel brand, had a 6 percent increase in sales to 1.06 billion Swedish kronor (€110m-$150m) for the third quarter, led by the U.S., which had higher-than-expected growth. On a currency-neutral basis, sales were up by 9 percent. The net profit skyrocketed ...
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RCG Corporation, the Australian distributor for Merrell, has opened the...
RCG Corporation, the Australian distributor for Merrell, has opened the brand’s first flagship store in that country. The Sydney store sells hiking footwear and outdoor performance apparel. RCG took up distribution of the brand in January, operating a wholesale division for it as well. It has said that sales for ...
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Yes Golf filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. last month,...
Yes Golf filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. last month, but a spokesman for Yes! Golf (UK), in charge of the U.K. and Ireland, and Approach Golf, the distributor for the rest of Europe, said its European business remains strong and is relatively unaffected. The entire ordering process for the ...
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Sander van Gelder, who has been general manager of Puma...
Sander van Gelder, who has been general manager of Puma Benelux for the last five years, is leaving the company to become managing director of Björn Borg Sport International, a new organization within the Björn Borg group, from next May. At Puma Benelux for 13 years, first as head of ...
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The Grow the Game website has been launched by the...
The Grow the Game website has been launched by the European Golf Course Owners Association to increase participation in the game. The site compiles best practices and feedback from professional golfers and course owners and operators worldwide; the latter can search the site for initiatives to get people into golf ...
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The organizers of the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market being held...
The organizers of the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market being held in January in Salt Lake City have released an application for smartphones that will help attendees navigate the exhibition space. The first version of the app came out for last summer’s show, but the new one has added features, including ...
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Following a corporate conflict between its original founders and its...
Following a corporate conflict between its original founders and its subsequent financial backers, Bask, the well-known Russian producer and retailer of outdoor products, has disintegrated into two outwardly identical enterprises, ZAO Bask and NPF Bask, that are now running two different businesses and are owned by different parties. Confusingly similar ...
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Teva is going to launch a mountain biking shoe for...
Teva is going to launch a mountain biking shoe for autumn 2011, designed with the input of Jeff Lenosky, a professional mountain biker. The shoe, called Links, is a freeride mountain bike shoe with technical features such as Teva’s proprietary Spider365 sticky rubber sole and Ion Mask technology to make ...
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Leki is taking its sister brand Lekisport out of the...
Leki is taking its sister brand Lekisport out of the map at last. Lekisport, a label that has only had relevance lately in the pole-intensive markets of Switzerland, Northern Italy and southern Germany, will be dropped effective with the end of this year. All after-sales services will be handled by ...
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Longboard, the French brand of competitively priced surf-inspired clothing, will...
Longboard, the French brand of competitively priced surf-inspired clothing, will launch a capsule collection next year in cooperation with Kenzo Takada, the famous Japanese fashion designer. It is expected to be available in 800 French stores in the second half of April.
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Darlene Harwick, a California golfer, has created GoldenWear, a brand...
Darlene Harwick, a California golfer, has created GoldenWear, a brand of golf wear designed for mature women. As such, the clothes are sporty while being cut a little fuller with longer lengths than other brands. The first collection will be shown at the PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, Florida, in ...
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Patagonia has opened its first store in Canada, taking up...
Patagonia has opened its first store in Canada, taking up the first floor of the Gurney Stove Works in Toronto’s historic district. Like other Patagonia stores around the world, the new shop will be accepting nominations by customers for local environmental groups to receive grants from Patagonia.
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Prana has introduced its first Fair Trade Certified garment, the...
Prana has introduced its first Fair Trade Certified garment, the women’s Soul T. The T-shirt will come out next spring and is the first of many Fair Trade products it plans to develop. The Liberian Women’s Sewing Project manufactures the Soul T.
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Coalision has made a number of changes in the distribution...
Coalision has made a number of changes in the distribution of its Orage brand in various European countries. Chris Sports Europe, which already represents this brand of free-style clothing in Austria, replaces Edgar Tremmel as the master agent for Orage in Germany. ABC Distribution is new exclusive importer of the ...
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Patrice Dupasquier is the new chief executive of Dosenbach-Ochsner, the...
Patrice Dupasquier is the new chief executive of Dosenbach-Ochsner, the big player in Swiss sports and shoe retailing. He has replaced Antoine Fölmli, who has now fully retired after 40 years of service for the company, but he will continue to be involved as a member of the group’s supervisory ...
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Len Langenberg, former joint chief executive of the Unlimited Sports...
Len Langenberg, former joint chief executive of the Unlimited Sports Group (USG), the leading sports retailer and wholesaler in the Netherlands, has relinquished his operational functions at the company. He already took a step back last year, when he left his business partner, Jos Gillebaard, at the helm as sole ...
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Moncler is clamping down on the sale of counterfeit products,...
Moncler is clamping down on the sale of counterfeit products, especially over the internet. Since the spring/summer collection of 2009, the brand’s apparel items bear a special tag created in partnership with Certilogo. Each tag has an identification code allowing the purchaser to check that the item is genuine. Since ...
