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Anta Sports has said that it got off to a...
Anta Sports has said that it got off to a strong start for 2010 with successful backing of the Chinese team at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. By the end of the year, the Chinese company expects to have 7,400 Anta stores, 600 Sports Lifestyle Series stores and 350 Kids ...
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Lyle & Scott, the Scottish golf apparel brand, had a...
Lyle & Scott, the Scottish golf apparel brand, had a 28 percent sales increase to £34 million (€41.3m-$52.5m) for the year ended March 31. In its home market of the U.K. revenues rose by 35 percent, and in Europe they grew by 16 percent, though elsewhere there was a slight ...
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Apple plans to name its new music social network Ping,...
Apple plans to name its new music social network Ping, after striking a trademark agreement with Karsten Manufacturing, the owner and marketer of Ping golf products. No word on how much Apple paid, or will pay, the golf company to use the Ping name on its new venture.
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Dynafit has appointed Maria Englhart to the newly created position...
Dynafit has appointed Maria Englhart to the newly created position of an operational marketing manager international. The 29-year-old will operate from the Salewa group’s German subsidiary where she worked in the product management from 2001 to 2005. Since then she has served as fellow editor of the Allmountain magazine and ...
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Umbro has extended its sponsorship of the Football Association of...
Umbro has extended its sponsorship of the Football Association of the U.K. through July 2018. It will support all 23 football teams of Club England including men’s, women’s, futsal and disabled. Four thousand amateur teams every year will get free Umbro kits. The company is introducing a new kit for ...
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This year’s PGA Fall Expo, held in Las Vegas Aug....
This year’s PGA Fall Expo, held in Las Vegas Aug. 17 and 18, had a 16 percent increase in attendance, with buyers from 46 states and 19 countries visiting to check out products from almost 200 gold companies and brands. Among the equipment and apparel companies exhibiting included Callaway Golf, ...
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Rapala VMC Corporation has completed its purchase of Dynamite Baits,...
Rapala VMC Corporation has completed its purchase of Dynamite Baits, a British company that makes baits for sport fishing. The total price was about €6.5 million. Dynamite, based in Nottingham, England, is a 15-year-old company with about 60 employees. Last year it had sales of about €7.9 million, about 20 ...
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New Balance will introduce a new global footwear box design...
New Balance will introduce a new global footwear box design that is 100 percent recyclable in January like current NB shoe boxes. The new box features a “grab and go” handle and enhanced brand graphics.
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The NBA is organizing a Basketball Week in the U.K....
The NBA is organizing a Basketball Week in the U.K. to stir up interest in the league’s two regular-season games being played at the O2 in London in March. England Basketball, the British Basketball League and British Basketball will participate in the week, which will include competitions, clinics and various ...
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Marker and Wolverine have been legally battling over the “M”...
Marker and Wolverine have been legally battling over the “M” trademark since 2004, when Wolverine said that Marker’s Flying M was confusingly similar to the Circle M it uses for Merrell. The matter is currently before the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. ...
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Jan van de Wouw is to become director for Sport...
Jan van de Wouw is to become director for Sport 2000 in the Netherlands from the start of October, after an executive career that included stints at Ahold, Accenture and British Petroleum. The job has been vacant since the abrupt departure of another promising recruit, Bertil van der Sluis, who ...
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Hans Larsson, who has been running the sports division over...
Hans Larsson, who has been running the sports division over the last few months, has left the big New Wave Group to become a financial and operational partner of Rolf Hagström in Tennis Fashion, a major Swedish distributor specializing in racquet sports. He had previously run one of New Wave’s ...
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Scott Duer has been promoted to global sales manager at...
Scott Duer has been promoted to global sales manager at G3, the maker of backcountry ski gear. He was previously sales manager for North America. Before he joined G3 last autumn, he was North American sales manager for Rottefella.
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The Eurobike concept is traveling overseas, with the first Bike...
The Eurobike concept is traveling overseas, with the first Bike Asia show scheduled for next July 27-30 in Nanjing, China. Messe Friedrichshafen, which organizes Eurobike, is part of the joint venture handling Asia Bike, along with Nanjing Nantex International Exhibition Center and the German Messe Exhibition Consulting in Beijing. Bike ...
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Matt Walls, the surf brand manager for Body Glove, is...
Matt Walls, the surf brand manager for Body Glove, is leaving Sport Dimension, Body Glove’s wetsuit licensee, to pursue other opportunities. Until a successor is found, Todd Richards, the director of sales for Sport Dimension, will oversee the division.
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The Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt has extended his contract with...
The Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt has extended his contract with Puma through 2013. It was reported that Bolt was earning about $1.5 million per year prior, and the new deal will be considerably larger than that, but details were not released. The German company believes the deal will be the ...
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Snow+Rock, an independent British business consisting of seven stores and...
Snow+Rock, an independent British business consisting of seven stores and a retail partnership with CycleSurgery, has bought Runners Need, the leading specialist running retailer in London. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
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Stadion, the buying group in Norway, reports a higher net...
Stadion, the buying group in Norway, reports a higher net profit of 3.4 million Norwegian kroner (€430,750-$547,970) for 2009 on 15 percent higher net revenues of NOK 90.6 million (€11.5m-$14.6m). The sales of its 66 retail members, which operated 79 stores at the end of last year, rose by 12.2 ...
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Two significant management changes have taken place at Intersport Österreich....
Two significant management changes have taken place at Intersport Österreich. Christian Vesely, a 44-year-old former manager of Don Gil who has been running Springfield’s new operations in Austria, is now in charge of sales for the Austrian cooperative, replacing one of its retail members, Georg Winkler. Furthermore, Franz Koll, 42, ...
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Fifa officials have started checking out hopeful cities for the...
Fifa officials have started checking out hopeful cities for the sites of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. They’ve already been to Russia, which is considered a favorite, and then traveled to England. During their travels, they look at the country’s facilities and stadiums to see if they’re sufficient for ...
