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Tourist attendance in the French ski resorts dropped slightly during...
Tourist attendance in the French ski resorts dropped slightly during the past winter season, partly due to a lower inflow of British tourists. However, only 20 percent of the French sporting goods retailers located in the resorts said the season went worse for them than a year ago, according to ...
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Skins, the leading Australian brand of compression garments, has strengthened...
Skins, the leading Australian brand of compression garments, has strengthened its management structure by promoting Matz Bachmann to the new position of head of global distributor sales. He started at Skins in July 2009 as marketing and sales manager for Asia. Prior to that, he built up and managed the ...
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New Balance will work mainly with the chains of JJB...
New Balance will work mainly with the chains of JJB Sports and DW Sports, with specific in-store displays and advertising in women’s magazines, as it introduces its first two models of toning walking shoes in the U.K. and the rest of Europe in the third quarter of this year, half ...
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New Balance has started producing a line of leisure shoes...
New Balance has started producing a line of leisure shoes co-branded with Kawasaki at its British factory in Cumbria. They can be customized in terms of colors and embroideries. The company is meeting strong demand for the line, the first that the company has developed in association with another brand. ...
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Barry McGeough is the new head of footwear and equipment...
Barry McGeough is the new head of footwear and equipment at Berghaus. He was formerly with The North Face, where he was vice president for footwear and equipment. Before that, he spent almost a decade as senior development director for the Teva and UGG brands of Deckers Outdoor Corporation.
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Christian Bättig, the chief executive of Chris Sports Systems, will...
Christian Bättig, the chief executive of Chris Sports Systems, will resign from his job by June 1 to leave the operating business to Damian Wirth, who has been acting as CEO of the Swiss Schaetti group, a manufacturer of fibers and plastics. Thomas Stumpp, who is next to Bättig the ...
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Umbro has become a partner of England’s bid to host...
Umbro has become a partner of England’s bid to host the football World Cup in 2018. Owned by the Nike group and endorsed by the English football team, Umbro has launched a viral campaign encouraging members of the public to back England’s bid. From Noel Gallagher to Michael Owen and ...
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Two new positions have been created at Somnio in its...
Two new positions have been created at Somnio in its effort to expand in Europe and Asia. Allistair McKinnon is the new director of sales for the U.K., and Danny Orr is the new global product manager. McKinnon was formerly national account manager for Umbro in the U.K. and has ...
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Billabong has opened a concept store in the Ngurah Rai...
Billabong has opened a concept store in the Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali. The sales and marketing manager for Billabong Indonesia, Tim Hawken, said that the airport sees more surfers pass through it than most others worldwide. It joins stores in the Juanda airport in East Java and at ...
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Johnson Outdoors has sold its Lendal brand of paddling equipment...
Johnson Outdoors has sold its Lendal brand of paddling equipment and related assets to Celtic Paddles, a British company owned by Nigel Dennis, a famous sea kayak adventurer. Johnson’s watercraft division continue to offer Necky, Ocean Kayak and Old Town boats as well as Carlisle paddles and Extrasport personal flotation ...
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Joaquin Hidalgo, the vice president for global brand marketing at...
Joaquin Hidalgo, the vice president for global brand marketing at Nike, is moving to take over as vice president for emerging markets. He has also been vice president for global football and for U.S. brand management. Meanwhile, Davide Grasso, most recently vice president for Nike global footwear, will take over ...
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Le Coq Sportif, the French sports brand, continued its growth...
Le Coq Sportif, the French sports brand, continued its growth spurt with a sales increase of about 10 percent to €23.9 million for the first quarter of this year. Direct revenues jumped by 19 percent and wholesale sales inflated by 21 percent, but royalties decreased by 19 percent. Owned at ...
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Umbro’s licensee in Brazil, Dass, is taking over the rights...
Umbro’s licensee in Brazil, Dass, is taking over the rights for Argentina from a company owned by a former English football player, Brian Handley. Dass, a Brazilian-based group that generated total sales of more than €280 million last year, recently bought the rights to the Fila brand for all of ...
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Kitbag, a British company that sells sporting goods online, has...
Kitbag, a British company that sells sporting goods online, has opened a temporary brick-and-mortar store in Manchester, England. The 7,000-square-foot shop will be open through the end of the World Cup (July 11), selling brands including Nike and Adidas. If it proves to be a success, the company is considering ...
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Timberland has named Maile Buker to be its new senior...
Timberland has named Maile Buker to be its new senior director for marketing in North America. She previously held similar positions in the beverage industry, but also spent many years working on marketing initiatives for companies including Nike and Black Diamond.
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Rome Snowboards, the subsidiary of Burton in Vermont, is recalling...
Rome Snowboards, the subsidiary of Burton in Vermont, is recalling 3,120 boot bindings sold in the U.S. and Canada between September and December last year. They have a faulty base plate that can break in cold temperatures. The affected product is the United snowboard bindings, made in China.
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Buying Tommy Hilfiger caused Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation to report a...
Buying Tommy Hilfiger caused Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation to report a loss of $27.6 million for the first quarter. This compares with a profit of $24.7 million for the same period last year, but this year’s quarter includes $104 million in charges related to the acquisition. The first quarter of 2009 ...
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Ispo China has changed its dates for next year to...
Ispo China has changed its dates for next year to Feb. 23-25, citing requests by industry representatives for an earlier show. It will move the exhibition to a Wednesday-Friday schedule, leaving retailers available to work at their stores on Saturday, typically their busiest day. The successful show is also being ...
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Cisalfa Sport has inaugurated a new shopfit at a new...
Cisalfa Sport has inaugurated a new shopfit at a new 900-square-meter store at Sestri Ponente near Genoa, the 167th in the Italian chain’s network. White and orange are the dominant colors and the space is clearly divided into different sports categories. Elements of the new store design have already been ...
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Clarus Corporation, a publicly traded company in the U.S., is...
Clarus Corporation, a publicly traded company in the U.S., is buying two outdoor equipment companies. It will pay $90 million in cash for Black Diamond Equipment of Salt Lake City, Utah, which makes equipment for rock climbers, ice climbers, alpinists and freeride skiers. In addition, it will pay ...
