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Jaked, the young Italian producer of technical swimwear, has signed...
Jaked, the young Italian producer of technical swimwear, has signed an agreement with Toyota Tsusho Corporation for the distribution of its products throughout 500 sports shops in Japan. The company finished 2009 with sales of €3 million and expects to double revenues this year. Jaked was created in 2007 by ...
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Bauer Hockey is recalling 127,000 hockey sticks, shafts and blades...
Bauer Hockey is recalling 127,000 hockey sticks, shafts and blades designed for children in the U.S. and Canada because of high levels of lead in the paint and decals on the products. The Chinese-made merchandise was sold in sporting goods stores between February 2005 and March 2010 at prices from ...
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Jean-Marc Groell, who worked for 11 years as European footwear...
Jean-Marc Groell, who worked for 11 years as European footwear product manager at Columbia Sportswear until the end of 2009, has set up a new international distribution company near Lausanne, called New Winds. He is starting up with a highly technical Italian brand of skiwear, DKB, and with a Swiss ...
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Taipei Cycle, the trade show held March 17-20, drew a...
Taipei Cycle, the trade show held March 17-20, drew a total of 32,208 visitors, a drop of 10.0 percent from the 2009 show. However, 5,160 of these were from 86 countries outside Taiwan, which was an increase of 7.8 percent over the previous year. The biggest increases were seen in ...
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Sport 2000 France and its major shareholder, Activa Capital, have...
Sport 2000 France and its major shareholder, Activa Capital, have appointed an executive from the Alvarez & Marsal consultancy, Douglas Roselfsky, to run the company and its finances pending the appointment of a new general manager. He replaces Jean-Paul Onillon, who abruptly left the company a few weeks ago. The ...
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Elan is looking to find a strategic investor by 2012....
Elan is looking to find a strategic investor by 2012. The Slovenian company’s chairman, Robert Ferko, told a local news agency that the partner would probably come from a German- or Arabic-speaking country, or from the U.S. Elan would then emerge from 20 years of receivership. It is about €27 ...
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Henrik Ottosson, 40, is going to act as the new...
Henrik Ottosson, 40, is going to act as the new chief executive of Lundhags, the Swedish outdoor company owned by EQT, from next month. He takes charge from his previous position as business area manager of clothing for Haglöfs, where he has been for 14 years. He previously spent four ...
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Innovaski has signed a 7-year licensing deal for skis and...
Innovaski has signed a 7-year licensing deal for skis and other technical winter equipment and accessories under the Vuarnet brand name for the European market. Innovaski already has licenses for the use of the Hello Kitty by Victoria Casal Couture brand name for a line of rental skis.
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The Action Sports Retailer show in San Diego has announced...
The Action Sports Retailer show in San Diego has announced earlier dates for 2011 and shortened its duration to three days. The fair will take place on Jan. 13-15 and on Aug. 18-20.
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Active Brands has signed a deal with O’Neill to make...
Active Brands has signed a deal with O’Neill to make its swimwear and apparel for distribution in Brazil, along with O’Neill wetsuits and its Lycra collection. The first collection should hit stores countrywide in August. Adrian Kojin is the operations and marketing director overseeing the expansion in the country.
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Goran Bergsten, former field sales manager for the Adidas group...
Goran Bergsten, former field sales manager for the Adidas group in Sweden, has switched to Karhu as general manager for the Nordic region. He will steer the re-launch of the Finnish running brand in the region, after its acrimonious acquisition by a Dutch holding company with American-based managers was settled ...
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Adidas America and Adidas AG have filed a federal complaint...
Adidas America and Adidas AG have filed a federal complaint in Portland, Oregon, against K&W, Ultra International and Soccerteamwork.com for trademark infringement. Adidas claims the California-based defendants have infringed on both its registered Three Stripes trademark and the Jabulani trade dress with products sold through their website.
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Administrators appointed by a bankruptcy court have found a buyer...
Administrators appointed by a bankruptcy court have found a buyer for Saltrock, a U.K. brand of surfwear and leisurewear, and a new investment will give the company capital to expand the brand in and beyond its home in southwestern England. The investors include James Brent, who will be Saltrock’s chairman ...
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Hi-Tec is moving its South African head office and top...
Hi-Tec is moving its South African head office and top management to Cape Town to be closer to key customers. All top management, except in the Magnum and Hi-Tec Work units, will relocate to the office there. The move should be finished by the end of the year. The warehouse ...
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The Swedish magazine Sportfack got many inquiries after posting an...
The Swedish magazine Sportfack got many inquiries after posting an article on its website reporting that Li-Ning was planning to set up 99 single-brand stores in Sweden over the next three years, sending over Chinese workers to construct the premises. The magazine said the project was being run by Jan-Ove ...
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Internetstores AG has bought the brand name of Brügelmann, the...
Internetstores AG has bought the brand name of Brügelmann, the well-known German mail-order house for bicycles, along with its Barellia private label. Founded back in 1932, it shut down at the end of last year which had to shut down a few months ago. With the new set-up, the products ...
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Shimano is revving up its production facilities once again as...
Shimano is revving up its production facilities once again as demand for bicycle parts starts to emerge from the recession. As demand weakened last year, the company cut production by around 30 percent. A senior executive vice president, Keiji Kakutani, told Bloomberg News that orders were sufficient for the company ...
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A court in Munich has granted an injunction against Rong...
A court in Munich has granted an injunction against Rong Jou Enterprises Company of Taiwan, preventing it from selling footwear lacing systems that are patented by Boa Technology. Boa exhibited the Boa Lacing System, which improves fit of footwear and snowboard and ski boots, at Ispo in Feburary. Rong Jou’s ...
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A study by the agency Tamar found that major sponsors...
A study by the agency Tamar found that major sponsors of this year’s Fifa World Cup are virtually absent online. Adidas, Coca-Cola, Hyundai, Sony and Emirates have paid millions to be affiliated with the event, but are not exploiting the use of keywords in internet searches, nor have they been ...
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Natasha Kai, the American soccer player, has signed on with...
Natasha Kai, the American soccer player, has signed on with Puma, to appear in marketing campaigns. She had an Olympic gold medal and plays for the Champion Blue Sky FC of Women’s Professional Soccer.
