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Adidas America is eliminating some positions from its operations in...
Adidas America is eliminating some positions from its operations in Portland, Oregon, mostly in sales and marketing. It employs about 800 people there, according to The Oregonian newspaper. The company plans a restructuring later this year that will result in 60 new positions. While it wouldn’t specify how many cuts ...
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Adidas has extended its U.S. licensing agreement in the gymnastics...
Adidas has extended its U.S. licensing agreement in the gymnastics category with Elite Sportswear into a global partnership. Based in Pennsylvania, Elite Sportswear has been an Adidas partner in the U.S. since 2000, when the Three Stripes started sponsoring the U.S. gymnastics team. From 2006, Adidas gymnastics gear became available ...
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Gerhard Wieser has been appointed head of the alpine division...
Gerhard Wieser has been appointed head of the alpine division at Fischer. He will oversee the product management and marketing of alpine skis while keeping his position as the chief of the development of Fischer’s boots in Montebelluna, Italy. At the top of the alpine department, Wieser succeeds Gerhard Leitner, ...
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The German subsidiary of Elan, which also distributes the Spanish...
The German subsidiary of Elan, which also distributes the Spanish Buff brand in the country has taken on the distribution of Alpina, the Slovenian brand of ski boots, for Germany and Austria. Elan will sell only alpine and Nordic ski boots into these two markets, but not Alpina’s collection of ...
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Brunotti Sportswear, the Dutchbrand of boardsports and lifestyle apparel, footwear...
Brunotti Sportswear, the Dutchbrand of boardsports and lifestyle apparel, footwear and other products, has found distributors in France, Italy, and (together) Belgium and Luxembourg. In France, Pascal Eteve and Jipé Louis will handle sales of the brand. In Italy, it will be sold by ABCDistribution, with Alberto Penne as country ...
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Titleist golf balls and FootJoy golf shoes brought double-digit increases...
Titleist golf balls and FootJoy golf shoes brought double-digit increases in sales to their parent company, Fortune Brands, for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31. Growth in Asia helped the company’s golf brands perform better than the market. Sales for Acushnet, which comprises Fortune Brands’ three golf brands (Titleist, FootJoy ...
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Onepass, one of the multiple buying groups/wholesalers that have been...
Onepass, one of the multiple buying groups/wholesalers that have been operating in the Spanish sporting goods market, is going into bankruptcy proceedings. Servicing a number of sporting goods retailers in the Canary Islands, Onepass owes about €1.5 million to several creditors, led by Nike. Carlos Izquirdo has stopped running the ...
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EF Team Sports has been named the license holder for...
EF Team Sports has been named the license holder for Exel’s floorball business. That business was sold to Cape Nordic last March, in a deal that included a long-term licensing agreement related to the use of the Exel brand along with other floorball brands. However, Exel has terminated that license ...
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X-Function Benelux has taken over the distribution of Nordica and...
X-Function Benelux has taken over the distribution of Nordica and Rollerblade in the Benelux countries from the beginning of February. X-Function already deals with the X Socks and X Bionic brands. It belongs to the larger TCK Sports group, which further includes Lowa Benelux BV (Lowa, Schöffel, Deuter, Ortlieb, Leki, ...
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The Finnish brand Karhu has brought Goran Bergsten on board...
The Finnish brand Karhu has brought Goran Bergsten on board to be its new general manager for the Nordic region. His more than 20 years with Reebok and Adidas culminated in his most recent position as the head of field sales in Sweden for Adidas Group.
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Sport Bittl, a local hero in Munich’s sporting goods retailing...
Sport Bittl, a local hero in Munich’s sporting goods retailing together with SportScheck and Schuster, has decided to join Intersport as a buying partner, effective July 1. It has four large sports stores is one of the biggest family-owned sports retailers in Germany. Currently, Bittl is a member of Sport ...
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Chris Sports Europe, the distributor of Bjørn Dæhlie, Nabholz and...
Chris Sports Europe, the distributor of Bjørn Dæhlie, Nabholz and Powderhorn in France, Germany and Austria, has added many new brands in certain countries. The Swiss-based company (profile in our market research on Austria and Switzerland), has been doing well in the past couple of years as distributor of New ...
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Blacks Leisure, the leading British outdoor retailer, wants to raise...
Blacks Leisure, the leading British outdoor retailer, wants to raise £22 million (€25.2m-$34.9m) through a private placement and an open offer, to be invested in the company’s turnaround plan and on up to 35 store openings. Some 40,740,742 ordinary shares are to be issued for this purpose (for a placing ...
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Fifa’s worldwide master licensee, Global Brands Group, has chosen Intertek...
Fifa’s worldwide master licensee, Global Brands Group, has chosen Intertek to oversee an ethical and social compliance audit of the operations of Shanghai Fashion Plastic Products and Gifts, a factory being criticized for making the official 2010 World Cup mascot, Zakumi, under poor working conditions. The blanket audit began Feb. ...
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Euretco, the Dutch buying group, placed Steve Evers in charge...
Euretco, the Dutch buying group, placed Steve Evers in charge of the Sport 2000 and Runnersworld banners in the Netherlands from the start of February. This comes after a reorganization that split buying from retail functions at Euretco Sport last year. Marius Rovers, who had previously been in charge of ...
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Cannondale has streamlined its structure, combining marketing and product management...
Cannondale has streamlined its structure, combining marketing and product management so that one department will oversee the whole life cycle of the product, from development to production to marketing. Robert Burbank will be brought on effective Feb. 15 as general manager; Frank Hwang has already started as marketing director. The ...
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Elan Snowboards has made some changes to its management. Dragain...
Elan Snowboards has made some changes to its management. Dragain Gojkovic is the new sales and marketing manager for Elan and Artec snowboards, and Bojan Poljansek is program manager. They will take over the brands from Alexander Klinger, the former division manager for snowboards who has left the company. Nils ...
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Oxylane Group, parent company of Décathlon, is going to open...
Oxylane Group, parent company of Décathlon, is going to open a pilot store around June in Lille, not far from its head office, to test out a new urban mobility concept. Located in the area of Lille’s main station, the 80-square-meter store will offer mostly clothing and accessories for urban ...
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Compared with the same time last year, registrations for the...
Compared with the same time last year, registrations for the OutDoor trade fair in Friedrichafen are up by 3 percent to 619, representing 36 countries. The show, being held July 15-18, welcomes back The North Face, which skipped OutDoor last year, but Helly Hansen has indicated that it will not ...
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Halti will continue its partnership with the International Ski Federation...
Halti will continue its partnership with the International Ski Federation as official clothing supplier, and will sponsor FIS’ Alpine World Ski Championships, scheduled for February 2011, which will be presented by Audi. The agreement includes the provision of clothing for the organizers and for 1,200 volunteer workers. Intersport will be ...
