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News briefs360 Padel Group hires CEO
360 Padel Group has hired Sascha Beyer as its CEO, as we have learned from CMDsport and confirmed on the blog of one of the group’s divisions, Padel Nuestro. Beyer served as Tennis-Point’s Managing Director from 2016 to 2023 and its CEO for North America from 2021 to 2023, leading ...
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ArticleTennis-Point Spain seeks new CEO
Tennis-Point Spain and its CEO, Miquel Just, agreed on Feb. 29 to sever the contract they signed exactly four years earlier, according to CMDsport. It was Just who urged Tennis-Point’s entry into Spain, with a first store in Mataró. Five more stores followed, in Barcelona, Valencia, Madrid, Alcorcón and Alfafar ...
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ArticleSSU: Business as usual for Tennis-Point and Internetstores – and what else?
In a joint statement, the two insolvency administrators appointed, Dr. Christian Gerloff from the Munich law firm Gerloff-Liebler Rechtsanwälte and Stefan Meyer from Ulm-based Pluta Rechtsanwalts GmbH, point out that the operational business of the two insolvent Signa Sports United (SSU) spin-offs Tennis-Point GmbH and Internetstores GmbH (alias Internetstores Group, ...
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News briefsSigna Sports United files for insolvency
Sports e-commerce company Signa Sports United (SSU), controlled by Austrian investor René Benko’s Signa Holding, has filed for insolvency. The Bielefeld District Court, where the application was filed, appointed Munich-based lawyer Christian Gerloff as insolvency administrator. The German business newspaper Handelsblatt was the first to report the insolvency filing, which ...
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News briefsSSU: Tennis-Point insolvency will be followed by further insolvencies
According to information released after the insolvency of Tennis-Point GmbH, the parent company Signa Sports United (SSU) is preparing to open further insolvency proceedings in the coming days. Further insolvency applications for other legal entities of the SSU Group, “including Signa Sports United N.V.,” are in preparation, the company stated. ...
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ArticleFirst SSU subsidiary files for insolvency
Rumors are swirling: While Signa Sports United (SSU) offshoot Internetstores GmbH (Addnature, Bikester, Brügelmann, Campz, Fahrrad.de, Probikeshop) is said to have informed its suppliers of impending insolvency in self-administration and British affiliate WiggleCRC is believed to have done the same in its home country, German Tennis-Point GmbH has already filed ...
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News briefsATP Tour introduces official tennis merchandise collection
The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) has announced the launch of an official merchandise collection created in collaboration with Tennis-Point. The collection comprises apparel, equipment and other gear, marking the first time the ATP has launched such a comprehensive collection. The unisex apparel line includes polos, tees, hoodies, shorts and ...
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ArticleTennis-Point and Tennis Channel launch online merchandise site during Roland Garros
California-based Tennis Channel and racquet and sporting goods retailer Tennis-Point, a subsidiary of Signa Sports United (SSU), have entered into a multi-year e-commerce agreement to offer tennis fans high-quality tennis apparel, equipment and accessories. The partnership includes the launch of a white-label tennis and pickleball store at www.tennis.com and a ...
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News briefsSiux signs retail deal
Siux has reached a deal for the sale of its pádel racquets throughout Spain via Tennis-Point, according to CMDsport. At present the retail chain operates nine physical stores, located in the provinces of Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia. The largest is in Madrid, followed by the one in Alfafar (Valencia) and ...
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News briefsTennis-Point hires Stefan Salzer as managing director
The German tennis and running equipment retailer Tennis-Point has hired Stefan Salzer as its new managing director. He will be working alongside company founder Christian Miele to lead the European growth of the company in existing markets and new business lines, focusing on strengthening stability and scalability in the company’s ...
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News briefsTennis-Point hopes to have 15 stores in Spain by 2024
Tennis-Point – a Signa Sports United company, which has set its sights on €13.5 to €14 million in annual sales – will be opening three stores, two of them big, in the last third of the current year. Speaking with CMDsport, its chief executive for Spain, Miquel Just, says ...
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News briefsSigna’s Padel-Point launches French amateur padel tour supported by Cupra
Padel-Point, a brand of Tennis-Point GmbH, a Signa Sports United company, has launched the Cupra Padel-Point Tour, France 2022. The first event of its kind in France, consisting of eleven tournaments across the country from April to September, is designed to create a world-class amateur padel tournament in France and ...
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Tennis-Point to run a pro shop in Spain
Tennis-Point has struck a four-year deal to take charge of and operate under its own banner the pro shop at a well-known Spanish tennis academy, the Emilio Sánchez Academy in El Prat de Llobregat, a municipality outside the city of Barcelona. The deal could lead to other pro-shop opportunities for ...
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Tennis-Point opens an expansive flagship in Madrid
As Tradesport reports, Tennis-Point has opened a large physical flagship store in Madrid, not far from the Bernabeu football stadium, as part of its multi-channel proposition. At about 1,200 square meters, it is twice the size of the store in Barcelona proper – the Catalonian city’s largest racquet and paddle ...
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Padel Nuestro seeks investors
According to anonymous sources cited by CMDsport, Grupo Padel Nuestro is in late-stage negotiations with various operators in the pádel market and other investors. The Spanish group hopes to raise capital chiefly for international expansion. According to the report, the negotiations follow on the heels of failed negotiations, from the ...
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ArticleA second leg for Tennis-Point in the U.S.
Building up on its recent acquisition of Midwest Sports, which was completed last month, Signa Sports United (SSU) is consolidating its penetration of the U.S. market with a binding agreement to acquire Tennis Express, one of the country’s leading online tennis retailers. The two operations will be folded by SSU ...
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ArticleReportedly planning to go public, Signa Sports United boosts management
Signa Sports United (SSU), the online sporting goods retailing group controlled by Signa Retail, is in talks to go public through a merger with a blank-check SPAC company, Reuters reported. Quoting “two people familiar with the matter,” the news agency says the company is in preliminary talks with Yucaipa Acquisition ...
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Tennis-Point will power an e-shop on the ATP Tour’s website
Signa Sports United has announced an exclusive global partnership until 2025 between Tennis-Point , its growing tennis e-commerce platform, and the ATP Tour. As the “official racket sports products retailer” of the ATP Tour, Tennis-Point will connect ATP to Signa Sports United’s platform technologies to launch an ATP ...
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ArticleSigna is looking to lead the international pádel market
The game of pádel, an easier alternative to tennis, is said to be most popular now in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Switzerland, and industry experts predict that it is going to spread soon to other countries including France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the U.K. and the U.S. According to CMDsport , ...
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Tennis-Point moves into the U.S.
Signa Sports United has announced the acquisition of a majority stake in an American online tennis retailer, Midwest Sports , subject to customary conditions for deal closing. The transaction strengthens the international reach and market position of Tennis-Point , one of the numerous web stores of Signa Sports ...
