All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 22, Issue 31-32 – Page 2
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Canada Goose has reportedly developed its first spring/summer collection...
Canada Goose has reportedly developed its first spring/summer collection for 2012, featuring seven items of light outerwear
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Kelme has signed a sponsorship deal with the Spanish Caja...
Kelme has signed a sponsorship deal with the Spanish Caja Segovia football team for the next four seasons
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SRAM is buying itself out of Triatlantic, the private equity...
SRAM is buying itself out of Triatlantic, the private equity firm that invested in the company in 2009, as a prelude to its own planned public offering, which should raise about $300 million in new equity. The big American supplier of bike components obtained new credit facilities totaling $790 million ...
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Exel Composites, which went out of the sporting goods business...
Exel Composites, which went out of the sporting goods business a few years ago, has signed a license agreement with E-Sports Group for the use of the Exel trademark in poles for skiing, Nordic Walking and Nordic Blading. E-Sports is a Finnish firm that already licenses the Exel brand name ...
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Josh Hunter, editor in chief of TransWorld Business, leaves this...
Josh Hunter, editor in chief of TransWorld Business, leaves this American action sports magazine to handle sales and marketing for GLM Events, whose newest venture is the Action Sports Asia fair due to take place in Singapore next April 13-15
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Jessica Brown is leaving as executive editor of the British...
Jessica Brown is leaving as executive editor of the British Drapers magazine for a job as head of fashion at Amazon
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Brazil’s leading sports retailer readies an IPO
Grupo SBF, the fast-growing company that runs the Centauro and By Tennis chains of sporting goods retail stores in Brazil, is preparing to go public in 2013, if the market conditions at the time are favorable on the eve of an explosion of the market that will no doubt coincide ...
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New Wave Group, the Swedish brands company that owns Craft,...
New Wave Group, the Swedish brands company that owns Craft, Cutter & Buck and several other operations, plans to buy Ahead, an American supplier of headwear and other products. Ahead, for which New Wave will pay $17.4 million, will fall under the auspices of a new subsidiary being set up ...
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Revo, the house brand of sunglasses of Luxottica, is...
Revo, the house brand of sunglasses of Luxottica, is partnering with Tahoe Stand Up Paddleboards on a new series of short films
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Double-digit growth for Bike Expo
Messe München is coming into a closer competition with the Eurobike show organized by Messe Friedrichshafen as the schedule of its own bicycle trade show is going to move forward from July to an Aug. 16-19 date next year, when it will be rebranded as Ispo Bike.Still called Bike Expo ...
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Bic Sport has sold Takoon, one of the pioneering brands...
Bic Sport has sold Takoon, one of the pioneering brands of kitesurfing, to P&L Design, a company set up and equally owned by two industry veterans, Pierre Engel and Jacques Freydrich. Engel has worked for Tiga and Gaastra in the past. Freydrich has headed up some of Neil Pryde's operation ...
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Puma becomes an SE
Puma's registration as a “Societas Europaea” became effective yesterday, triggering a number of expected management changes prior to the publication of the company's quarterly results on Wednesday and those of its parent company, PPR, on Friday. As a European Corporation (SE), which will ease cooperation across borders, Puma will have ...
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Nike has expanded its footprint in Beaverton, Oregon, with a...
Nike has expanded its footprint in Beaverton, Oregon, with a new five-year lease on 26,000 square feet adjacent to its world headquarters. The new space will house administration and lab research, and will add more than 100 employees to the total of 300 who already work at the headquarters.
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Benitosports, one of the major retail members of Spain's Base...
Benitosports, one of the major retail members of Spain's Base buying group, has launched its own e-commerce site
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B&B puts out a « Supershow. »
Reminding the sports professional of a similarly named fair in Atlanta, the Bread & Butter trade show for selected brands, which took place on July 6-8 on the historic grounds of Berlin's-Tempelhof airport, celebrated its tenth anniversary under the motto 'The Bread & Butter Supershow'.About 580 exhibitors presented their new ...
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New Balance is recruiting heavily at its European office in...
New Balance is recruiting heavily at its European office in the U.K. for the national launch of the football range of its Warrior Sports subsidiary, which has concentrated until now on hockey and lacrosse
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Go Sport has plans to get back in the black
Groupe Go Sport continues to lose money, but the management of the French sporting goods retailer is convinced that it has found the recipe for its financial turnaround. Briefly stated, it will consist of a closer partnership with the brands, to differentiate from Décathlon, combined with more targeted product ranges ...
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Joe Ayling has left as news editor of Just-Style, the...
Joe Ayling has left as news editor of Just-Style, the international online news service, to act as editor of Optician, a British trade magazine for eyewear
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India may become more attractive for foreign retailers
The Committee of Secretaries, an advisory body grouping representatives all the relevant ministries of the Indian government, issued a much-awaited recommendation last Friday that foreign companies should be allowed to acquire a controlling stake of 51 percent in multi-brand retail in the country.To help protect the numerous small, traditional retailers ...
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Vibram attacks Fila over FiveFingers patents
Vibram USA and its parent company in Italy, Vibram SpA, filed a complaint last July 6 in a U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, alleging that the “Skele-Toes” range introduced by Fila USA last February infringes on three U.S. patents. The main patent, issued last Oct. 5, covers “footwear having independently ...
