All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 22, Issue 41 – Page 3

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    Etnies has opened a flagship store in Amsterdam, created in...

    2011-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Etnies has opened a flagship store in Amsterdam, created in cooperation with its key retailer, Eberhardt. The store is in the sought-after Damrak area, and carries the largest collection of Etnies footwear and apparel in Europe. It's the Etnies second store to open in Europe after a shop in London ...

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    A Dutch sports retailer, Telstar Sport & Fashion, has taken...

    2011-10-07T00:00:00Z

    A Dutch sports retailer, Telstar Sport & Fashion, has taken over the former Hink Sport megastore in Alkmaar, which is about 5,000 square meters, from its receivers. Telstar already has five such megastores and has advanced plans to open two more in Apeldoorn and Groningen. Hink Sport, a prominent member ...

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    Nike's Sustainable Business & Innovation Lab is setting up a...

    2011-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Nike's Sustainable Business & Innovation Lab is setting up a venture capital operation that will look for and fund alternative energies and better business practices. Bloomberg has reported that SBI will invest money in startup businesses that develop sustainable practices or that help promote more healthful living. The SBI was ...

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    Tharanco Lifestyles, the American company that took over the Greg...

    2011-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Tharanco Lifestyles, the American company that took over the Greg Norman Collection of golf apparel at the beginning of 2009, has agreed to also acquire Dunning Golf, a Canadian company specializing in high-performance golf clothing. Ralph Dunning, who founded it in 2001, will continue to hold a share in the ...

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    Emilio Morabito is the new country manager of Amer Sports...

    2011-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Emilio Morabito is the new country manager of Amer Sports Italia, taking the place of Marco Furlanis who left several months ago. He worked with fast-moving consumer goods companies like Reckitt Benckiser, Henkel and Unilever and then acted as sales director at Sara Lee for more than 17 years.

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    The members of Intersport España, who have already decided to...

    2011-10-07T00:00:00Z

    The members of Intersport España, who have already decided to change the buying group from a cooperative into a limited partnership, have now approved a plan to set up a separate company, Intersport CCS, to act as their buying and service company. Don Enrique Roura Bonet of Body Molina is ...

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    Sporaltec, a group of French sports and leisure companies aided...

    2011-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Sporaltec, a group of French sports and leisure companies aided by public authorities near the Alps, is joining forces with Numélic, a similar group of companies involved in digital technologies, in a program to share knowledge and experiences about older people

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    Quick steps up apparel after buyout from AFG

    2011-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Rini van Trigt, who has been involved with the Dutch Quick brand of sports-inspired shoes for many years, has bought out the minority stake owned by the Achten Fashion Group (AFG) in Marrini, the Dutch holding company that indirectly owns the rights to the brand. The company is now planning ...

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    Erica Kerner, global Olympic Games director at the Adidas Group,...

    2011-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Erica Kerner, global Olympic Games director at the Adidas Group, left the company in September, only a few months before the start of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Kerner was supervising the comprehensive sponsorship and licensing program put together by Adidas for these Olympics, as she had already done ...

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    Our story on the acromonious battles between two parts of...

    2011-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Our story on the acromonious battles between two parts of the Hon family and their competing brands unfortunately contained a partly erroneous statement. Zyro, a British distributor, has indeed quit selling Dahon, but the brand has not been replaced with Tern, which has yet to appoint a distributor in the ...

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    Speedo has its sights on an Australian blogger, accusing him...

    2011-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Speedo has its sights on an Australian blogger, accusing him of breach of copyright and saying his website is damaging the brand. Dave Evans, 24, argues that Speedo has become a generic term. Speedo is asking the Federal Court in Canberra to restrict the use of domain names including the ...

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    Asolo denies a rumor according to which the company would...

    2011-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Asolo denies a rumor according to which the company would be taken over by Oxylane, the French retail giant that owns Décathlon

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    JJB Sports wants to get people excited about sports with...

    2011-10-07T00:00:00Z

    JJB Sports wants to get people excited about sports with its new TV advertising campaign. The ads, developed by TBWA\Manchester, show off a variety of products that JJB carries, and are hoped to help the struggling retailer. The three ads will be shown through the first week of October.

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    Décathlon ranks #8 among the best corporate home pages on...

    2011-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Décathlon ranks #8 among the best corporate home pages on Facebook in Spain, based on various criteria

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    Mike Egeck, 52, has become the chief executive of Hurley...

    2011-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Mike Egeck, 52, has become the chief executive of Hurley International, the action sports brand of the Nike group. The brand's founder, Bob Hurley, remains chairman. Egeck had recently left VF Corporation to act as president of True Religion, an American brand of jeans. At VF, he ran Seven for ...

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    Adidas has unveiled an “intelligent” football boot, the Adizero F50....

    2011-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Adidas has unveiled an “intelligent” football boot, the Adizero F50. Described as the fastest boot ever developed by the brand and as the ultimate digital training tool, it houses a Micoach Speed_Cell in the outsole that captures movements and measures key performance data such as actual, average and maximum speed, ...

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    Décathlon came in 5th place among the favorite retail brands...

    2011-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Décathlon came in 5th place among the favorite retail brands in France this year after retail chains involved in other sectors: Picard, Amazon, Ikea, Yves Rocher and Fnac

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    Aigle has opened its 5th store in Paris near the...

    2011-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Aigle has opened its 5th store in Paris near the Bastille, close to those recently opened there by Timberland, Lacoste and Clarks

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    Sales of bicycles in France rose by 5.5 percent in...

    2011-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Sales of bicycles in France rose by 5.5 percent in the first six months of this year, after several years of steady decline, thanks mainly to very mild weather. In 2010, French bike deliveries fell by 4.9 percent to 664,500 units, excluding toy and children's bikes.

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    Research conducted by a Swiss laboratory on 40 runners showed...

    2011-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Research conducted by a Swiss laboratory on 40 runners showed that their heart frequency went down by two beats per minute on average if they were running with On shoes on a treadmill, rather than with their conventional shoes. Twelve runners experienced a reduction of ten beats. Only two had ...