All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 22, Issue 49-50
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Maier Sports takes Rono and runs
Maier Sports , the German sports apparel firm acquired by the Findos Investor equity firm last Aug. 1, is taking over a specialty brand of running wear, Rono Innovations . Rono will reportedly continue to operate independently within the new enlarged group, which also markets Maier Sports snow ...
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Oakley licenses Trimera for swimwear
Oakley has granted a global license to Trimera Group of Montreal for lifestyle and athletic women's swimwear and related accessories such as cover-ups, hats and bags. The company's Oakley-branded products are scheduled to become available at retail from November 2012 or January 2013. They will use an exclusive fabric intended ...
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Matt of Spain has obtained a license to make and...
Matt of Spain has obtained a license to make and sell bandanas with the Tour de France brand name
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Reportedly, Metro plans to make a statement next Friday on...
Reportedly, Metro plans to make a statement next Friday on the possible divestiture of the Kaufhof chain of department stores, including its Kaufhof Sportarenas. According to the German daily newspaper Handelsblatt, Signa, the Greek-owned investment company based in Austria, is offering to pay only €2.05 billion for the assets, less ...
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Hestra opens Hungarian factory
Hestra Hungary, a joint venture between Hestra of Sweden and Union Trade Kft , a Hungarian producer of shoe components, opened a new manufacturing plant in the east of the country last month for the Swedish ski glove maker. Hestra was hard-pressed to expand its production capacity as ...
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Roxy will relaunch its skis, made by EXO
Quiksilver has announced that it will offer a line of Roxy branded skis for the winter 2012-13 season. They will be made in a small workshop at St. Jean de Moirans, where Rossignol's new head office is located, but not by Rossignol, which manufactured the Roxy line when it was ...
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New Wave will take Paris Glove to Europe
Last week, New Wave Group announced the acquisition of a Canadian company called Paris Glove, that produces sports gloves under the Auclair Sports brand name as well as other types of gloves for the fashion and industrial markets. The Swedish group, which is involved in sporting goods as well as ...
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Gina Tricot, a Swedish fashion retailer, is poised to enter...
Gina Tricot, a Swedish fashion retailer, is poised to enter the sports market with the launch of a new sportswear range. Sportfack, the magazine for the Swedish sporting goods sector, indicated that it would be launched at the beginning of 2012, and that it will include fashionable sports bras and ...
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Hi-Tec is taking over its own distribution in the Netherlands...
Hi-Tec is taking over its own distribution in the Netherlands from the start of next year. For the last two years the brand of court sports, outdoor and golf footwear has been sold in the Dutch market by Falcon, a Dutch supplier of rainwear and sports apparel. However, the two ...
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Moncler is launching two models of sunglasses, developed and produced...
Moncler is launching two models of sunglasses, developed and produced by Mykita at its factory in Berlin. They use the German company's patented Mylon material and mineral glasses by Barberini (more in EyeWear Intelligence, another newsletter by EDM Publications – if you are interested in eyewear, see our new, revamped ...
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The number of daily visits at the Nissan Skipass, the...
The number of daily visits at the Nissan Skipass, the 18-year-old Italian consumer-oriented snow sports show, declined this year to a total of 98,729 over the four days of the event, held in Modena from Oct. 29 to Nov. 2. The number was about 107,000 a year earlier. The number ...
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A French snowboard rider, Mathieu Crépel, has signed an endorsement...
A French snowboard rider, Mathieu Crépel, has signed an endorsement team with Blue Tomato, the Austrian-based online store
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Pure Fishing, the fishing tackle subsidiary of Jarden Corporation that...
Pure Fishing, the fishing tackle subsidiary of Jarden Corporation that owns Abu Garcia, Berkley, Mitchel, Shakespeare and other brands, has taken over substantially all the assets of Beyond Fishing & Sporting Goods, a South African company that has been distributing its products in sub-Saharan Africa for more than two years. ...
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Le Coq Sportif has launched a new version of its...
Le Coq Sportif has launched a new version of its website, offering simplified navigation and adapting it for consultation on a tablet or a smartphone. Its e-commerce platform is now completely integrated with the rest of the website. It tells the history of the French brand, born in Romilly in ...
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The European Cyclists' Federation issued a study quantifying the contribution...
The European Cyclists' Federation issued a study quantifying the contribution of cycling to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG): If citizens of the European Union all used their bicycles with the same intensity as Danes did in 2000, cycling an average of 2.6 km per day, they could help ...
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Rossignol’s turnaround is confirmed
French President Nicolas Sarkozy paid a highly publicized visit to the Dynastar factory at Sallanches, which overlooks the Mont Blanc this morning to give it a newly coined “made in France” label and to celebrate the Rossignol Group's recent decision to repatriate the production of junior skis from China, to ...
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Freddy is collaborating with Istituto Marangoni, an internationally reputed fashion...
Freddy is collaborating with Istituto Marangoni, an internationally reputed fashion management school in Milan, in a contest for the best designs. The students of the institute and any other fashion fans are invited to request a blank T-shirt and to send back its photo with a design that they have ...
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Lacoste has opened a temporary Lacoste Christmas Shop on its...
Lacoste has opened a temporary Lacoste Christmas Shop on its Facebook page, offering a selection of products with a Lacoste iPhone cover and other exclusive gifts to accompany the customer's order
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Brooks, which enjoys a high market share in the Germany...
Brooks, which enjoys a high market share in the Germany and is developing its presence in other European countries, has released its first corporate responsibility report. The American brand of running shoes began auditing its contract factories about ten years ago, and the report shows some progress between 2009 and ...
