All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 22, Issue 51-52
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SDI lifts half-year sales and underlying profits
Aided by several acquisitions and store openings, Sports Direct International (SDI) managed to lift its sales by 8.4 percent to £888.6 million (€1,062m-$1,387m) for the half year until Oct. 23, in spite of the tight economic situation in the U.K. and some of its other markets. The company's British retail ...
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Fremil International has restyled the website of its West Scout...
Fremil International has restyled the website of its West Scout brand and launched a new website for Ciesse Piumini, using a dynamic and interactive 2.0 platform and some creative contents. Since its launch last October, the ciessepiumini.com website has been accessed by 63,995 unique visitors, many of whom have registered ...
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The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry had hired...
The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry had hired Florian Dammer to be its new bicycle manager and Simone Ramsauer to manage public relations. Dammer was a road racer as a youth, in the German Bundesliga, and competed in World Cups. He has worked in marketing for KTM Fahrrad ...
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Foot Locker is entering the Polish market this week with...
Foot Locker is entering the Polish market this week with a first store located in Warsaw's Arkadia Shopping Center
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Under a five-year deal, Puma is the new supplier of...
Under a five-year deal, Puma is the new supplier of official and replica shirts for the Vodacom Bulls, the rugby team from Pretoria in the South African Super Rugby competition
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Scott Sports has signed a two-year sponsorship deal with Cycling...
Scott Sports has signed a two-year sponsorship deal with Cycling Australia, supplying road and time-trial bicycles for the Team Jayco AIS men's continental team, Team Jayco AIS women's road program and the CA/AIS High Performance women's track endurance program. Starting next May, Scott will also provide road bikes for the ...
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Creating a new position, Lotto Sport Italia has hired Stefano...
Creating a new position, Lotto Sport Italia has hired Stefano Straforini to act as European sales manager, with responsibility for the major European markets. He last worked as international sales manager of Monclear, after working as sales manager of Stonefly for the Asia-Pacific region and as international sales manager of ...
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Quiksilver triumphs over tough economic conditions
The Quiksilver group ended its fiscal year with a buoyant last quarter, as its sales increased by 10.1 percent to $545.2 million for the three months until the end of October, amounting to a rise of 6 percent in constant currencies. The company's managers hailed the quarterly performance as robust, ...
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Vegas Europe, the French-based company that held the license for...
Vegas Europe, the French-based company that held the license for the Rusty surfwear brand around Europe, has gone into liquidation. The group was established in 2008 as a European subsidiary of Vegas Enterprises, an Australian company that secured all rights to the Rusty brand in 2007, after drawn-out legal disputes. ...
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The Hohenstein Institute, which certifies textiles for meeting national and...
The Hohenstein Institute, which certifies textiles for meeting national and international standards, has opened a lab in Hong Kong. Hohenstein Laboratories Hong Kong is run by Manfred Hirning, with lab operations headed up by Christopher Au. The institute said that new facility would help Hohenstein improve its service to Asian ...
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Italian Everlast licensee buys stake in Dimensione Danza
Alessandro Bastagli, the businessman who holds the Everlast license for the Italian market, has reached an agreement to buy a 40 percent stake in Dimensione Danza, the Italian producer and retailer of dance equipment, and to help promote the brand in foreign markets. Under the agreement, Bastagli's company, A.Moda, will ...
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Karstadt’s owner still has a chance to buy Kaufhof
Eckard Cordes, the departing chief executive of the Metro Group, told a German newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, that the race for the acquisition of Kaufhof is still open. There are bids on the table from Nicolas Berggruen, the owner of Karstadt, the other major department store chain in Germany, and ...
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Buoyant quarter for Nike, in spite of sluggish European sales
Nike is bulldozing its way through the economic rubble, as its sales soared by 18 percent to $5.7 billion for its second fiscal quarter, until the end of November, with an increase of 16 percent in constant currencies. On the other hand, the company's gross margin was down by 2.6 ...
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Buoyant year sparks sell-off talk at Helly Hansen
Peter Sjølander, chief executive of Helly Hansen, said that the company was about to end another buoyant year, whose results might attract takeover bids as early as next year. However, the Norwegian company insisted that it was not starting an auction and that it would gladly continue to build up ...
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Ispo events focus on Brazil, marketing
Ispo Munich wants to make it clear that it not only serves as a good platform for companies and brands to show off their latest styles and innovations in the exhibition halls, but allows members of the sporting goods industry to keep up with the market through its conferences. The ...
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Munich, the Spanish brand of sneakers for futsal and other...
Munich, the Spanish brand of sneakers for futsal and other sports and leisure, is reportedly planning to launch a new e-commerce platform next year, called x-munich, to market unsold merchandise from previous seasons. A leader in online sales, Munich already operates two other virtual stores, one for regular sports shoes ...
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Intersport’s Swiss branch takes lessons from a very special year
Intersport PSC Holding , the Swiss licensee of the banner in the country, suffered remarkable declines in sales for its last fiscal year, ended Sept. 30. Revenues were down by 6.1 percent reaching 252.7 million Swiss francs (€207.4m-$270.5m). Gross profit was up by 35.6 percent to CHF 15.4 million ...
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The exhibit space booked for the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market...
The exhibit space booked for the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market is already at a record level, over 25,000 square feet more than last year's total of 351,251 square feet. Nielsen Business Media, the organizer of the show, says that so far about 1,000 exhibitors have signed on, including 100 new ...
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Blaming imports, Vulcabras posts a loss
The Brazilian footwear company, which owns the Olympikus brand of athletic shoes and apparel and has a management contract for the Reebok brand in Brazil and Argentina, has reported major sales declines and a net loss for the third quarter, ended last Sept. 30, blaming in part “aggressive” imports of ...
