All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 23, Issue 38-39 – Page 3
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The second-generation owners of Ivanhoe, a Swedish brand...
The second-generation owners of Ivanhoe, a Swedish brand of outdoor and golf apparel, have started to transfer responsibilities and ownership to the third generation of the Göthager family. Anna and Anders Göthager became the majority shareholders of Ivanhoe Support AB, a new entity that will deal with marketing, ...
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Jack Wolfskin, the German outdoor brand, and Cotswold Outdoor, the...
Jack Wolfskin, the German outdoor brand, and Cotswold Outdoor, the leading British specialty outdoor retailer, have agreed on a partnership for internet sales (more on this and other outdoor-related stories in The Outdoor Industry Compass)
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Vans opens its first store in Southern France in Bordeaux...
Vans opens its first store in Southern France in Bordeaux
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Kesko Corporation of Finland issued a senior unsecured bond of...
Kesko Corporation of Finland issued a senior unsecured bond of €250 million for general corporate purposes, carrying a fixed annual interest rate of 2.75 percent and maturing on Sept. 11, 2018. The significantly oversubscribed bond issue was allocated to 87 investors. The ramp-up of the Russian Intersport operation, which Kesko ...
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Prince Global has renewed its sponsorship of Mike and Bob...
Prince Global has renewed its sponsorship of Mike and Bob Bryan, the American brothers who hold the record for all-time winningest doubles team, male or female. They also won the 2012 U.S. Open and a gold medal at the London Olympics. They will continue to use Prince's EXO3 Rebel 95 ...
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JD stabilizes Blacks
The JD Sports Fashion group saw its operating profit before onetime costs shrink to £3.2 million (€4.0m-$5.2m) for the 26 weeks until July 28, down from £16.2 million for the same weeks in 2011, chiefly due to acquisitions and accompanying disruption. The British sports fashion retailer bought Blacks Leisure, the ...
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Spy Optic had to modify its billboard in Encinitas, California,...
Spy Optic had to modify its billboard in Encinitas, California, advertising its new Happy Lens. The previous ad read “Happy to sit on your face,” and garnered some complaints from locals about the double entendre. Spy took it down after a week. The new board reads “Happiness is coming …” ...
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Oakley got a big kick from the Olympics
Combined with heavy spending on its “Beyond Reason” campaign, Oakley's strong visibility at the London Olympic Games has been a fantastic booster for the brand, considering the fact that it is now recording overall growth of between 15 and 20 percent in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region, ...
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Pou Sheng International, the big Chinese retail group owned by...
Pou Sheng International, the big Chinese retail group owned by Pou Chen Corporation, announced the appointment of a new executive director and chief executive, Heh-Der Kwan, replacing Pan-Tsu Wu after only a few months in office. At the same time, Pou Sheng reported a net loss of US$28.0 million for ...
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New potential bidder for Billabong matches TPG’s offer
Billabong International said that it has received a second conditional acquisition offer. It did not name the party, but it was later identified in several reports as Bain Capital, the U.S. investment firm. The Australian surf company said the new potential bidder was proposing a cash consideration value of 1.45 ...
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Thomas Brock, who has been with Mammut Sports Group...
Thomas Brock, who has been with Mammut Sports Group as sales director for equipment and footwear in Germany since 2003, was appointed head of Mammut's operations in the Swiss market. He will replace Bernhard Bolliger, the longtime country manager in Switzerland, who decided to go into retirement and to ...
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Skechers has hired David Beecroft as managing director of Skechers...
Skechers has hired David Beecroft as managing director of Skechers USA Canada, replacing John Hartshorn, who died of cancer in June at the age of 60
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Crocs has promoted Dale Bathum to chief product officer, Mike...
Crocs has promoted Dale Bathum to chief product officer, Mike DeBell to chief sales officer and Doug Hayes to president for the Americas region
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Authentic Brands Group, the new owner of Prince, has struck...
Authentic Brands Group, the new owner of Prince, has struck a distribution agreement with Globeride for the Japanese market. In China, Taiwan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, the brand's products will be distributed by Wellpower Sports.
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Snowboard Dachstein Tauern, the Austrian company behind Blue Tomato taken...
Snowboard Dachstein Tauern, the Austrian company behind Blue Tomato taken over by Zumiez of the U.S., made a turnover of €24.5 million in the financial year ended last April 30, according to a report by its auditor, KPMG Austria. It made an operating profit (Ebit) of €4.7 million and ended ...
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The first edition of Golf Europe held in Augsburg drew...
The first edition of Golf Europe held in Augsburg drew 1,948 professional visitors from 34 countries, who held talks with 114 exhibitors carrying 170 brands. About half of the fair's visitors came from countries other than Germany. Golf Europe was previously held in Munich, and the three-day event in Augsburg ...
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England's Football Association (FA) confirmed that it was putting an...
England's Football Association (FA) confirmed that it was putting an end to its long-standing relationship with Umbro, and that the England football team will be wearing Nike apparel from next spring. Nike bought Umbro in 2007 but announced a few months ago that it wanted to sell the British football ...
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Nike is the new sponsor of the Spanish Basketball Association....
Nike is the new sponsor of the Spanish Basketball Association. Pau Gasol, Marta Fernández and their teammates will be in Nike shirts earlier this month. Gasol himself was at Nike's Madrid office last week to announce a partnership between the American brand and the Spanish basketball federation, starting from next ...
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Fusalp has appointed a new export manager, Ivan Cecotti, who...
Fusalp has appointed a new export manager, Ivan Cecotti, who has been working in the ski and surf sectors for 16 years. He acted as international sales director for the winter lines of Quiksilver and Roxy, and then he ran the French subsidiary of K2 until the beginning of 2011. ...
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Columbia Sportswear has appointed Stefan Gmeiner as country manager...
Columbia Sportswear has appointed Stefan Gmeiner as country manager for Germany, the Netherlands and Slovenia for the Columbia and Sorel brands from the start of this month. He replaces Mike Kaier, who left to join Falke. Gmeiner was previously category sales manager for apparel, performance layers and accessories for ...
