All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 23, Issue 44-45 – Page 3

  • News briefs

    More companies besides Scott Sports Group and Patagonia (see related...

    2012-10-29T00:00:00Z

    More companies besides Scott Sports Group and Patagonia (see related stories in this issue) are acquiring stakes in some of the suppliers of technology and services. Nike has taken a minority stake in a company that it has been a customer of for two years: Llamasoft, which develops supply chain ...

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    Volcom has opened its first store in Barcelona

    2012-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Volcom has opened its first store in Barcelona

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    Oxbow's new general manager, Baptiste Caulonque, has handed out a...

    2012-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Oxbow's new general manager, Baptiste Caulonque, has handed out a cheque for $17,000 to Duane de Soto to support his Na Kama Kai association in Hawaii. The association, whose name means Children of the Sea, supports ocean-based educational programs and aims at raising awareness of ocean protection issues. The donation ...

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    Powakaddy has reportedly been bought back by its former owner,...

    2012-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Powakaddy has reportedly been bought back by its former owner, John de Graft-Johnson, and by the former owner of the Hill Billy brand, David Catford. Its electric golf trolleys will continue to be manufactured in the U.K. According to Sports Marketing Surveys, Powakaddy has a market share of 51 percent ...

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    Speedo has signed up Brittany Elmslie, an Australian swimmer and...

    2012-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Speedo has signed up Brittany Elmslie, an Australian swimmer and gold medalist at the London Olympics, as the brand's newest ambassador

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    Atomic is introducing a new display system that facilitates the...

    2012-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Atomic is introducing a new display system that facilitates the choice of its skis in the stores

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    Bridgedale has appointed Christian Benedikt as business development manager for...

    2012-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Bridgedale has appointed Christian Benedikt as business development manager for Europe. Benedikt, who most recently ran K2's snowshoe and cross-country ski business in Germany, will take care of the British sport socks brand in Germany and Austria, and then extend his coverage to Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe. ...

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    Billabong International told shareholders at its annual meeting that the...

    2012-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Billabong International told shareholders at its annual meeting that the company remains receptive to takeover offers from third parties. Company officials said they could not tell what led Texas Pacific Group to withdraw its takeover offer 12 days before the annual meeting in the course of the due diligence process. ...

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    The annual general meeting of the Federation of the European...

    2012-10-29T00:00:00Z

    The annual general meeting of the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi), which gathered at the office of Assosport in Treviso on Oct. 22-23, appointed Johan Adamssons, head of sports marketing for team sports at Puma, and Michel Zany, president of the French sporting goods industry association, Fifas, ...

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    Warrior Sports has announced that a Maryland federal judge recently...

    2012-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Warrior Sports has announced that a Maryland federal judge recently issued an injunction prohibiting Under Armour, Neal Goldman, Jenny Levy, and Vertical Lax from utilizing Warrior Sports' confidential documents and related information in their possession. The company, which is owned by New Balance, alleges that its own 2011-12 business plan ...

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    Reusch has announced a new winter sponsoring partnership with Daron...

    2012-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Reusch has announced a new winter sponsoring partnership with Daron Rahlves. The American alpine ski racer, who retired from World Cup racing at the end of the 2006 season, participated in three Olympic Games - 1998, 2002 and 2006 - where he already wore Reusch gloves. In his career, Rahlves ...

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    For next year's Ispo Awards, whose winners will be announced...

    2012-10-29T00:00:00Z

    For next year's Ispo Awards, whose winners will be announced at next Ispo Munich show (Feb. 3-6, 2013), Messe München has presented an optimized and extended concept: The winners will not only be promoted at the show itself, but will be supported in subsequent publications like Ispo's website, the Ispo Awards ...

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    Andreas Heit has been appointed head of the sports shows...

    2012-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Andreas Heit has been appointed head of the sports shows at Brandboxx, the organizer of the Salzburg-based Ösfa trade shows and various order days designed for the Austrian market. The 39-year-old replaces Benedikt Lex, who switched to an Austrian sporting goods retailer. Heit served the Austrian branch of Sony for ...

  • Article

    Strong growth for Amer’s brands in apparel

    2012-10-29T00:00:00Z

    The Winter and Outdoor division of Amer Sports, which includes brands such as Arc'teryx, Salomon and Suunto, improved its operating profit by 9 percent to €80.8 million in the third quarter ended Sept. 30, compared with €79.3 million in the same period a year ago, while its net sales increased ...

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    Groupe Rossignol reports the death of Emile Allais, a visionary...

    2012-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Groupe Rossignol reports the death of Emile Allais, a visionary ski champion who turned 100 years old last February. In 1936, when skiing became an Olympic sport, the Frenchman became the first athlete sponsored by Rossignol. In the next year, he became world champion in three categories. In his collaboration ...

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    Eybl ends license agreement with Intersport

    2012-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Sport Eybl & Sports Experts, the leading Austrian sporting goods retailer with an estimated market share of 25 percent in the country, will drop the name Intersport from its Eybl chain. Eybl was one of the founding members of Intersport Austria some 50 years ago, but quit the buying group ...

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    Sports-Contacts, the agency of Michael Plank, has found distributors and...

    2012-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Sports-Contacts, the agency of Michael Plank, has found distributors and agents for several brands in Germany and Switzerland over the past few months, including Green Grass in Germany for Röhnisch, as well as Wesano and Sport & Import for West Scout and Skylotec in Switzerland, respectively. After establishing a solid ...

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    Puma makes cuts after a bad quarter

    2012-10-29T00:00:00Z

    While reporting disappointing results for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, the management of Puma went into some details last Wednesday about its new “transformation program,” designed to cut costs and optimize the development of new products. It shows that Franz Koch, the young manager appointed chief executive last year, ...

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    German court allows Adidas’ Primeknit

    2012-10-29T00:00:00Z

    As previously reported, on Aug. 28 the Nuremberg District Court granted a request by Nike to ban Adidas' sale of its new Adizero Primeknit shoes through a preliminary injunction. Adidas says it expects that the court will decide on Nov. 7 to set aside its initial decision and to rule ...

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    Novomania, the Chinese young fashion and action sports fair, will...

    2012-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Novomania, the Chinese young fashion and action sports fair, will move its dates next year to July 17-19, just after Bread & Butter in Berlin and Who's Next in Paris. It will move from the World Convention Center of Pudong to the Shanghai Mart, where it started. An investment of ...