All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 23, Issue 44-45 – Page 4
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Intersport acquires The Athlete’s Foot
Intersport International Corporation (IIC) announced today the acquisition of The Athlete's Foot (TAF), a U.S.-based retail company that franchises 430 athletic footwear shops in 27 countries around the world. The acquisition covers 100 percent of TAF's assets, its global trademark rights and all its franchising agreements.TAF is still recognized as ...
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+++ Mirko Läpple, former regional key account manager at Nike,...
+++ Mirko Läpple, former regional key account manager at Nike, has been appointed sales director for Germany of Newline, the Danish sportswear brand +++ Urs Egli, formerly with Oakley, is new product manager for Kjus' skiwear at LK International, replacing Kenneth Kurtzweg +++
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British high-street retailers are bouncing back, according to September figures...
British high-street retailers are bouncing back, according to September figures from a national accountancy firm, BDO. Comparable sales grew by 3.5 percent that month, in part thanks to heavy storms at the end of the month that prompted consumers to buy winter clothing. Fashion alone grew by 3 percent. Last ...
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Décathlon was acclaimed as the best sports retail chain in...
Décathlon was acclaimed as the best sports retail chain in Belgium, based on a survey by Q&A Research and Consultancy
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Columbia is not amused about Europe
Columbia Sportswear posted a decrease of 4.0 percent in net sales to $545.0 million for its third quarter ended Sept. 30, compared with the year-ago results. About 2 percentage points of the decrease were said to be due to currency effects. In the same period, operating profit went up by ...
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The Lance Armstrong scandal raises questions about sports marketing
The scandal that erupted after the publication of a damning report by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) about doping by Lance Armstrong is reverberating around the sports marketing business, causing a scramble by sponsors to pull out of endorsements worth millions of dollars.As widely reported in the last days, the ...
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David Joel Stern, who turned 70 years old last Sept....
David Joel Stern, who turned 70 years old last Sept. 22, has decided to stop running the National Basketball Association (NBA) in February 2014, after serving for 30 years as its commissioner. He had joined the NBA in 1966 as an outside attorney. Stern will be succeeded by Adam Silver, ...
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EA7 Emporio Armani will dress up the ski instructors of...
EA7 Emporio Armani will dress up the ski instructors of the Italian region of Valle d'Aosta for the next four years. Providing these professionals with the technical clothing that they will be wearing all through the season, the large product line developed by EA7 aims to combine technical needs with ...
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For the first time in 65 years, Italians bought more...
For the first time in 65 years, Italians bought more bicycles than cars in 2011, evidently reacting to the economic problems in their country and sharply inflated gasoline prices, which have become higher than in many other parts of Europe. A total of 1,750,000 bikes were reportedly sold in Italy ...
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Mimi Anderson, the 50-year-old English ultra runner, has been added...
Mimi Anderson, the 50-year-old English ultra runner, has been added to X-Bionic's list of sponsored athletes
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Effective Oct. 31, Walter Aumayr will leave the executive board...
Effective Oct. 31, Walter Aumayr will leave the executive board of Wintersteiger, the leading company of ski service and rental solutions. He has been in charge of technology and production for about 10 years and wants to accept a new professional challenge. His job will be executed on an interim ...
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Li Ning is selling 25 percent direct stake in his...
Li Ning is selling 25 percent direct stake in his eponymous firm to Viva China Holdings, a company in which his family has a 56 percent stake, for HK$1.36 billion (€135.6m-$175.4), but the shares will technically remain inside the family. The sum will be paid by Viva China to buy ...
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August marked the first month of 2012 that bicycle sales...
August marked the first month of 2012 that bicycle sales in the Netherlands increased. GfK's Retail and Technology Panel found that, compared with August 2011, sales were up by 4 percent. The average price rose by 7 percent. The boost was attributed partly to August's weather, which had 25 more ...
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Nike has signed an 11-year extension of its sponsorship deal...
Nike has signed an 11-year extension of its sponsorship deal with Football Federation Australia (FFA). It is the third consecutive agreement between the two organizations over nine years, continuing a partnership that began in 2004, and the largest single commitment between an Australian national sports team and an apparel manufacturer. ...
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Bauer Performance Sports has announced a 10-year global initiative designed...
Bauer Performance Sports has announced a 10-year global initiative designed to raise hockey participation by an extra one million players, on top of current participation growth projections, by 2022. The first phase, which was announced at the annual Bauer World event early in October, will consist of a Canadian research ...
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More than 40,000 players registered to take part in the...
More than 40,000 players registered to take part in the World Squash Day on Oct. 21, for matches that were played all over the world. Organizers claim a world record for the biggest sports match in history. World Squash Day was launched in 2002 in honor of Derek Sword, a ...
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