All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 23, Issue 50-51
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Reebok streamlines
Reebok International is streamlining operations worldwide after the Adidas Group admitted a few days ago that the brand would not be able to reach its previously set goals and reduced its forecast for 2015 sales by one-third, deciding that it should get out of team sports and specialize in fitness ...
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Lotto works with Pan in Thailand
After changing the distribution of its products in Australia, Lotto Sport Italia has made a switch in Thailand, where it was previously working through Paragon Vest . It has signed a five-year licensing agreement with Bangkok Athletic Company , a subsidiary of the big Pan Holdings ...
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With a new location in the town of Uppsala, XXL...
With a new location in the town of Uppsala, XXL Sport has now opened its ninth store in Sweden. In 2012 alone, the Norwegian retailer has opened four of its megastores in the country. It wants to end up with six or seven stores in the Stockholm area and four ...
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Lafuma has opened a temporary store for its Killy line...
Lafuma has opened a temporary store for its Killy line in the French town of Annecy
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Snowleader, a French online retailer of snow sports products, has...
Snowleader, a French online retailer of snow sports products, has carried out an equity increase of €400,000 by issuing new shares to a couple of institutional investors and private shareholders to help pursue its further development, according to sport-guide.com. Thomas Rouault, who started up the website four years ago, will ...
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Intersport France is growing rapidly in the mountain resorts, where...
Intersport France is growing rapidly in the mountain resorts, where 18 new stores joined the cooperative so far this year, building up to a total of 206 units specializing in snow and outdoor sports. Thanks to the new store openings, the retailers affiliated with Intersport in the mountain resorts have ...
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Go Sport has finally started up its virtual store in...
Go Sport has finally started up its virtual store in France. The launch is accompanied by a contest on the internet for purchase vouchers, tickets for a match of the Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) football team and jerseys signed by the team's players, with which Go Sport struck a partnership last ...
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Zoggs takes new initiatives to expand
After growing by more than 50 percent since Mark Hammersley , a former president of Speedo , took the helm of the company five years ago, Zoggs , the Australian brand of high-end swim goggles, has hired two other seasoned industry veterans in the last few months and taken ...
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Escada plans to start its own online shop for the...
Escada plans to start its own online shop for the German and Austria markets in the spring of 2013, according to Textilwirtschaft. Other countries should follow in the autumn. It should start up with only a selection of items from the brand s main collection, including its Escada Sport line. ...
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Italian kids are encouraged to exercise
Assosport , the Italian sporting goods industry association, has collected €80,000 for an initiative intended to promote sports participation among children under the age of 12 whose families don t have enough money to pay for their registration in a sports club . The funds were collected through an auction ...
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The share of skiers who wore helmets in Switzerland during...
The share of skiers who wore helmets in Switzerland during the winter 2011/12 winter season increased to 84 percent, up from 81 percent in the previous season. It reached the same ratio already achieved among snowboarders. The ratio went up to 94 percent among children, but it also grew among ...
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Johnson Watercraft hires rival's designer
Johnson Outdoors Watercraft has hired an industry veteran, Bob McDonough , as its director of research and development. He joins the American company from Confluence Watersports , where he led the development of numerous market-leading products as vice president of design and senior designer. In his new role, he ...
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The funds managed by Odin Frovaltning have decreased their joint...
The funds managed by Odin Frovaltning have decreased their joint holdings in Rapala VMC to 4.61% of its shares and voting rights
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The seventh edition of the World Snowboard Day is planned...
The seventh edition of the World Snowboard Day is planned for Sunday, Dec. 30. Organized by EuroSIMA, the World Snowboard Federation and Outdoor Sports Valley, it can be described as a free celebration day for the sport, where veterans and neophytes alike are welcomed to the slopes to enjoy and ...
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Rip Curl reports a slightly improved operating profit on a...
Rip Curl reports a slightly improved operating profit on a 15 percent increase in its global sales to more than 400 million Australian dollars (€320m-US$258m) for the financial year ended last June 30. A big drop in Europe was compensated by sales growth in other parts of the world. Notably, double-digit ...
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Esprit has signed a distribution contract for the Middle East...
Esprit has signed a distribution contract for the Middle East and North Africa with the Al-Futtaim Group, and it is evaluating new options for the Indian market, where it has agreed not to extend its current distribution agreement with Madura Fashion & Lifestyle. Al-Futtaim will take over the existing 35-plus ...
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A more comprehensive retail panel by Sports Tracking Europe
The Sports Tracking Europe joint venture between NPD Group and GfK has launched a new point-of-sale market research service in France and Germany to monitor sales of many different categories of sports apparel and equipment in the stores. The data are being supplied to clients ...
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Sportart, the German company led by Frank Koch, has decided...
Sportart, the German company led by Frank Koch, has decided to intensify its collaboration with Adidas in the area of boxing equipment, holding regular product meetings. The decision follows an extension of Adidas' supply contract with the German Boxing Federation (DBV) for a further four years.
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With a new skiwear collection, Isbjörn of Sweden will enter...
With a new skiwear collection, Isbjörn of Sweden will enter the 8-12-year-old segment. Previously, the company specializing in children's activewear focused only on products for children aged 0 to 7 years.
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SportScheck moves into smaller cities
After developing a network of large stores in the country's bigger cities, SportScheck, Germany's leading integrated sporting goods retailer is now determined to make it into smaller towns as well. With smaller stores with a selling surface of some 1,000 square meters, Scheck is targeting urban areas with between ...
