All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 23, Issue 50-51 – Page 3
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Warrior, the team sports brand of New Balance, has signed...
Warrior, the team sports brand of New Balance, has signed a sponsorship deal for its new Skreamer line of football boots with Marouane Fellaini, the Belgian midfield player of the British Everton team. It has also made a move into Spanish football by becoming the official supplier of the uniforms ...
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Eight companies get Ispo's BrandNew Awards
A high-ranking jury has picked the winners of next year's Ispo BrandNew Awards. Like their predecessors over the last years, some of which have become important players in the market, they will all enjoy free exhibition space in a show within the show at Ispo Munich on Feb. 3-6.The award in the winter hardgoods category ...
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Jørgen Jørgensen, chief executive of Norrøna Sport, was recently awarded...
Jørgen Jørgensen, chief executive of Norrøna Sport, was recently awarded a prize as the Norwegian “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2012 in the trade segment. The prize was awarded by Ernst & Young to Jørgensen for an impressive ability and unique competence for developing innovative products, establishing distribution channels and being one of ...
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Auchan, the big French-based operator of hypermarkets, which is contolled like Décathlon...
Auchan, the big French-based operator of hypermarkets, which is contolled like Décathlon by the French Mulliez family, has agreed to take over the 91 Real markets in Poland, Romania, Russia and Ukraine, most of which sell a narrow selection of low-priced sports apparel, footwear and equipment, among many other types of products. The acquisition, ...
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Yue Yuen posts small sales growth for athletic shoes
Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings reported consolidated revenues of about US$7.30 billion for the 12 months ended Sept. 30, up by 3.6 percent from the previous comparable period. The company, which trades on the Hong Kong stock exchange, decided a few months ago to change the final date of its financial ...
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Lord Seb Coe, the former athlete who chaired the London...
Lord Seb Coe, the former athlete who chaired the London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games of the past summer, has been elected executive chairman of CSM Sport & Entertainment, replacing next January Alan Pascoe, who will become president of the organization. CSM is a major global sports ...
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Sport Partner reports that Arena has signed a four-year sponsorship...
Sport Partner reports that Arena has signed a four-year sponsorship deal with the Dutch Swimming Federation. Announced during the European championships held in Chartres, the deal relates to all categories from swimming to diving, synchronized swimming, water polo and disabled swimming. Starting from the beginning of next year, the agreement ...
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Arc'teryx has obtained the involvement of the local police in...
Arc'teryx has obtained the involvement of the local police in Vancouver to distribute more than 700 waterproof capes to the homeless population of the Canadian city, where the brand has its head office. The capes are made with excess or discontinued raw materials from the Arc'teryx factory in nearby Burnaby, ...
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India's central government finally won parliamentary approval last week for...
India's central government finally won parliamentary approval last week for its proposed reform allowing foreign investors to own stakes of 51 percent in multi-brand retail activities. The suggestion to open Indian retailing to foreign interests has been hotly debated for several years: Some view it as an important move to ...
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PPR is apparently waiting for a recovery at Puma before...
PPR is apparently waiting for a recovery at Puma before making other acquisitions in the sports and lifestyle sectors, where it is eyeing the outdoor segment in particular. At a press conference in New York, François-Henri Pinault, chief executive of the French group, was reported by Women's Wear Daily as ...
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The European Union has formally announced that it is expanding...
The European Union has formally announced that it is expanding its investigation into subsidized bike imports from China to cover allegedly Chinese-made products that come in through other countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Tunisia. On April 27, the European Commission initiated an anti-subsidies proceeding concerning imports of ...
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As previously reported, the next Bread & Butter show, due...
As previously reported, the next Bread & Butter show, due to be held in Berlin on Jan. 15-17, is going to have many drop-outs. Many other firms will not be readmitted. This will be compensated by some 100 new entries and 50 comebacks.
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Cocona, the American materials technology company that is seeking to...
Cocona, the American materials technology company that is seeking to expand in the sporting goods and outdoor sectors, has secured a private placement for $15 million in additional equity. The company will use the funds for marketing, the development of new technologies and general working capital purposes. Cocona, which was ...
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Terramar Sports, the American producer of technical baselayers, is going...
Terramar Sports, the American producer of technical baselayers, is going to be the new distributor of Bridgedale socks for the U.S. and Canada from next January. The British line has been distributed until now by Garmont North America, which is being dissolved. As previously reported, Scott Sports will distribute Garmont ski ...
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Aldila merges with Mitsubishi
Aldila, a major U.S.-based supplier of carbon fiber shafts and other composite products and materials for golf clubs, archery and other uses, has agreed in principle to merge with Mitsubishi Rayon America (MRA), a leading supplier of carbon fiber and advanced composite materials. The company's directors, senior officers and shareholders who ...
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Alan Offenberg, a founding partner of Compass Group Management, has...
Alan Offenberg, a founding partner of Compass Group Management, has been promoted chief executive of Compass Diversified Holdings, parent company of Camelbak and other brands, taking the place of Joseph Massoud who has been on leave since February 2011
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Intersport is moving ahead in China
Leases have been confirmed for the first three Intersport stores in China: They will be opened from July to September 2013 in Fuzhou, Quanzhou and Xiamen in the south of China. All three of them will have a surface of about 1,000 square meters and are close to hypermarkets and ...
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The Asian Golf Industry Federation (AGIF) has a new president...
The Asian Golf Industry Federation (AGIF) has a new president from South Korea. Tim Trinka has been unanimously elected to lead the organization for the next two years. He works as a senior foreign lawyer at Bae, Kim & Lee in Seoul. He has been co-chairman of the Real Estate ...
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Ricochet replaces Fast as the exclusive French sales agency for...
Ricochet replaces Fast as the exclusive French sales agency for Dainese. The Italian brand of protection clothing and equipment for various sports already has ten stores and 400 points of sale in France. Ricochet, which has a network of about 15 sales reps in the country, represents also Asolo, Lowe Alpine, ...
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Skins' challenge against the UCI gets little industry backing
In an interesting case of a sponsor boldly asserting its influence, Skins, the Australian brand of compression garments, has brought together a pressure group, called Change Cycling Now, which grabbed headlines last week by demanding urgent changes in the management of cycling competitions, in the wake of the Lance Armstrong doping ...
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