All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 24, Issue 23-24 – Page 2
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Cold weather and good numbers in Norway
First-quarter sales of sporting goods in Norway increased by 0.7 percent to 2.655 billion Norwegian kroner (€345.2m-$458.2m) when compared to the same period in 2012, according to Sportsbransjen, the sporting goods industry association in the country. The sales increase can mostly be attributed to the cold and sunny winter weather ...
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Warrior Sports is launching a new line of cleated football...
Warrior Sports is launching a new line of cleated football boots, called Gambler, as a follow-up to its Skreamer line. It will compete with new releases such as Adidas' Nitrocharge and Nike's Hypervenom. The top of the new range is the Gambler Pro, which is equipped with a specially designed ...
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New Westbeach chief wants to double sales
Ed Seymour, who has been at the helm of Westbeach for the last six years, has stepped down and left the Canadian snowboarding apparel brand. Seymour joined Westbeach as global sales director and then became its chief executive at the start of this year.His job has been taken over by ...
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Patagonia has promoted Doug Freeman to the position of chief...
Patagonia has promoted Doug Freeman to the position of chief operating offer, effective immediately, to replace Rose Macario, who now leads Patagonia Works, the new holding company set up by Yvon Chouinard for sustainable development in other sectors. Freeman will report to Casey Sheahan, chief executive of Patagonia. He has served as ...
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Lowa remains strong in a rapidly changing market environment
The German outdoor footwear company managed to lift its total consolidated sales to €140.0 million in 2012 compared with €139.0 million in the previous year. The figure includes sales at the subsidiaries in the U.S., Switzerland and Austria. The turnover of the German operations alone was slightly down to nearly €120.1 ...
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Décathlon is changing the name of its discount-oriented Koodza stores...
Décathlon is changing the name of its discount-oriented Koodza stores to Décathlon Simply, according to Sport-Guide.com. The parent company, Oxylane, has sharply reduced the number of Koodza stores in France in the last two years.
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New CEO for Le Coq Sportif
Frank Heissat is returning to his native France to run another sponsor of the Tour de France. This passionate triathlete is leaving as vice president and general manager of Oakley for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) to become chief executive of Le Coq Sportif, effective July 1. Heissat ...
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Icebreaker has hired Cathy Quain, formerly in charge of direct-to-consumer...
Icebreaker has hired Cathy Quain, formerly in charge of direct-to-consumer sales at Burton Snowboards, as global vice president of retail
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Vic Sports has taken on the Spanish distribution of Carver...
Vic Sports has taken on the Spanish distribution of Carver Skateboards from California
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Skullcandy is closing its office in San Clemente, California, and...
Skullcandy is closing its office in San Clemente, California, and offering positions to most of its staff of 30 people at its headquarters in Park City, Utah. The closure has led to the resignation of the company's chief financial officer, Kyle Westcoat. Separately, Sam Paschel, former executive vice president of ...
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Lolë, the wellness brand of Coalision, has opened a flagship...
Lolë, the wellness brand of Coalision, has opened a flagship store in Biarritz on the Basque coast of France, almost simultaneously with the inauguration of its 7th European store not far away at Saint-Jean-de-Luz. According to Fashionmag.fr, the brand is planning to open shop in the French ski resort of ...
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Bollé has extended its partnership deal with Tony Parker for...
Bollé has extended its partnership deal with Tony Parker for three more years. Bushnell's sunglass brand had used the French NBA star as an ambassador since 2003. Born 31 years ago, Parker has been playing for the San Antonio Spurs since 2011.
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Bob Meers, a former head of the Reebok brand and...
Bob Meers, a former head of the Reebok brand and former CEO of Lululemon, has taken over Alignmed, a company that claims to have a developed a proprietary touch/tension technology, Neuroband, that stimulates muscles and nerves to improve posture and balance
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Bob Meistrell, who co-founded Body Glove together with his twin...
Bob Meistrell, who co-founded Body Glove together with his twin brother Bill in 1953, died last June 16 of an apparent heart attack in his yacht Diappearance, near Catalina Island in California, following a paddleboard race. He was 84 years old. He and Bill, who died in 2006, moved to ...
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Billabong changes the subject of takeover talks
Confirming a previous report, Billabong International said it is in discussions to sell West 49, the action sports retail chain it owns in Canada, which has more than 70 stores. It could not be determined whether Zumiez is in fact the partner in the discussion, as we was previously reported ...
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B'Twin, the private brand of bicycles developed and marketed by...
B'Twin, the private brand of bicycles developed and marketed by Décathlon, is now providing customers with a lifetime guarantee. The French retailer says that this is possible because it controls all the stages of the supply chain.
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Herman van Beveren, the general manager of Décathlon in Belgium,...
Herman van Beveren, the general manager of Décathlon in Belgium, told reporters earlier this month that the French retailer intends to double its number of Belgian stores to 30 in the next five years. As reported by Sport Partner, there are currently 15 Décathlon stores in Belgium but two more ...
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Intersport predicts stable sales, enters Belarus
Confirming a previous estimate, Intersport International Corporation reports that its affiliated retailers around the world raised their sales by 3 percent last year to €10.2 billion after VAT, driven by football, running and fitness products. As it gets ready to open its first stores in China, Morocco and Belarus, the ...
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The business has been renamed Emerald Expositions. It will continue...
The business has been renamed Emerald Expositions. It will continue to organize the Outdoor Retail and Interbike
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Patrick Pons-de-Vier, who has been running the rather successful footwear...
Patrick Pons-de-Vier, who has been running the rather successful footwear segment of Amer Sports for the past nine years, catapulting Salomon to the second spot on our rugged outdoor footwear chart, has been promoted vice president of the Salomon brand. His former duties have been taken overby Jean-Marc Djian, formerly ...
