All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 24, Issue 23-24 – Page 4
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Tennis is a category where Adidas is not growing as...
Tennis is a category where Adidas is not growing as fast as it is in running or football, but the brand is looking at consolidating its leadership in tennis shoes through a contract as official footwear supplier to Novak Djokovic. The Serbian player, who is Number One in the ATP ...
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Double D, the global Adidas licensee for martial arts, has...
Double D, the global Adidas licensee for martial arts, has teamed up with Muhammad Ali Enterprises to launch a collection of technical apparel and boxing performance products that will be co-branded Muhammad Ali by Adidas. The multiple year partnership deal has been brokered and managed by IMG Licensing, a division ...
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Onex Corp. has completed the acquisition of Nielsen Expositions from...
Onex Corp. has completed the acquisition of Nielsen Expositions from Nielsen Holdings for $950 million cash.
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The Ispo Academy travels around the world
Ispo is expanding its Ispo Academy program of conferences, intended to make vendors and retailers more competitive, by organizing new events throughout the year. After a successful launch of the first Ispo Academy seminars at the Ispo Munich and Ispo Beijing shows earlier this year, the first off-show Ispo Academy ...
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Under Armour is serious about international
Under Armour will open an office in Manchester for the British market next month, setting up its own sales team for the country, but it will keep its successful local agent for sales in the golf segment. Germany should be next in line for Under Armour's takeover of the distribution, ...
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Abacus has signed a new agreement with a Danish golfer,...
Abacus has signed a new agreement with a Danish golfer, Steen Tinning, to wear its entire apparel collection on the European Senior Tour
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Fenix Outdoor grows by 9% in quarter
While its Swedish sales declined slightly, the Fenix Outdoor Group still lifted its turnover by 9 percent to 439.3 million Swedish crowns (€51.1m-$66.4m) and sharply raised its profit for the first quarter of this year, as it continued to expand in eastern European countries and in the United States. The ...
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Schöffel has appointed Georg Kaiser, 48, to handle sourcing, logistics...
Schöffel has appointed Georg Kaiser, 48, to handle sourcing, logistics and quality control. Formerly with Frankenwälder, a German supplier of women's apparel, he reports directly to Peter Schöffel, chief executive of the company, who has takenover responsibility for the supply chain following the recent departure of another member of the ...
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Samson Wong has been appointed president of the new 60/40...
Samson Wong has been appointed president of the new 60/40 joint venture for the Chinese market between Columbia Sportswear and Swire Resources, effective next Jan. 1. The 54-year old spent 23 years with Swire. He has been involved with Columbia since 2002, running Swire's operations as a distributor of the ...
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Nike Golf has announced that it is introducing its NG360...
Nike Golf has announced that it is introducing its NG360 app in Europe and Canada, with enhanced features and a new look. The iPhone app, which was launched in the U.S. in May, has had over 225,000 downloads to date and was named one of iTunes “10 essential sports apps.” ...
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SportScheck has appointed Steven Mattwig, 28, as the German sporting...
SportScheck has appointed Steven Mattwig, 28, as the German sporting goods chain's new buying director for sportstyle products and outdoor clothing and equipment. Mattwig, who has already spent ten year in the Otto Group, which owns SportScheck, succeeds Sonja Bunte, who has left the company.
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Jarden Corporation has placed $250 million worth of convertible notes,...
Jarden Corporation has placed $250 million worth of convertible notes, carrying interest of 1.5 percent a year and due in 2019, with a syndicate of investors headed by Barclays Capital and J.P Morgan. The investors have also exercised an option to purchase an additional $15.2 million at the same conditions. ...
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Starting in 2014, Reebok will replace its Vector logo with...
Starting in 2014, Reebok will replace its Vector logo with its new red Delta logo across its whole fitness collection to mark the brand's new focus on categories such as training, running, dance, yoga and walking. Reebok first introduced the Delta logo in its CrossFit collection of training products, launched ...
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The website of Sport 2000 Rent has been awarded a...
The website of Sport 2000 Rent has been awarded a silver medal by T.A.I. Fachzeitungsverlag, an Austrian publisher of trade media. www.sport2000rent.com walked away with the prize in the category “websites in tourism.” Currently, 600 shops around Europe are affiliated to Sport 2000's rental system which is supported by this ...
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Annie Bourgade, who has been with Intersport for 20 years,...
Annie Bourgade, who has been with Intersport for 20 years, has replaced Catherine Soudan as buying director of Sport 2000 France, according to Sport-Guide.com. The same online news service reports that Thierry Feron, who has been with Kiabi for 23 years, has been named chief operating officer at the French ...
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Adidas eyes €2 billion in football in 2014
Adidas told journalists converging on its head office Tuesday that it expects to achieve record sales of €2 billion in football in 2014. This compares with sales of more than €1.5 billion during the World Cup year of 2010 and a little over €1.7 billion in 2012, when Adidas benefited ...
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Next Oct. 17 to 20, Madrid will be the venue...
Next Oct. 17 to 20, Madrid will be the venue for the 13th European Congress of the International Health and Racquet Sports Association (IHRSA). Organized by Management about Sports, the convention will handle various themes including the problem of obesity and the trend toward low-cost gyms. More than 500 owners ...
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Rick de Meijer, who spent the last 12 years with Tenson...
Rick de Meijer, who spent the last 12 years with Tenson in the Netherlands, has established his own agency to sell Chiemsee, the German action sports brands. The new agency, Global Trademarks, will also offer a lifestyle-oriented range of underwear by Bawbags, a Scottish brand. De Meijer, who has a permanent ...
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Intersport España reports a decline of 11.7 percent in its...
Intersport España reports a decline of 11.7 percent in its 2012 revenues to €83 million, but the company continued to make a profit as in the previous ten years with a pretax result of €407,000. Retail sales fell by 5 percent to €220 million before VAT.
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Led by the company's chief executive, Andrea Tomat, about 100...
Led by the company's chief executive, Andrea Tomat, about 100 members of Lotto Sport Italia's staff and some 20 members of their families and friends ran through the streets of Padua to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the company last June 6. They did so, wearing specially developed T-shirts for ...
