All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 24, Issue 26-27 – Page 2
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Décathlon has opened its first distribution center in Germany. Located...
Décathlon has opened its first distribution center in Germany. Located at Schwetzingen, near Mannheim, it measures 30,000 square meters and employs 180 people, with a plan to raise the staff to 300. The new structure will service the 18 stores that Décathlon has in the country and the German customers ...
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Staff cash in rewards of SDI’s rising profits
Sports Direct International (SDI), the leading British sports retailer and wholesaler, continued to spread its weight in the European market with expansion in all of its activities for the fiscal year to April 28. While it made headlines with its international acquisitions, the company also grabbed yet more market share ...
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Wolverine Worldwide has decided to carry out a two-for-one stock...
Wolverine Worldwide has decided to carry out a two-for-one stock split. Shareholders registered by Oct. 1 will receive one new share for each one that they own, and their market price will be cut in half. After the stock split, they will receive a dividend of 6 cents per share, ...
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Cantet heads up Oakley Europe
We understand that another Frenchman, Olivier Cantet, has taken the place of Frank Heissat as vice president and general manager of Oakley for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). As previously reported, Heissat has left the company after three years to run a French sportswear brand, Le Coq Sportif. ...
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Puma will launch a new marketing campaign for its lifestyle...
Puma will launch a new marketing campaign for its lifestyle shoe and apparel collections, starting at the beginning of 2014. The former campaign, ‘Puma Social,' will be phased out at the end of the coming autumn/winter season. The new campaign, ‘Next starts now,' will be a global initiative covering PR ...
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Helly Hansen’s former owner is in line to buy Rossignol
Altor Equity Partners, the Nordic investment fund that acquired Helly Hansen in 2006 from Investcorp and sold it last year with a big capital gain, is in exclusive discussions to take over an 80 percent stake in the Rossignol Group. The balance of 20 percent would be owned by Bruno ...
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GE, the marketer of the waterproof and breathable laminates, has...
GE, the marketer of the waterproof and breathable laminates, has announced a strategic partnership with the Dishang Group, a major original manufacturer and exporter of textiles. Dishang has agreed to provide completely integrated eVent solutions for the design, sourcing and production of apparel. The group will support GE in the ...
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Tickets for next year's World Cup in Brazil should be...
Tickets for next year's World Cup in Brazil should be the cheapest ever sold in the competition's history, according to a statement by Fifa, the international governing body of football. Jérôme Valcke, Fifa's secretary general and the organization's No. 2, said that 70 percent of the tickets will be cheaper ...
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Peak Sport Products, the Chinese sports brand, warned that its...
Peak Sport Products, the Chinese sports brand, warned that its profit for the first half of the year should “decrease considerably” compared with the same period last year, amid sluggish demand and the continuing inventory cleanup in the Chinese sports market. Peak Sport was one of the Chinese sports companies ...
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Billabong sells DaKine, installs Olivet
Billabong International will continue as an independent group with a new chief executive and managing director, Scott Olivet, and without one of its brands, DaKine. The new set-up is accompanied by a financial rescue package of 395 million Australian dollars (€276.1m-$363.2m), arranged by Altamont Capital Partners and GSO Capital Partners, ...
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Big growth potential in the women’s market
The Outdoor Industry Compass and its more generic sister publication, Sporting Goods Intelligence Europe, have decided to diversify their market research efforts, launching a specific study of the women's market for outdoor products and other types of sporting goods, which is often neglected by some brands and some of their ...
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Première Vision, the big French textiles exhibition, has signed an...
Première Vision, the big French textiles exhibition, has signed an agreement for the acquisition of Eurovet's fashion fairs for lingerie and swimwear brands and fabrics. The agreement is dependent on all the required approvals being obtained. It covers the fashion manufacturing shows Fatex, Zoom by Fatex, Made in France, as ...
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Better prospects for the European market
An online survey conducted by us among sporting goods brands, manufacturers, distributors, agents and retailers earlier this month, just before the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen, indicates that the European market may have reached bottom, as orders for the spring/summer 2014 season are expected to be higher than one year ago.The ...
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Diadora has signed a distribution contract with XPlus, based in...
Diadora has signed a distribution contract with XPlus, based in Munich, for the distribution of its heritage line in Germany starting with the spring/summer 2014 season. XPlus also sells three other shoe lines: Nobrand, Satori Sun and Cycleur de Luxe. In Switzerland, Diadora has engaged La Croisette, a sales agency, ...
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German buying groups’ business is influenced by bad weather
The Intersport and Sport 2000 buying groups are both behind last year's sales for the period between January and June. Compared with last year's period, the two groups suffered a decline in sales on the retail level of 3 and 3.1 percent, respectively. This is no surprise after the weather ...
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Diadora's parent company, LIR, has reportedly bought back the rights...
Diadora's parent company, LIR, has reportedly bought back the rights to the brand for China, Hong Kong and Macau for €9.2 million from Win Hanverky, a big Chinese apparel manufacturer that has also been a licensee of Umbro for many years. Without quoting the price of the transaction, a statement ...
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Wintersteiger, the Austrian supplier of ski services and storing solutions...
Wintersteiger, the Austrian supplier of ski services and storing solutions and owner of the Boot Doc brand of insoles, has appointed Günter Kostrhon international sales director of its sports division. Before he joined Thalinger-Lange, the Austrian wholesale trader of bicycle- and sports-related products, Kostrhon worked for Intersport and Sport Service ...
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Hi-Tec sets up a team for the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Austria
Hi-Tec Sports has appointed Peter Korver to head a new team covering the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Austria. The move follows the Dutch-based sports and outdoor footwear company's decision to take over its own distribution in Germany and Austria from WB Compagnie, a specialist in corporate products based in eastern Germany, ...
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The global athletic shoe market is expected to rise at...
The global athletic shoe market is expected to rise at a compound annual average growth rate of 1.8 percent between 2011 and 2018, according to Transparency Market Research, reaching a level of $84.4 billion at retail at the end of the period. That is roughly twice the size of the ...
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Freddy has assigned Keen On Fashion as new distributor for...
Freddy has assigned Keen On Fashion as new distributor for Germany and Austria. Deliveries start from spring/summer 2014. Previously, the distribution of the Italian brand in these markets was handled by Media Systems. Keen On Fashion also distributes Tom Tailor and Just Cavalli in Germany and Austria.
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