All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 24, Issue 28-29 – Page 2
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Market conditions slow down Callaway’s progress
Softer market conditions in the U.S. and Europe and the transition of a third-party model for footwear and apparel did not prevent Callaway Golf Company from posting a small one percent sales increase in the second quarter ended June 30 on a currency-neutral basis and excluding the recently divested Top ...
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K-Way is opening its first boutique in France. As of...
K-Way is opening its first boutique in France. As of the beginning of September, the brand, which already has a boutique in New York, will have a shop in rue de Charonne, near place de la Bastille, a young and trendy area of Paris. Originally founded in France, K-Way is ...
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Black Diamond has lower margins on higher sales
Black Diamond's total revenues increased by 10 percent to $38.8 million in the second quarter, but this was mainly due to the acquisition of Poc Sweden and Pieps Holding. In reported terms, sales declined slightly in the U.S. to $23.4 million but grew by 43 percent in international market, moving ...
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Bianca Galijee has returned to the Sports Business Center in...
Bianca Galijee has returned to the Sports Business Center in Leusden as project manager. She had started off at the Dutch trademart 12 years ago as office manager, but then she moved to Brandboxx Almere, a Dutch retail center for the fashion industry, where she acted as project manager. Galijee's ...
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Brooks looks beyond specialty running in Europe
Officials of Brooks Running Company say their brand has become the number one running brand at Runners Point, the German specialty retailer which is being taken over by Foot Locker. After concentrating for many years on specialty running stores, it has also started to do business with the retailers affiliated ...
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Better results for Head
Head reduced its net losses by 54 percent to €3.57 million in the second quarter ended June 30. Gross margins improved to 39.7 percent from 36.8 percent. As a percentage of sales, the quarterly operating loss declined to 5.8 percent from 10.5 percent in the period a year ago but ...
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Coalision, the holding company behind brands such as Lolë and...
Coalision, the holding company behind brands such as Lolë and Paradox, has announced the sale of Orage, the Canadian ski outerwear brand, to Orage's co-founder, Eric D'Anjou, and a freeskier, Mike Nick. D'Anjou, the original founder of Orage in 1989, will act as Orage's president, overseeing product development, finance and operations. ...
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Ecco has been named the official footwear supplier to the...
Ecco has been named the official footwear supplier to the 2013 European Solheim Cup team. The Danish footwear brand will create special-edition shoes exclusively for the players and captains. For this edition of the women's golf tournament, the fourth during which Ecco has supported Team Europe, the company will also ...
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X-Technology, the marketer of the X-Bionic brand of functional base...
X-Technology, the marketer of the X-Bionic brand of functional base layers and X-Socks, has opened its first single branded store in Germany. The shop is located in Hofstatt-Passage, a shopping mall in downtown Munich, and has a selling surface of 40 square meters. The store is operated by Tre Vertriebs ...
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Danny Feuerstein has launched a new high-performance line of base...
Danny Feuerstein has launched a new high-performance line of base layer garments, called Komafram, which use natural alpaca wool. He is the son of Aaron Feuerstein, founder of Malden Mills, parent company of Polartec. Based in Chicago, the new brand is supposed to blend functionality with comfort and style, in ...
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Following its recent change of ownership, Bailo has launched a...
Following its recent change of ownership, Bailo has launched a new logo, based on its Italian roots, and signed up a new testimonial, Armin Holzer, joining Benni Kofler. Holzer, an Italian freerider and a slackline and highline champion, was previously sponsored by Adidas Outdoor. He became famous in 2011 by ...
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PrimaLoft has awarded a license to Mitsui Bussan Techno Products...
PrimaLoft has awarded a license to Mitsui Bussan Techno Products to design, develop and sell fabrics using its own technological yarns. Mitsui has already started the development process and plans to put them out in the autumn of 2014. Mitsui Bussan owns the Pertex brand since 2005.
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New boss for The Athlete’s Foot
Intersport International Corp. announced last Friday the appointment of Ingmar Kraak as the new global chief executive of The Athlete's Foot, the big U.S.-based franchising operation for athletic footwear that it took over last December. Based at IIC's head office in Bern, Switzerland, he will take up the new position ...
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Gore-Tex presented the finding of its latest life-cycle assessment study,...
Gore-Tex presented the finding of its latest life-cycle assessment study, developed in cooperation with the Öko-Institute Freiburg, during the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen. In the first half of 2013, Gore-Tex expanded its LCA work to a representative functional outerwear jacket, Gore-Tex Windstopper branded apparel, in order to measure its environmental ...
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The weak yen helps Asics
Asics Corporation reported a 15.8 percent increase in total revenues to 76.6 billion Japanese yen (€595.8m-$791.8m) for the first quarter of its financial year, ended June 30, but the growth was inflated by the depreciation of its domestic currency. The gross margin was largely flat at 44.8 percent of sales. Operating ...
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Asics becomes the fastest brand in women’s running in Europe
Data from NPD Sports Tracking Europe show that between January and March this year, Asics grew faster at retail than the total sports footwear market in the five major European countries, with a 6 percent increase versus a 0.2 percent decrease for the market itself. It also grew faster than ...
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Under Armour’s profit more than doubles
Under Armour's net income climbed by 163 percent in the second quarter ended June 30 compared with the previous year's period, reaching $17.6 million. The results, which topped Wall Street's expectations, were primarily driven by higher sales of base-layer apparel as well as football cleats and other shoes.New apparel items, ...
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Asics has appointed Stefan Heinrich to the newly created role...
Asics has appointed Stefan Heinrich to the newly created role of head of emerging markets, effective Aug. 1, following the athletic equipment company's creation of a new region covering emerging markets. Heinrich is currently general manager at Asics Austria, where he is responsible for Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia ...
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K-Swiss has appointed Eric Sarin as its new vice president...
K-Swiss has appointed Eric Sarin as its new vice president of product, reporting directly to Barney Waters, K-Swiss' chief marketing officer. Sarin will oversee all aspects of the brand's product design, development and strategy globally and will be based in Westlake Village, California. He brings to K-Swiss 17 years of ...
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Marian Homburger has been appointed European marketing coordinator of Line...
Marian Homburger has been appointed European marketing coordinator of Line Skis and Full Tilt, K2's specialty brands for freeride skis and boots, respectively. He has replaced Korbinian Resenberger. The 26-year-old will be in charge of all marketing activities and of sponsored athletes. Before joining K2 Europe in his new role, ...
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