All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 24, Issue 28-29 – Page 3
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Nike is making a new application available widely to designers...
Nike is making a new application available widely to designers to help them choose the most environmentally friendly fabrics. Called Making, the new app is based on the Nike Materials Sustainability Index, a database that the Swoosh has developed over the past seven years, rating materials from 0 to 50.
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Toni Sailer, the brand of snow sports apparel, has appointed...
Toni Sailer, the brand of snow sports apparel, has appointed a new marketing director replacing Markus Schneider who left the company. He has been replaced by Andreas Lehnig, who previously worked for Gabor, a German marketer of footwear, where he was in charge of new media and market research.
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Anta sees the end of the tunnel
Anta Sports Products saw the first signs of a possible turnaround at its latest quarterly in-house fair, where the Chinese company collected a higher value of orders than one year ago for shipments in the first quarter of 2014. Orders had been declining at the company's house fair since those ...
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Dakine has announced that François Carrete has stepped down as...
Dakine has announced that François Carrete has stepped down as president, following the completion of the sale of the company to Altamont Capital Partners on July 23. Carrete had been president for the past 18 months. Leslie Lane will assume the role of chairman and chief executive. Lane has served ...
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Kelme has announced the appointment of a new Indian partner,...
Kelme has announced the appointment of a new Indian partner, Shivas Group, that will take over the distribution of the Spanish brand in India from Global Overseas. The latter had already started working with Shivas, a retail management company specializing in running networks of franchised single-brand stores for many international ...
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Skins has announced its official partnership with Anna Tunnicliffe, the...
Skins has announced its official partnership with Anna Tunnicliffe, the two-time Olympian and leading CrossFit athlete. Tunnicliffe, 30, who was born in England but moved to the U.S. when she was 12, began her career in sailing and later expanded her athletic activities to other disciplines. At the 2008 Olympic ...
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Good figures from Amer
Despite the cold and wet spring, which dampened enthusiasm for tennis and cycling, the Amer Sports group enjoyed rising sales in nearly all categories as well as a small improvement in its earnings. The Finnish owner of Wilson, Salomon, Atomic and other brands saw its sales grow by 7 percent ...
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Alpen, which remains the largest sporting goods retailer in Japan,...
Alpen, which remains the largest sporting goods retailer in Japan, reported an annual net profit of ¥6.63 billion yen (€51.7m-$68.9m) for the 12 months ended last June 30, up from ¥5.26 billion in the previous fiscal year. Sales increased by 4 percent to ¥203.7 billion (€1,587.4m-$2,117.8m), and they generate 5 percent ...
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Columbia Sportswear has announced an agreement with Chogori India Retail...
Columbia Sportswear has announced an agreement with Chogori India Retail to be its exclusive distributor in India, effective immediately. Founded by Hernant Sachdev, who climbed to the summit of Mount Everest in May 2013, Chogori distributes other outdoor brands such as Béal, Black Diamond, Scarpa, Cascade Designs, Julbo and Thorlo. ...
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There has been some agitation in Billabong International's stock quotation...
There has been some agitation in Billabong International's stock quotation in the past few days, which rose to a high of 65 Australian pennies earlier today. It was probably linked to an investment by Coastal Capital International, which now has 5 percent of the voting shares. Meanwhile, Paul Naude, the ...
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Weather affects Jarden’s outdoor operations
Traditionally, the second quarter is seasonally weak also for Jarden Corporation's Outdoor Solutions segment. This division, which comprises 21 different sports brands including Coleman, Ex Officio, K2, Marmot, Rawlings, Shakespeare and Zoot, booked a 6.1 percent decline to $741.1 million for the period, as the wet and cold weather in ...
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Sales decline at Adidas, but margins improve
Struggling against soft market conditions in Europe, a declining golf market in the U.S., adverse currency fluctuations and tough comparisons with the pre-Olympic and pre-Uefa period of a year ago, the Adidas Group saw its total revenues decline by 4 percent to €3,383 million in the second quarter ended June ...
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Reebok and running boost Adidas’ sales
They were the bright spots in the Adidas Group's brand and product scenario in the latest quarter. In particular, Reebok appeared to be poised for a lasting turnaround with an 11 percent currency-neutral sales increase in the second quarter, offsetting an 8 percent decline for TaylorMade-Adidas Golf. Adidas brand sales ...
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Bernd Wahler is leaving Adidas to become president of the...
Bernd Wahler is leaving Adidas to become president of the VfB Stuttgart football team, where he played in his youth, in September. Aged 55, he has been acting lately as senior vice president of innovation at the Big a, responsible for technology. Wahler first joined Adidas in 1987 and worked ...
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Profitable Bauer seeks new acquisitions
Bauer Performance Sports will intensify its review of acquisition opportunities across a number of existing and new sports categories, said Kevin Davis, president and chief executive of the Canadian-based company, while presenting its results for the financial year ended last May 31. It will be targeting small and medium-sized companies ...
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Accell performs better than the bike market
Accell Group said that bicycle sales declined in several markets during the first half of this year, due to cold spring weather and declining consumer confidence, but its own sales were higher than in the same period a year ago on a comparable basis. The group's total revenues increased by ...
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Keen Footwear's new president, Mike Abbott, who had joined the...
Keen Footwear's new president, Mike Abbott, who had joined the company as its president at the beginning of July, has already left the company. The former chief executive officer of Specialized Bicycles and Burton Snowboards was going to fill a void left by the departure one year ago of James ...
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Quiksilver Europe has told its 738 employees that it is...
Quiksilver Europe has told its 738 employees that it is contemplating the elimination of 38 jobs
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BasicNet’s profit climbs 69%
BasicNet registered aggregate revenues from its direct sales and its licensees around the world of €209 million in the first half ended June 30 for all its brands - Kappa, Robe di Kappa, Superga, K-Way, Lanzera, AnziBesson, Jesus Jeans and Sabelt. At constant exchange rates, aggregate sales stood at €214 ...
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Mizuno’s sales up 6%, driven by running shoes
Mizuno recorded 6.1 percent sales growth to 45.2 billion yen (€352.2m-$469.9m) for the first quarter ended June 30 as compared to the previous year's quarter, with running shoes serving as a driving force behind the term's results, combined with sales increases in all other areas. With Senoh Corporation joining the ...
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