All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 24, Issue 34-35 – Page 3
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Netrada Europe, a German company that has supplied e-commerce services...
Netrada Europe, a German company that has supplied e-commerce services to more than 80 brands, has filed for insolvency, apparently due to a cash squeeze caused by its rapid development. Sources indicate that it has the backing of the banks and that it plans to continue to operate normally, going ...
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Golf Datatech, the Florida-based market research company, and Yano Research...
Golf Datatech, the Florida-based market research company, and Yano Research Institute of Japan have announced a strategic alliance aimed at aggregating consistent data on the golf industry worldwide. The alliance will release a “US/Japan Golf Market Report” in January 2014, which will compare the relative size and scope of the ...
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Columbia is optimistic
Announcing a 14 percent increase in its quarterly dividends, Columbia Sportswear's board of directors was said to be confident in better results going forward. In fact, while they were still largely negative, the results released for the third quarter ended on Sept. 30 were better than forecast, due especially to ...
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Columbia Sportswear denies a report that it has prevailed in...
Columbia Sportswear denies a report that it has prevailed in a dispute against Fibretronic, a company in Hong Kong that it sued last Sept. 16 for damages of $9.4 million in the U.S. Distict Court of Oregon. The case is still pending. The company told the court in its complaint ...
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Patagonia has promoted John Collins to the new role of...
Patagonia has promoted John Collins to the new role of vice president of global sales, reporting directly to Casey Sheahan, chief executive of the company. Collins served at the company for the last three years as vice president for the Americas and Asia-Pacific. He previously acted as vice president of ...
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Citing its code of conduct, Puma has stopped sponsoring the...
Citing its code of conduct, Puma has stopped sponsoring the South African Football Association (SAFA) and Bafana Bafana, the country's soccer team, because of numerous allegations of match fixing over the past couple of years. The alleged manipulation actually goes back before Puma signed the sponsorship contract in June 2011, ...
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Change of the guard at Intersport France, too
Like Go Sport, Intersport's French licensee wants to position its affiliated stores more clearly as partners of the sports brands to contrast the dominance of Décathlon in the market. It wants to improve their attractiveness and services for the end consumer.To this end, Intersport France has appointed François Neukirch as ...
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The global market keeps growing, but the major chains grow faster
The global sporting goods market grew by 5 percent at retail last year to reach a level of €273 billion after sales taxes, according to NPD, or about US$350 billion. The growth rate was the same as the one that NPD had estimated for the previous two years.In this context, ...
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Calida wants control of Lafuma
The Calida Group of Switzerland first invested in Groupe Lafuma last January by acquiring 15.3 percent of the shares and 12.99 percent of the votes at the shareholders' meeting from the family of its chief executive, Philippe Joffard, who has since left. Calida has now proposed to take over Lafuma's ...
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Original Buff, the Spanish company known for its headwear, has...
Original Buff, the Spanish company known for its headwear, has decided to trim down its apparel collection, which represented only 5 percent of its sales, starting with the spring/summer 2014 season. Denying reports that it is stopping it completely, company officials state that it is being scaled down, preserving only ...
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Life Fitness and other components of Brunswick Corp.'s fitness division...
Life Fitness and other components of Brunswick Corp.'s fitness division raised their sales by 9 percent to $165.9 million in the third quarter ended Sept. 30. They were driven by international sales, which grew by 15 percent to 51 percent of the turnover, with particular strength in Europe where they ...
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A French waterman, Bruno Sroka, is launching an inflatable stand-up...
A French waterman, Bruno Sroka, is launching an inflatable stand-up paddle board
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Salewa and Dynafit, two brands of the Italian Oberalp group,...
Salewa and Dynafit, two brands of the Italian Oberalp group, have joined the Fair Wear Foundation (FWF), effective from Sept. 25. FWF is the non-profit organization, controlled by its stakeholders, which screens the social performance of the affiliated members from the textile industry. Around the same time, Oberalp published its ...
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Domyos, the private fitness equipment brand of Décathlon, has signed...
Domyos, the private fitness equipment brand of Décathlon, has signed its first technical sponsorship contract with a Romanian gymnast, Catalina Ponor, who got a gold medal at the Athens Olympics
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Steve Bracewell has replaced Rose Foster as chief executive of...
Steve Bracewell has replaced Rose Foster as chief executive of Animal, the leading action sports brand in the U.K., which recently came under new ownership. Bracewell worked most recently for Gelert, a brand of camping products recently bought by Sports Direct International. He previously worked for Reebok in senior positions ...
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Rip Curl Europe has boosted its sales team. Gilles Darqué...
Rip Curl Europe has boosted its sales team. Gilles Darqué has been named core sales manager for Europe. Vincent Liets, who launched the brand's new technical store at Bidart, has become sales manager for France. Frederi Botton has been appointed field customer service manager.
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Bob Vickerman, hooker for the England Sevens rugby team, is...
Bob Vickerman, hooker for the England Sevens rugby team, is the newest brand ambassador of Canterbury of New Zealand
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Sports Direct’s leaders cash in with big profits
Mike Ashley, Dave Forsey and Bob Mellors all made huge profits in the last few days on the sale of shares in the company, which continues to produce excellent figures. Ashley is the maverick investor who controls Sports Direct International. Forsey is the chief executive and Mellors is the finance ...
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Callaway Golf makes big strides in the quarter
Excluding structural changes and foreign currency movements, Callaway Golf's sales shot up by 38 percent in the third quarter ended Sept. 30, with impressive gains of 33 percent in the U.S., 52 percent in Europe, 47 percent in Japan and 45 percent in the rest of Asia. In reported terms, ...
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The market for sports bicycles in China is estimated to have...
The market for sports bicycles in China is estimated to have risen by 30-35 percent in 2012 to reach a level of between 6.9 and 7.2 billion yuan renmimbi (€821-857m - $1,133-1,183m). Similar growth occurred in the first six months of this year, according to leading brands and bike dealers polled ...
