All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 24, Issue 38-39 – Page 2
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Primaloft has taken over the distribution of its products...
Primaloft has taken over the distribution of its products in the U.K. and Scandinavia from Concept III, a British textile marketing company that had been working with the American insulation specialist for ten years. Chris Humphris, who was taking care of Primaloft at Concept III, is now a full-time employee ...
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Peter Folkesson has left his position as managing director of...
Peter Folkesson has left his position as managing director of Batavus-Vartex, the Swedish distributor of bicycles, motorbike accessories, and sporting goods equipment. His successor will be Mats Douhan who has worked for Batavus-Vartex for the past seven years, most recently as key accounts manager.
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Vissla and D'Blanc are the names of two of the...
Vissla and D'Blanc are the names of two of the three new California-based surf brands that will be launched next year by Paul Naude, a former director of Billabong's operations in the Americas who failed in a bid to take over the company together with associates earlier this year. Vissla ...
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Cratoni, the German supplier of helmets and eyewear for cycling...
Cratoni, the German supplier of helmets and eyewear for cycling and snow sports, has revamped its website
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Shimano Europe Holding will start a new company to represent...
Shimano Europe Holding will start a new company to represent Shimano in Turkey, for both bike and fishing products, from Jan. 1, 2014. Shimano Menat, the name of the new subsidiary, will be based in Istanbul. Cooperation will continue in the country with two long-standing partners of the company: ...
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A Spanish company, Grupo Zune, will reintroduce the LA Gear...
A Spanish company, Grupo Zune, will reintroduce the LA Gear and British Knights brands in Spain and Portugal, starting with the autumn/winter 2014/15 season. It will be working as an agent for the Achten Fashion Group to help keep mark-ups high, according to CMD, the Spanish online magazine. The Dutch ...
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Columbia Sportswear wants to be more competitive
Columbia Sportswear will introduce new products with lower entry price levels and new technologies in Europe and the rest of the world. Noting that the purpose of this is to become more competitive and affordable, responding to consumers' demand for better value, Franco Fogliato, the newly-minted European manager of the ...
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Puma is co-branding a line of sneakers for the North...
Puma is co-branding a line of sneakers for the North American market with Solange Knowles, the American singer, songwriter and fashion model
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Nike clothing will be made with a new fabric dyed...
Nike clothing will be made with a new fabric dyed with ColorDry, described as a new process that eliminates water, replacing it with pressurized and recyclable carbon dioxide, and reduces the use of chemicals. It comes from a new dyehouse opened in Taiwan a few days ago by a contract ...
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Christoph Kremer has taken on responsibility for SportXtreme, the new...
Christoph Kremer has taken on responsibility for SportXtreme, the new sports retail cooperative within the German GMS buying group
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Reebok has opened a large store and Crossfit center on...
Reebok has opened a large store and Crossfit center on the centrally located avenue de l'Opéra in Paris, between the Louvre Museum and the Opera House. The 800-square-meter Fit Hub on two levels is similar to Reebok's Crossfit studio and store on Fifth Avenue in New York City. It takes ...
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The European Cyclists' Federation (ECF) has picked Taipei, the capital...
The European Cyclists' Federation (ECF) has picked Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, as the venue for its annual ECF Velo-city Global Conference in 2016. The conference was held in Vienna earlier this year, drawing more than 1,400 delegates while thousands of people participated in side events throughout the city. The ...
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Westcomb, a new Canadian challenger
You have almost certainly heard about Arc'teryx, the fast-growing Canadian brand of sports outerwear owned by Amer Sports. You may not have heard yet about another, younger and smaller Canadian brand, Westcomb, which is moving fast in the same direction, but you probably will - sooner or later.Like Arc'teryx, Westcomb ...
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Calida presents a formal offer for Lafuma
Calida Holding has made a formal proposal to refinance the starving Lafuma Group, owner of Oxbow and various outdoor brands. The Swiss company would inject €35 million worth of new equity into Lafuma, raising its stake to 50.6 percent, or 51.01 percent including the shares of Felix Sulzerger, chief executive ...
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The Greenmaster Group from Taiwan is reorganizing its European business...
The Greenmaster Group from Taiwan is reorganizing its European business by setting up Greenmaster Europe, with a new structure intended to make it more efficient. It will take the place of Green Fitness, a seven-year-old company in Germany in which Erik von Delius was a partner. He also became its ...
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Fred Perry has reportedly taken over Levenham, a British supplier...
Fred Perry has reportedly taken over Levenham, a British supplier of equestrian clothing and equipment
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Brands look closely at new manufacturing processes
Faced with growing labor shortages, wage increases and other labor issues in China and other Asian countries, many sports brands are seriously considering alternative options to cut down their sourcing costs, while at the same time improving other aspects of the product development process and overall service. They are discovering, ...
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Sean Tedore is the new global brand director of Ride...
Sean Tedore is the new global brand director of Ride Snowboards
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Polar Bottle is launching a special edition of insulated bottles...
Polar Bottle is launching a special edition of insulated bottles for the 2014 Fifa World Cup. Each bottle's design is based on the national flags of the 32 teams that have qualified for the football event in Brazil. The featured nations are: Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bosnia, Brazil, Cameroon, Chile, ...
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Willy Bogner has received the Otto Mecheels medal for service...
Willy Bogner has received the Otto Mecheels medal for service to and innovation in the textile industry from the Hohenstein Institute, where he was a student in the 1960s, before working for the company set up by his father in 1932
