All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 24, Issue 40-41
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SDI outperforms
The Chelsea jersey row was publicized by Sports Direct International (SDI) just as it was discussing another impressive performance for the half-year until Oct. 27, with soaring sales and underlying profits – even better than the company itself had predicted. The entire group's sales advanced by 23.5 percent ...
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Premium positioning pays off for Moncler
Moncler , which started up in France in 1952 making sleeping bags, has become the third-largest luxury goods company on the Milan stock exchange after Luxottica and Salvatore Ferragamo . The king of the down jacket is now trading with a stock market capitalization of around €3.7 billion, or ...
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Salomon has opened a single-brand store in the Lionshead Village of...
Salomon has opened a single-brand store in the Lionshead Village of Vail, Colorado, in partnership with Specialty Sports Venture (SSV), the retailing unit of Vail Resorts Inc., which operates 181 specialty stores in the U.S.
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Joan Solà will start next month in the new position...
Joan Solà will start next month in the new position of global sports marketing manager for Salomon and Suunto, based at Salomon's head office in Annecy, France. He will coordinate the work of officials responsible for sports marketing officials in various countries who are responsible for different categories such as ...
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Pádel, the typically Spanish racquet sport, will have its space...
Pádel, the typically Spanish racquet sport, will have its space at Ispo Munich. It will also have a first dedicated fair in Spain. It will be held on Ifema's fairgrounds in Madrid next March 20-23, coinciding with the well-established Madrigolf show.
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Intersport returns to profitability in Switzerland
Intersport PSC registered a consolidated turnover of 201.1 million Swiss francs (€164.2m-$224.6m) in the fiscal year to Sept. 30, 2013, down by 5.0 percen t as compared to the previous year. The Swiss-based buying group returned to profitability, posting net profit of CHF0.9 million (€0.7m-$1.0m) against a loss ...
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Ispo launches new Open Innovation platform
Messe München International , organizer of the Ispo shows in Munich and Beijing, is launching a new, independent “ Ispo Open Innovation ” platform to promote innovation in the sporting goods sector. The new platform, which is described as the first initiative of this kind by a trade fair ...
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Head may stop listingin Vienna
About 22 million shares of the company are publicly traded on stock exchanges in Vienna and New York . Head announced on Dec. 13 a conditional offer to repurchase up to 22,429,265 shares of its capital at a price of €1.90 each, in a process that may lead the ...
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W.L. Gore says that Napapijri will integrate Gore-Tex technology in...
W.L. Gore says that Napapijri will integrate Gore-Tex technology in its autumn-winter 2014/15 collection
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Skiset, the French-based online ski rental service, has launched Skiset...
Skiset, the French-based online ski rental service, has launched Skiset Holidays, an international reservation service in French and English for ski holidays, hotels and other lodgings at ski resorts. It is limited for the moment to France, Switzerland and Andorra, but the website indicates its possible extension to Italy, Spain ...
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Zinc Sports will unveil an innovative fold-out scooter for urban...
Zinc Sports will unveil an innovative fold-out scooter for urban mobility as part of its Rollers range at the Ispo Munich trade show
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Reed Exhibitions, which organizes the international Fibo fair of fitness...
Reed Exhibitions, which organizes the international Fibo fair of fitness products, and the European Health & Fitness Association (EHFA) are going to hold the first European Health & Fitness Forum on April 2, 2014 in Cologne, the day before the trade show. It's going to be a summit meeting of ...
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Silver Lake Partners and William Morris Endeavor Entertainment have taken...
Silver Lake Partners and William Morris Endeavor Entertainment have taken over a controlling share in IMG Worldwide Holdings from Forstmann Little & Co. The deal is said value IMG at around $2.3 billion. Since Forstmann's takeover in 2004, IMG has been expanding its international reach. It now employs 3,500 people ...
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Eclat Textile, a supplier of Lululemon that makes flexible knit...
Eclat Textile, a supplier of Lululemon that makes flexible knit fabrics for sportswear, underwear and swimwear, has come in 8th place among the most innovative companies in Taiwan
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Intersport is going to open its first store in downtown...
Intersport is going to open its first store in downtown Paris early next year, located in the central rue de Rivoli, according to several French press reports
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Johnson’s net doubles
Net income grew by 90.7 percent to €19.3 million at Johnson Outdoors for the financial year ended Sept. 27, mainly due to a lower tax rate. The gross margin went up by 0.3 percentage points to 40.1 percent. The operating margin improved by 0.8 percentage points to 6.0 percent for ...
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Neil Pryde, manging director of Pryde Group, will retire on...
Neil Pryde, manging director of Pryde Group, will retire on Dec. 31 and become chairman. Patrick Pender will replace him as managing director of the Hong Kong-based group, while the chief financial officer, Peter Lui, will switch to the role of chief operating officer.
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Pierangelo Zanetta will step down as managing director of Shimano...
Pierangelo Zanetta will step down as managing director of Shimano Europe Fishing Holding on Jan. 1, after over ten years in the job. His position at the head of Shimano's European fishing tackle operations will be taken over by the current international sales director of the same company, Cor Ax, ...
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New directions at Fusalp
Fusalp is the French sports apparel company that pioneered the so-called “fuseau,” a highly technical style of stretch ski pants attached to the foot in the early 1950s. They were worn by many famous champions like Jean-Claude Killy in the 1960s, leading Fusalp to become the biggest supplier of ...
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Speedo has signed up Sport Depot as its new distributor...
Speedo has signed up Sport Depot as its new distributor in Bulgaria and Romania, starting next month. Sport Depot is a major sporting goods retailer based in Bulgaria. It is affiliated with Sport 2000 International and represents many other international brands in its domestic market and in other neighboring countries.
