All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 24, Issue 40-41 – Page 3

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    Keller Sports, an online retailer based in Munich, is reportedly...

    2013-12-23T00:00:00Z

    Keller Sports, an online retailer based in Munich, is reportedly coming out with a dedicated transactional website for the Swiss market. Its German online store already has pages in English, French, Dutch and Spanish. According to a report, the company has customers in 30 countries.

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    Bain Capital has taken over control of Canada Goods at...

    2013-12-23T00:00:00Z

    Bain Capital has taken over control of Canada Goods at undisclosed conditions. Dani Reiss, the chief executive of the Canadian company, will retain a significant minority stake. Bain is the private equity firm that bought Jack Wolfskin from Johnson Outdoors in 2002 for €42 million and sold it for €93 ...

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    Zoggs, the Australian brand of swim goggles and swimwear, has...

    2013-12-23T00:00:00Z

    Zoggs, the Australian brand of swim goggles and swimwear, has signed a two-year agreement with Entertainment One to produce the Peppa Pig learn-to-swim range. Zoggs' new product line will be co-branded with the license giant. Available from January 2014, the range will comprise a selection of essential learn-to-swim products featuring ...

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    Pentland Brands has chosen Asos as the exclusive retailer of...

    2013-12-23T00:00:00Z

    Pentland Brands has chosen Asos as the exclusive retailer of its Ellesse brand in the U.K. The British online retailer is thus joining other exclusive partners such as Cisalfa in Italy, Go Sport in France, Primo in Belgium or Perry Sport in the Netherlands.

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    Raidlight has asked a Paris court to review a complaint...

    2013-12-23T00:00:00Z

    Raidlight has asked a Paris court to review a complaint that a logo used by Adidas Outdoor infringes on its own logo

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    L Capital Asia Investment, a private equity fund sponsored by...

    2013-12-23T00:00:00Z

    L Capital Asia Investment, a private equity fund sponsored by LVMH, has agreed to acquire a 40 percent stake in 2XU, an Australian brand of compression garments for triathletes, cyclists and runners, for 75 million Australian dollars (€49.0m-$66.9m). The acquisition will cut the combined shareholdings of the eight-year-old company's founders ...

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    Eva-Lotta Sjöstedt has been appointed as the new chief executive...

    2013-12-23T00:00:00Z

    Eva-Lotta Sjöstedt has been appointed as the new chief executive of Karstadt, the German chain of 83 department stores, starting from Feb. 24. The 47-year-old Swedish official will take the place of Andrew Jennings, a native of the U.K. She comes from Ikea, where she acted lately as deputy global ...

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    The Schmidt Group has appointed a new manager for Chiemsee...

    2013-12-23T00:00:00Z

    The Schmidt Group has appointed a new manager for Chiemsee in charge of sales, product and marketing, Michael Doerell. He comes from Mexx, where he acted lately as wholesale country manager in Germany.

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    Rossignol gives a boost to its apparel

    2013-12-23T00:00:00Z

    As indicated in the previous issue of SGI Europe, Rossignol is coming out with a very technical new line of compression garments for cross-country skiing. Called Infini Skiing, it consists of eight pieces of underwear and outerwear. It uses a dynamic gradient compression technology, patented by Rossignol, covering the optimization ...

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    Schöffel is launching a line of ski and outdoor apparel...

    2013-12-23T00:00:00Z

    Schöffel is launching a line of ski and outdoor apparel for children aged 8 to 14 for the autumn/winter 2014/15 season. Reportedly, the German company has been suffering flat sales, in spite of a big advertising campaign in the past year, but the orders that it has collected for the ...

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    APO, the French supplier of snowboards, has signed up as...

    2013-12-23T00:00:00Z

    APO, the French supplier of snowboards, has signed up as exclusive partner of a snowpark at La Clusaz, in the French Alps, for two winter seasons

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    Another franchised Intersport store is opening in Italy, this time...

    2013-12-23T00:00:00Z

    Another franchised Intersport store is opening in Italy, this time at Mercogliano near Macerata

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    The Lafuma Group announced today that Calida Holding has carried...

    2013-12-23T00:00:00Z

    The Lafuma Group announced today that Calida Holding has carried out its planned acquisition of 2.5 million new shares in the company at a price opf €14 per share, for a total investment of €35 million. It thus holds now 50.65 percent of Lafuma's equity and voting shares. In a ...

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    Dorel Industries has announced the departure of Robert P. Baird,...

    2013-12-23T00:00:00Z

    Dorel Industries has announced the departure of Robert P. Baird, group president and chief executive of the company's Recreational/Leisure segment. Peter Woods, the segment's chief financial officer, has been named interim president until a new president is found. Both changes are effective immediately. The Recreational/Leisure segment of the Montreal-based group ...

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    Puma has announced a longterm endorsement deal for its football...

    2013-12-23T00:00:00Z

    Puma has announced a longterm endorsement deal for its football boots with Mario Balotelli, an iconic Italian striker who moved from the Manchester City team to the Italian AC Milan club last January. He was previously wearing Nike boots. Unconfirmed reports indicate that Puma won a contest for the deal ...

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    Messe München has publicly announced its plans to start a...

    2013-12-23T00:00:00Z

    Messe München has publicly announced its plans to start a summer trade show in China in 2015, in response to demands by participants from the sporting goods industry in its ten-year-old Ispo Beijing show and in last June's Ispo Academy in Shanghai, where almost 250 industry representatives were on hand ...

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    A new women-specific retailer, Anima Athletica

    2013-12-23T00:00:00Z

    A young French entrepreneur, Alexia Romanet, has opened her second women-specific store under the new Anima Athletica brand in Paris. She has been unable to buy any clothing from Lululemon Athletica because of the brand's insistence on a direct retailing mode in Europe, but she has obtained exclusivity on some ...

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    Bread & Butter will invite public on two days

    2013-12-23T00:00:00Z

    From summer 2014, the Bread & Butter show in Berlin will be extended from three to five days, taking place on July 8-12 under the slogan “We are Bread & Butter. The global hub of modern lifestyle.” While the first day of the show will be only for members of the ...

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    Kanye West, a well-known American rapper, has signed an endorsement...

    2013-12-23T00:00:00Z

    Kanye West, a well-known American rapper, has signed an endorsement deal with Adidas. According to The New York Post, it is worth $10 million plus royalties. He had been previously sponsored by Nike.

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    Widening its base of debt investors to Central Europe, Amer...

    2013-12-23T00:00:00Z

    Widening its base of debt investors to Central Europe, Amer Sports has signed a “Schuldschein” worth a total of around €70 million. For Amer, this typically German certificate of indebtedness is made up of a bundle of loans in euros and U.S. dollars with a maturity of five years that ...