All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 24, Issue 40-41 – Page 4
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Amer Sports has extended the number of employees benefitting from...
Amer Sports has extended the number of employees benefitting from its Performance Share Plan from about 80 to 200 for the 2013-15 period. The amount of net rewards to be paid on the basis of the plan has been raised from a maximum total of 1.2 million shares to 1.4 ...
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Tecnica Group and Altana have signed a five-year licensing agreement...
Tecnica Group and Altana have signed a five-year licensing agreement for the baby, kids and junior clothing lines branded Moon Boot. Altana will be in charge of the design, production and marketing of these ranges. For Tecnica, the move is part of its brand-extension strategy named “Moonbotizing the world,” revolving ...
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Puma has appointed JWT as its lead creative agency. The...
Puma has appointed JWT as its lead creative agency. The sports company had been with the agency Droga5 since 2008 but the two split earlier this year. With immediate effect, JWT will assume a leadership position over all of Puma's advertising and creative activities on a global basis. The Puma ...
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Quiksilver explores new paths after big losses
Quiksilver reported big losses for the fourth quarter and the full year ended Oct. 31, but the company’s new chief executive, Andy Mooney, assured investors that the numerous measures taken in the past year will start bearing fruit during the current financial year.Among these actions, the group divested its snowboard ...
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Afydad, the Spanish sporting goods industry association, will take advantage...
Afydad, the Spanish sporting goods industry association, will take advantage of the Ispo Munich show at the end of January to invite buyers from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama and Peru. The action has the support of the Spanish export promotion agency, Icex, and of Messe München, organizer of ...
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Adidas has a row with SDI over Chelsea shirts
Sports Direct International (SDI) is at loggerheads with the Adidas Group over the German company's decision to quit supplying the leading British sports retailer with replica shirts of the Chelsea football team for the next season. Adidas said another dozen U.K. retailers had been removed from its customer list for ...
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Hydra Ventures, a corporate venture arm of the Adidas Group,...
Hydra Ventures, a corporate venture arm of the Adidas Group, is to invest 2.0 million Canadian dollars (€1.4m-$1.9m) in Crailar Technologies, the Canadian company that produces and markets the Crailar Flax fiber. The investment comes in the form of a private placement in which Hydra Ventures will essentially buy up ...
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After its acquisition of Costa, the American producer of sports...
After its acquisition of Costa, the American producer of sports sunglasses, Essilor International, the world's largest supplier of ophthalmic lenses, has announced the takeover of Suntech Optics of Canada. Through a subsidiary called Bugaboos, the latter sells Ryders Eyewear, a line of performance sunglasses for mountain bike enthusiasts (more on ...
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Accell Group is to combine the commercial and operational activities...
Accell Group is to combine the commercial and operational activities of its Dutch companies Koga, Batavus, Sparta and Juncker into a new entity named Accell Nederland, which will become operational on Jan. 1, 2014. The move, aimed at optimizing the operations of the bike brands in numerous areas, was announced ...
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K-Way is opening its first store in Milan at 8,...
K-Way is opening its first store in Milan at 8, via Ugo Foscolo, very close to the famous Galleria. This takes up to 10 the number of single-brand stores in Italy and 14 around the world for the vintage brand of sports fashion clothing owned by Basicnet, which is experiencing ...
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Inov-8 has posted a video on YouTube in connection with...
Inov-8 has posted a video on YouTube in connection with its 10th anniversary where its founder, Wayne Edy, tells some interesting parts of the story of his company
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Norwegian sporting goods retailers raised their sales by 3 percent...
Norwegian sporting goods retailers raised their sales by 3 percent on a same-store basis during the third quarter of this year as compared to the same period of 2012, but the Norwegian Institute of Industry Analysis (IBA) calculated that in real terms they were off by 0.7 percent. Around 970 ...
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The 2013 Vans Triple Crown of Surfing (VCTS) set a...
The 2013 Vans Triple Crown of Surfing (VCTS) set a record for the largest audience to witness an action sports event, with more than 3.5 million people in a total of two million hours of webcast viewing. In addition, the Billabong Pipe Masters, the final stop of the specialty series ...
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The first Danish Dare2b store has opened in the Sierra...
The first Danish Dare2b store has opened in the Sierra Nevada
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O'Neill has opened a large store of 1,800 square meters...
O'Neill has opened a large store of 1,800 square meters in Hong Kong, inspired to the décor of the house in Santa Cruz, California of the brand's founder, Jack O'Neill
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French sporting goods retailers enjoyed a 1.2 percent increase in...
French sporting goods retailers enjoyed a 1.2 percent increase in their sales during the third quarter. Year-on-year, their sales grew by 5 percent in July and by 3 percent in August but fell by 6 percent in September, according to FPS, the French sporting goods retailers' federation. The bicycle dealers' ...
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