All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 25, Issue 21
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Reebok is teaming up with Les Mills for a new...
Reebok is teaming up with Les Mills for a new digital “Immersive Fitness” program. Participants are surrounded by cinema-quality videos projected onto screens in the studio. Exercise movements are synchronized with music and graphics. Starting in July, Reebok and Les Mills will make available worldwide a line of co-branded apparel ...
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Jack Wolfskin is using technology to track visitors to its...
Jack Wolfskin is using technology to track visitors to its stores. The Kinect technology, which is normally used for the Xbox One video game console and which reacts to the slightest movement by means of a sensor, a 3D microphone and a color camera, will be installed in all 890 ...
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Skechers USA has sued Reebok International for infringement of a...
Skechers USA has sued Reebok International for infringement of a design patent (D661,884) issued to Californian company in June 2010 for its GO Walk shoe. The 31-page complaint, filed on June 18 in Los Angeles, charges that Reebok “simply copied” the trade dress of Skechers' model in its Walk Ahead ...
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The French office of L-Fashion Group is taking over the...
The French office of L-Fashion Group is taking over the distribution of Luhta and Li Ning in Belgium. The two brands were previously handled by a Belgian agent, G-Force, which will continue to take care of another brand of the Finnish sports apparel group, Icepeak.
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Go Sport may expand in France while Modell’s internationalizes
Retailcorp UAE, the sporting goods retailer based in Dubai, has announced that it is rebranding its three existing franchised Go Sport stores to Modell's Sporting Goods. It is the first move outside the U.S. for Modell's, which has more than 155 stores in its domestic market. Founded in 1889 in ...
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Rab Gaitt, a former executive of Puma and Nike who...
Rab Gaitt, a former executive of Puma and Nike who worked most recently as global head of brand image at Dunhill, has been appointed as brand director by Fred Perry. He replaces Andrew Rogers, who left the British company in February to join Alexander McQueen. Fred Perry has also promoted ...
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The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry, Fesi, has...
The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry, Fesi, has signed a protocol of agreement with ACES Europe to cooperate in the promotion of physical activity, sports participation and the sports culture across Europe, encouraging synergies and common projects and developing new links with institutions. A representative of Fesi will ...
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Nike’s momentum goes on, especially in Europe
Nike Inc. ended the financial year on May 31 with an 11 percent increase in total revenues for the fourth quarter to $7.43 billion, with currency-neutral gains of 13 percent for the Nike brand and 15 percent for Converse. The Swoosh had the strongest growth in Western Europe, rising by ...
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The number of exhibitors at Efftex, the European fishing tackle...
The number of exhibitors at Efftex, the European fishing tackle show held in Brussels on June 13-15, increased slightly to 247 from 245 at last year's session in Vienna, but the number of visitors was off by 9.1 percent to 2,826. Wholesalers made up 48 percent of the total attendance, ...
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Nike has donated a statue of Rafael Nadal to the...
Nike has donated a statue of Rafael Nadal to the department store of El Corte Inglés at Portal de l'Angel in Barcelona to celebrate its ninth victory in the Roland Garros tennis tournaments in Paris
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As previously reported, Fros International is losing the distribution of...
As previously reported, Fros International is losing the distribution of Berghaus in the Benelux countries but is taking on the distribution of the lifestyle collection of Aigle in Belgium. In contrast with a previous report, Fros is the new agent for Havaianas in the Netherlands. It is not acting as ...
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Grey and wet winter weather resulted in a small decline...
Grey and wet winter weather resulted in a small decline of 0.58 percent in sporting goods retail sales in Norway in the first quarter of 2014, despite a record month in January, according to Sportsbransjen. As reported by a Norwegian newspaper, DN, XXL was a clear winner with an increase ...
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Le Coq Sportif has opened a store in the Morumbi...
Le Coq Sportif has opened a store in the Morumbi shopping mall of São Paulo, Brazil, through its local licensee, SPR, which also works with Kappa
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Nike is extending its sponsorship contract with the Dutch national...
Nike is extending its sponsorship contract with the Dutch national football team until 2026
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Stephanie L. Kwolek, the DuPont chemist who invented Kevlar, died...
Stephanie L. Kwolek, the DuPont chemist who invented Kevlar, died after a brief illness on June 18. She was 90. Initially, she wanted to be a fashion designer. The light, sturdy and flexible material that she developed from a liquid crystalline solution in 1965, when she was 42, is now ...
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Brunotti Sportswear is sponsoring Dorian van Rijsselberghe, a Dutch windsurfing...
Brunotti Sportswear is sponsoring Dorian van Rijsselberghe, a Dutch windsurfing champion who became world champion in 2011
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Puma has signed up with Nova International, the British company...
Puma has signed up with Nova International, the British company chaired by Brendan Foster, to become the official sportswear and merchandise supplier for its Great Run Series. The Wild Cat has also added to its U.K. stable of sponsored athletes, including Susan Partridge, the fastest British woman in the 2013 ...
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Wiggle, the British online cycling and sporting goods store controlled...
Wiggle, the British online cycling and sporting goods store controlled by Bridgepoint, is reportedly considering a public offering on the London Stock Exchange
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New owners for two French skiwear brands
After the recent sale of Fusalp to two members of the Lacoste family, two other French brands of skiwear that were rather prominent in the 1980s, Degré 7 and Duvillard, are changing ownership. Idealp, a company run by Jean-Philippe Caille that controls Ski Lacroix and other operations, is taking over ...
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Internationalization boosts Pentland’s results
Pentland Group has not been trading on the stock exchange for many years, but unlike some other big groups that prefer to hide them, it continues to provide the main highlights of its financial performance. Last year's figures showed considerable improvements in terms of sales and profits. Pre-tax earnings jumped ...
