All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 25, Issue 22-23
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Wolverine streamlines
Wolverine Worldwide has decided to streamline its operations, terminating its footwear license with Patagonia after delivery of the autumn/winter 2014/15 collection and closing down about 140 under-performing stores in the next 18 months . About 75 percent of the stores, which have seen a slowdown in mall traffic, ...
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Trespass is reportedly planning to open stores in Germany, France...
Trespass is reportedly planning to open stores in Germany, France and five other European countries, but the management declines to comment on this project
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Hummel expanded its strategic partnership with St. Pauli, the football...
Hummel expanded its strategic partnership with St. Pauli, the football club from Hamburg, on July 1. From the football season 2014/15, Hummel will be sponsoring St. Pauli's official jerseys. The launch of the new jerseys was held on June 20 in the St. Pauli stadium in Hamburg. Hummel previously sponsored ...
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Yoox, the online retailer, is to expand its offering with...
Yoox , the online retailer, is to expand its offering with a range of sports clothing, comprising garments from the leading international brands as well as performance labels
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Reed Exhibitions, probably the world's largest trade-show operator, organizers of...
Reed Exhibitions, probably the world's largest trade-show operator, organizers of the Fibo fitness trade show in Cologne, Germany, are eying new markets. It is about to land in Saudi Arabia with a show called Saudi ISF which stands for International Sport & Fitness. The event taking place in Jeddah from ...
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Patagonia is planning to transfer some of its European operations...
Patagonia is planning to transfer some of its European operations from its present European headquarters in the French town of Annecy to a new European office in Amsterdam. It also wants to open sales offices in London and Munich to be closer to its clients in two of its major ...
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Hi-Tec is launching a walking-footwear range made in Europe on...
Hi-Tec is launching a walking-footwear range made in Europe on the back of its sponsorship of the Vierdaagse, an annual four-day walking event with about 45,000 registered participants that took place last week in Nijmegen, in the south of the Netherlands. The deal has inflated Hi-Tec's sell-in in the Netherlands, where ...
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The European Outdoor Group (EOG) reported at the OutDoor fair...
The European Outdoor Group (EOG) reported at the OutDoor fair that the European outdoor market increased by 3.1 percent to an estimated level of €4,776 million at the wholesale level last year, based on its annual market research study. Extrapolating mark-ups, the EOG has calculated that the market was worth ...
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Halfords Group registered higher revenues in the first quarter ended...
Halfords Group registered higher revenues in the first quarter ended June 27, driven by strong growth in bicycle sales. The British retailer said comparable store sales of cycling products grew 21.3 percent, compared with a consolidated comparable store sales increase of 7.9 percent across all its retail segments, which include ...
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Double-digit sales hike for TNF
The North Face enjoyed a sales hike of 11 percent for the second quarter of its financial year, until 28 June. The rise was driven by an improvement of 37 percent in its own retail sales , against a low single-digit increase in the brand's wholesale business. Sales are ...
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Superga has opened several new mono-brand stores outside its domestic...
Superga has opened several new mono-brand stores outside its domestic Italian market in the last couple of months and signed distribution contracts for new markets. Its first mono-brand store in South America was opened earlier this month. The store is located in the JK Iguatemi mall in São Paulo and ...
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Martes Sport, the Polish distribution and retail group, has expanded...
Martes Sport, the Polish distribution and retail group, has expanded its licensing and distribution agreement with Hi-Tec Sports to 19 countries around Eastern Europe. While it previously covered Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the Ukraine, another 15 countries were added, from the Baltics to the former Yugoslav republics, Bulgaria, ...
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Derby Cycle wants to strengthen its sporting segment and has...
Derby Cycle wants to strengthen its sporting segment and has appointed Marc Faude as head of the newly created Product Unit Performance. Derby Cycle is the largest bicycle producer by revenues in Germany and its sporting brands include Focus, Cervélo and Univega. Faude brings more than 20 years of experience ...
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The District Court in Kranj, in Slovenia, has reportedly launched...
The District Court in Kranj, in Slovenia, has reportedly launched debt restructuring proceedings at Alpina, which makes outdoor and skiing footwear as well as a wider range of urban shoes. It has accumulated debts worth €42 million, chiefly due to a management buyout. The company, based in the small eastern ...
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Manifattura Valcismon, the Italian company that owns the Sportful and...
Manifattura Valcismon, the Italian company that owns the Sportful and Castelli brands of sports clothing, has set up a German sales subsidiary, taking over the distribution of its products from Kops, with effect from July 1. The new entity is run by Berthold Blattmann who has been in charge of ...
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Reebok Classics has partnered with the German fashion designer Patrick...
Reebok Classics has partnered with the German fashion designer Patrick Mohr for the development of a limited edition released at the recent Bright show in Berlin and due to be sold by selected retailers from next spring
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Olivier Ciaravino, the French-based president of the Global Eyewear Division...
Olivier Ciaravino, the French-based president of the Global Eyewear Division of Bushnell Performance Optics, is adding the title of managing director of the whole group for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). In connection with his appointment, Gernot Trebsche, managing director of Bushnell for Germany and Austria, is adding ...
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New Era Cap launched last week in Europe a new...
New Era Cap launched last week in Europe a new Heritage series of caps to celebrate the New York Yankees, inspired by Spike Lee, and its distribution will be expanded this week globally
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Macintosh Retail Group, parent company of Brantano, Scapino and other...
Macintosh Retail Group, parent company of Brantano, Scapino and other major shoe retail chains in the Netherlands, Belgium and the U.K., has outlined a €180 million refinancing package intended to strengthen its shoe formats and its omni-channel retail operations. After a rise of 7.8 percent in the first quarter of ...
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Jarden Corporation's stable of sports brands continues to widen. Its...
Jarden Corporation's stable of sports brands continues to widen. Its K2 Sports subsidiary has signed an agreement for the takeover of an American brand of triathlon clothing, Squadra, and its business at an undisclosed price. Squadra started in 1996 as the U.S. licensee of Castelli, the Italian brand of bikewear. ...
