All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 25, Issue 24-25
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Lafuma's sales shrink as it targets more profits
The Lafuma Group suffered a sales decline of 11.2 percent to €85.5 million for the first half of this year, amounting to a decrease of 10.2 percent in constant currencies and based on comparable activities. This comes after the Calida Group from Switzerland, which became the majority shareholder in ...
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Puma on track to start its turnaround
Just a few days before the planned start of a large-scale advertising campaign under the Forever Faster tagline, Puma put out figures that were roughly in line with its guidance for the second quarter, badly affected by exchange rate changes but still displaying a slight increase in comparable sales and ...
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Jarden posts some growth in outdoor
For the second quarter ended June 30, Jarden Corporation , owners of Coleman, K2, Marker, Shakespeare, Völkl and many other sports and outdoor brands, reported a marginal sales increase in its Outdoor Solution segment to $754.9 million from $741.1 million in the same period of a year ago . ...
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Go Sport seeks ways out of its losses
Groupe Go Sport , the third-largest sporting goods retailer in France after Décathlon and Intersport , is engaging in new initiatives, including the planned launch of an internet marketplace, to help boost its lingering revenues and to reduce its chronic losses. Go Sport's new marketplace should be the first ...
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News briefs
- Our previous issue erroneously stated that Graham Rickard has...
- Our previous issue erroneously stated that Graham Rickard has become the managing director for the Regatta group. In fact, he has been appointed as managing director for the Regatta brand, while remaining in charge of the Dare2b brand. Jim McNamara remains managing director for Craghoppers. Keith Black, who has ...
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Jean-Marc Taillieu has replaced Eric Lairet as general manager of...
Jean-Marc Taillieu has replaced Eric Lairet as general manager of TBS, the sports brand of the French Eram shoe retailing group. A former European retail manager of Quiksilver, he has worked for Fila and other companies. TBS has an annual turnover of around €50 million. A large part of the ...
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Shock Doctor is sponsoring the English Saracens rugby team with...
Shock Doctor is sponsoring the English Saracens rugby team with its mouthguards for the next five years
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Crocs streamlines
Six months after receiving a $200 million investment from the Blackstone Group , Crocs announced a major strategic performance improvement plan revolving around four key initiatives : (1) streamlining the global product and marketing portfolio, (2) reducing direct investment in smaller geographic markets, (3) creating a more efficient organizational ...
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Décathlon has signed a sponsorship contract for Kipsta, its private...
Décathlon has signed a sponsorship contract for Kipsta, its private brand of team sports products, with the Castres Olympique rugby club, which currently ranks second in France. True to its low-cost vocation, Décathlon will sell its Castres jerseys at only €40 apiece, reduced to €35 for children's models. These prices ...
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TaylorMade-Adidas Golf has signed a four-year contract with England Golf....
TaylorMade-Adidas Golf has signed a four-year contract with England Golf. Beginning in January 2015, the company will be the official supplier of waterproof clothing, golf apparel and footwear to the staff and volunteers of the organization. It will also make available Adidas clothing and Taylormade golf bags and accessories to ...
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Europe and footwear lift Columbia
A rebound in European sales helped Columbia Sportswear to post a 15.6 percent increase in total revenues to $324.2 million for the second quarter ended June 30. For the whole Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region, they were up by 39.1 percent to $72.9 million in the quarter, with ...
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Matthias Malessa is leaving as chief human resources officer of...
Matthias Malessa is leaving as chief human resources officer of the Adidas Group at the end of this month for personal reasons. The recruitment of his successor is in progress. Malessa has spent 27 years with the company, starting off as a trainee in 1987. He took care of international ...
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Skullcandy has named David Raffone as chief sales and revenue...
Skullcandy has named David Raffone as chief sales and revenue officer, with effect from Aug. 11 at the latest. He has spent more than 20 years in sales of branded consumer electronics, acting most recently as vice president of Sony Electronics' U.S. sales division.
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The introduction of Cardio GPS sports watches led TomTom to...
The introduction of Cardio GPS sports watches led TomTom to more than double its revenues from sports products in the second quarter. It helped its Consumer Division to record only a small decline to €169 million from €172 million, in spite of a 17.4 percent drop in automotive hardware to ...
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Callaway gains market shares
Callaway Golf Company has reported a 7.1 percent decline in its revenues for the second quarter, down to $231.9 million, leading to a 63.7 percent drop in net earnings to $3.37 million for the period . The performance was worse than analysts were expecting, but the management indicated that ...
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Europe is a bright spot in Crocs' revenues
Crocs saw its revenues increase by 3.6 percent to $376.9 million in the second quarter ended June 30 , in line with the company's expectations. On a constant currency basis, they went up by 3.5 percent. For the three months, the company posted a net income of $19.5 million, ...
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Toyota Tsusho is launching PFC-free waterproof breathable membranes in outdoor...
Toyota Tsusho is launching PFC-free waterproof breathable membranes in outdoor clothing. These high-performance membranes are made from Arnitel VC, a very flexible thermoplastic polyester-based elastomer developed by a Dutch company, DSM. This elastomer, which has been used for many years in membranes for clothing, does not rely on perforations to ...
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Pentland Brands welcomed the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, and...
Pentland Brands welcomed the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, and Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, to its global headquarters in London on July 25. The visit by the Conservative and Liberal Democrat party leaders was part of an exercise to see examples of flourishing British businesses. Pentland is a third-generation ...
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Timberland names Whitney as new brand president
Timberland has promoted Stewart Whitney , who is currently vice president and managing director for the Timberland and Napapijri brands in Asia, to brand president effective Oct. 5, 2014 . Whitney will report to Patrik Frisk, who has held what is to become Whitney's new position since the ...
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Franz Völkl, former chief executive of the famous ski brand...
Franz Völkl, former chief executive of the famous ski brand and inventor of carbon technology for skis, passed away at the age of 87. The Völkl company, one of the pioneers of modern skis, was founded by Franz Völkl's grandfather in 1895. He assumed the management in 1952, succeeding his ...
