All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 25, Issue 38-39 – Page 3
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Intersport buys largest member in East Germany
Intersport Germany has agreed to buy its largest member, in terms of number of points of sale, in the former East Germany. Wolfgang Rossow, founder and managing partner of Sportpoint Holding, is selling his shares to Intercontact Beteiligungsgesellschaft. This company is the holding company through which Intersport entirely or partly ...
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Reebok buys Luta Sportswear
Reebok International has announced a long-term partnership with Fight for Peace, a non-profit organization combining boxing and martial arts with education and personal development. The partnership also involves the acquisition of Luta, the boxing and martial arts brand that supports Fight for Peace financially. Luta produces high-end, “socially responsible” sportswear ...
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Megasport is taking the distribution of Briko in Spain...
Megasport is taking the distribution of Briko in Spain
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Pacific Brands sells its footwear business
Pacific Brands has agreed to spin off and sell the sports and footwear businesses of its loss-making Brand Collective division for 39 million Australian dollars (€26.8m-$33.7m). The division generated revenues of A$204.5 million (€140.6m-$176.5m) in the financial year ended on June 30, down 8 percent from the previous year, and an ...
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The X-Bionic brand of X-Technology joined Victorinox and Honeywell in...
The X-Bionic brand of X-Technology joined Victorinox and Honeywell in the Hall of Fame of the prestigious Swiss Innovation Award as it celebrated its 25th anniversary in Zurich. Meanwhile, X-Technology, Schoeller, Sympatex Technologies and Polartec took Best Innovation prizes at the recent inaugural Future Materials Awards organized by the World ...
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Felix Geiger will join the executive board of Schöffel in...
Felix Geiger will join the executive board of Schöffel in January in the position of managing director in charge of finance, general organization and IT. He will also run the German company's Professional Wear division. The 42-year-old comes from Escada, where he acted lately as executive vice president for finance. ...
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Bike popularity is still growing in the Netherlands
The distance the Dutch have been traveling within their country over the last ten years has remained more or less the same, around 11,000 kilometers per person per year. However, the distance traveled on bikes has increased by 7 percent since 2004, according to the Mobility Survey 2014 of the ...
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VeronaFiere is starting a new Italian bike show called CosmoBike,...
VeronaFiere is starting a new Italian bike show called CosmoBike, which is set to take place in Verona on Sept. 11-14, 2015. The international event, created by Paolo Coin, who previously ran ExpoBici, will focus on the ongoing evolution of the bicycle, including new materials and production technologies, and will ...
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New generation re-launches Five Seasons with big goals
The Swedish brand of value-priced sports apparel is being re-launched with a new logo, a new fashion-oriented collection and a stronger focus on large key accounts all over Europe. Five Seasons has also signed new agency and distribution contracts with experienced partners in Central Europe.It's all part of a three-year ...
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Lucie Hamsin, one of the best French trail runners, has...
Lucie Hamsin, one of the best French trail runners, has joined seven other athletes in endorsing Kalenji, the sports footwear brand of Décathlon
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Jochen Hoffmann, who has worked for Norrøna and Berghaus in...
Jochen Hoffmann, who has worked for Norrøna and Berghaus in Germany and the Benelux countries, takes over from Bernd Taube as sales manager of Bergans of Norway for Germany, Austria and Switzerland
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Two Spanish managers, David García and Beni Moret, are reportedly...
Two Spanish managers, David García and Beni Moret, are reportedly taking on the license for Umbro in Spain and Portugal, starting with the autumn/winter 2015/16 season. García is the commercial director of Gescom Sport. Moret is a manager of Anzamar.
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Ryan Gellert has been named chief executive of Patagonia Europe,...
Ryan Gellert has been named chief executive of Patagonia Europe, responsible also for the Middle East. He spent the last 15 years with Black Diamond in various roles including that of brand manager, vice president for supply chain management and managing director for Black Diamond Asia. Described as a dynamic ...
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Bernard Liatti, the former top executive of Rossignol, has been...
Bernard Liatti, the former top executive of Rossignol, has been made managing director of Cybergun, the leading specialist in licensed replica airguns with offices in France and the U.S. The company has been taken over by a fund, Restated Investment, which is proceeding to a new €15 million round of ...
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Marc Gläser has left a Swiss watchmaker to become the...
Marc Gläser has left a Swiss watchmaker to become the new chief executive of Stöckli Swiss Sports, according to Schweizer Sport & Mode
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David Beckham and Simon Fuller, the TV producer best known...
David Beckham and Simon Fuller, the TV producer best known for being the creator of American Idol and the “Idol” franchise, have signed a 50-50 joint venture with Hong Kong-based Global Brands Group (GBG) to develop David Beckham-branded consumer products globally. As reported by The Financial Times, they also plan ...
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Christian Bättig, founder and owner of Chris Sport, is taking...
Christian Bättig, founder and owner of Chris Sport, is taking back the management of this big Swiss importer following the departure of its chief executive, Damian Wirth, after five years
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Base-Detallsport, the second-largest sporting goods buying group in Spain, has...
Base-Detallsport, the second-largest sporting goods buying group in Spain, has announced the departure of its general manager, Angel Pardo, after 25 years in office. Without naming his successor, Francisco Torrejón, president of the group, said that it had seized the opportunity for a generation change to reach the goals of ...
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Rainer Zplinsky is going back to his two running stores...
Rainer Zplinsky is going back to his two running stores after three years at the head of Lex Laufexperten, the German cooperative of 31 independent running shoes. His job will be taken over on an interim basis by Michael Tiemann, chairman of the organization.
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Seafolly, the Australian swimwear label, has been taken over at...
Seafolly, the Australian swimwear label, has been taken over at undisclosed conditions by L Capital Asia 2, an investment vehicle of the LVMH luxury goods group. The business plan calls for Seafolly's international expansion and its diversification into new product categories in order to become an all-around lifestyle brand. Led ...
