All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 26, Issue 31-32
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Nike wows the market
Nike started its fiscal year with an exuberant quarter, defying economic issues in China and reporting impressive increases in futures orders . The results for the three months until the end of August were way above market estimates and ahead of Nike's own expectations. The Nike group's sales climbed ...
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Kettler works on a restructuring plan
Kettler is preparing to implement a restructuring plan, after a court in Arnsberg approved insolvency proceedings for the German fitness and leisure equipment supplier earlier this month. Kettler filed for self-administered insolvency in June, while several investors were said to circle the family-owned company. The company indicated at ...
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Tacchini grows while targeting new markets
Sergio Tacchini has enlisted a new apparel licensee for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Tennis-Point, a specialized German online retailer that also has a physical store in Münster. It is a partner of DTB, the German tennis association. Four years ago, Tennis-Point won the Shop Usability Award in the sports category, ...
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Textilwirtschaft reports that Stadium, the Swedish sporting goods retailer with...
Textilwirtschaft reports that Stadium, the Swedish sporting goods retailer with stores in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and more recently in Germany, has started trading through a German-language online store, www.stadium.de. Stadium opened its first German store on about 1,650 square meters in Hamburg last year and added a second store ...
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Go Sport has launched Go Sport Occasion, a new online...
Go Sport has launched Go Sport Occasion, a new online platform for second-hand sporting goods of all sorts, including equipment. The platform is open to both private customers and professionals and can be accessed via the retailer's e-commerce site at www.go-sport.fr under “Services.” Ads are grouped by region and city ...
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Joma grows in the football rankings
Joma Sport claims to have become the third-largest supplier of football products on a global basis - thanks especially to the internationalization of its sports marketing efforts in Asia, Africa and Latin America - and the category leader in the domestic Spanish market, ahead of Nike and Adidas ...
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Johnson Health Tech (JHT), the Taiwanese fitness equipment maker that...
Johnson Health Tech (JHT), the Taiwanese fitness equipment maker that owns the Matrix, Vision and Horizon brands, has acquired Stak Fitness, a leading distributor of fitness gear in Canada. It will operate as a separate subsidiary for JHT, with current management and staff. Established in 2004 by Karim Toupin-Chaieb, Stak ...
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Shimano Europe relocates in Eindhoven
Shimano is to relocate its European head office from Nunspeet in the center of the Netherlands to the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven from the start of 2017. The Japanese cycling, fishing and rowing equipment company announced earlier that Shimano Europe would open an “experience center” in ...
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There will be no Padel Village at the next edition...
There will be no Padel Village at the next edition of Ispo Munich. This initiative was meant to promote the internationalization of this Spanish racquet sport, which has begun to acquire a certain notoriety in France and other countries. Afydad, the Spanish sporting goods industry association, indicates that the decision ...
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Sunset Sport is taking on the distribution in France of...
Sunset Sport is taking on the distribution in France of SIC, a 10-year-old Hawaiian brand of stand-up paddle boards that was recently named Brand of the Year by SUP Connect. Sunset Sport already distributed the wetsuits of Mormaii, Elan's skis and snowboards, Colmar's clothing and Uvex' sports glasses, ski goggles ...
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Jorcani Sports will distribute the snow gloves of Level in...
Jorcani Sports will distribute the snow gloves of Level in Spain and Andorra, adding to a portfolio of brands that includes Fischer , Odlo , Icepeak , Smith , Carrera and Barts
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Zeal Optics has developed a new polarized and photochromic lens,...
Zeal Optics has developed a new polarized and photochromic lens, the Automatic, building on its technological heritage in goggles
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Memphis Depay from Manchester United is one of the players...
Memphis Depay from Manchester United is one of the players starring in the first global football campaign by Under Armour (UA), Slay Your Next Giant, which was launched last week. The campaign features top players and young up-and-coming players, united by the pay-off: You're Just Getting Started. An unusual feature ...
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The Mammut Sports Group has decided to outsource the labor-intensive...
The Mammut Sports Group has decided to outsource the labor-intensive manufacture of its ropes at its facility in Seon by Sept. 1, 2016, but the Swiss company will continue to use the site to design, develop, test and market its ropes. The new contractor is an Austrian family-owned company, Teufelberger. ...
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Cross Sportswear is offering a vastly expanded line of technical...
Cross Sportswear is offering a vastly expanded line of technical men's golf clothing for the spring 2016 season
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Sales drop at Le Coq
Le Coq Sportif generated sales of €49.0 million in the first half of 2015, down by 7 percent from the same period a year ago, according to Airesis , the Swiss investment company that owns a 78 percent stake in the French sports brand. The gross margin improved by ...
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Noting that consumer confidence is improving in Japan, Himaraya is...
Noting that consumer confidence is improving in Japan, Himaraya is predicting increases in its current financial year of 5 percent in sales, 9 percent in operating income and 13 percent in net profit. For the financial year ended Aug. 31, the Japanese sporting goods retailer has reported a 44 percent ...
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Marchon Eyewear is releasing an expanded collection of Nike Vision...
Marchon Eyewear is releasing an expanded collection of Nike Vision sunglasses signed by Kevin Durant, the popular NBA basketball player sponsored by Nike
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Nike has opened a new U.S. West Coast flagship store...
Nike has opened a new U.S. West Coast flagship store in Los Angeles, Nike The Grove, named after an iconic outdoor shopping mall and covering 31,000 square feet on three floors
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The U.S., China and Russia drive the global sports market's growth
The global sporting goods market continued to grow by 5 percent in 2014 on a constant-currency basis, reaching a level of €285 billion, according to The NPD Group. The international market research company has been calculating a similar annual growth rate for the global sports market since 2011, but with ...
