All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 26, Issue 31-32 – Page 3
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Unrest at PSG around former chairman
Speculation abounded in the last few days around the intentions of W. Graeme Roustan, the former chairman of Bauer Performance Sports, which became the Performance Sports Group (PSG) in June 2014. Roustan was reported to have hired bankers to explore taking PSG private. However, the company said last Friday that ...
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Arc'teryx has opened its fifth U.S. store in Denver and...
Arc'teryx has opened its fifth U.S. store in Denver and plans to add two others in New York City and Boston by the end of this year. The fast-growing brand, which is said to have a potential for total sales of €500 million, already opened new stores in London and ...
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Creating a new position, Intersport Austria has appointed Jens Kromny...
Creating a new position, Intersport Austria has appointed Jens Kromny as head of own retail. This former manager of Peek & Cloppenburg will take care of the 40 corporate Intersport stores in Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. Intersport Austria is a subsidiary of Intersport Germany, which also owns ...
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Columbia Sportswear has appointed Richelle T. Luther as senior vice...
Columbia Sportswear has appointed Richelle T. Luther as senior vice president and chief human resources officer. She has been the company's deputy general counsel since 2008. Columbia has also named David M. Brulé as general manager of the company's wholly owned Canadian subsidiary. A former director of Reebok Canada, he ...
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Patagonia has appointed Lisa Pike Sheehy to the newly-created role...
Patagonia has appointed Lisa Pike Sheehy to the newly-created role of vice-president of environmental activism. She will report directly to Patagonia's chief executive, Rose Macario. Pike Sheehy is also on the board of the Outdoor Industry Association. This year Patagonia has donated $6.2 million to 741 grassroots environmental groups. The ...
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Creating a new position, Billabong has appointed Deanna Jackson as...
Creating a new position, Billabong has appointed Deanna Jackson as vice president of women's sales for North America
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Technogym has developed an application for its Artis treadmill, connected...
Technogym has developed an application for its Artis treadmill, connected with Google Glass eyewear, which allows the runner to control the speed of the equipment with voice commands, to see the running data on the headset and to communicate with a personal trainer or a friend through a webcam. The ...
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In another initiative that is confined for the moment to...
In another initiative that is confined for the moment to the U.S. market, New Balance has put together a 72-page catalog of sports and lifestyle products developed exclusively for women. Apparel takes up 70 percent of the space in the new booklet, which was set to come out in three ...
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The Marcolin Group announced last week the signing of a...
The Marcolin Group announced last week the signing of a global exclusive license agreement with Moncler, the fast-growing Italian brand of down-filled jackets, which previously had a collaboration with Allison. The contract will become effective next January and will run through 2020, with an option for a 5-year renewal. It ...
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Nike has announced a new collaboration with the Climate CoLab...
Nike has announced a new collaboration with the Climate CoLab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on a project to seek new ideas for low-impact fabrics and textiles. Prior to this announcement, the sporting goods firm had recently pledged to reach 100 percent renewable energy in company-owned and -operated ...
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Life Fitness, a division of Brunswick Corp., has announced a...
Life Fitness, a division of Brunswick Corp., has announced a 50,000-square-foot expansion for its factory in Ramsey, Minnesota, which will bring the surface of the facility to more than 330,000 square feet. The expansion was decided after production at the factory nearly doubled over the last six years. The addition ...
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Vaude has announced the departure of Peter Sontheimer, product manager,...
Vaude has announced the departure of Peter Sontheimer, product manager, after working for the company for more than 21 years. He says he decided to leave Vaude to be closer to his family in the area of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Sontheimer became a member of Vaude's executive board last year. The company ...
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Bergans of Norway has announced a change in its Swiss...
Bergans of Norway has announced a change in its Swiss distribution, which has been handled so far by its Germany subsidiary Hamburg. Effective Nov. 1, Ace Alpine & Climbing Equipment will be in charge of distribution. The pre-orders for summer 2016 will still be taken care of by the German ...
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Sport-guide.com reports that Anima Athletica, a French retailer specializing in...
Sport-guide.com reports that Anima Athletica, a French retailer specializing in fitness apparel and footwear for women, is preparing to open its fourth store in October, on about 60 square meters in Polygone Riviera, a new shopping center in Cagnes-sur-Mer, near Nice
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Andrew Vara, the trustee appointed to oversee the bankruptcy of...
Andrew Vara, the trustee appointed to oversee the bankruptcy of Quiksilver in the U.S., has appointed a committee to represent the company's unsecured creditors in the court hearings due to be held next week. They are Justin Shearer from Global Corporate Trust Services, Baily Dent of New Generation Advisors, Ian ...
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Infront Sports & Media, the Swiss-based sports marketing company, has...
Infront Sports & Media, the Swiss-based sports marketing company, has sealed an agreement to buy and integrate Gsport and Sport09 into Infront Italy. Gsport is one of Italy's leading companies for marketing rights management in national club football, while Sport09 is one of the country's major media agencies for sport. ...
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Lost International, the American brand of surfboards, skateboards and related...
Lost International, the American brand of surfboards, skateboards and related apparel and accessories launched in 1985, is switching to a licensing model for its sales in the U.S., Europe and many other territories. An investment group based in Chino, California and led by Nick Agakanian will reportedly take care of ...
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Aqua Sphere has announced a new ambassador for its swim...
Aqua Sphere has announced a new ambassador for its swim goggles and related products, Alain Bernard. Like Michael Phelps, with whom it announced a strategic agreement for an MP line of products at the Ispo Munich show, Bernard has a glorious past in swim competitions. The 32-year-old French champion had ...
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A sales team coordinated by David Frehner, manager of Alpcross,...
A sales team coordinated by David Frehner, manager of Alpcross, will take care of the Spanish market for Bianchi, whose bicycles will be directly ordered from Italy
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Nike wants to source all of its electricity from renewable...
Nike wants to source all of its electricity from renewable energy by 2025, it was announced by the The Climate Group last week. Eric Sprunk, Nike's chief operating officer, is quoted as saying in a press release that the group is proud to join RE100 – an ambitious global campaign ...
