All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 26, Issue 33-34
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Norrøna wins the Norwegian retail prize
Norrøna came home from the 2015 Norwegian Retail Conference with the Retailer of the Year award. While it may seem strange that a vendor wins a prize aimed at retailers, it was Norrøna Retail that got it because of the company s own retail operations. The Retailer of the Year ...
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Sports Marketing Surveys (SMS) has published a new study on...
Sports Marketing Surveys (SMS) has published a new study on international sporting participation, which is said to offer unprecedented comparative findings. The release of the report follows two years of research and the analysis of 27 sports in 21 countries on six continents. The survey of 63,000 households includes information ...
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Quiksilver may be still in the market
There is no certainty that Oaktree Capital Management will become the controlling shareholder of Quiksilver , as previously reported, although the federal bankruptcy court of Wilmington, Delaware, accepted Oaktree s and Bank of America s offer to provide the struggling surf skate group with a $175 ...
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Zalando warns investors that its sales will be up by...
Zalando warns investors that its sales will be up by between 33 and 35 percent in 2015, up from a previously forecast range of 28-31 percent, but they will generate an operating margin of 3 to 4 percent, less than the anticipated margin of 4-5 percent. The updated forecast for ...
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In a preliminary statement, Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings said its...
In a preliminary statement, Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings said its operating revenues increased by 5.7 percent to $6.28 billion in the first nine months of this year. The growth was driven by Pou Sheng, the company's retail subsidiary, whose sales went up by 19.9 percent to $1.75 billion during the ...
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Knight writes up his side of the Nike story
Students at Stanford University a few years ago were startled to find out that t he unassuming man with the white Nikes who turned up at their creative writing classes was Phil Knight . The anecdote published by The Wall Street Journal at the time didn't mention whether Nike's ...
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Thierry Kunz returned to the Nidecker group last month as...
Thierry Kunz returned to the Nidecker group last month as chief marketing officer and board member, after several years at the Quiksilver group. A former professional snowboarder and the founder of Donuts Snowboards, Kunz was already at the Swiss snowboarding group as head of marketing for five years until 2006. ...
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The Vietnamese government has issued new regulations that specify...
The Vietnamese government has issued new regulations that specify the maximum amounts of formaldehyde and Azo dyes that can be used in textile products manufactured, imported and traded in the country. The regulations are scheduled to be enforced from February 2016. They make reference to updated international test standards. They ...
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The organizers of the London Golf Show are to introduce...
The organizers of the London Golf Show are to introduce a Women's Zone at the fair to support participation among women. It will be managed by Felicity Dunderdale of Fore! Women, an online women's guide to golf. The zone will be designed to encourage women to play golf, highlighting the sport's ...
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Kevin Rolland has joined the Völkl team. The French freestyle...
Kevin Rolland has joined the Völkl team. The French freestyle skier, aged 26, won the gold medal at the 2009 FIS Freestyle World Ski and was a bronze medalist at the winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014. The ski-boots-bindings sponsorship is a three-year contract starting with the 2015-2016 winter season ...
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Fred Perry plans to move its head office to...
Fred Perry plans to move its head office to a refurbished Victorian warehouse with 30,000 square feet of space at Mount Pleasant in London in the first quarter of 2016
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Sport Zone moves into France
After its expansion into India earlier this year, Sport Zone , the leading Portuguese sports retailer, formally opened its first franchised store in France last month, spreading on about 1,000 square meters in a shopping center in Amiens. Sport Zone is part of the much larger Sonae Group, comprising interests ...
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Injinji, which makes performance toe socks with five toe sleeves...
Injinji, which makes performance toe socks with five toe sleeves for runners and fitness enthusiasts, has hired Julia Anderson as product coordinator and Claire Kooperman as digital marketing coordinator. Anderson was previously production coordinator for Mad Engine, creating licensed apparel for retailers such as Kohl's, Target and Walmart. Kooperman joined ...
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Facing sluggish sales in some of its largest markets and...
Facing sluggish sales in some of its largest markets and tough pressure on margins due to adverse exchange rate changes, Mammut Sports Group has decided to close the rope production unit at its head office in Seon, Switzerland. It will be transferred from the start of September 2016 to an ...
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The TPP faces some hurdles
Trade ministers from the U.S. and 11 other countries along the Pacific Rim have finalized the terms of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), an agreement that would eliminate import duties and other trade barriers between them over time. It would cover about 40 percent of the world s economic output. ...
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The North Face was planning to inaugurate its first store...
The North Face was planning to inaugurate its first store in Portugal on Oct. 17 in the presence of João (José Silva Abranches) Garcia, the first Portuguese mountaineer to have reached the summit of Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen in 1999. A year later, after reaching the top of Annapurna, ...
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Nike has extended its partnership with the National Women's Soccer...
Nike has extended its partnership with the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), the women's professional soccer league, through the 2019 season. As part of a wide relationship that started in 2012, Nike is the official uniform, apparel and equipment provider for all nine NWSL clubs, and it will outfit any ...
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Salming expands in running
Salming Sports is preparing to open a third Salming Run Lab in Switzerland in March, as the Swedish brand continues to diversify and to build on its particular approach of running shoes. Salming has long been known as a leading brand of equipment for floorball but a few ...
