All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 26, Issue 33-34 – Page 3
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Cimalp, which has developed a patented quick-dry polypropylene fabric coupled...
Cimalp, which has developed a patented quick-dry polypropylene fabric coupled with Coolmax for its T-shirts and jackets, was one of the two French companies that got the French Outdoor Award at Camp de Base, the collective French exhibition at the OutDoor trade show in Friedrichshafen in July. Cimalp claims that ...
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Reiner Thalacker is no longer the chief executive of Wintersteiger....
Reiner Thalacker is no longer the chief executive of Wintersteiger. He left at the end of September for personal reasons, company officials say, after three years with the Austrian company, a global leader in ski maintainance equipment and other businesses. Thalacker was also responsible for sales, marketing and customer service. ...
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SDI chief is charged with criminal offence, pleads not guilty
Dave Forsey, chief executive of Sports Direct International (SDI), the leading British sports retailer and wholesaler, has been charged with a criminal offence relating to the collapse of West Coast Capital, which ran the USC fashion apparel chain owned by SDI. He was charged over alleged failure to notify the ...
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Wiggle has completed the relocation of its distribution center from...
Wiggle has completed the relocation of its distribution center from Portsmouth to Wolverhampton. The new 30,000-square-meter distribution site is three times the size of the previous facility and is strategically situated three kilometers from the M6 and nine kilometers from the M5, two important motorways in the U.K. It took ...
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Calida, the Swiss lingerie group, is holding discussions with the...
Calida, the Swiss lingerie group, is holding discussions with the minority shareholders of Lafuma to take over the 35 percent stake it doesn't own in the French company at a reasonable price, says Sportguide.com
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Brunotti Sportswear has a new marketing manager, Marjolein Jongenelen, covering...
Brunotti Sportswear has a new marketing manager, Marjolein Jongenelen, covering all of Europe for the Dutch-based action sports apparel brand
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Sports Direct International (SDI), the leading British sports retailer and...
Sports Direct International (SDI), the leading British sports retailer and wholesaler, again rebuffed allegations about the workplace practices at its huge warehouse in Shirebrook, Derbyshire. They were scrutinized in a documentary broadcast by the BBC, which indicated that ambulances had been called to the facility more than 80 times in ...
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An experienced executive, Liz Braund, has joined Royal Robbins in...
An experienced executive, Liz Braund, has joined Royal Robbins in the position of vice president of merchandising and design. She will also be in charge of product development and innovation. Braund has spent 20 years in performance apparel, working for important brands such as Nike, The North Face and Oakley. ...
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Fusalp, the iconic French brand of skiwear and lifestyle clothing...
Fusalp, the iconic French brand of skiwear and lifestyle clothing taken over by members of the Lacoste family, has opened a 110-square-meter boutique on rue des Blanc-Manteaux, in the heart of the Marais district of Paris. Three franchised stores are due to open in the French ski resorts of Megève, ...
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Mountain Hardwear, the premium outdoor brand of Columbia Sportswear, and...
Mountain Hardwear, the premium outdoor brand of Columbia Sportswear, and Outerknown, the new apparel brand launched by Kelly Slater, are among the new members of Bluesign Technologies
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Moncler has opened its first store in Boston
Moncler has opened its first store in Boston
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Dominique Roshardt has replaced Michael Bogner as product manager...
Dominique Roshardt has replaced Michael Bogner as product manager of Löffler
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Bob Hurley is stepping down as chief executive of the...
Bob Hurley is stepping down as chief executive of the surfwear brand that he founded, and which was acquired by the Nike group in 2002. Hurley was appointed interim chief executive in 2012, after the departure of Michael Egeck. He supervised product development and marketing for Hurley, which employs about ...
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IC Group's board of director has decided to initiate a...
IC Group's board of director has decided to initiate a new program that will grant up to 61,113 performance shares to the members of its global management team and other selected executives, for a total of 23 participants. They will have an opportunity to get one-quarter of the shares depending ...
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Black Diamond sells Poc to Investcorp
Investcorp Group, the big investment company from Bahrain, has reached an agreement with the Black Diamond group to take over Poc, the Swedish brand of snow sports and cycling gear, at a price of $65.0 million, subject to customary price adjustments. This is equivalent to nearly 1.9 times the turnover ...
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Big growth for CMP
CMP is the brand of sports clothing, specializing in ski and outdoor garments, launched in 2010 by Italy's Fratelli Campagnolo to make a clear statement in the market for an affordable and functional apparel line with Italian design. The idea behind the new brand name, which took the place of ...
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The U.S. government is considering placing Taobao, the big e-commerce...
The U.S. government is considering placing Taobao, the big e-commerce platform operated by China's Alibaba Group, on its list of “Notorious Markets” for its continued offering of products that are in conflict with intellectual property rights. This comes after the American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) issued a complaint against ...
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Julbo has become the only sports brand in Europe with...
Julbo has become the only sports brand in Europe with an in-house laboratory to make corrective lenses for its sports glasses. Like other brands of sports eyewear, it was previously outsourcing the process to an outside laboratory. Following an investment completed in April, Julbo's lab has a capacity to make ...
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Bauer Hockey has opened an Innovation Center in Blainville, Quebec....
Bauer Hockey has opened an Innovation Center in Blainville, Quebec. The facility, which has a surface of more than 9,200 square meters, recently hosted the annual BauerWorld event, which welcomed around 350 of the company's top global retail partners. The new site features more than 150 testing and R&D machines, ...
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Wilson Sporting Goods is moving into “smart basketball” with the...
Wilson Sporting Goods is moving into “smart basketball” with the Wilson X Connected basketball and app, using proprietary technology to track made and missed shots in real time. The ball, which is only being launched in North America for the time being, was developed in a partnership between Wilson and Sport IQ, ...
