All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 26, Issue 43-44
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Sport participation in Spain is on the rise
According to a recent survey by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sports, 53.5 percent of the Spanish citizens aged 15 or more have participated in sport over the last 12 months. This percentage, which includes both regular and occasional participants, represents a 9.2 percent increase since the previous survey ...
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Zimstern has opened a store in Munich and one in...
Zimstern has opened a store in Munich and one in Davos, Switzerland
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Sanfo on the stock market – at last
Beijing Sanfo Outdoor Products, which claims to be China's largest specialty retail group in the outdoor sector, had a good start at the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on Dec. 9. The retailer raised about 160.1 million yuan renminbi (22.6m€- 24.7m$) from its long-awaited initial public offering, issuing 17 million new shares ...
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Issuing its second profit warning in three months, Pittards, the...
Issuing its second profit warning in three months, Pittards, the U.K.-based leather producer, said it will make a reasonable profit for this year, but it will be materially below forecasts, due to the slowdown in China and Russia. These two factors are apparently offsetting the impact on margins from lower ...
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Himaraya, the Japanese sporting goods retailer, said that it suffered...
Himaraya, the Japanese sporting goods retailer, said that it suffered a loss of nearly 2.5 billion yen (€19.0m-$20.8m) for the first quarter of its fiscal year, to the end of November. This compares with a loss of ¥955.8 million (€7.3m-$7.9m) for the same period last year. Sales were off by ...
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Julbo is supporting Snowboard Germany by supplying sunglasses and helmets...
Julbo is supporting Snowboard Germany by supplying sunglasses and helmets for the members of its national team
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Sport Partner reports that Mizuno's French subsidiary will no longer...
Sport Partner reports that Mizuno's French subsidiary will no longer distribute the brand in Belgium and Luxembourg from the beginning of April, and that sales in the two countries will instead be supervised from the Netherlands. The publication indicates that the change fits with wide-ranging investments by Mizuno in European ...
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The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in the U.K. reports that...
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in the U.K. reports that Chris Ronnie, former chief executive at JJB Sports, the defunct British sports retailer, has been ordered to pay about £633,000 within three months or face another five years in jail. Ronnie, who led JJB Sports from 2007 to 2009, is ...
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Toni Sailer has opened his first store, located in the...
Toni Sailer has opened his first store, located in the Austrian resort of Kitzbühel, featuring his collection
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Lotto has opened its first store in Hong Kong...
Lotto has opened its first store in Hong Kong
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Karhu ski production returns to Finland
Karhu Holding, the company that holds rights to the Karhu brand for skis, running and other sports products, has struck a new licensing agreement for production and sales of Karhu-branded cross-country skis, boots and poles. Covering Europe, Russia and CIS countries, Japan and South Korea, the deal will allow Karhu ...
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Skullcandy has a new flagship store in the Shibuya fashion...
Skullcandy has a new flagship store in the Shibuya fashion district of Tokyo
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OIC The Fair Wear Foundation, Greenroom Voice and the Sustainable...
OIC The Fair Wear Foundation, Greenroom Voice and the Sustainable Apparel Coalition will present their approaches to the rating of the brands' sustainability performance at a round-table discussion during the Ispo Munich show at 4 PM on Tuesday, Jan. 26. The challenges faced in the transparent and factual measurement of ...
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No end in sight for Nike growth spurt
There's still no end in sight to the latest growth spurt at the Nike group, as its sales advanced by 4 percent to $7,686 million and by 12 percent in constant currencies for the quarter until the end of November. Even more impressively, futures orders for the Nike brand were ...
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One of the two Go Sport stores in Dubai has...
One of the two Go Sport stores in Dubai has been reopened and is now the largest one in the French retail group s chain with a total surface of 3,200 square meters. Operated by its master franchisee for the Gulf States, Al Mana Fashion Group, the store has benefited ...
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Ultra Sport Europe has taken on the distribution of NSP...
Ultra Sport Europe has taken on the distribution of NSP surf and SUP boards in the U.K. and Ireland
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Fouad Gross is leaving as country manager of Timberland for...
Fouad Gross is leaving as country manager of Timberland for Germany, Austria and Switzerland after more than ten years in the job. His role will be taken over on a temporary basis by Mariano Alonso, vice president of sales of Timberland for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Timberland ...
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El Corte Inglés has started to offer home delivery within...
El Corte Inglés has started to offer home delivery within two hours for items ordered through its website. The service is limited for the moment to the cities of Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Málaga, Sevilla and Bilbao. The initiative is regarded as a pre-emptive move against Amazon, which is reportedly considering ...
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Our subscribers at SGI Europe and The Outdoor Industry Compass...
Our subscribers at SGI Europe and The Outdoor Industry Compass were wondering where Mathias Basedow was going to land after leaving the European Outdoor Group, where he recently acted as marketing manager. Basedow, who had previously worked at Oakley Europe, is now running a brand-new office and showroom of Icebug ...
