All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 27, Issue 19-20 – Page 3

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    Canyon Bicycles has announced it will enter the U.S. market...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Canyon Bicycles has announced it will enter the U.S. market in 2017 via a new partnership with TSG Consumer Partners, the private equity firm that acquired Backcountry.com last year. Canyon will remain an independent entity, entirely separate from TSG's other investments, while TSG will hold a significant minority stake. Final ...

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    Canada Goose has announced the opening of its first two...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Canada Goose has announced the opening of its first two stand-alone stores this coming autumn. The stores are set to open on New York's Wooster Street, in the heart of SoHo, and in the Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto. Each store, covering a surface of more than 4,000 square feet, ...

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    Crocs has announced that a ruling last year in the...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Crocs has announced that a ruling last year in the Shanghai Intermediate People's Court has been selected by China's Supreme People's Court as one of the top 50 leading intellectual property (IP) cases of 2015, and as one of the top 10 leading IP cases of the Shanghai Courts. In ...

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    The Skechers Performance Los Angeles Marathon has announced a strategic...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    The Skechers Performance Los Angeles Marathon has announced a strategic partnership with Venice Marathon, which is meant to further its global reach and highlight the Sketchers running events on an international scale. Both races boast international fields that draw from more than 60 countries worldwide. The 2016 Venice Marathon is ...

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    Nautilus is suing Icon Health & Fitness, charging that its...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Nautilus is suing Icon Health & Fitness, charging that its FreeStride Trainer infringes on four patents related to its own self-adjustable Variable Stride feature

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    Schuh & Sport Mücke, the big German shoe and sporting...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Schuh & Sport Mücke, the big German shoe and sporting goods retail chain that was acquired by ANWR in May 2014, will not be converted to a public limited company. ANWR is now proposing to its general assembly, due to be held in Rotterdam on June 20, to keep it ...

  • Article

    New commercial leadership for Amer

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Just as Intersport International Corp. announced the appointment of its future chief executive, Victor Duran, starting next Jan. 1 (see our last issue), Amer Sports announced the promotion of Michael White to the new position of chief commercial officer. He will also have additional responsibility for the company's global Business ...

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    Alpargatas performs relatively well

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Alpargatas posted upbeat results for the first quarter of 2016, despite the ongoing low consumption rate and other economic problems in Brazil. Total revenues increased by 9.3 percent to 1,011.6 million reais (€251.1m-$281.9m) during the quarter ended March 31 for the company that owns the Havaianas and Dupé brands of ...

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    Patxi Fernández Allende is the new managing director of the...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Patxi Fernández Allende is the new managing director of the Spanish Intersport CCS buying group. He worked previously for various retailers including Lidl and Perfumerias If. He acted as managing director of Forum Sport, the Spanish sporting goods retail chain owned by the Eroski group. Reporting to Ignasi Puig, chief ...

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    Macron has signed a new technical sponsorship agreement with an...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Macron has signed a new technical sponsorship agreement with an important French football club, OGC Nice, which came fourth in the first division of the French Football League in the season just finished. The deal will run for three years. Burrda was the previous sponsor of the team.

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    In yet another huge endorsement deal, Under Armour has agreed...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    In yet another huge endorsement deal, Under Armour has agreed to fork out $280 million for a 15-year contract with the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), which has been described as the largest shoe and apparel deal in the history of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). UCLA ...

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    Skechers has filed a lawsuit against Eliya, the maker of...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Skechers has filed a lawsuit against Eliya, the maker of Bernie Mev footwear, for marketing and distributing footwear that allegedly infringes on its Skech-Air by Skechers product line. The suit, which has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, states that Eliya is selling ...

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    Frédéric Basse has stepped down after nine years as president...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Frédéric Basse has stepped down after nine years as president at Eurosima, the association representing the board sports industry in Europe. The co-founder and former executive general manager of Rip Curl Europe chaired Eurosima's general meeting for the last time on May 27 in Anglet. The current general manager of ...

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    Decathlon moves into South Africa and Mexico

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Decathlon has opened business in South Africa with a pop-up store in the Soweto area of Johannesburg. The French retailer's project leader in South Africa, Arnaud Gauquelin, says in an entry on Decathlon's website that the retailer is starting with a pop-up store to learn more about the demand from ...

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    Mark King, president of Adidas North America, has reaffirmed the...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Mark King, president of Adidas North America, has reaffirmed the brand's strategy to sign dozens of endorsement deals with U.S. sports players in the coming years. The Adidas brand's sales shot up by 31 percent in North America in the first quarter of this year, but the rise was strongly ...

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    Igor Landau, supervisory board chairman of the Adidas Group, has...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Igor Landau, supervisory board chairman of the Adidas Group, has told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that the company intends to stick with its partnership with Fifa, which runs until 2030, despite the governance issues that have been plaguing the football organization. Landau said that the company deplored what occurred at ...

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    Adidas to divest Mitchell & Ness

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Adidas has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Mitchell & Ness business to a newly-formed company owned by Juggernaut Capital Partners. Adidas said the sale of the Philadelphia-based apparel brand will allow the group to focus more aggressively on its core brands. Mitchell & Ness is best known ...

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    The Adidas Group says that its pilot plant for fast...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    The Adidas Group says that its pilot plant for fast footwear production in Ansbach, Germany, is ready to start commercial production in 2017. The Speed Factory is to operate mostly with robots. The project was unveiled last year as part of the group's “Creating the new” strategy, which has speed ...

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    Closed for several weeks, Adidas' largest European store has reopened...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Closed for several weeks, Adidas' largest European store has reopened – a flagship outlet at the bottom of the Champs-Elysées in Paris. The store adopted the Home Court concept that was already implemented in Beijing, Madrid, Berlin and London, with features such as the Shoe Base, an interactive bar with ...

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    Several heirs of Adi Dassler, the founder of Adidas, have...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Several heirs of Adi Dassler, the founder of Adidas, have teamed up to try and take more control of his legacy, according to Capital, the German magazine. Most of the heirs stayed away from the spotlight after the sale of Adidas in the early nineties by the four daughters of ...