All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 27, Issue 21-22 – Page 3
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Halfords' bike sales resume their growth
Halfords saw revenues at its cycling division grow by 1.9 percent in the fourth quarter ended April 1. It was the second consecutive quarterly increase. However, the British retailer's sales of cycling products fell by 0.9 percent for the full financial year, and the company attributed the decline mainly to ...
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Just before the start of the current Uefa Euro football...
Just before the start of the current Uefa Euro football championships, Intersport Austria launched a smartphone application that allows users to share selfies with football-related phrases, symbols or country banners with other fans. Called Sportycam and targeting mainly teenagers, it is available in all the countries where Intersport Austria operates, ...
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Polartec has been taking flak over its plans to shut...
Polartec has been taking flak over its plans to shut down its manufacturing plant in Lawrence, Massachusetts, after it filed paperwork disclosing its intentions to start laying off workers. United Here, the trade union that represents most of the workers, wrote an open letter to Rose Marcario, chief executive at ...
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Nike has been working with several fashion designers for its...
Nike has been working with several fashion designers for its NikeLab collection. The most recent collaboration, reported on Instagram, is with Louis Vuitton's artistic director for menswear, Kim Jones, for a collection that will become available in July. Other recent collaborations have been reported for the NikeLab program with Olivier ...
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Performance Sports Group (PSG), which owns Bauer, Mission, Easton and...
Performance Sports Group (PSG), which owns Bauer, Mission, Easton and other brands, has appointed Harlan Kent as its new chief executive and as a member of its board of directors, both effective on June 20. Amir Rosenthal, president of PSG, had acted as interim CEO at the sports equipment manufacturer ...
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Base, the Spanish voluntary group, has opened the first store...
Base, the Spanish voluntary group, has opened the first store in a Spanish airport. Called Base Bazar Sport, it takes up 300 square meters of space in the airport of Grand Canaria, one of the Canary Islands.
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Colin Israel, former managing director for Asia at Black Diamond,...
Colin Israel, former managing director for Asia at Black Diamond, has become chief operating officer and chief financial officer for Alpha Industries, a U.S. brand of outerwear. Israel's function at Black Diamond included running factories, warehouses and distribution centers, along with customer service. He was previously the chief information officer ...
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Ashley blames online growth for SDI warehouse issues
Mike Ashley, majority shareholder of Sports Direct International, has blamed soaring online sales for the British retailer's failure to adjust all of the infrastructure at its huge warehouse in Shirebrook, as he finally attended a parliamentary hearing on Tuesday, June 7 regarding the treatment of workers at the company.Ashley appeared ...
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Patrick Giraudon, owner and chief executive of Arva/Nic Impex, a...
Patrick Giraudon, owner and chief executive of Arva/Nic Impex, a leading player in the French ski touring market, has taken over from Jean-Luc Diard as president of Outdoor Sports Valley (OSV), a French-based organization representing about 370 members in the outdoor industry. Giraudon, who was already on OSV's board in ...
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Management shake-up at Arena
The big Italian-based swimwear brand announced in the past few days the departure on June 6 of its long-standing chief executive, Cristiano Portas, and the appointment of a new, experienced general manager for the U.S. market, where the potential for its development is still huge.Portas has been running Arena for ...
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The general meeting of XXL ASA has approved a stock...
The general meeting of XXL ASA has approved a stock repurchase program, allowing the board of directors to raise the share capital in one or more rounds by a total of up to 1.2 million Norwegian kroner (€0.13m-$0.14m) up to June 30, 2017. The authorization may be used to issue shares ...
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Odlo recently appointed Phillip Weston as its new general manager...
Odlo recently appointed Phillip Weston as its new general manager for the U.K. and Ireland. Weston was most recently at Esprit, where he served as vice president and head of the U.K., Ireland and Benelux region. In his new role at Odlo, he will manage all aspects of the Odlo ...
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Christophe Weissenberger has been appointed chief executive officer in charge...
Christophe Weissenberger has been appointed chief executive officer in charge of marketing and sales at the Uvex Sports Group, an arm of the Uvex Group that sells goggles and glasses with the Uvex and Alpina brands. He will join the company at the end of August and fill the position ...
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Timo Fleischmann was appointed to the position of international sales...
Timo Fleischmann was appointed to the position of international sales manager at Uhlsport at the beginning of June. He has been working for the German team sports company since 2002, taking responsibility for the sales and product management department of Spalding, a licensed brand. In his new position, Fleischmann reports ...
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Sebastian Lund has been appointed as chief human resources officer...
Sebastian Lund has been appointed as chief human resources officer and member of the executive board at Amer Sports, the Finnish sports equipment group that owns Salomon and Arc'teryx along with Atomic, Wilson, Precor and other brands. He will join Amer Sports at the beginning of October after 20 years ...
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Russian athletes appear increasingly unlikely to take part in the...
Russian athletes appear increasingly unlikely to take part in the European championships in Amsterdam in July and in the Rio Olympics in August after the International Athletics Federation (IAAF) decided unanimously at an extraordinary council meeting in Vienna last week that the Russian athletics federation had not met the conditions ...
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Beachbody will launch shoes and apparel
Beachbody is a big American group that develops videos and sells DVDs for in-home and gym-based fitness programs under different brands like Insanity, P90X and 21 Day Fix. Many of them feature celebrities. It also sells weight-loss nutrition products under the Shakeology brand name. It makes an annual turnover of ...
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Vans is launching a new collection of shoes, apparel and...
Vans is launching a new collection of shoes, apparel and accessories for men and women in cooperation with Nintendo. The “Vans x Nintendo” collection, showing images from well-known Nintendo games, like Super Mario Bros, Duck Hunt, Donkey Kong and The Legend of Zelda, is available online and in selected sporting ...
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Maier Sports, the German outdoor and snow sports apparel brand,...
Maier Sports, the German outdoor and snow sports apparel brand, won the German Brand Award 2016 in the category of sports, outdoor activities & leisure. According to the jury, Maier Sports was awarded because the brand is seen as a pioneer in the field of PFC-free alternatives for durable water ...
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Antoine Haincourt has been appointed expert associate at the EM...
Antoine Haincourt has been appointed expert associate at the EM Lyon Business School, in charge of its international master's degree course on the sports industry. He takes the place of Pascal Aymar, who has decided to work for another university-level program in the same sector, as we have already reported. ...
