All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 27, Issue 29-30 – Page 3

  • News briefs

    Fischer has appointed for the first time a marketing manager,...

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Fischer has appointed for the first time a marketing manager, Jan Ekmark, who will restructure the existing marketing team of the Austrian ski company and cover digital marketing, sports marketing, trade marketing and other domains. Born in Sweden, Ekmark spent more than seven years with Adidas before he joined the ...

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    Canada Goose has appointed Lee Turlington to the new position...

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Canada Goose has appointed Lee Turlington to the new position of chief product officer and Kevin Spreekmeester to the new position of chief brand officer. Turlington, who worked previously in leading roles for Nike, Patagonia, The North Face and Fila, had been a consultant of Canada Goose over the last ...

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    Pearl Izumi, the cycling apparel and footwear brand that belongs...

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Pearl Izumi, the cycling apparel and footwear brand that belongs to the Shimano group, has decided to pull out of the running category and instead focus on cycling. The exit from the running business, which makes up just over 10 percent of Pearl Izumi's turnover, is effective from January 2017. ...

  • Article

    Fila helps Anta to raise sales and margins

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Anta Sports Products, the leading Chinese sports brand, posted strong results for the first six months of 2016, with revenues jumping by 20.2 percent ahead of the year-ago period to 6,140 million yuan renmimbi (€815.2m-$921.4m). The company, whose holdings include the rights to the Fila brand in China, Hong Kong ...

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    Sport-Tone, a French start-up based in Grenoble, has announced the...

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Sport-Tone, a French start-up based in Grenoble, has announced the development of the first sports goggle that enables listening to music through bone conduction, which is the conduction of sound to the inner ear through the bones of the skull. The new goggle is called Stone and is composed of ...

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    Engineers at Stanford University have announced the development of a...

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Engineers at Stanford University have announced the development of a plastic-derived textile, which is said to cool the skin more efficiently than is possible with the natural or synthetic fabrics in clothes that we wear today. Describing their work in Science, the researchers of the Californian university said the new ...

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    Andrew Cooper has been named president of Sequential Brands, reporting...

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Andrew Cooper has been named president of Sequential Brands, reporting to Yehuda Shmidman, chief executive of the parent company of And 1, Avia, Revo and other brands. He was previously senior vice president of Priceline.com and then a partner of Pegasus Capital Advisors

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    Results & Statistics

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Results & Statistics

  • News briefs

    The U.K. Federation of Sport & Play Associations (FSPA) is...

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    The U.K. Federation of Sport & Play Associations (FSPA) is urging the British government to stimulate more physical activity for children as part of its strategy against child obesity. It wants the government to reinvest revenues from a “sugar tax” on programs that would promote physical activity and balanced diets ...

  • News briefs

    Hickies, the clever American shoe lacing system, has been ordered...

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Hickies, the clever American shoe lacing system, has been ordered by retailers operating 400 Intersport stores in Germany, accounting for about 16-17 percent of all Intersport stores in Germany, as well as by members of Intersport Austria. From autumn 2016, Hickies will also be sold by Intersport in England and ...

  • Article

    Amer Sports raises organic sales targets

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Amer Sports has raised its target for organic growth, aiming to reach sales of €3.5 billion without acquisitions in 2020, with at least mid-single digit annual organic sales growth in constant currencies. The target issued last year called for the same level of sales to be achieved through a combination ...

  • Short stops

    Eniola Aluko, the England Lioness and Chelsea club striker, is...

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Eniola Aluko, the England Lioness and Chelsea club striker, is the first female athlete in the U.K. who is being sponsored by Under Armour

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    Alexander Wirth has been promoted to the position of chief...

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Alexander Wirth has been promoted to the position of chief executive of Willy Bogner & Co., taking the place of Willy Bogner, who remains as chairman and main shareholder of the German sports apparel company that bears his own name. After the owner's failure to sell the company at a ...

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    Newell Brands is aiming to sell or even shut down...

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Newell Brands is aiming to sell or even shut down businesses totaling sales of $250 to 300 million by the end of this year, said its management, giving some indications that Coleman will not be part of the package. It wants to retain brands and geographies that offer the strongest ...

  • Article

    Nike works with Apple again

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Apple, which is busy launching new products, introduced a new Apple Watch Nike+ on Sept. 9, featuring a brighter screen than its previous version, a more comfortable strap and a number of new functionalities. Integrating the Nike+ Run Club app, the new device combines the Series 3 Apple Watch with ...

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    Patagonia has adopted a new wool sourcing standard, saying...

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Patagonia has adopted a new wool sourcing standard, saying that it amounts to the world's most stringent criteria for animal welfare and responsible land management. The Patagonia Wool Standard was developed in response to concerns over animal welfare, which led Patagonia to quit buying wool from one of its suppliers ...

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    An Adidas veteran, Timo Pape, has joined Odlo International in...

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    An Adidas veteran, Timo Pape, has joined Odlo International in the new position of brand director, responsible for category management, design and marketing. He had been assisting Odlo in these areas and in communication since last year. After working for seven years at Adidas in Portland and Herzogenaurach, and two ...

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    Adidas has launched a new sub-category of apparel, Athletics, which...

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Adidas has launched a new sub-category of apparel, Athletics, which is meant to be worn by athletes before and after their game or competition. This contemporary take on pre-game wear was launched at an event in New York last week with a U.S. track athlete, Tori Bowie, Andrew Wiggins of ...

  • Article

    Titleist clubs drive Acushnet’s revenues

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Acushnet, the company behind Titleist, Footjoy, Pinnacle and other assets in the golf market, posted revenues for the first six months of 2016 that were up by 4.6 percent to $903.0 million, or by 5.6 percent in constant currencies. In an updated regulatory filing to support its public offering, the ...

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    Christopher Lindner joined Acushnet last month as president of FootJoy....

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Christopher Lindner joined Acushnet last month as president of FootJoy. He acted previously as president of Keds, one of the footwear brands owned by Wolverine Worldwide, which is now led by Gillian Meek. More in Shoe Intelligence.