All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 27, Issue 33-34
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Sportisimo targets regional markets with new investors
Sportisimo , the leading Czech sports retailer, wants to turn into a bigger regional player following the sale this summer of half of its shares to Slovak and Czech investors . Sportisimo, which has been operating in Slovakia as well, moved into Poland and Romania last year , and ...
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Intersport UK will be the official sports retail partner of...
Intersport UK will be the official sports retail partner of the new Aldi Manchester Half Marathon on Oct. 16
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Rudy Project had the helmet most often worn at the...
Rudy Project had the helmet most often worn at the latest Ironman World Championship, held in Hawaii, for the sixth consecutive year. LAVA Magazine counted 550 helmets for the Italian brand, 112 more than Giro and 280 more than Specialized. The same race saw Hoka One One jump into second ...
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Fusalp is opening a second store in Paris, to be...
Fusalp is opening a second store in Paris, to be followed by others in Lyon, Chamonix and Zermatt
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Vibram progresses on several fronts
Intellectual property protection is one of those fronts. Working together with Mark Monitor, the Italian company says it has led to the shutdown of 198 websites that were selling counterfeit models of its Vibram FiveFingers shoes or shoes with fake Vibram soles. Action is pending against more than ...
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A higher level of management was represented at the fourth...
A higher level of management was represented at the fourth annual European Outdoor Summit, which welcomed more than 250 outdoor industry professionals from across Europe and beyond on Sept. 29-30 in Barcelona. It was organized by the European Outdoor Group in cooperation with Afydad, the Spanish sporting goods industry association. ...
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Paul Nugent, former vice president of global marketing at Umbro,...
Paul Nugent, former vice president of global marketing at Umbro, started last month as senior director of marketing at Under Armour in Europe. He reports to Chris Bate, the company's managing director for Europe, and will lead marketing activities across Europe. The job was held on an interim basis by ...
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Futuristic products and manufacturing in focus at WFSGI forum
Advances in the production of sports-related gear appear to have suddenly accelerated in the last two years. But the Manufacturers' Forum organized for the fourth time by the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) next month will be discussing even more advanced concepts, involving large amounts of data ...
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Umbro is sponsoring Palma Futsal, the first-division futsal team from...
Umbro is sponsoring Palma Futsal, the first-division futsal team from Palma de Mallorca
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Oakley, part of Luxottica's portfolio, has opened its first mono-brand...
Oakley, part of Luxottica's portfolio, has opened its first mono-brand retail store in Italy. The new store is located in Milan's piazzale Cadorna, next to Luxottica's headquarters. The entrance of the store features a column of LED screens, which are meant to immediately capture the attention of passersby. Digital communication ...
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Oakley has launched its first snow helmet. It is fitted...
Oakley has launched its first snow helmet. It is fitted with a patented modular brim system, which allows an optimal fit for the goggle and the helmet itself.
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Moncler, one of the stars on the Milan stock exchange,...
Moncler, one of the stars on the Milan stock exchange, lost 2 percent of its value, going down to €15.28 a share, after analysts heard that its major shareholder, Eurazeo, divested 6 percent of the company's equity for €230 million. The investment fund's stake in Moncler has thus declined to ...
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Dunlop Slazenger's Spanish subsidiary has a new office at El...
Dunlop Slazenger's Spanish subsidiary has a new office at El Prat de Llobregat, the town near Barcelona where also Amer Sports, Nike and Mizuno have their Spanish offices
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The Times of India reports that Nike is shutting down...
The Times of India reports that Nike is shutting down 35 percent of its stores in India, as it strives to cut its losses in the country. The newspaper adds that the brand currently has about 200 mono-brand stores left in the country and is sharply reducing the number of ...
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A delegation of Fesi, the Federation of the Sporting Goods...
A delegation of Fesi, the Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry, met in Brussels on Sept. 14 with Antonio Campinos, the executive director of the European Union's Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), as well as Paul Maier, the director in charge of intellectual property rights at the EU Observatory on Infringements, ...
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Joma has signed a three-year technical sponsorship deal with the...
Joma has signed a three-year technical sponsorship deal with the Bahrain Merida Pro Cycling Team, the first such team from the Gulf state
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Ulrike Köhler is taking over in November from Daniel Eppler...
Ulrike Köhler is taking over in November from Daniel Eppler as vice president and general manager for Nike in the German-speaking countries. After several other assignments at Asics and Saucony in Europe, Köhler has been with Nike in various functions since 1997, most recently as vice president and general manager ...
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Timberland issues an update on its CSR efforts
Timberland recently released an update about its corporate social responsibility (CSR) actions. In the second quarter of this year, 95.5 percent of the leather used by the brand was produced by tanneries with a silver or gold rating. In the same period, 44 percent of the cotton used in its ...
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Reebok has contracted Gigi Hadid, the famous New York-based fashion...
Reebok has contracted Gigi Hadid, the famous New York-based fashion model and fitness advocate, as the newest face for its #PerfectNever campaign. The brand has also signed up an Australian fitness professional, Emily Skye, as a new global ambassador for its fitness lines.
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Columbia University of New York plans to offer an online...
Columbia University of New York plans to offer an online program on sports management, without giving out a degree at the end of the course
