All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 27, Issue 38-39 – Page 4
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A court has approved the terms of an auction of...
A court has approved the terms of an auction of the assets of Performance Sports Group (PSG), the parent company of Bauer and other brands. Investors are invited to bid against a stalking horse proposal by Sagard Capital to take over the company for $575 million. The bids are due ...
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We have yet to mention the appointment of Martin Margielka...
We have yet to mention the appointment of Martin Margielka as the new marketing director of Burton Europe, responsible for Burton Snowboards and its Anon brand. He is replacing Marian Kaeding. Margielka founded the magazine Streetwear Today and opened the iconic RAPX store in Bochum, Germany, at the age of ...
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Carsten Schmitz has been appointed as chief digital officer at...
Carsten Schmitz has been appointed as chief digital officer at Intersport Germany, a newly-created job, which is meant to transform the buying group into a digitally savvy business. This involves the continuation of the group's digitalization strategy, the development of its multi-channel model and the development of new digital services ...
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Chiemsee appointed Lutz Mai to the position of managing director...
Chiemsee appointed Lutz Mai to the position of managing director in charge of marketing and sales, succeeding Michael Doerell, who is leaving the company for personal reasons. The 50-year-old will be working together with Cornelia Schmidt, chief executive of the German action sports apparel company. Mai worked previously in business ...
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Herbert Lindenmaier has been appointed as area sales manager at...
Herbert Lindenmaier has been appointed as area sales manager at Primaloft, taking care of the company's sales and marketing strategy in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and reporting to Stefan Brandt, Primaloft's European sales manager. He will work out of the company's European headquarters in Taufkirchen near Munich. For the past eight ...
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Mizuno has appointed Indra Gunesekara, who has worked for Brooks...
Mizuno has appointed Indra Gunesekara, who has worked for Brooks and other companies, as creative director of its global performance running footwear, based at the company's office in Portland, Oregon
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Helly Hansen has been chosen as the new ski apparel...
Helly Hansen has been chosen as the new ski apparel partner for the Swedish alpine ski team. This means that the members of Ski Team Sweden Alpine will now also be taking advantage of Recco reflectors, which have been integrated into Helly Hansen's ski apparel for many years. The reflectors ...
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GoPro has announced a reorganization program that will involve the...
GoPro has announced a reorganization program that will involve the elimination of about 200 jobs, or 15 percent of its staff, and the closing of its entertainment division, in a bid to reduce operating expenses by $650 million and return to profitability in 2017. The entertainment division was supposed to ...
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Hero Cycles, the Indian bicycle maker, has announced plans to...
Hero Cycles, the Indian bicycle maker, has announced plans to set up a global design center in Europe. The new state-of-the-art design center will be located in Manchester, U.K. The center, which is expected to start operations in the first quarter of 2017, will focus on innovation and design to ...
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Asics has announced a four-year extension of its sponsorship of...
Asics has announced a four-year extension of its sponsorship of the Barcelona Marathon
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An Outlet y Ocasión Sport & Fitness fair will take...
An Outlet y Ocasión Sport & Fitness fair will take place for the first time on Dec. 16-18 in Madrid. The show is aimed at end consumers who have the chance to purchase cheap sporting goods directly at the site and to take courses in various activities like cheerleading, hip-hop, ...
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Weak American sales hurt Asics
Asics raised its sales by 3.7 percent to €695 million in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) in the nine months to September, with more focus on fewer accounts with more diverse products.Sales of running footwear were up by 6 percent in the region, against a rise of 3 ...
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The fashion model Bella Hadid has become an ambassador of...
The fashion model Bella Hadid has become an ambassador of Nike, helping to promote the company's newest flagship store in New York City
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Rossignol claims gains in alpine ski market
The Rossignol group estimates that it has gained market leadership in alpine and Nordic skiing and become the second-largest player in the market for alpine skiing boots with the Rossignol and Lange brands, after the Amer Sports group and before Tecnica and Nordica.Bruno Cercley, Rossignol's chief executive, says that pre-orders ...
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Big drops in Alpargatas’ sports business
Even without including sales in Brazil of Timberland, Topper and Rainha products, which were discontinued earlier this year, Alpargatas suffered a drop of 29.9 percent to 936,000 in the number of pairs of sports shoes sold in the country during the third quarter of this year. Sales of these products ...
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Eno Polo moves from Alpargatas to GBG
Eno Polo, the 49-year-old president of Alpargatas EMEA, has left the Brazilian company to run a new European subsidiary of Global Brands Group (GBG), the New York-based company that started in 2005 as the wholesale business of Li & Fung and was spun off more than four years ago to ...
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Allied Feather & Down says it has hit the milestone...
Allied Feather & Down says it has hit the milestone of 100 percent third-party certification for its global down supply chain for all its partners. The milestone has been reached ahead of the 2017 goal. More than 75 percent of its down was already certified through the Responsible Down Standard ...
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Patagonia decided to closes all stores in the U.S. on...
Patagonia decided to closes all stores in the U.S. on Election Day, Nov. 8, in order to encourage employees, customers and citizens to go out and vote. The California-based outdoor company has urged citizens to vote since 2004. In September, Patagonia kicked off the Vote Our Planet campaign, focused on ...
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Fesi's secretary general, Alberto Bichi, joined the EU-China Intellectual Property...
Fesi's secretary general, Alberto Bichi, joined the EU-China Intellectual Property (IP) Working Group meeting on Nov. 10 to exchange views with an inter-ministerial delegation from China and EU officials on intellectual property rights (IPR) infringements impacting the sporting goods industry, especially through the online sales of counterfeit products. In China, ...
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Rakuten, the leading Japanese online retailer, has agreed to spend...
Rakuten, the leading Japanese online retailer, has agreed to spend at least €220 million for a four-year deal to become the shirt sponsor of FC Barcelona from the 2017/18 season, with potential extra payments based on performance and an option to extend to a fifth year. The agreement comes after ...
