All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 27, Issue 38-39 – Page 5
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Esportec, a Spanish agency specializing in outdoor products, has taken...
Esportec, a Spanish agency specializing in outdoor products, has taken on the distribution in Spain of Icelantic's skis, which are 100% handmade in Colorado
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Willy Bogner obtained a preliminary injunction against a German animal...
Willy Bogner obtained a preliminary injunction against a German animal protection association, Deutsches Tierschutzbüro. A court in Bonn forbade the association from organizing, soliciting or implementing an anti-fur campaign within a 50-meter radius of the ten Bogner stores operating in Germany. However, the judgment has not yet become final. The ...
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Sports Direct is facing parliamentary demands for explanations after a...
Sports Direct is facing parliamentary demands for explanations after a group of members of Parliament turned up unannounced at its head office and warehouse in Shirebrook, and alleged that an attempt was made to record a private discussion in one of the group's meeting rooms. Ian Wright, head of the ...
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Sports Direct is facing parliamentary demands for an explanation after...
Sports Direct is facing parliamentary demands for an explanation after six members of Parliament (MPs) turned up unannounced at its head office and warehouse in Shirebrook, and an attempt was allegedly made to record their private discussion in one of the group's meeting rooms. The allegation is that a recording ...
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The combined sales of the retailers affiliated with Intersport Austria,...
The combined sales of the retailers affiliated with Intersport Austria, including the Intersport stores in Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary, are expected to increase by 6.7 percent to €540 million in 2016, as compared to 2015. Affiliated retailers in Austria expect to record a double-digit increase in their sales ...
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Amer adjusts for digital growth
The Amer Sports group is adjusting its business structure to create a connected devices and services category, as the Finnish sporting goods supplier is multiplying efforts to launch connected products.The new category is covering Amer's digital services and technologies along with the former Sports Instruments division, which chiefly covers the ...
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The Adidas Group is opposing a pending trademark registration by...
The Adidas Group is opposing a pending trademark registration by Barcelona football club in the U.S., for a design with seven blue and red stripes. As reported by several Spanish newspapers, the Adidas group has filed an opposition document with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) last month, claiming ...
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Adidas has unveiled a new jersey for the New Zealand...
Adidas has unveiled a new jersey for the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team. The jersey, which comes after two years of development in collaboration with the team itself, features a new fabric which has been digitally woven together. This manufacturing process is said to help reduce the likelihood of ...
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Adidas and London-based Palace Skateboards have launched their new collaboration...
Adidas and London-based Palace Skateboards have launched their new collaboration with a humorous video that makes fun of Adidas' serious sportswear campaign. The collection includes tracksuits, terry hoodies, socks, hats, crewnecks as well as the new Palace Indoor sneaker, which is similar to Adidas' retro Superstar shoe but with recent ...
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Adidas has unveiled a fully biodegradable running shoe made from...
Adidas has unveiled a fully biodegradable running shoe made from Biosteel fiber, a nature-based and completely biodegradable replication of natural silk. The Futurecraft Biofabric, which has been developed in partnership with AMSilk, was presented on Nov. 17. at the Biofabricate Conference in New York, where Adidas and AMSilk also announced ...
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GoPro is facing class action suits from shareholders who feel...
GoPro is facing class action suits from shareholders who feel misled by the action-camera company's claims about the demand and the sales potential for its new Karma drones. Three law firms announced the legal action after GoPro recalled about 2,500 drones on Nov. 8 after discovering that they can lose ...
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Hi-Tec to be acquired by Cherokee
Cherokee Global Brands (CGB), a U.S. company specializing in apparel sales and licensing, has agreed to take over nearly all of the assets of Hi-Tec Sports International for an aggregate purchase price of about $95.8 million from the Van Wezel family, and to transform the Dutch-based sports and outdoor footwear ...
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E-bikes help Accell post higher sales
Sales improved for Accell Group in the third quarter, largely due to higher sales of electric bikes. However, the company did not release any exact figures for this quarter, but only provided a trading update. It said that higher discounts to reduce seasonal inventories of regular bikes put downward pressure ...
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Strengthening its management structure, Accell Group has appointed Wouter Jager...
Strengthening its management structure, Accell Group has appointed Wouter Jager as brand and marketing director of the company. Jager's current responsibilities as commercial managing director of Accell Nederland will be transferred to Huub Snellen, the group's managing director of operations. In the framework of Accell Nederland's integration into the group, ...
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New academic program in France
The Inseec Group, one of the major French business schools with nine campuses in France and abroad, has launched Inseec Sport, with the objective of attracting 350 students in the first year, rising to 1,000 after three years. The project calls for the opening of 20 programs at the various ...
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The Australian media have reported about the insolvency of BLK,...
The Australian media have reported about the insolvency of BLK, the brand of team sports jerseys based in Queensland. It has contracts with many football, rugby and netball teams in Australia, and a few also in Europe. Executives of the company declined to provide information on the consequences of the ...
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Canada Goose has opened a 4,500-square-foot flagship store in Toronto,...
Canada Goose has opened a 4,500-square-foot flagship store in Toronto, its home town
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A negative foreign currency swing of 3.8 billion yen (€31.4m-$33.3m)...
A negative foreign currency swing of 3.8 billion yen (€31.4m-$33.3m) led Descente to post a net loss of ¥1,750 million (€14.5m-$15.3m) for the first half of its financial year, ended Sept. 30, against a profit of ¥2,939 million in the year-ago period. Without extraordinary items, net earnings were down by ...
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More than 250 people attended the Ispo Academy held for...
More than 250 people attended the Ispo Academy held for the first time in Seoul earlier this month. Organized at the Textile Center on Nov. 7-8, in partnership with the Korea Outdoor & Sports Industry Association (KOIA), it brought together brand owners and retailers to hear about the development of ...
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Yonex' sales jumped by 24 percent to 31.3 billion yen...
Yonex' sales jumped by 24 percent to 31.3 billion yen (€258.9m-$274.4m) in the six months through Sept. 30, but most of the growth took place in China, where the company's recently opened joint venture lifted its sales in the country by 241 percent to ¥8.8 billion (€72.8m-$77.1m), driven by badminton. ...
