All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 27, Issue 40-41
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Umbro has received an outpouring of orders for the shirts...
Umbro has received an outpouring of orders for the shirts of the Chapecoense club after an air crash killed nearly the whole team in early December. Only three players survived the crash outside Medellin, which occurred on the eve of their Copa Sudamericana final against Atletico Nacional. Umbro representatives met ...
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Nike has reportedly signed a lease for a store of...
Nike has reportedly signed a lease for a store of nearly 6,500 square meters on Fifth Avenue, New York, comprising the lower level and the six floors of a building. The Real Deal, a publication about real estate, described the lease as one of the most expensive retail deals ever ...
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Signa Retail, the owner of Karstadt Warenhaus and Karstadt Sports,...
Signa Retail, the owner of Karstadt Warenhaus and Karstadt Sports, is acquiring a 78 percent stake in Tennis-Point, which it describes as the leading multi-channel retailer in the tennis category in Europe, with 12 stores and 19 online shops in ten languages. The Austrian company has already sealed three purchases ...
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Joma will be the official supplier of the Spanish Rugby...
Joma will be the official supplier of the Spanish Rugby Federation for the next five years
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Puma has moved the staff of its Italian office, which...
Puma has moved the staff of its Italian office, which counts about 80 people, to new premises at Assago, near Milan
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LVMH invests in Pinarello
Pinarello Holding is planning to further develop its line of apparel and accessories and to continue its international expansion, opening single-brand stores around the world, following an investment in the Italian producer of high-end road bikes by the European and North American units of L Catterton. Fausto Pinarelli will continue ...
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Nike reassures with improved quarter and structural measures
The Nike group has reassured investors with broad-based increases in sales and profits for the three months until the end of November, and with structural measures to respond more rapidly to consumer demand. The U.S. company has under-performed on the stock exchange this year, chiefly due to weaker growth in ...
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Giant reshuffles leadership
Giant Manufacturing, the parent company for Giant Bicycles, is preparing for a generation change in its management, with the retirement of its founder and chairman, King Liu, as well as its chief executive, Tony Lo. They are both among the most prominent business personalities in the international cycling market, having ...
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Intersport Germany has rearranged its product management functions, splitting private...
Intersport Germany has rearranged its product management functions, splitting private labels and strategic brands between two executives at the same level. The buying group has thus created two new functions: Thomas Scheck is in charge of product management for private labels, while Tim Bielohoubeck holds the same function for strategic ...
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Wolverine sells Robeez, lays out the Way Forward
The management of Wolverine Worldwide had already hinted that it was considering the divestiture of some non-core assets, while promising shareholders that it was going to do its best to attain an operating margin of 12 percent by the end of 2018 through a variety of measures. After the ...
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Protest is launching a line of fashionable and technical women's...
Protest is launching a line of fashionable and technical women's garments for stand-up paddling. Lokahi, a producer of SUP boards, has developed a color-coordinated inflated model, the Air 10'4, which replicates the same prints. The board can go into a bag for transportation when deflated.
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Rapala France will take over the distribution of Rapala VMC...
Rapala France will take over the distribution of Rapala VMC Corp.'s Sufix fishing lines in Italy, Germany, Benelux and the U.K. from Shimano Europe
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Thule Group has hired Jim Matthews as director of product...
Thule Group has hired Jim Matthews as director of product development of soft goods. In his new role, he will lead product development and execution of all soft goods under the Thule and Case Logic brands. Matthews brings more than 25 years of product management and development, marketing and sales ...
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Gore has developed a new technology for running shoes that...
Gore has developed a new technology for running shoes that is said to offer the benefits of protective footwear technology with the feeling of regular road running shoes. In the Gore Invisible Fit shoe, wrinkles and folds have been eliminated and pressure marks are reduced. Heel and ankle abrasion is ...
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Decathlon finalizes Skimium divestment
Decathlon has finalized the divestment of its 80 percent stake in Skimium, an online French ski rental platform operating with about 240 affiliated retailers in France and Andorra. The operation was fully taken over at an undisclosed price by three shareholders with equal stakes: Eric Laboureix and Dominique Chomarat, two ...
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Nike renews France and England football deals
In another instalment of the reset of large-scale football endorsement deals, Nike has extended and raised the value of its partnerships with both the French and English football associations. Nike didn't publicize the sums involved in either of the deals, but L'Equipe reported that the partnership with the French ...
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Ritchie International is switching over to a dealer-direct distribution model...
Ritchie International is switching over to a dealer-direct distribution model for its bicycles and frames in Europe, according to Bike Europe. For this purpose, it has set up a new logistic operation at Multisped, a logistics provider in Singen, Germany. The new sales structure will reinforce its partnership with three ...
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The organizers of Performance Days, the eight-year-old functional fabrics fair...
The organizers of Performance Days, the eight-year-old functional fabrics fair in Munich, report a 39% increase in visitors in November as compared to the previous trade show in April
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Diadora has signed a partnership with Daddato for a line...
Diadora has signed a partnership with Daddato for a line of technical children's wear under its own name that can be worn for skiing and other outdoor activities as well as in the city. Addressing toddlers and kids between the ages of 0 and 14, it will be shown for ...
