All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 27, Issue 40-41 – Page 3
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Fendi, a fashion brand owned by LVMH that is famous...
Fendi, a fashion brand owned by LVMH that is famous for its luxurious fur coats, has launched a line of colorful winter sports apparel and accessories that combine technical and fashionable elements. The garments are being sold on its website and at selected retail stores in alpine ski resorts such ...
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Mund, the Spanish brand of sports socks, will present a...
Mund, the Spanish brand of sports socks, will present a new corporate identity at the Ispo Munich show in February
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Philipp Plein has recently opened its first boutique dedicated to...
Philipp Plein has recently opened its first boutique dedicated to sport in Paris. The Plein Sport shop, which occupies a surface of 102 square meters, is located at 250 rue de Rivoli, not far from the Parisian flagship of the main brand, Philipp Plein. The new store has been designed ...
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At least five institutional investors are considering bids to the...
At least five institutional investors are considering bids to the takeover of Performance Sports Group (PSG), the parent company of Bauer, Mission and Easton. One of them is a former owner of Bauer, Hohlberg Kreavis Roberts (KKR). The others are Apollo Investment Corp., Bain Capital, TPG Capital and Sycamore Partners. ...
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Ispo Beijing is getting bigger. Messe München said on Dec....
Ispo Beijing is getting bigger. Messe München said on Dec. 14 that 439 exhibitors had already registered by then to participate in its next session of the fair, or 7 percent more than at the same time a year earlier. On Feb. 15-18, the next show will feature a Start-Up ...
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Corinne Gensollen has been confirmed as the new general manager...
Corinne Gensollen has been confirmed as the new general manager of Intersport France, responsible also for Belgium. She has taken the place of François Neukirch, the French industry expert, who is planning to open the biggest Intersport store in the Paris region, located at Herblay. Gensollen, 48, started her career ...
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Keller Sports has become a retail member of the Sport...
Keller Sports has become a retail member of the Sport 2000 buying group in Germany. The partnership will give the company access to the private label offerings and special make-ups of Sport 2000. With a premium positioning in the market, Keller Sports offers a narrow selection of branded products online ...
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Zalando’s margins beat forecasts
Beating forecasts, Zalando reported higher profits for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, thanks to higher efficiencies in inventory management and other processes, although the growth of its turnover slowed down to 17.1 percent year-on-year from the 25 percent rate enjoyed in the previous quarter. It generated an adjusted Ebit ...
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Batra gets the Hi-Tec shoe license for many European countries
Cherokee Global Brands (CGB), a U.S. company that agreed a few weeks ago to take over nearly all of the assets of Hi-Tec International and turn it into a licensing operation, says it has already sealed licensing agreements with Carolina Footwear for the U.S. and Canada, and the Batra Group ...
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Engelhorn, the German sports and fashion retailer based in Mannheim,...
Engelhorn, the German sports and fashion retailer based in Mannheim, has started to sell its products online through Zalando's marketplace. Since Dec. 15, Engelhorn has been a member of Zalando's partnership program. Zalando will start by selling ski and snowboard products that were not available for purchase from the e-tailer's ...
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Matthias Bärtels, who had been serving as one of the...
Matthias Bärtels, who had been serving as one of the two managing directors for the Intersport Voswinkel chain in Germany since 2012, has died at the age of 53. Responsible for purchasing, sales, marketing and merchandising, he led a refitting program at Voswinkel and introduced a CRM system. Soon after ...
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Rossignol has put on the back-burner its previous project to...
Rossignol has put on the back-burner its previous project to come out with a line of lifestyle-oriented sunglasses under its own name following a French court's decision to liquidate the assets of its prospective licensee, Logo Eyewear, after its failure to lure a new investor. Logo went bankrupt in May ...
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Going back to its roots, Superga embraces sport
With sports-inspired lifestyle shoes and clothing enjoying a boom all over the world, the well-known Italian brand of sneakers is developing further its new Superga Sport line by investing in sponsorships with former tennis stars. After the rather successful launch of a new line of Superga shoes co-branded with Adriano ...
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The funeral was held in Asolo on Friday for Luigi...
The funeral was held in Asolo on Friday for Luigi Parisotto, an Italian shoemaker who was closely connected with the history of the Italian ski and mountain boot manufacturing industry. He passed away on Dec. 20 at the age of 86. Luigi Parisotto started to work at the age of ...
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Asics and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) have...
Asics and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) have signed up a new multiple-year partnership which makes Asics an Official IAAF Partner. The Japanese firm will become the new top-tier sports brand sponsor, and will replace Adidas, which has prematurely ended its relationship with IAAF. The 11-year sponsorship deal ...
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The Australian Financial Review reports that L Capital Asia, a...
The Australian Financial Review reports that L Capital Asia, a private equity arm for the LVMH group, is eying the Tigerlily brand of swimwear owned by Billabong International. L Capital already has stakes in other Australian brands including 2XU, which specializes in compression garments, and Seafolly, another swimwear brand. Billabong ...
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Sports Tech Asia is a new trade show for the...
Sports Tech Asia is a new trade show for the presentation of innovative machinery and technologies for the manufacture of sports garments. Organized by Messe München in a joint venture with Adsale Exhibition Services, it will be held in a space of 2,000 square meters next to Ispo Shanghai on ...
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In a further change of management at Rapala VMC, Arto...
In a further change of management at Rapala VMC, Arto Nygren will become executive vice president in charge of lure manufacturing as of Jan. 1, taking the place of Juhani Pehkonen and reporting to Stanislas de Castelnau, executive vice president of manufacturing operations and global supply chain development for the ...
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Reef has enrolled Hailee Steinfeld, a platinum recording artist who...
Reef has enrolled Hailee Steinfeld, a platinum recording artist who has been nominated for the Academy Awards, to be the face of its new Espace collection of women's sandals, due to be launched next spring
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Under Armour will present three new “smart shoes” at the...
Under Armour will present three new “smart shoes” at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month. The three UA Record Equipped running shoes will provide digital tracking of cadence, real-time pace, lifetime mileage and other statistics, extending the capabilities of the company's MapMyRun app.
