All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 27, Issue 40-41 – Page 4
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Under Armour, Fanatics and Major League Baseball (MLB) have signed...
Under Armour, Fanatics and Major League Baseball (MLB) have signed a 10-year partnership that makes Under Armour (UA) the official uniform provider to MLB. The agreement marks UA's first-ever uniform deal for a professional league. The partnership will begin in the 2020 MLB season. Majestic Athletic, which has long been ...
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Poc, the Swedish producer of innovative helmets, eyewear, body armor...
Poc, the Swedish producer of innovative helmets, eyewear, body armor and apparel, will have a new chief executive, Jonas Sjögren, from next Feb. 1. He will join the company, which was bought by Investcorp and merged with the Dainese group in October 2015, after 15 years of experience in the ...
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Marmot has appointed Patrice Christensen as its new director of...
Marmot has appointed Patrice Christensen as its new director of brand. Most recently, Christensen managed key components of marketing at VF Corp.'s Lucy brand, which specializes in women's athleisure apparel. She has also served in marketing management positions at The North Face, PowerBar and Chevron. Christensen is herself an outdoor ...
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K-Swiss has appointed Mike Miringoff as its new global director...
K-Swiss has appointed Mike Miringoff as its new global director of tennis. He will report directly to Barney Waters, K-Swiss' brand president. In his new role, Miringoff will be responsible for the sales, marketing, products and all aspects of the performance tennis business in North America. He brings to K-Swiss ...
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Oxbow, the surf and surf-inspired apparel brand of the Lafuma...
Oxbow, the surf and surf-inspired apparel brand of the Lafuma Group, is adding a line of stand-up paddle boards that will be made by Bic Sport based on its own designs. Oxbow already has a specific line of SUP apparel. Martin Vitry, an 18-year-old French athlete who became the French ...
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Desigual, the highly creative Spanish apparel company, will participate in...
Desigual, the highly creative Spanish apparel company, will participate in the Ispo Munich fair for the first time in February to show its Desigual Sport line
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The global footwear and apparel sectors have made significant progress...
The global footwear and apparel sectors have made significant progress as far as labor practices across their supply chains are concerned. However, according to a study released by KnowTheChain (KTC), many Western firms still show minimal commitment to addressing labor issues within their factories and across the supply chains, despite ...
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Blue Tomato has opened another store in Münster, expanding the...
Blue Tomato has opened another store in Münster, expanding the action sports retailer's network to 30 stores in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Owned by Zumiez since 2012, the group has been multiplying store openings in the last years: It moved into Vienna, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Munich, Stuttgart, Hamburg and Berlin, and ...
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Shimano has announced plans to open a new distribution center...
Shimano has announced plans to open a new distribution center near the French city of Lyon to enhance its service to French and Italian customers. It will be Shimano's third European distribution center, along with Nunspeet in the Netherlands and Pozna? in Poland. For the Turkish market, the company operates ...
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Reebok has announced that its new home in the city...
Reebok has announced that its new home in the city of Boston will be located at 25 Drydock Avenue, in Boston's Seaport District. In November, the company announced it would move from its current location in Canton, Massachusetts. The new Reebok headquarters will house around 700 employees. The 220,000-square-foot location, ...
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Swink Media, the publisher of Golf Retailing, has announced the...
Swink Media, the publisher of Golf Retailing, has announced the acquisition of Pro Shop Europe from the Mark Allen Group. The amount of the transaction has not been disclosed. Swink Media said that further details on how Pro Shop Europe will complement Golf Retailing will be announced in the coming ...
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Kempa has announced several new sponsorship deals. The German brand,...
Kempa has announced several new sponsorship deals. The German brand, which is owned by Uhlsport, will be the new official supplier of the Russian Handball Federation. The brand will also sponsor Robert Weber, the record-winning goalkeeper of the SC Magdeburg handball team, as well as Marius Steinhauser, who plays for ...
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The National Retail Federation (NRF) announced that Mark Parker, Nike's...
The National Retail Federation (NRF) announced that Mark Parker, Nike's chairman, president and chief executive, is to be named “The Visionary” at the 2017 NRF Foundation Gala on Jan. 15, 2017
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Sympatex Technologies has announced it will introduce a Sympatex membrane...
Sympatex Technologies has announced it will introduce a Sympatex membrane in a climate-neutral way for the first time. The material basis of the membrane is the Sympatex copolymer, a compound of polyester and polyether molecules. During the production process, the company and its partner DSM have managed to reduce the ...
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Andy Steel has started as international sales manager in charge...
Andy Steel has started as international sales manager in charge of the U.K. and the European Union at Bern Unlimited, the U.S. supplier of action sports helmets. Steel is based in the U.K. and he is already familiar with the brand since he has been the Bern brand manager for ...
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Kim Anderson, former chief executive of Reading Room, has joined...
Kim Anderson, former chief executive of Reading Room, has joined Billabong's board of directors, where she will replace Howard Mowlen as chair of the company's resources and remuneration committee
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Lululemon outperforms, but some analysts worry
Lululemon Athletica delivered better-than-expected results for the third quarter ended Oct. 30, 2016, with gains in profits, revenues and margins. It was the latest in a series of strong quarters, and the Canadian brand attributed this performance in part to its international expansion. Revenues increased by 13.0 percent for the ...
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An interesting analysis by Footwear News indicates that sports brands...
An interesting analysis by Footwear News indicates that sports brands may be getting a certain payoff from sponsoring musicians, fashion models and other celebrities rather than athletes. The cost of these sponsorships is generally lower, although the volumes involved may be lower, too. Paying homage to the sneakers boom, Puma ...
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Mizu opens a European office in Amsterdam
We have already reported about Hydro Flask's new European headquarters in Basel, Switzerland (The Compass – Vol. 9 – N° 7+8 of Apr. 13). Last month, another American supplier of vacuum-insulated drinkware as well as reusable bottles, Mizu, announced the opening of a wholly owned European subsidiary, Mizu Europe.Mizu Europe ...
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Sandsock will distribute all the products of Falke in Spain...
Sandsock will distribute all the products of Falke in Spain as of next year
