All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 28, Issue 15-16 – Page 2
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Organized by the Management Forum Starnberg, the first European Ingredient...
Organized by the Management Forum Starnberg, the first European Ingredient Branding Summit will be held in Munich on Nov. 8 to 9, 2017. The speakers will include Christian Langer from W.L. Gore & Associates and Manuel Dürmoser from Recco.
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Online registrations are now open for the next European Outdoor...
Online registrations are now open for the next European Outdoor Summit, which will be held on Oct. 4-5 in the Italian town of Treviso
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Emerald Exposition Events, which owns Outdoor Retailer, Surf Expo, Interbike...
Emerald Exposition Events, which owns Outdoor Retailer, Surf Expo, Interbike and many other trade shows in the U.S., opened with a share price of $21.60 on the New York Stock Exchange today, giving it a market capitalization of $1.6 billion. The company and some of its shareholders started offering 15.5 ...
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Volatility in down prices
Prices for natural down have gone up recently, due to various factors. While admitting that it is always possible that prices may decline after booking, Allied Feathers & Down is recommending earlier planning for down usage to promote greater pricing stability and a fixed price guarantee for the entire season.The ...
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Double-digit growth for Johnson Outdoors
Johnson Outdoors reported sales of $149.8 million for the fiscal second quarter ended March 31, which represented a 12 percent increase versus the same quarter a year ago. However, sales in the camping segment registered a 2 percent decrease to $11.4 million, which the company attributed to the restructuring of ...
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Moncler posts double-digit sales growth
Moncler reported a 16 percent revenue increase at current exchange rates in the first quarter, with consolidated revenues of €276.2 million in the period, driven by sales in Europe. Tourism to the continent fueled the brand's sales, from China but also Korea and Taiwan, the company said. At constant exchange ...
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Dorel Sports doubles its operating profit
Dorel's sports segment saw revenues decrease by 1.1 percent to $214.0 million in the first quarter to March 31. Dorel Sports is one of the three business segments of Dorel Industries, along with the Juvenile and Home Furnishing divisions. The sports division consists of a large portfolio of brands including ...
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Peak Performance is opening its second directly operated German store...
Peak Performance is opening its second directly operated German store in Stuttgart at the end of this month
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Sports Direct is opening a six-level megastore in Dublin. The...
Sports Direct is opening a six-level megastore in Dublin. The new 37,000-square-foot store is located in North Earl Street, on the premises that were once occupied by the Boyers department store. The store will offer 250 brands and feature around 50,000 products, for both children and adults, covering 30 sport ...
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Diffusion Sport, the Spanish news service, is organizing a “Sport...
Diffusion Sport, the Spanish news service, is organizing a “Sport Solutions Day” in a Madrid hotel next Oct. 24. The initiative is similar to the relatively successful Sport Business Day that it staged in Madrid last September, and this time it will be supported by Afydad, the Spanish sporting goods ...
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Zalando tests GPS-assisted deliveries
Zalando continues to be at the forefront of innovation in e-commerce with a test in Belgium of a new geolocation-assisted delivery service. By using a smartphone-enabled GPS tracking process, it will allow the shipment of its parcels directly to customers wherever they are, rather than only to their homes or ...
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The latest edition of Performance Days went well, with rising...
The latest edition of Performance Days went well, with rising numbers for both exhibitors and visitors. A total of 1,520 visitors from 49 countries attended the two-day fabrics show in Munich last month, up from 1,340 visitors from 44 countries in April 2016. The number of exhibitors increased to 177 ...
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Mizuno’s results weighed down by U.S. and currencies
Weak sales in the Americas region and unfavorable exchange rates caused Mizuno's revenues for the 12 months ended March 31, 2017 to decline by 3.8 percent to 188.7 billion yen (€1.5bn-$1.7bn). However, on a currency-neutral basis, they inched up by 0.5 percent over the previous year.The Japan-based company blamed this ...
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Wilco Prins, the general manager of Rip Curl Europe who...
Wilco Prins, the general manager of Rip Curl Europe who has been re-elected as president of Eurosima, the European surf industry association, says he will try to develop its actions at the European level. While it has members in nine European countries, 87 percent of them are based in France. ...
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A Spanish court has dismissed a request by JD Sports...
A Spanish court has dismissed a request by JD Sports Fashion for precautionary measures against a local chain, Oteros Sport, which alleged similarities between the logos and the corporate identity of its new Oteros Sneakers For All stores and those of its own stores. The court accepted Oteros' argument that ...
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Ireland, the U.K. and Sweden are the fittest countries in...
Ireland, the U.K. and Sweden are the fittest countries in the world, according to data collected by Fitbit from more than 20 million users around the world. Spaniards take the greatest number of steps per day. The World Health Organization's recommendations for an average of 150 minutes of aerobic physical ...
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Vulcabras continues to improve
Vulcabras Azaleia, the Brazilian company that owns the Olympikus brand of sporting goods and three brands of women's shoes, Azaleia, Dijean and Opanka, reported higher sales and profits for the first quarter to March 31, confirming its turnaround.The company's sales grew by 17.7 percent to 295.9 million reais (€85.4m-$95.2m) in the ...
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Fenix Outdoor International, the company that owns three leading European...
Fenix Outdoor International, the company that owns three leading European outdoor retailers along with Fjällräven and several other outdoor brands, has agreed to take a stake of 75 percent in Alpen International, its distributor in South Korea. Fenix says the takeover will be made through a share issue, which is ...
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European Commission sticks with selective distribution rules
The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi) supports the conclusion of a sector inquiry conducted in the last two years by the European Commission into online retailing, which decided not to change the current practices of selective distribution – allowing sports brands to manage their distribution and to ...
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Helly Hansen will be the new official technical clothing partner...
Helly Hansen will be the new official technical clothing partner for this year's European Tour of the Melges World League, a sailing race that will start with a session off the coast of Tuscany on May 12-14
