All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 28, Issue 18-19 – Page 2
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Craghoppers has hired Claire Wilson as retail marketing manager, starting in July. She...
Craghoppers has hired Claire Wilson as retail marketing manager, starting in July. She worked for Reebok in the past. The English brand appointed James McNamara to the newly created position of global commercial director last October. He had previously held a similar position at Salomon. In May, Craghoppers started selling its products in Austria through a sales agent, Thomas Hautz, ...
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Craft presented its first line of urban running shoes at the OutDoor show....
Craft presented its first line of urban running shoes at the OutDoor show. The shoes are intended for running on asphalt, but the company makes no secret that the collection will be expanded in a few years' time. Craft's new urban running shoes come with a Vibram sole that was exclusively developed for ...
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Intersport Finland copes with poor weather and XXL
Intersport Finland held up last year in spite of calamitous weather conditions, which have negatively affected the country's cross-country skiing market and are apparently starting to impact the cycling market as well.Kesko Oy, Intersport's licensee for Finland, reported flat sales of about €316 million in 2016 for all of its ...
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Gosha Rubchinskiy, the Russian designer, has continued his partnership...
Gosha Rubchinskiy, the Russian designer, has continued his partnership with Adidas Football with a range of apparel, footwear and accessories presented earlier this month in St. Petersburg, following the launch of an Adidas Football apparel range by Rubchinskiy in Kaliningrad in January
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Nike launches a new consumer-direct strategy, staff cuts
Nike says it will reduce its staff by about 2 percent, as part of a reorganization aiming to accelerate its business and to target urban consumers more directly. Since Nike reported more than 70,000 employees at the end of its last full fiscal year, the cuts would affect about 1,400 ...
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Lacoste unveiled a new global store concept in early June...
Lacoste unveiled a new global store concept in early June that features a stronger and more immersive brand experience. Located at Westfield White City in Shepherd's Bush, London, the 140-square-meter boutique celebrates the heritage of the French premium lifestyle brand. The central feature is The Polo Wall, which features Lacoste ...
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Launching a new store concept, Dainese has inaugurated a store...
Launching a new store concept, Dainese has inaugurated a store in Berlin for its motorcycling and sports apparel and protection products. It has a Custom Works room for special projects.
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Columbia reshuffles the top deck
Columbia Sportswear announced additional moves in the strategic realignment of its corporate management, as part of an ongoing reassessment of its organizational structure. The process began in March with the appointment of Joe Vernachio at the head of the struggling Mountain Hardwear brand.Among other changes, Columbia Sportswear has appointed Jim ...
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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
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Intersport France confirmed Jacky Rihouet as chairman and general manager...
Intersport France confirmed Jacky Rihouet as chairman and general manager of the voluntary group for the next six years at its annual meeting on June 2. Rihouet, a 58-year-old manager whose chain of 20 sporting goods stores is a member of Intersport France, has held the post since 2010. Under ...
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Peter Cowgill, executive chairman of the JD Sports Fashion Group,...
Peter Cowgill, executive chairman of the JD Sports Fashion Group, has been appointed as non-executive chairman at Quiz, as the fashion retailer is preparing its launch on the AIM market of the London stock exchange next month
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Tecnica Group gears up for a capital increase
The Zanatta family, which controls the Tecnica Group, has signed a letter of intent to allow Italmobiliare to acquire a minority stake of around 40 percent in Italy's leading supplier of outdoor shoes and ski equipment for a total investment of about €60 million. The investment, which will be primarily ...
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Strong results for Canada Goose
Canada Goose posted higher than-expected sales and a smaller-than-expected net loss in its fourth quarter, ended March 31, 2017. The company's share price rose by 15.7 percent after the report, which was the company's first since going public on the stock exchanges of New York and Toronto in March.Net losses ...
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As previously reported, a district court in California recently rejected...
As previously reported, a district court in California recently rejected a trademark infringement claim by Puma against Forever 21 because of insufficient evidence of irreparable harm. Skechers has now won a round against Adidas in a court in Portland, where the judge similarly felt that the Big a was not ...
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Karstadt buys more online marketplaces
Karstadt Warenhaus and its Austrian parent company, Signa Retail, have taken a stake of 70 percent in Hood.de, a popular German marketplace, in order to turn the department store group into an omni-channel marketplace. The shares were formally bought by Karstadt Marktplatz, a joint venture between Karstadt Warenhaus and Signa ...
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Dalema group buys Wenaas Nordic
Wenaas Nordic, a large-scale distribution company specializing in sports and outdoor brands, has been acquired by the Dalema group, another Norwegian company that already owns a wide variety of industrial and trading operations in various sectors including the sports market, where it wants to expand further through this takeover.Wenaas Nordic ...
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German buying groups want more joint buying
In an effort to become a more vertically integrated system supplier, Sport 2000 Germany is striving to determine a standard range of products that would represent up to 70 percent of the offer in the affiliated stores and that would be centrally ordered at better conditions. More in detail, 25 percent of ...
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As the outcome of Britain's general election earlier this month...
As the outcome of Britain's general election earlier this month caused a sharp fall in the exchange rate of the pound against the dollar, Sports Direct International (SDI) said that its exchange rate for these currencies was fully hedged for the fiscal year until April 2018 at a rate of ...
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Supra has hired Kara Duffy as the brand's new senior...
Supra has hired Kara Duffy as the brand's new senior global director of product, with immediate effect. She will report directly to Cape Capener, the brand's president. Most recently, Duffy was global director of footwear operations at DC Shoes, part of Quiksilver. In her new role at Supra, she will ...
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The management of Scarpa, the Italian brand of technical outdoor...
The management of Scarpa, the Italian brand of technical outdoor shoes, denies a rumor that it is in discussions for its possible takeover by VF Corp.
