All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 28, Issue 24-25 – Page 2
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DuPont unveils its new Intexar technology for connected garments
DuPont's Advanced Materials division showcased its newest smart clothing technology at the latest Outdoor Retailer (OR) Summer Market, which took place in Salt Lake City on July 26-29. The company unveiled a new technology called Intexar, which is said to enable an easy transformation of regular fabrics into connected garments.DuPont ...
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Strong growth by Champion Europe, especially online, contributed to a...
Strong growth by Champion Europe, especially online, contributed to a 7 percent organic increase in Champion's global sales for Hanesbrands during the second quarter. The brand is also enjoying very strong growth in Asia and other markets due to new omnichannel investments. This and other factors, including the acquisition last ...
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Zalando plans to open two large new fulfillment centers in...
Zalando plans to open two large new fulfillment centers in Italy and Poland later this year
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Callaway raises sales, buys Travis Mathew
Callaway Golf Company is on an expansion drive, with an agreement to buy Travis Mathew and sizeable gains in sales and operating profit for the second quarter, which encouraged the company to raise its sales guidance. Earlier this year the group bought Ogio International, a brand of golf bags and ...
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Walmart heirs buy Rapha
After much speculation Rapha said that RZC Investment, a private equity firm established by two heirs of the Walmart retail empire, had acquired a majority stake in the British cycling apparel brand. It had been owned since its inception by its founder, Simon Mottram, and a group of shareholders led ...
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Spyder Europe has enrolled Felix Burmann as a sales manager...
Spyder Europe has enrolled Felix Burmann as a sales manager for key German accounts and European distributors. Burmann, aged 39, started in July and comes with a strong background in key account management. Recently he worked for one-and-a-half years with The North Face as a key account manager and then ...
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Deichmann has brought a new look to its range by...
Deichmann has brought a new look to its range by launching nine styles of sneakers from Adidas, Fila, Nike and Puma. They became available online and in selected stores at the end of July. The low-cost German shoe retailer is promoting the collection under the title #Athlashion by Deichmann, with ...
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Go Sport grows briskly
Including franchises and other affiliated operations such as Twinner, Groupe Go Sport raised its total sales by nearly 6 percent to €470 million in the first six months of this year, according to its holding company, Rallye, generating higher operating results for the sixth half-year in a row.Net revenues went ...
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The global revenues from branded outdoor shoes by major vendors...
The global revenues from branded outdoor shoes by major vendors grew by 2.9 percent to $4.71 billion in 2016, according to an annual survey by The Outdoor Industry Compass, with increases of 2.4 percent in the U.S. and 3.5 percent in the rest of the world. The branded rugged outdoor ...
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Dickies and Prana have joined HeiQ's list of brand partners...
Dickies and Prana have joined HeiQ's list of brand partners that use its technical textile finishing products. Dickies presented its new Cooling Tees empowered with HeiQ Smart Temp to retailers at this year's Outdoor Retailer (OR) Summer Market trade show, which took place in Salt Lake City on July 26-29. ...
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Higher losses for Black Diamond
Black Diamond reported lower margins and higher operating losses for the second quarter as compared to a year ago, due to a number of factors, but the management remained bullish about the balance of the year, due to many new product introductions, supported by higher marketing spend. Sales went up ...
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Black Diamond has expanded its engineering team from six to...
Black Diamond has expanded its engineering team from six to ten persons, and it has added two outdoor industry specialists to its apparel development team. The four extra engineering staff are Greg Woolston, previously in product design at Skullcandy, who joined the lighting team. Tom Santoro is to focus on ...
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Pinarello has introduced the first electronic bike suspension system, in...
Pinarello has introduced the first electronic bike suspension system, in cooperation with HiRide
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The product manager of Garneau's bicycle division, Geoffroy Dussault, finished...
The product manager of Garneau's bicycle division, Geoffroy Dussault, finished fourth in the Transcontinental Race across Europe. Nearly 300 cyclists began the ultra-cycling race in late July. The 31-year-old manager began the race on July 28 at the foot of the Mur de Grammont in Belgium and covered around 4,000 ...
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Fitbit posts better-than-expected results
Fitbit recorded significantly lower revenues and profits for its second quarter ended on July 1 than in the year-ago period. However, they slightly exceeded the company's own guidance. This, and the announcement that Fitbit's first smartwatch would be arriving in time for holiday selling, sent shares up by more than ...
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Trangoworld has been distributed by Stéphane Hanssens in Belgium since...
Trangoworld has been distributed by Stéphane Hanssens in Belgium since April. The Spanish brand of outdoor and sports apparel, which was previously sold by a sales agent in the country, has been able to offset declining sales in the Spanish market, which accounts for 70 percent of the brand's total ...
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Wolverine beats forecasts, raises outlook
Wolverine Worldwide has reported net income of $20.7 million for the 13 weeks to July 1 as compared to $24.0 million in the 12 weeks ended on June 16 last year. The extra week, added through a change in the financial calendar, helped the group to improve total revenues by ...
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Wolverine sells Sebago to BasicNet
BasicNet, the Italian-based licensing company that owns Briko, Kappa, Robe di Kappa, K-Way, Superga and other brands, has agreed to acquire the intellectual property rights and other assets of Sebago from Wolverine Worldwide.The asset deal has been valued at €14.2 million, excluding acquisition costs. To help finance it, BasicNet has ...
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BasicNet grows nicely, except in Italy
The parent company of Briko, Kappa, Robe di Kappa, K-Way, Superga and other brands has reported an increase of 3.5 percent in total wholesale-equivalent sales to €372.9 million for the first six months of this year, driven by a 6.2 percent increase to €207.4 million in its foreign licensees' sales. ...
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Puma has won a Red Dot Award for the design...
Puma has won a Red Dot Award for the design of its multi-functional Evoknit Move Infinite jacket
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