All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 28, Issue 26-27 – Page 2
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Skechers was the footwear sponsor of last month's Solheim Cup...
Skechers was the footwear sponsor of last month's Solheim Cup in Des Moines, Iowa, where the women's golf team from the U.S. defeated the European team
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Polartec and Kometa, an Italian food firm, will be co-sponsoring...
Polartec and Kometa, an Italian food firm, will be co-sponsoring the new cycling development team launched by the Alberto Contador Foundation and the team Trek-Segafredo. The new development squad will compete in the Continental division. The two sponsors have signed a three-year commitment. Ivan Basso, a former teammate of Contador's, ...
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El Corte Inglés scores well online
The growth of El Corte Inglés, whose department stores still have a big share of the Spanish sporting goods market, slowed down to 2 percent in the financial year ended Feb. 28, reaching a level of €15.50 billion.Marking the third year of its financial recovery, the group's Ebitda improved by ...
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Li Ning continues to improve
After its return to profit from continuing operations last year, Li Ning Company continued to rebound with a significant improvement in the performance of its stores for the first half of this year.The Chinese sports company's sales moved up by 11.1 percent to 3,996.0 million yuan renminbi (€508.3m-$599.8m) for the six ...
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More respect for IP rights in China
Just as the U.S. Administration opened an investigation into China's protection of U.S. intellectual property rights, New Balance won a case in a Chinese court in Suzhou against three defendants accused of manufacturing and selling shoes with copies of its slanting N logo. Recognizing the “unique decoration rights” held by ...
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Steady sales for China Dongxiang in China
Despite a sharp decline in Japanese sales under both the Kappa and Phenix brands, China Dongxiang saw its turnover slip by 3.7 percent to 626 million yuan renminbi (€79.6m-$94.0m) for the first half of the year but its profit was pushed up by improved returns from its investment operations.The Chinese ...
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A German national handball champion, Johannes Sellin, has joined Kempa's...
A German national handball champion, Johannes Sellin, has joined Kempa's team, promoting its new Wing Lite shoes. With more than 200 goals scored from the right-wing position with MT Melsungen, Sellin was one of the top three scorers in the last season of the DKB Handball Bundesliga. He is now ...
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Vans is collaborating with Karl Lagerfeld on a capsule collection...
Vans is collaborating with Karl Lagerfeld on a capsule collection which has been unveiled at the recent fashion festival of Bread & Butter in Berlin
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K-Swiss has launched a new campaign to promote its “Generation...
K-Swiss has launched a new campaign to promote its “Generation K” shoe collection, which targets, in particular, the Gen Z and millennial market. For this campaign, the brand has hired young entrepreneurs who have a large following on social media, and who will appear both in the print campaign and ...
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Odlo is introducing Flash, a women's training range which brings...
Odlo is introducing Flash, a women's training range which brings out designs each month around a different theme. Every Flash collection features a complete training outfit including a sports bra, top and tights. The development of each product, from the designer brief to the product's arrival on the rack, is ...
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Briko, the Italian brand of high-performance helmets and goggles for...
Briko, the Italian brand of high-performance helmets and goggles for snow sports and cycling recently taken over by BasicNet, will be distributed by BMM Sports in Germany and Austria from September. BMM Sports also sells Under Armour, Tretorn, Roces and Dahu in different markets. Under Armour has been sold by ...
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Globe blames a downturn in skateboard market for lower sales
Globe International saw its revenues for its financial year ended June 30 decline by 7 percent to 140.5 million Australian dollars (€94.2m-$111.2m), or by 5.0 percent in constant currencies.The drop was blamed on a downturn in the market for skateboard hardgoods in the Northern Hemisphere, particularly in Europe and in the ...
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Clarus, the holding company previously registered as Black Diamond, has...
Clarus, the holding company previously registered as Black Diamond, has finally made an acquisition, paying $79 million for a highly profitable U.S. firm, Sierra Bullets, whose proprietary manufacturing process is said to give it the tightest tolerances in the ammunition market. The purchase price is equal to 6.3 times the ...
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Ergon has released a new dual-shell bicycle saddle, which features...
Ergon has released a new dual-shell bicycle saddle, which features BASF's Infinergy cushioning technology in its core. Unlike conventional saddles, Ergon's new ST Core Ultra has two shells instead of one. In a conventional saddle, the shell carries out two functions as it bears the load of the cyclist while ...
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Norspo claims that the latest session of Norspomessen, the bi-annual...
Norspo claims that the latest session of Norspomessen, the bi-annual Norwegian trade fair that took place on Aug. 13-14 just outside of Oslo, was a success. There were nearly 1,000 visitors and 82 exhibitors covering a total of 3,800 square meters of stands. This year, both exhibitors and visitors were ...
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Bianchi and Ferrari have presented the first bike resulting from...
Bianchi and Ferrari have presented the first bike resulting from their collaboration. The Scuderia Ferrari 01, or SF01, which is based on Bianchi's Specialissima carbon road bike, was introduced at Eurobike in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The latest edition of the trade show was held in Friedrichshafen, Germany from Aug. 30 to ...
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Following up on the partnership between Louis Vuitton and Supreme,...
Following up on the partnership between Louis Vuitton and Supreme, Hermès is launching a line of expensive skateboards and longboards. Made of maple wood, they feature special sublimation prints that can be matched with some of Hermès silk scarves.
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TNF bets on segmentation and women in Europe
The North Face (TNF) is preparing to more intensely target female consumers in Europe next year, after the integration of the former Lucy brand into the outdoor company's range. Women's products currently make up about 30 percent of TNF's sales in the region across all product categories.VF Corporation, the owner ...
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Bergans buys an expedition company
Bergans of Norway has established its own expedition company, Bergans Turglede, after the acquisition of Fram Expeditions from its two Norwegian founders, Cecilie Skog and Bjørn Sekkesæter.The new entity will be headed by Sekkesæter as general manager and tour guide. He was already in charge of the management of Fram ...
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Bergans is strengthening its international sales force. The new international...
Bergans is strengthening its international sales force. The new international focus includes the appointment of John-Olav Evans as international strategic account manager. In this new position, he will be responsible for serving and developing relations with Bergans' distributors and key strategic clients in the international market. Another new recruit is ...
