All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 28, Issue 32-33
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World Snowboarding will replace the World Snowboard Tour
The World Snowboard Federation (WSF) has announced the completion of the merger with TTR Pro Snowboarding (TTR). Starting with the 2017/18 season, the merged entity will offer direct membership for the sport's stakeholders. Following the merger, the World Snowboard Tour brand name will cease to exist. All existing and future ...
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected a request...
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected a request by Adidas to declare Nike's Flyknit patents unprotectable. The Big a argued that a person of ordinary skill in knitting would have been able to combined prior patents with generally known textbook writing on knitting to develop the Flyknit. While ...
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Kempa has unveiled an ultralight, robust sport shoe made in...
Kempa has unveiled an ultralight, robust sport shoe made in part with Kevlar fibers. The Attack Pro Contender is the flagship product in Kempa's new special Caution collection. The shoe uses a patented matrix material made from Kevlar and designed to withstand enormous loads. The shoe is an advance on ...
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Lowa has received a prize for its reliability and the...
Lowa has received a prize for its reliability and the saleable quality of its shoes from a German footwear trade magazine, Schuhkurier, following a survey of its readers
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Pharrel Williams, the international pop star, has put his name...
Pharrel Williams, the international pop star, has put his name on an exclusive version of Adidas' Hu NMD sneaker for Chanel. The model in black features the words Pharrell and Chanel. Williams, a longtime Adidas ambassador, also became a Chanel model at the Chanel Métiers d'Art show last December and ...
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Sport-Guide.com reports that a Patagonia store in Grenoble is to...
Sport-Guide.com reports that a Patagonia store in Grenoble is to shut down around the end of October. The store has been open for several years but the owner apparently struggled to reach a sustainable level of sales, which he blamed on the lack of international tourists in Grenoble. The closure ...
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Rossignol inaugurated a new flagship store in Oslo on Sept....
Rossignol inaugurated a new flagship store in Oslo on Sept. 29. Located at Holmens Gate 2, in Norway's capital city, the new store of the French manufacturer of alpine, snowboard and Nordic equipment has a surface of 270 square meters on two floors. The ground floor is dedicated to apparel, ...
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There is new evidence that the pace of growth is...
There is new evidence that the pace of growth is accelerating in China. The country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 6.8 percent in the third quarter and was up by 6.9 percent for the first nine months of this year. That's well above the 6.5 percent growth target set ...
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Rapala records weak sales in Europe
Rapala VMC posted revenues for the first nine months of the year that were down by one percent to €201.4 million as compared to the same period a year ago. On a constant-currency basis, they declined by 2 percent. The company said the trading environment was especially challenging in ...
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Moncler has enlarged its flagship store in Milan, which now...
Moncler has enlarged its flagship store in Milan, which now covers 800 square meters on two floors, one for women's wear and the other for men's wear, making it the brand's largest mono-brand store in the world. It had been first opened in 2013 at a prestigious location: 1, via ...
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Sport Partner reports that Regatta is opening its first Dutch...
Sport Partner reports that Regatta is opening its first Dutch branded store in Amersfoort, in the center of the Netherlands, to sell the Regatta and Dare2Be brands
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Skechers posts a stellar quarter, driven by international
Skechers USA reported an exceptionally strong quarter, with revenues for the three months to Sept. 30 hitting a record high. They jumped by 16.2 percent from the quarter a year ago, to $1,095 million, boosted by strong international growth, especially in China and Europe. In addition, net income rocketed ...
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Moncler posts double-digit sales growth
Moncler posted consolidated revenues of €736.8 million for the first nine months of 2017, representing a 15 percent increase from the first nine months of 2016 at current exchange rates, or a 16 percent increase at constant exchange rates. All regions posted double-digit growth with the exception of ...
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Ivo van Ireland, a sales director who previously worked for...
Ivo van Ireland, a sales director who previously worked for K-Swiss and Palladium, has been appointed as Havaianas' general manager for Central Europe, covering mainly Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Sales in the region, which are growing rapidly, were previously steered by Vanessa Sosa, who was also responsible for Spain and ...
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Stella records slight dip in revenues despite volume rise
Stella International s revenues for the three months to Sept. 30 decreased by 2.5 percent from the same quarter last year to $443.5 million. However, volumes rose by 4.1 percent , with 15.2 million pairs of shoes shipped by the Chinese company during the period. The company said this ...
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Vibram and Masaya Hashimoto, the designer of its Furoshiki Wrapping...
Vibram and Masaya Hashimoto, the designer of its Furoshiki Wrapping Sole, won the ADI Design Index 2017 prize for innovation in finished products. Launched last year and inspired by a Japanese technique, the shoe is the first one that envelops the foot, guaranteeing a personalized fit and comfort through its ...
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Deckers’ results improve
Following several quarters of mixed results, Deckers Brands posted a solid quarter that topped analysts' expectations. This led the company to raise its full-year outlook. It now expects sales for the year ending March 31, 2018 to go up in a range of one to two percent as compared with ...
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Richard Leedham has decided to step down as president of...
Richard Leedham has decided to step down as president of Berghaus, the outdoor brand owned by the Pentland Group, after 22 years with the company, and to leave the business in early 2018. He has agreed to assist in the next few months in the recruitment of a new brand ...
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The Doninger Fashion Group has decided to shut the operations...
The Doninger Fashion Group has decided to shut the operations of Gaastra and McGregor
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Kant sets up shop-in-shops in Decathlon stores in Russia
Kant, one of the most respected sports retailers in Russia, will soon have its own branded shop-in-shops in one or more Decathlon stores in Moscow and elsewhere in the country, measuring between 600 and 1,000 square meters. This is a first for both retailers, according to Maxim Vinogradov , general ...
