All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 29, Issue 21-22 – Page 4

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    Adidas said it was made aware on June 26 that...

    2018-07-03T00:00:00Z

    Adidas said it was made aware on June 26 that an unauthorized party had gained access to customer information from its e-commerce platform in the U.S. A preliminary investigation indicates that a few million records were stolen including contact information, user names and encrypted passwords, but there was no evidence ...

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    Schuhe24.de, a company founded and run by Dominik Benner, a German...

    2018-07-03T00:00:00Z

    Schuhe24.de, a company founded and run by Dominik Benner, a German shoe retailer who was formerly a member of ANWR's supervisory board, aims to diversify from footwear by entering the sporting goods and fashion sectors. A new internet portal, Sportmarken24.de, was launched in February. It is managed by Benner's wife, Valeska ...

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    Shift in shareholding for 21sportsgroup

    2018-07-03T00:00:00Z

    Three prominent former media executives and investors have jointly taken over about 40 percent of the shares in 21sportsgroup, the German online and offline sports retailer that encompasses Planet Sports, 21run and Vaola, Textilwirtschaft reported last week that the shares were bought through firms related to Georg Kofler, Michael Börnicke ...

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    Analysis: The sports equipment market 2017

    2018-07-03T00:00:00Z

    Some improvements in golf, cycling and other sectors largely offset a general weakness in the outdoor, fitness and electronics categories in 2017, leading the global sports equipment market to book an increase of just 0.2 percent to $76.1 billion for the year in terms of sales to the trade. It ...

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    Sport 2000 launches the Absolute specialist retail brand

    2018-07-03T00:00:00Z

    Sport 2000 Europe has created the Absolute retail brand for affiliated retailers that want to adopt a harmonized specialist concept. The buying group envisages several iterations of the retail brand in various categories, from Absolute Teamsport to Absolute Run, Absolute Fitness and Absolute Outdoor.The move follows the launch of Sport ...

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    Sport 2000 is nearly flat internationally

    2018-07-03T00:00:00Z

    Sport 2000 International announced at its annual meeting in Germany a few weeks ago that its affiliated retailers reached total revenues of €3,181 million (before VAT) in 2017, representing an increase of 0.34 percent as compared to the previous year. The international retail organization had announced a much bigger figure ...

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    On June 20, five days after the publication of its...

    2018-07-03T00:00:00Z

    On June 20, five days after the publication of its stellar results for the last financial year (see the article in this issue), Canada Goose announced a secondary offering for 10 million subordinate voting shares by three of its shareholders, corresponding to about 9 percent of its equity. Bain Capital, ...

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    Jon Sinko, who spent the last 20 years in the...

    2018-07-03T00:00:00Z

    Jon Sinko, who spent the last 20 years in the action sports division of the Adidas Group, has joined Element as vice president in charge of merchandising and design. Sinko was most recently global head of product marketing for skate apparel, footwear, accessories and snowboarding at the Adidas group, based ...