All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 29, Issue 29-30 – Page 3
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Decathlon enters Austria
Decathlon has filled one of the last few remaining gaps in the European map by inaugurating a store of 5,000 square meters in Vösendorf south of Vienna on Aug. 22, reinforcing its business in the German-speaking countries after multiple openings in Germany and the takeover of Athleticum in Switzerland a ...
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Paying tribute to the new athleisure trend, Première Vision, the...
Paying tribute to the new athleisure trend, Première Vision, the world's largest fabrics fair, is launching a new Sport & Tech section at its next show on Sept. 19-21, accompanied by conferences on the subject. The initiative has led Polartec and Primaloft to exhibit at the fair, joining 73 other ...
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New Balance will be using artificial intelligence technology on the...
New Balance will be using artificial intelligence technology on the first day of New York Fashion Week, Sept. 6, to spot people who are wearing garments that make them stand out from the crowd. The sneaker brand will do it through Real Time Exception Spotting, a computer vision technology that ...
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Foot Locker has appointed a new senior vice president and...
Foot Locker has appointed a new senior vice president and chief human resources officer, Elizabeth S. Norberg, who comes from the hotel business
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Brunswick Corp. has appointed Marie Graul as chief financial officer...
Brunswick Corp. has appointed Marie Graul as chief financial officer of Life Fitness, where she will oversee the planned spinoff of the group's fitness operations into a separate publicly traded company
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In the long term, the ANWR Group sees a total...
In the long term, the ANWR Group sees a total of up to 600 shoe retailers in Germany installing its “sneaker wall,” which features a standard selection of sneakers supplied by Nike, Adidas, Puma and Reebok. Their automatic replenishment is operated via SAP. More than 100 shoe retailers have adopted ...
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Mizuno will sponsor another French handball team, Chambéry Savoie Mont...
Mizuno will sponsor another French handball team, Chambéry Savoie Mont Blanc, for the next three years
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Shimano Europe has announced the appointment of Erik Naberman as...
Shimano Europe has announced the appointment of Erik Naberman as managing director of its fishing tackle division. He replaces Cor Ax, who left the company earlier this year. Naberman has been with Shimano for 21 years. Most recently, he was managing director of Shimano Benelux, a role that he has ...
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A former Puma endorsee, Kylie Jenner has announced that she...
A former Puma endorsee, Kylie Jenner has announced that she was switching Adidas, to help market the Falcon sneaker. The reality TV personality shared the news on social media, wearing a pair of Falcons, part of the Adidas Originals range. Jenner's switch to Adidas reunites the family: Kendall Jenner, Kylie's ...
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Patagonia has announced that its whole wetsuit product line is...
Patagonia has announced that its whole wetsuit product line is now Fair Trade Certified. The company helped Sheico, the multinational manufacturer of sportswear products that supplies most of the wetsuits on the market, obtain Fair Trade Certification, thereby making it easier for other brands to join in. This development follows ...
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The third edition of the Bread & Butter by Zalando...
The third edition of the Bread & Butter by Zalando fashion festival in Berlin registered 35,000 visitors, 16 percent more than in the previous year. It ran from Aug. 31 to Sept. 2, and the marketing event organized by the online retailer was apparently sold out every day. The festival ...
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Fanatics, the American team sports retailer that is expanding internationally,...
Fanatics, the American team sports retailer that is expanding internationally, has signed a partnership with Chelsea FC to become the official global online retailer of the English Premier League club. Chelsea had been using a network of regional online stores operated by local distributors.
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Chinese investors show interest for Amer Sports
Confirming media speculation, Amer Sports announced this morning that it has received a non-binding preliminary indication of interest from a consortium comprising Anta Sports Products and an Asian private equity firm, FountainVest Partners, in view of acquiring its entire share capital for €40.00 a share in cash. That would be ...
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Amer Sports’ cycling division comes under strategic review
The cycling division of the Amer Sports group, which includes the Mavic and Enve brands, has been placed under strategic review, the company said last week as part of an update on its transformation and its assets.The Finnish group behind Salomon, Arc'teryx, Atomic, Wilson and many other brands told analysts ...
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Polar has appointed Vicky Holland as a sporting ambassador for...
Polar has appointed Vicky Holland as a sporting ambassador for the brand. She will front a campaign for the brand's wearable fitness products. The Olympic triathlete medalist is currently ranked second in the overall World Triathlon Series (WTS) standings. Holland won a Bronze medal at the Rio Olympic Games in ...
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Allied Feather & Down issues market update
Allied Feather & Down recently released an updated market analysis in which it highlights the current trends in the market of feather and down materials. According to the report, the market, which has been rising steadily since September 2016, has gone up at an even faster rate more recently due ...
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Alibaba grows fast, earning less, and expands in Russia
Alibaba Group Holding continued to grow fast in the first fiscal quarter ended June 30, but its gross margin fell to 11.0 percent from 29.2 percent in the year-ago period, the lowest level since the leading Chinese e-commerce operator went public in 2014.Due also to extraordinary charges and high investments ...
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Descente and Wacoal have announced an alliance aimed at strengthening...
Descente and Wacoal have announced an alliance aimed at strengthening both companies' domestic and international growth, benefiting from their expertise in sportswear and fashion, respectively. The two Japanese companies will work on new opportunities in the athleisure market as well as new brand concepts. The alliance envisages collaboration around compression ...
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Thomas Aigner has been appointed as global marketing director for...
Thomas Aigner has been appointed as global marketing director for Salewa from the start of November. He will take over from Maurizio Priano, who has been in charge of the outdoor brand's marketing for five years and who left the company at the end of July. Aigner spent the last ...
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Tense general assembly ahead for SDI
Sports Direct is heading for another tense shareholders' assembly later this week, as several proxy advisers have been complaining about governance at the British sports retail company – and Mike Ashley, its majority shareholder and chief executive, has decided not to turn up.Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), Glass Lewis and the ...
