All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 29, Issue 35-36 – Page 3
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Sportamore is launching a new business model and technical platform,...
Sportamore is launching a new business model and technical platform, involving Adidas as its first strategic partner. The idea behind the Swedish online sports retailer's new platform is to enable suppliers to sell and deliver goods directly from their own warehouse to consumers via Sportamore's customer interface, starting with a ...
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The Puig brothers, who own Gregal Sport, have purchased a...
The Puig brothers, who own Gregal Sport, have purchased a stake in Representaciones Fusfor, the distributor of Fusalp in Spain, Portugal and Andorra. Led by a renowned sporting goods industry figure, Xavi Riba, Fusfor was founded in 2010 specifically to distribute Fusalp on the Iberian Peninsula. Gregal Sport is the ...
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Brooks runs fast
The Brooks Running Company is growing faster than the market on a global basis and in certain regions. Without giving any precise sales figures, the American company says its total revenues went up by 29 percent in the first nine months of this year.Footwear sales jumped by 32 percent, with ...
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Brooks regionalizes its European sales structure
To help support its double-digit growth and create more strategic alignment across its European business, Brooks Running has divided it into three commercial territories, each with its own leader.Two company veterans, Hamish Stewart and Bastian Huebschen, will be in charge of the Northern territory (the U.K. and the Benelux countries) ...
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Brooks Running says it is considering diverting sourcing from China...
Brooks Running says it is considering diverting sourcing from China to Vietnam because of the trade war between the U.S. and China, which could lead to an increase in import duties on running shoes from 20 to 25 percent
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Rapha has set up a partnership with Wiggle, the British...
Rapha has set up a partnership with Wiggle, the British online and offline cycling retailer that has since merged with Chain Reaction Cycles. Certain items from Rapha's Core, Classic and Pro Team collections already appear on the Wiggle website. The partnership's stated purpose is to eliminate redundancies at Rapha's London ...
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The Bright show, regarded as the leading European trade show...
The Bright show, regarded as the leading European trade show for streetwear, sneakers and skateboarding, which was acquired by the Premium Group in July 2015 and is held at the Arena Berlin fairgrounds, will not take place next January. According to the organizers of the show, the break will be ...
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The Brazilian e-tailer Netshoes has reported a net loss of...
The Brazilian e-tailer Netshoes has reported a net loss of 136.4 million Brazilian reais (€31.9m-$36.5m) for the third quarter of this year, roughly triple the net loss reported a year ago. Sales for the period were down 3 percent to R$ 417.8 million (€97.8m-$111.7m), while the gross margin shrank fourfold ...
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Globeride, the owner of the Daiwa brand and the Japanese...
Globeride, the owner of the Daiwa brand and the Japanese distributor of Prince, reported a 69 percent decline in comprehensive net income to ¥738 million (€5.7m-$6.6m) in the first half ended on Sept. 30, due to a negative currency swing of about ¥2.2 billion. Sales edged up by one percent ...
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Champion has opened its first store in Boston, which will...
Champion has opened its first store in Boston, which will be its fourth one in the U.S.
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Booming Canada Goose raises its outlook
Canada Goose has upgraded its guidance for the full financial year after reporting stronger-than-expected results for its second quarter ended Sept. 30. It now predicts that its total revenues will increase by at least 30 percent for the year, up from the previously forecasted growth of 20 percent, with Baffin ...
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Bollé Brands is born
Peter Smith has been appointed to the newly created position of president and chief executive for Bollé Brands, the new company formed by A&M Capital to run the Bollé Safety business and the consumer eyewear and helmet business of Bollé, Cébé and Serengeti recently bought from Vista Outdoor for $158 ...
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Callaway Golf has expanded its board of directors to ten...
Callaway Golf has expanded its board of directors to ten members with the addition of Laura J. Flanagan, current CEO of Foster Farms, who is credited with experience in corporate strategy, marketing, retail and operations
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United By Blue has raised a Series A financing round,...
United By Blue has raised a Series A financing round, led by Emil Capital Partners with participation from CircleUp, Golda Darty, Connected VC, and Patient Capital Collaborative, among others. United By Blue, based in Philadelphia, is known for its outdoor sustainable products that support ocean and waterway conservation. For every ...
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Big changes at Fesi
The general assembly of the European Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi) has approved all the proposals put forward by its board of directors to modernize the organization and to make it more transparent and representative of the sector.Only companies whose focus is on sporting goods and their federations ...
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Visitors to the next edition of Ispo Beijing, which will...
Visitors to the next edition of Ispo Beijing, which will celebrate its 15th anniversary at a new venue on Jan. 16-19, will be offered a two-day guided tour of ski resorts in preparation for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. The E-Commerce Matchmaking Program and the Asia Pacific Snow Conference will ...
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Hans Dohrmann has been placed at the head of Internetstores,...
Hans Dohrmann has been placed at the head of Internetstores, the online sport retailing platform owned by the Signa Sports Group. He replaces Christian Bubenheimer, who spent only six months in the post. Dohrmann was the founder of a Swiss e-bike specialist, M-Way, which he ran under the ownership of ...
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Markus Hefter, who has been in charge of Ispo Munich...
Markus Hefter, who has been in charge of Ispo Munich for the past ten years, has become personally responsible also for the new OutDoor by Ispo fair as exhibition group director. He had already served as outdoor project director for Ispo between January 2006 and October 2008. Hefter reports to ...
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The Fedas key becomes clearer
To allow more detailed POS data analysis and to support the new requirements of e-commerce, some important improvements have been made to the Fedas product classification key by SGI-DHO, the association that manages these important tools for data exchanges between vendors and retailers. The association recently changed management (see our ...
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Markus Huber has passed away
Markus Huber, the kind and witty German journalist who helped us to launch The Outdoor Industry Compass ten years ago, died on Nov. 8 at a hospital in Nuremberg after a long and serious illness. He was only 47 years old. A memorial service will be held for him on ...
