All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 30, Issue 35-36 – Page 2
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Polygiene, the Swedish developer and supplier of Stays Fresh and...
Polygiene, the Swedish developer and supplier of Stays Fresh and Odor Crunch technology, has announced new agreements with Vtinon, a Korean producer of socks, and with Osklen, a sustainable Brazilian sportswear brand owned by the Alpargatas group. It has previously announced Tommy Sport as a client. The Swedish company's financial ...
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XXL refinances itself as sales and profits decline
XXL ASA's ongoing problems will lead to a change of ownership in the framework of a new refinancing program. The Norwegian Altor fund will become the largest shareholder of the leading Nordic sporting goods retailer, replacing Øivind Tidemandsen, who founded it in 2001. Altor, the former controlling shareholder of Helly ...
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Executing on its omni-channel strategy, Decathlon has inaugurated two-hour home...
Executing on its omni-channel strategy, Decathlon has inaugurated two-hour home delivery for online orders in Spain. The initiative took shape in early 2019 and was tested with good results in Madrid, Valencia, Vigo and Tenerife. The French sporting goods retailer has now set up permanent systems in Madrid, Barcelona, Tarragona, ...
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Puma has signed a multi-year deal with the Royal Moroccan...
Puma has signed a multi-year deal with the Royal Moroccan Football Federation to be the kit supplier to all of the country's representative teams, including the Atlas Lions national team. The German brand has performed this service for the national Moroccan team two times previously. The new deal takes effect ...
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Umbro has signed a ten-year extension of its licensing deal...
Umbro has signed a ten-year extension of its licensing deal with Grupo Dass, a manufacturer and marketer of sporting goods with offices and factories in Brazil and Argentina. In addition to Umbro – which is owned by Iconix Brand Group – Fila is another of Grupo Dass' big clients. The ...
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Scarpa has signed a multi-year sponsorship deal with the Italian...
Scarpa has signed a multi-year sponsorship deal with the Italian Winter Sports Federation (FISI). The agreement will see the brand sponsor Italy's national mountain skiing team during the 2019/20 and 2020/21 seasons. The partnership was officially presented during Milano Montagna Week at Base Milano on Oct. 17.
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A new deal for Dakine in Europe
The brand's best distributor in Europe, Bucher + Walt of Switzerland, has acquired Dakine Europe, the subsidiary of the American brand based in Annecy. Branching out of its national territory for the first time, it will be responsible for about one-third of Dakine's total turnover, estimated at nearly $100 million ...
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Moritz Hahn, who currently oversees supply and demand functions at...
Moritz Hahn, who currently oversees supply and demand functions at Zalando in his role as senior vice president of the company, is leaving in December. His responsibilities will be taken over by two managers, Barbara Daliri-Freyduni and Boris Ewenstein. Daliri-Freyduni, who previously held positions at Google, Netflix and Microsoft, took ...
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Improving Kathmandu sees other synergies with Rip Curl
Investors have responded positively to the news on Oct. 1 of Rip Curl's takeover, raising Kathmandu Holdings' stock market capitalization by 5 percent to more than 830 million New Zealand dollars (€472.3m-$521.1m) after a temporary suspension of trading. Like the much bigger VF Corporation, Kathmandu now has one leg in ...
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Sportmaster completes Go Sport Poland’s takeover
Russia's biggest sports retailer has finalized the takeover of Go Sport Polska, the Polish subsidiary of the French-based Go Sport Group, the company said in a statement released on Sept. 30. The price of the takeover has been limited to €40 million, according to a Russian information agency, Infoline-Analytics.Go Sport ...
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Puma has released a collection of lifestyle winter jackets designed...
Puma has released a collection of lifestyle winter jackets designed in collaboration with Helly Hansen
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Puma has come out with a second collection of streetwear...
Puma has come out with a second collection of streetwear and sneakers co-branded with Karl Lagerfeld, as the designer's fashion house is still operating after his death last January
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Schöffel will be the exclusive supplier of clothing for the...
Schöffel will be the exclusive supplier of clothing for the 341 athletes, coaches and staff of the Austrian Ski Federation for the current autumn/winter season
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Patagonia is one of the winners of a U.N. Champions...
Patagonia is one of the winners of a U.N. Champions of the Earth award. The outdoor clothing company has been recognized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) with the flagship environmental honor in the entrepreneurial vision category. Patagonia won for its “dynamic mix of policies that has put sustainability ...
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Topgolf International, a major operator of golfing centers partly owned...
Topgolf International, a major operator of golfing centers partly owned by Callaway Golf, is exploring an IPO, according to Reuters
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Go Sport has extended the policy of its loyalty card...
Go Sport has extended the policy of its loyalty card with a system called Mercure. Customers can now accumulate up to €50 per year on their card by meeting certain fitness goals within a day. For now, their options are running, hiking and cycling, with threshold distances of 7 km, ...
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Rossignol has launched “We Rise,” a new global campaign that...
Rossignol has launched “We Rise,” a new global campaign that aims to encourage women to get outside and share their passion for the mountains. The campaign features stories about the lives of Rossignol women, from world-class athletes like Marion Haerty and Tatum Monod to women behind the scenes. Followers of ...
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To refocus on its primary business of supermarkets, the Migros...
To refocus on its primary business of supermarkets, the Migros Group of Switzerland is disposing of M-Way, a chain of 28 e-bike and kick-scooter stores in the country with its own e-tail site and a staff of about 100. The acquirer is the Swiss E-mobility Group, which already owns the ...
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Patagonia opened a pop-up café at the Broadway Market, in...
Patagonia opened a pop-up café at the Broadway Market, in the Hackney area of central London, on Sept. 27 that has been hosting training courses for activism on the issue of climate change. Running until Oct. 17, the company's so-called Patagonia Action Works Café offered visitors a chance to “learn ...
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Buff has opened its first permanent brick-and-mortar store in downtown...
Buff has opened its first permanent brick-and-mortar store in downtown Barcelona. It is located in the Illa Diagonal shopping mall, where the Catalonian brand of head- and neckwear has been running a pop-up store every winter for the past 12 years. The brand's only other permanent points of sale locally ...
