All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 30, Issue 37-38 – Page 2
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J'hayber has eliminated single-use plastic in its Olimpo collection. The...
J'hayber has eliminated single-use plastic in its Olimpo collection. The Spanish brand of sneakers, apparel and padel equipment plans in time to eliminate such plastic from all of its products. To this end, it has forged an environmental policy around the “three R's” – reduce, reuse and recycle – and ...
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Roksanda Ilin?i?, a Serbian fashion designer, has collaborated with Lululemon...
Roksanda Ilin?i?, a Serbian fashion designer, has collaborated with Lululemon to create an eclectic but functional and innovative capsule collection with bold color palettes and exaggerated silhouettes. According to the brand, the collection combines the designer's eye for color and volume with the technical fabrics and functionalities of some of ...
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Vista Outdoor has hired Chris Sword as president of the...
Vista Outdoor has hired Chris Sword as president of the cycling brands Bell and Giro. He is responsible for expanding the action sports business unit and reports to Chris Metz, the chief executive. Sword was previously president of Pearl Izumi, the brand of cycling and triathlon apparel. Before then, he ...
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Spyder has teamed up with Eastman Chemical to be the...
Spyder has teamed up with Eastman Chemical to be the first brand to incorporate Eastman's Avra, a new, flat performance microfiber technology, into its performance baselayer and mid-layer products. Avra performance fibers are said to wick moisture and dry up to 50 percent faster than conventional polyester fibers. The U.S. ...
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Change of the guard at Salomon
Michael White, the current 55-year-old chief commercial officer of Amer Sports, is going to take the place of a company veteran, Jean-Marc Pambet, as president of the Salomon brand on Jan. 1. Pambet will be working closely with White for the next couple of months to ensure a smooth transition ...
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Dooers, Forum Sport's chain of sneaker shops, has opened a...
Dooers, Forum Sport's chain of sneaker shops, has opened a store of 220 square meters in the city of Bilbao. This is Dooers' third store to open this year, its sixth in Spain's Basque Country and its 16th in Spain overall. The store stocks the major brands. The decor consists ...
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Opening Ceremony and Hoka One One have teamed up for...
Opening Ceremony and Hoka One One have teamed up for the first time to produce a new capsule collection. The collection includes three reissues of classic Hoka footwear products: the Bondi running shoe, the Tor Ultra Hi trail runner and the Clifton trainer. In 2002, the designers Carol Lim and ...
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Salomon has opened a Performance Center next to its existing...
Salomon has opened a Performance Center next to its existing Design Center in the French city of Annecy. The 820-square-meter facility is open – by appointment only – to skiers on the World Cup and regional racing circuits. In the words of Véronique Rémy, head of marketing, the move is ...
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Li-Ning will open its for first Canadian stand-alone retail stores...
Li-Ning will open its for first Canadian stand-alone retail stores in Ottawa's RA Centre, a not-for-profit organization, and in Burlington, near Toronto, for its extensive collection of racquet-sports equipment, shoes and apparel. Before this retail expansion, Li-Ning's products were available only online and through a carefully selected network of specialty ...
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Canada Goose is now offering four hood options – thermal,...
Canada Goose is now offering four hood options – thermal, reflective thermal, light-weight thermal and fur ruff – on six of its parkas: the Chelsea, the Wyndham, the Carson, the Rossclair and the men's and women's versions of the Chiliwack. “Thermal” combines Arctic Tech fabric with down insulation, whereas “reflective ...
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Nordica has launched a new campaign entitled “It's Family Time,”...
Nordica has launched a new campaign entitled “It's Family Time,” which features a series of five short videos celebrating the role of skiing in families. The emotional videos show how skiing brings people and families together, creating lasting memories. Each episode in the series is told from a different point ...
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Nike has launched a new “Just Do It” marketing campaign...
Nike has launched a new “Just Do It” marketing campaign in Germany. A spot for the campaign was recently filmed in Berlin and in the federal state of Brandenburg with 16 athletes taking part. Members of Nike+ received a preview on the Nike app before the launch. Nike will also ...
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Callaway works on new multi-brand synergies
In commenting on its excellent results for the third quarter ended on Sept. 30, Callaway Golf Co.'s management said it is investing in IT upgrades to support omni-channel solutions for all the group's brands and better infrastructures to support their international distribution.It will be converting Jack Wolfskin's German logistics facilities ...
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Glenmuir buys Sunderland
Sunderland of Scotland, the technical golfwear brand, has been acquired by another brand in the same category, Glenmuir, which has been its European distributor for the past ten years. The financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed. The agreement brings together two Scottish golf brands with a combined ...
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Skechers’ foreign business drives double-digit gains
Thanks to its strategy of viewing its business through a “global lens,” with many key product styles being introduced at the same time around the world, Skechers has pulled off another strong quarter.Sales for the three months ended on Sept. 30 were 15.1 percent higher than in the period year ...
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Good results for Wolverine’s main brands
Wolverine Worldwide's three biggest brands – Merrell, Sperry and Saucony – posted a combined 11.5 percent increase in constant currencies during the third quarter ended on Sept. 28. Revenues rose by only 2.8 percent to $574.3 million across the group's entire portfolio of 12 footwear brands, with growth of 3.6 ...
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Gray-Nicolls, the English sports brand and cricket specialist, will be...
Gray-Nicolls, the English sports brand and cricket specialist, will be using discarded materials to create a new, eco-friendly collection of batting gloves, called the Off-Cuts. The innovative concept is launching on Nov. 1 for the 2020 season. As the name suggests, the batting gloves in the Off-Cuts collection have been ...
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With an eye to both its direct-to-consumer and retail channels,...
With an eye to both its direct-to-consumer and retail channels, Rossignol Group North America has overhauled its management for apparel and retail operations in the U.S. and Canada. Devon Cruickshank, general manager and vice president of apparel, has relocated to the group's North American headquarters in Park City, Utah. He ...
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Bollé Brands reorganizes
Bollé Brands is rationalizing the operations of Bollé, Cébé, Serengeti and H2 Optics taken over by A&M Capital from Vista Outdoor last year and investing in new managers and new systems and processes to improve products and services. It is centralizing operations in Europe and the U.S., where it taking ...
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Blue Tomato opened its first store in Finland on Oct....
Blue Tomato opened its first store in Finland on Oct. 31. It is located at the well-known Forum shopping center in the center of Helsinki and occupies 360 square meters. Blue Tomato opened a big store in Amsterdam in September. It has more than 45 physical stores operating in Austria, ...
