All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 31, Issue 29+30 – Page 5
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Timberland hires new VP of global marketing
Timberland hired Drieke Leenknegt in June to be its vice president of global marketing, joining its global leadership team. She is succeeding Argu Secilmis, who has become vice president of global apparel. Leenknegt will be liaising with the brand’s regional marketing teams in the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe, the Middle ...
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Canada Goose sends a signal with the strategic hire of a GM Footwear
Canada Goose appointed Adam Meek to the new role of general manager of footwear & accessories. Meek brings more than 20 years of global footwear experience to this role. Most recently, he served as senior vice president of product at Sperry (Wolverine Worldwide), where he led the brand’s global product ...
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News briefsGoPro launches lifestyle accessories and clothing
GoPro has launched a new line of lifestyle gear that is available worldwide exclusively on GoPro.com. The all-new range includes functional bags, backpacks and cases, clothing and other products such as floating sunglasses and water bottles. First up in the lifestyle line-up is a series of bags that range from ...
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News briefsCES 2021 moves to an all-digital experience
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2021, scheduled to run from Jan. 6 to 9, 2021 in Las Vegas, will become “an all-digital experience” on the same dates, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced. CES is regarded as the most influential tech event in the world, also covering the segments of ...
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ArticleSigns of recovery for Puma after a difficult quarter
Puma’s revenues for the second quarter declined by 32.3 percent in euros to €831 million, or by 30.7 percent in local currencies, leading to a net loss of €95.6 million, compared with net income of €49.7 million for the year-ago quarter. Sales declined in all regions and all product divisions. ...
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Nike has a new head of talent, diversity and culture
Nike has promoted Felicia Mayo from vice president of human resources to chief talent, diversity & culture officer, to replace Kellie Leonard. In the past year, as we have reported, there have been a number of complaints against Nike over lack of diversity and unequal pay in management – a ...
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Nike drops plans for “Air” plant in Arizona
It turns out that Nike will not be opening its third Air Manufacturing Innovation plant – after those in Oregon and Missouri – in the city of Goodyear, Arizona. The company announced an investment of $184 million in the plant and the promise of more than 500 full-time jobs on ...
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News briefsNike to open its third House of Innovation flagship
On July 30, Nike is opening House of Innovation 002 – actually its third such flagship in the world, after those in New York and Shanghai – on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. Four floors high and 2,400 square meters in area, it is set to become Nike’s “largest, most digitally ...
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ArticleDecathlon and Kant expand joint operation in Russia
Decathlon continues to capitalize on partnerships with other retailers. While testing the concept of an internet marketplace in Belgium – the company confirms a report on the subject but details are missing - the giant French retailer is expanding its cooperation with Kant, one of the largest Russian sporting goods ...
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Slinger Bag expands into Canada
Slinger Bag, the new sports equipment brand internationally focused on ”innovating game improvement equipment for all ball sports,“ announced a significant expansion in Canada with the appointment of Doug Coombs as director of business development for that market, effective immediately. Like Mike Ballandie, the chief executive of Slinger Bags, Coombs ...
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ArticleMarket Analysis: The sports equipment market
This is an exclusive, yearly statistic only available for subscribers of SGI Europe. It includes revenue and market share development of the major global sports equipment brands including breakdown by region.
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A virtual Fibo show for professionals and consumers
This year’s Fibo will be an entirely virtual-event, staged on Oct. 1-3 on two different websites for professionals and consumers. Professionals are being invited to the world’s largest fitness and wellness trade show on FIBO@business, including an online edition of the European Health & Fitness Forum and other international conventions ...
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Nike backs Transform to Net Zero initiative
Nike is among the companies and organizations that have launched Transform to Net Zero, a new coalition to help all businesses reduce their carbon emissions in line with a 1.5°C global warming target. Besides Nike, the founding members are A.P. Moller - Maersk, BSR, Danone, Environmental Defense Fund, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, ...
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Brooks now available in India
Brooks has launched in India. The products of the American running shoe brand headquartered in Seattle, Washington, have been available on the Indian market since mid-July, imported by Selection Centre Sports and marketed by Meraki – The Creative Studio . Brooks is reportedly planning to partner with ...
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Garmin falls victim to cyber attack
Garmin confirmed that the company was the victim of a cyber attack on July 23 in which some of Garmin’s systems were encrypted by outsiders, resulting in a significant failure of the company’s popular fitness tracking services. The German news site Spiegel Online reported indications that the company was attacked ...
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ArticleMoncler aims to double its online business by 2023
While releasing weak results for the first half of the year, marked by heavy losses, Moncler focused on the future and announced the acceleration of its digital transformation. After a fruitful collaboration with Yoox Net-a-Porter, it has decided to directly manage e-commerce, with a view to personalizing the customer experience. ...
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News briefsOn partners with Swiss Olympic
On Running, the Swiss brand specializing in performance running shoes and apparel, will be kitting out the Swiss delegations to Olympic Games, Youth Olympic Games and all other Olympic missions until 2028, including at next year’s Games in Tokyo. The Tokyo Olympics, originally scheduled to take place in 2020, were ...
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ArticleShimano’s earnings rise by 26%
Shimano’s sales for the first half of the year decreased by 11.9 percent from the year-ago period to 160,255 million yen (€1.3bn-$1.5bn), hampered by lockdowns around the world in response to Covid-19 during the first quarter. However, sales improved in the second quarter due to the soaring popularity of cycling ...
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UA makes new diversity pledges
On its website Under Armour has published new objectives in its quest to “advance diversity and inclusion” in its ranks. In addition to filling 30 percent of its executive posts above the grade of director with “Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)” by 2023, as it has already pledged ...
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ArticleSome brands will stop sourcing in Xinjiang
Last Thursday, a coalition of more than 180 civil society organizations urged the global apparel industry to stop sourcing in the Xinjiang region of China because of the “serious risk of forced labor.” Human rights activists estimate that at least one million Uighurs and other Muslims are held in prison ...
