All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 31, Issue 43+44 – Page 5
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Shimano hires a Spanish country manager
Shimano Iberia has hired Bruno Prieto to be its country manager in Spain. Prieto was most recently chief executive of Sport Lifestyle, for a little less than a decade, and before then a sales attaché for Campagnolo Ibérica. Earlier still he was a technician – presumably a bike tech, as ...
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JD may bid for Debenhams
JD Sports Fashion is said to be studying a possible bid for Debenhams, the biggest chain of department stores in the U.K. with 124 stores and a web shop. According to reports, JD has been given access to its financial data, which was previously denied to Frasers Group. Frasers, which ...
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Polygiene reformulates ViralOff to meet ISO antiviral standard
Polygiene is launching a new formula of its ViralOff antiviral treatment with a guarantee for what it calls a “lifetime” of washes. The actual number of washes covered is 30. According to the company, which tested the product against the ISO18184:2019 standard, the new formula will rid a fabric of ...
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News briefsVicky Free will run Adidas’ global marketing operations
Adidas has appointed a new global marketing director, Vicky Free. She will take up the new role in the position of senior vice president at the company’s head office in Herzogenaurach on Jan. 4, reporting to Brian Grevy, executive board member of the group responsible for global brands. As Adidas ...
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Calida offers to buy the remaining shares in Lafuma
The Calida group has published a formal offer to buy all the shares it doesn’t own yet in the Lafuma group, with a squeeze-out provision for the minority shares that are not be tendered. The offer follows the previously reported in The Outdoor Industry Compass, favorable opinion expressed by Lafuma’s ...
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JD wins a round in the battle for Footasylum
JD Sports Fashion reports that the Competition Appeal Tribunal of the U.K. has “quashed” a decision by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to forbid its acquisition of Footasylum, a British chain of more lifestyle-oriented sports fashion shops. As a result, the CMA will have to reconsider the whole case, ...
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Schuhe24 buys an online platform for bike dealers
The German Schuhe24 Group, which manages an online marketplace for independent retailers in many sectors, including sports retailers, is branching out into the hot bicycle segment by joining Bike-Angebot.de and taking over majority control. That company claims it operates the largest platform for bicycle dealers in Germany, carrying over 25,000 ...
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Losses continue for Yue Yuen
Despite China’s resilience against the pandemic in the third quarter, Yue Yen Industrial Holdings remained in the red, following two quarters of losses. The company was strongly impacted by government measures to contain the spread of the disease at the start of the year, and although the Pou Sheng Chinese ...
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