All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 31, Issue 45+46
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PDF NewsletterSGI Europe Executive Edition: Vol 31 - 45+46
Winter sports chaos | Spain promotes sport, fears job cuts | Frasers ups guidance, bids on Debenhams | Decathlon to gross €30m in its first year in Ireland | Intersport Germany into retail media | Italy goes digital | BSI calls for supply chain regs | Fishing tackle grows by 4% | Gore, Bionic use ocean plastic | Ispo Brandnew’s top 10
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LEGAL & INSTITUTIONAL
+++ The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced that Thomas Bach , IOC’s current president, is the sole candidate for election at a second and final term as IOC president in 2021, when his first mandate will expire +++
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CSR & SUSTAINABILITY
+++ Snowleader has created the Snowleader Corporate Foundation , which will encourage access to the mountains for young people and support educational programs to discover and preserve mountain areas +++ Decathlon France has announced that it will donate 1 percent of the proceeds from its sales (excluding ...
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MARKETING
+++ Intersport is the main sponsor of the Women’s European Handball Championship being played in Denmark through Dec. 20 +++ On has become the official footwear partner of the German Triathlon Union for at least four years +++ An Indian start-up , MPL Sports , has ...
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PRODUCT
+++ Spyder is launching a line of footwear for outdoor pursuits like hiking and trail running as well as after-ski and lifestyle in partnership with Footwear Unlimited +++ Under Armour ’s Sports Mask has earned a “Best of 2020 Award” from Runners World +++ Babolat ...
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EXECUTIVE CHANGES
+++ Ping Europe’s managing director for the past 24 years , John Clark , will be stepping down from this role at the end of the year, when he will be replaced by Lisa Lovatt , the current general manager +++ Cairn , the French brand of snow goggles ...
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DISTRIBUTION
+++ WS4Sports, which already represents Reusch, Maier Sports, Gonso and other brands in Switzerland, has become the general Swiss agent of super.natural, starting with the winter 2021/22 season, although this brand of merino/synthetic clothing is Swiss as well +++ Zag Skis, the 18-year-old French ski brand, has agreed to be ...
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RETAIL
+++ Rossignol is opening its first flagship store in Lyon, located in the elegant Presqu’Ile district of the French city +++ Skechers has opened its first flagship store in Munich on the city’s high-traffic Kaufingerstrasse +++ Nike’s Jordan brand is opening a 4,500-square-foot store in Manila, at Bonifactio Global City, ...
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CORPORATE & M&A
+++ Stadium , Sweden’s largest sports retailer, has invested in a new Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution – PTC’s FlexPLM – to centralize product data and optimize product development processes across different product categories +++ Lafuma ’s shares were de-listed from the Euronext stock exchange on Dec. 4 following ...
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ArticleDecathlon will gross €30m in its first year in Ireland
For several reasons, Decathlon’s entry into the Republic of Ireland, which added a 59th country to the French sports retailer’s worldwide roster, has been a huge success. The project’s 41-year-old leader, Bastien Grandgeorge, is expecting a profit on sales of around €30 million in the first year of operation of ...
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Frasers Group raises guidance as stores reopen
After what the Frasers Group called its most challenging year in its history - due to Brexit, a Belgian tax investigation and Covid-19 - the parent company of Sports Direct and many other retail chains posted a 29 percent rise in earnings for the first half of its fiscal year ...
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ArticleA cross-industry warning from the European winter sports sector
The Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi) has released a statement in which 10 leading ski companies, five sports retail groups and 12 sporting goods industry federations raised concerns about the consequences for the industry of the planned closure of many European winter sports resorts in relation to ...
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Puma releases Neymar boots and clothing
Puma has unveiled the Future Z 1.1, a special teaser edition of its Future Z range that has been designed exclusively for PSG star Neymar Jr., the player of the Paris Saint Germain team who is now sponsored by the brand The football boot features an adaptive Fusionfit+ midfoot compression ...
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The Paris 2024 Olympics will be gender-equal, featuring more action sports
The executive board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has ratified the program for the Paris 2024 Olympics, confirming among others that they will include break-dancing as a sport for the first time ever. Surfing, climbing, and skateboarding, which were proposed as additional sports by the Paris 2024 organizing ...
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Ispo Brandnew announces its top 10
Ispo Brandnew, purportedly the world’s largest start-up competition for the sporting goods industry, will as usual form part of the next – entirely virtual – Ispo Munich trade show, scheduled for Feb. 1-5. Some 30 young companies – 10 winners and 20 “selected brands” – will introduce themselves, in their ...
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Apple is releasing its Fitness+ app
Apple has announced that its Fitness+ app is set for release on Dec. 14 in a limited number of countries around the world, including the U.K. and Ireland in Europe. The new app incorporates metrics from the Apple Watch (from monitoring the user’s heart rate, to personalize ...
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Nike inks multiyear deal with UCLA
Nike and UCLA Athletics have announced a new partnership deal that will make the Jordan brand and Nike the Bruins’ official athletic footwear, apparel and equipment provider beginning on July 1, 2021. The financial details of the agreement were not disclosed, although reports in the Baltimore Business Journal suggest that ...
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Bayern Munich inaugurates its “FC Bayern World”
The FC Bayern München football club has inaugurated “FC Bayern World,” a new multi-functional complex located in the area of Munich’s central Marienplatz. The 3,500-square-meter complex extends over seven floors and houses various club-related amenities, including a three-storey FC Bayern flagship store, which covers alone 1,000 square meters, as well ...
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ArticleSpanish campaign promotes sport as a study projects fewer jobs and higher healthcare costs
An association called España se Mueve – along with the High Sports Council, the autonomous community of Madrid and the Madrid city hall – has launched a campaign to help the Spanish sports sector weather the Covid-19 storm and promote sport among the populace for the sake of public health. ...
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Puma invests in a men’s brand, Ron Dorff
Earlier this year, Vogue magazine named Ron Dorff one of the world’s top three brands of men’s swimwear brands and Gentlemen’s Quarterly (GQ) named it one of the top ten brands of men’s underwear. Puma has now invested €4 million in this French brand of men’s sportswear and bodywear through ...
