All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 31, Issue 7-8

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    Skechers signs up Redknapp

    2020-02-28T13:26:00Z

    Jamie Redknapp – a former midfielder for the Bournemoth, Southampton, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur football clubs – has signed a deal with Skechers to promote its lifestyle men’s collections in Europe as of this spring. Redknapp helped Liverpool win the 1995 Football League Cup final. He retired from professional play ...

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    Lotto works with Starvie

    2020-02-28T13:25:00Z

    Lotto Sport Italia has signed a three-year deal to become the technical sponsor and official supplier of StarVie, the Spanish producer of pádel equipment. Lotto will be outfitting StarVie’s 80 or so professional pádel players for the World Pádel Tour. StarVie has been active in the sport of pádel for ...

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    Patagonia sues over apparent “Petrogonia” parody

    2020-02-28T13:25:00Z

    Patagonia has filed suit in Los Angeles federal court against OC Media for trademark infringement, unfair competition and other violations of the Lanham Act. Open Caucasus Media, as it is formally called, is a Russian-language news website covering the North and South Caucasus. Its funders include the European Endowment for ...

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    Coronavirus depresses Adidas’ and others’ sales in China

    2020-02-28T13:19:00Z

    COVID-19 or the novel cronavirus, as the virus is now named, has already infected more than 79,000 people in 30 countries around the world, according to the World Health Organization, but it remains largely concentrated in China. While it has been expanding at a slower rate recently in the country, ...

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    A new executive team at Nike

    2020-02-28T13:17:00Z

    John Donahue, the new chief executive of Nike, has installed a new leadership team to replace the one that accompanied the outgoing CEO, Mark Parker, from April 1 onward. Two former Parker lieutenants, Eric Sprunk and Elliott Hill, will retire from the company later this year. Like Trevor Edwards, who ...

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    Change of the guard at Burton

    2020-02-28T13:15:00Z

    Burton Snowboards has announced that John Lacy will be the company’s sole chief executive. He has shared this role over the past 18 months with Donna Carpenter, who will now take over the position of chairperson of Burton’s board of directors from her late husband and company founder, Jake Burton ...

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    BasicNet exceeds €1 billion in aggregate revenues for the first time

    2020-02-28T13:14:00Z

    BasicNet, the owner of Kappa, K-Way and other brands, posted aggregate sales of €1,025 million, representing a 17.1 percent increase as compared to 2018, based on preliminary figures. The figure includes €742.9 million from commercial licenses and €282.4 from production licenses. The operating result before amortization and depreciation (Ebitda) of ...

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    Cabrinha Kites falls under new ownership

    2020-02-28T13:13:00Z

    The leading Hawaiian kitesurfing brand is returning to its roots. Cabrinha’s founder, Pete Cabrinha, has teamed up with a U.S. investment company, Water Bound Investments, to buy the brand back from the Hong Kong-based NeilPryde Group. Water Bound Investments is managed by a former kite professional and Cabrinha team rider, ...

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    Shimano buys Pioneer Sports Cycle assets

    2020-02-28T13:09:00Z

    Shimano is planning to develop new products, web services and applications using certain assets of Pioneer Sports Cycle that it has acquired from Pioneer Corporation, the U.S. company that developed the first pedaling monitor and cycling computers in 2013. 

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    Big loss at Fitbit pending Google’s bid

    2020-02-28T13:08:00Z

    Google’s proposal to acquire Fitbit for $2.1 billion was approved by the latter’s shareholders on Jan. 3, but it is still undergoing regulatory scrutiny in the U.S. and Europe. In both areas, regulatory authorities have expressed concern that the health and other data being collected by Fitbit will be used ...

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    Uvex offers smart crash sensors

    2020-02-28T13:07:00Z

    Uvex, the German producer of spectacles and helmets, has entered into a strategic distribution partnership for Germany and Austria with a German start-up, Tocsen, which has developed smart crash sensors that are compatible with ski and bicycle helmets and can quickly call for help in an emergency. 

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    MIPS’ sales jump by 41%

    2020-02-28T13:07:00Z

    MIPS, a Swedish supplier of helmet-based safety technologies intended to protect wearers against rotational movements, saw good growth in the fourth quarter, with sales rocketing by 41 percent from the year-ago quarter to 88 million Swedish krona (€8.3m-$9.0m). Adjusted for currency effects and acquisitions, and on an organic basis, they ...

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    Ispo Awards praise sustainability, get new team

    2020-02-28T13:06:00Z

    As usual, an independent jury has selected the winners of the Ispo Awards for this year’s Ispo Munich. The most innovative products in snow sports, outdoor, running, fitness & team sports and sustainability were chosen from a large number of high-quality entries. While the titles “Winner” and “Gold Winner” have ...

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    Canada Goose lowers outlook due to Coronavirus impact

    2020-02-28T13:04:00Z

    Canada Goose Holdings has drastically lowered its guidance for the financial year ending on March 29 due to the coronavirus outbreak and its impact on sales in Mainland China. The management said that the virus is affecting retail sales of its products both in China and in stores located in ...

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    New CEO for Rapala

    2020-02-28T13:03:00Z

    In the midst of reforms to turn around the business, Rapala VMC has appointed Nicolas Warchalowski as its new chief executive, effective from March 1, 2020. He has had an extensive career in international consumer businesses, heading up companies such as BabyBjörn, Peak Performance and Haglöfs. 

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    Moncler continues to grow, without Kering

    2020-02-28T13:02:00Z

    The chief executives of Moncler and Kering have both denied press speculation about a possible acquisition of the Italian brand of luxury outerwear by the parent company of Gucci, Saint Laurent and other luxury goods brands, which spun off Puma two years ago. Indicating that there were no concrete plans ...

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    Musto signs long-term partnership with Land Rover

    2020-02-27T09:05:00Z

    Musto , the British brand of nautical and outdoor apparel, announced a five-year worldwide licensing deal with Land Rover at this year’s Ispo Munich , extending a previous deal that produced Above and Beyond , a 24-piece apparel collection launched with the new Land Rover Defender at the Frankfurt Motor ...

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    YKK introduces magnetic zippers

    2020-02-26T18:03:00Z

    YKK, the Japanese producer of fasteners, has come up with a zipper that substitutes magnets for interlocking teeth. The aptly named Magnet Zipper seals the two sides of a garment by electromagnetic attraction when they are brought close together. As the company explains, this makes the zipper easy to operate ...

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    Wolverine settles over contaminated water

    2020-02-26T17:56:00Z

    Wolverine has agreed to pay $69.5 million to local authorities and the state of Michigan over several years to remedy water contamination from chemicals used in a now-closed tannery and other company-owned facilities in the state. On the other hand, WWW will get $55 million in a lump sum from ...

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    Nike hits counterfeiters via their customs brokers

    2020-02-26T17:38:00Z

    Nike has filed suit against some of its customs brokers in the U.S. – B&H Customs Services, Hana Freight and Shine Shipping – alleging their use of fake documents and a stolen corporate identity to get four containers filled with counterfeit merchandise past customs. One of these, recently seized in ...