All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 32, Issue 41+42 – Page 4
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Additional appointments at Bollé Brands
Bollé Brands, the French-based parent company of Bollé, Cébé and Serengeti, has further strengthened the management of its Sport & Luxury Division by hiring other industry veterans, in addition to those that we have already reported about, including Quentin Chaplein. Corentin Daniel, who worked for 17 years as an engineer ...
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The CEO of Sport 1 will run Norway's whole Sport Holding group
Ole-Henrik Skirstad, who has been the CEO of Norway’s Sport 1 Gruppen, has been named CEO of the whole Sport Holding group, following the merger last year of Sport 1 with the Norwegian branch of Intersport, which was owned by Gresvig. Now that the integration process has been completed, Lars ...
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ArticlePromising tennis sales in Europe for H1 2021
According to Sports Marketing Surveys (SMS), sales of tennis racquets and strings for the first half of this year rose in all eight of Europe’s major tennis markets: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the U.K. Year-on-year growth in volume (45.3%) outpaced growth in value (40.7%), with ...
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Nike refurbishes park in Belgrade with upcycled sneakers
In September Nike inaugurated a basketball court and playground in the New Belgrade district of Serbia’s capital city. The brand hired a B Corp-certified design firm in London, Accept & Proceed (A&P), to refurbish the park with material from 20,000 recycled and locally donated sneakers. The project stems from a ...
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News briefsZellerfeld and Heron Preston 3D-print a fully circular sneaker
The 3D-printing company Zellerfeld and the eponymous streetwear brand Heron Preston have introduced what they call the first fully 3D-printed shoe on the retail market. The Heron01 is now available on StockX in three colorways. Made of a single material, the sneaker dispenses with seams, stitching, glues and traditional factories. ...
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PrimaLoft to save up to 70% carbon emissions with updated P.U.R.E. technology
PrimaLoft has launched an updated version of its PrimaLoft P.U.R.E. (“Produced Using Reduced Emissions”) manufacturing technology. Using its proprietary P.U.R.E. technology, originally launched in 2019, it claims to further reduce carbon emissions by up to 70 percent. Three new products featuring the latest version of PrimaLoft’s PURE manufacturing technology will ...
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Nike posts content to inspire kids on social media
Nike has posted a several seasons’ worth of videos – with seven to 12 per season – on the Nike for Kids section of its YouTube page. (The seasons are numbered up to eight, but the first one appears to be absent.) Each video is a how-to lesson on a ...
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Sri Lanka defies supply chain problems
In contrast with some other sourcing countries, Sri Lanka seems to be poised to meet its targets for apparel exports, thanks to a successful anti-Covid vaccination campaign. An executive committee member of Sri Lanka’s Joint Apparel Association Forum (JAAF) told just-style that the country’s garment exports went up to $2.75 ...
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Nike unveils new R&D facility named after LeBron James
Nike has officially presented its new LeBron James Innovation Center. Located in the middle of the company’s campus in Beaverton, Oregon, it is named after the basketball champion by the same name. It houses a new Nike Sport Research Lab (NSRL), designed to understand the needs of athletes and the ...
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Short stops
Oct. 4 Short Stops: Decathlon - iFIT - Isbjörn - Sports Direct
Management: +++ Frasers Group, parent of Sports Direct International, announced the appointment to its board of directors of Anouska Kapur, a specialist in high-value real estate who is a partner in the law firm Child and Child +++ Selma Jakobsson, former product developer at H&M, has joined Isbjörn ...
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U.K. anti-trust authority probes JD and Leicester City over shirt sales
The U.K. Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) has opened an investigation into suspected violations of competition law by the Leicester City Football Club and JD Sports Fashion over the sale of club-branded products in the U.K. The replica shirts of the club, which won England’s FA Cup in May, are ...
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Decathlon opens continental logistics hub in Barcelona
Decathlon has inaugurated a new distribution center in Barcelona, Spain, to service the European continent. The facility, which replaces a previous one in the area, covers some 95,987 square meters on 167,751 square meters of land. It is adjacent to the Port of Barcelona and ten minutes from the Barcelona ...
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Uvex Group builds new logistics and service center
With a symbolic ground-breaking ceremony on Sept. 27, the Uvex Group gave the starting signal for the construction of a new, modern and sustainable logistics and service center in Rednitzhembach, Germany. The building, which has been pre-certified by the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB), will begin to take shape before ...
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News briefsBründl Sports opens new flagship store, carries Marcel Hirscher’s new ski and apparel brands
Bründl Sports opened a new, sustainable and attractive flagship store with a net sales area of 2,500 square meters (total size: 5,600 sqm) in the heart of the Austrian ski and mountain sports town of Kaprun on Oct. 1 after a construction period of only one and a half years, ...
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Bernard Tapie, former owner of Adidas, has passed away
Bernard Tapie passed away on Oct. 3 after a four-year fight against cancer, only three days before a scheduled Oct. 6 verdict by a Paris Appeals Court over the controversial sale of Adidas to the late Robert Louis-Drefus in 1994. He was 78 years old. Tapie, a very popular French ...
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Pádel returns to ISPO Munich
The 2022 edition of ISPO Munich will once again include the sport of pádel after an absence of seven years, reviving the Padel Village. According to Messe München’s director in Spain, Martina Claus, the village’s initial run, from 2014 to 2015, was premature. With few courts and few retailers then ...
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Short stops
Oct. 1 Short Stops: MDV Sports – Nike - Puma
Corporate: +++ MDV Sports, which owns the Marker, Dalbello and Völkl brands, has relocated to a new U.S. head office at the historical River Mill Commercial Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire to house its administrative and commercial staff, while offering a new showroom and meeting spaces +++ Phil ...
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China’s manufacturing tempo is slowing down
China’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) shrank in September for the first time since February 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic first hit the country. Power shortages and new, sporadic Covid-19 outbreaks are being blamed for the reversal, raising the likelihood of new supply chain problems. Economists are predicting a further slowdown ...
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Foot Locker offers bonds with a 4% yield
Foot Locker has announced that it is offering $400 million in senior notes due in 2029, priced at 100 percent of the principal amount and bearing annual interest of 4.00 percent. The private offering is scheduled to close on Oct. 5. Indicatively, the relatively high yield would compare with the ...
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News briefsPittards returns to profits as sales recovery gathers momentum
Pittards, a British leather and leathergoods manufacturer that is a major supplier to the sporting goods industry, returned to profit in the first half and said there are “clear signs” that a recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic was gathering momentum, with orders at their highest level in two years. Pre-tax ...
