All Winter Sports articles – Page 17
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A new Spanish firm, Help Snowboards, hit the market in...
A new Spanish firm, Help Snowboards, hit the market in October with a two-pronged strategy. First, it is aiming to keep prices low and quality high by eliminating retail distribution and selling direct to customers, exclusively through its website. Second, to deal with the issue of showrooming, where consumers try ...
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Burton Snowboard's current president, John Lacy, will be joining Donna...
Burton Snowboard's current president, John Lacy, will be joining Donna Carpenter, joint owner of the company along with her husband Jake Burton Carpenter, as its co-chief executive. The company has also appointed Sarah Crockett, formerly with Vans and REI, as its new marketing director. Sharing a two-decade history, John Lacy ...
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Burton Snowboards has opened its first store in Munich, calling...
Burton Snowboards has opened its first store in Munich, calling it a “hub” because it also serves as an office and showroom, hosting the German country manager, Benjamin Schwarz, and his team. It is located near many other sports stores at Frauenstrasse, 10.
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Rome Snowboards, an iconic brand based in Vermont, has been...
Rome Snowboards, an iconic brand based in Vermont, has been acquired by in Low Pressure Studio (LPS), a Dutch-based company that owns three other brands of snowboards: Batalcon, Lobster, Switchback. The deal follows the recent acquisition by Nidecker of a majority stake in LPS. The Swiss group led by the ...
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Burton and Nitro, two leading snowboarding companies, have joined the...
Burton and Nitro, two leading snowboarding companies, have joined the European Outdoor Group (EOG), widening the remit of the organization. Burton and Nitro have both become full members, and Salomon is adding its snowboard business to its existing membership. The EOG said that this highlights the alignment and synergy between ...
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The World Snowboard Federation (WSF) has announced a new president...
The World Snowboard Federation (WSF) has announced a new president and board. Satu Järvelä has been elected as WSF's new president on a four-year mandate. Järvelä previously sat on the board of the Ticket to Ride (TTR) World Snowboard Tour. She is a former ISF World Champion snowboarder, a US ...
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A professional German snowboarder, Aline Bock, has signed up as...
A professional German snowboarder, Aline Bock, has signed up as an official ambassador for the #itsgreatoutthere campaign steered by the European Outdoor Group to stimulate outdoor participation. She will promote and support the campaign during her activities and public appearances, online and on the social media. Bock has just started ...
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Strong quarter for Amer in winter sports and fitness
Amer Sports ended the year with a strong quarter for its winter sports, outdoor and fitness products, which made up for weakness in the ball sports business and enabled the Finnish group to report gains in sales for the full year.The group's turnover for the quarter moved up by 4 ...
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World Snowboarding will replace the World Snowboard Tour
The World Snowboard Federation (WSF) has announced the completion of the merger with TTR Pro Snowboarding (TTR). Starting with the 2017/18 season, the merged entity will offer direct membership for the sport's stakeholders. Following the merger, the World Snowboard Tour brand name will cease to exist. All existing and future ...
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Barrabès, the Spanish outdoor and winter sports retailer, has appointed...
Barrabès, the Spanish outdoor and winter sports retailer, has appointed Jesús Ferradas as sales area manager, charged with coordinating the operations of its seven physical stores and its online store at the strategic and sales levels. He previously worked for BM Sportech, Mammut and Millet.
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De Skihut op Scheveningen, a famous retailer of winter sports...
De Skihut op Scheveningen, a famous retailer of winter sports products located in the eponymous Dutch sea resort, was declared bankrupt but was then quickly rescued by Retail Investments Beilen, reports Quote, a Dutch business magazine. The publication worked out that nearly all of the shares in Retail Investments Beilen ...
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Bronder will run Jarden’s former winter sports brands
Christoph Bronder, the executive who has apparently worked wonders with Völkl while keeping the German ski brand's production in Germany, has been named as president and chief executive of K2-MDV Holdings, the new company set up by Kohlberg & Company to group together all the winter sports brands it has ...
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Private equity firm buys Jarden's former winter sports brands
Kohlberg & Company, a U.S. private equity firm, has agreed to take over Völkl, K2, Marker and eight other winter sports brands that were put up for sale by Newell Brands, in a deal that is expected to generate proceeds of $240 million. Newell has reached a separate agreement to ...
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Greg Dacsyshyn, who has spent many years at Burton Snowboards...
Greg Dacsyshyn, who has spent many years at Burton Snowboards as its chief creative officer, is leaving the company after more than 20 years to set up his own creative agency, called Camp High. The agency will continue to set the creative direction for Burton in terms of products and ...
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Burton Snowboards, which recently won the right to trade in...
Burton Snowboards, which recently won the right to trade in France with all the products under its own name, opened its first French store in the ski resort of Avoriaz, measuring 110 square meters, on Dec. 10
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Burton is putting out a snowboard named after Muhammad Ali,...
Burton is putting out a snowboard named after Muhammad Ali, the famous boxing champion
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Nidecker group buys Flow snowboarding
The Nidecker Group has reinforced its share in the snowboarding market by taking over the brand assets of Flow Snowboarding from Flow Sports, the Californian board sports group, at an undisclosed price.The two companies said that their assets were complementary, and the tie-up will enable both of them to sell ...
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Burton Snowboards has associated itself with Black Scale, the irreverent...
Burton Snowboards has associated itself with Black Scale, the irreverent brand of casualwear, for a collection of lifestyle clothing that has just hit the market with a selective distribution. As Burton puts it, Black Scale reinterprets logos and graphics inspired by religion, politics, personal identity and death.
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Burton Snowboards's president, John Lacy, informed its 900-odd employees on...
Burton Snowboards's president, John Lacy, informed its 900-odd employees on March 16 that about 4 percent of its global staff was being laid off because of the poor snowfall in the past winter, global economic instability and a “challenged retail landscape.” The bankrupt Sports Authority chain in the U.S. owes ...
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Salomon is sponsoring a German snowboard rider, Flo Corzelius, who...
Salomon is sponsoring a German snowboard rider, Flo Corzelius, who is said to be filming a cool new movie
