All Corporations articles – Page 157
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For an undisclosed amount, Shock Doctor, the U.S. specialty brand...
For an undisclosed amount, Shock Doctor, the U.S. specialty brand of mouthguards and other protective equipment for team sports and fitness activities, has acquired Cutters, a marketer of sports gloves for football and other sports based in Phoenix, Arizona. The new combination sees big growth potential for Cutters since the ...
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The Adidas Group has signed a revolving credit facility worth...
The Adidas Group has signed a revolving credit facility worth €500 million with a pool of banks, following an oversubscribed offer. The new five-year facility incorporates two options for a one-year extension which are to be excercised at the end of the first and the second year, respectively. With the ...
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DVS Shoe, an American action sports company owned by the...
DVS Shoe, an American action sports company owned by the Dunlap family, is set to to be acquired by Sequential Brands Group, the parent company of the William Rast and People's Liberation brands, for about $8.55 million in cash. Sequential Brands issued the highest offer at the bankruptcy court auction ...
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Dorel Industries' Cycling Sports Group (CSG) is opening a 600-square-meter...
Dorel Industries' Cycling Sports Group (CSG) is opening a 600-square-meter research and development facility in Freiburg, Germany, this summer. It joins R&D facilities in Bethel, Connecticut, and Taichung, Taiwan, and puts the company close to the heart of the European cycling market. It is located close to the Black Forest, ...
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To mark the 50th anniversary of the opening of its...
To mark the 50th anniversary of the opening of its manufacturing plant in Irvine, Scotland, Wilson Golf christened its new EMEA Wilson Golf Competency Center there this month. Paul Lawrie, the winner of the 1999 Open and a Wilson athlete, was on hand to celebrate the opening of the center, ...
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Mizuno is taking over Senoh Corporation, a 104-year-old Japanese maker...
Mizuno is taking over Senoh Corporation, a 104-year-old Japanese maker of equipment for indoor sports facilities, at an undisclosed price. Specializing in gymnastics, basketball, volleyball, fitness and martial arts, Senoh has been an official supplier to the Olympic Games since they were held in Tokyo in 1964. It received an ...
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Meryl Fiber, the French-Italian manufacturer of nylon fibers, has been...
Meryl Fiber, the French-Italian manufacturer of nylon fibers, has been ordered by a bankruptcy court to immediately shut down its French factory, which employs 343 people. The company suffered a big loss in 2011 as its sales dropped to €70 million from €85 million the year before. A cash squeeze ...
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Under Armour has announced its first two-for-one stock split of...
Under Armour has announced its first two-for-one stock split of its outstanding common stock. The stock split will take the form of a dividend of one share of Class A Common Stock for each share of Class A Common Stock outstanding and one share of Class B Common Stock for ...
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There seem to be at least two or three serious...
There seem to be at least two or three serious potential bidders the MTB brand and other related assets. Meanwhile, MBT's sales subsidiaries in the U.K., Germany and the Netherlands have followed the parent company into bankruptcy proceedings. Some of the MBT stores in the U.K. are reportedly being shut ...
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Hanesbrands is looking to improve its margins and focus more...
Hanesbrands is looking to improve its margins and focus more on its branded portfolio in the Americas and Asia, and one of its actions is selling it European imagewear division. Smartwear will buy the division, which accounts for about 8 percent of Hanesbrands' revenues, for €15 million. Hanesbrands said that ...
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In reporting very good results for the first quarter, Dick's...
In reporting very good results for the first quarter, Dick's Sporting Goods described its recent £20 million (€150.0m-$186.1m) investment in JJB Sports as a “high-risk, high-reward” proposition. It expressed confidence in the new management of the British chain to turn it around, without diverting the attention of the U.S. management. ...
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VF Corporation reportedly plans to reduce footwear sourcing in the...
VF Corporation reportedly plans to reduce footwear sourcing in the southern part of China to 11 million pairs by 2016, down from 40 million pairs in 2010. It plans to source more shoes from northern China, Vietnam, Bangladesh and elsewhere.
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Sport-Master, the largest cooperative of sporting goods retailers in Denmark,...
Sport-Master, the largest cooperative of sporting goods retailers in Denmark, is going to become an integrated retail chain. An equity investment company, Nordic Capital Fund VII, has signed an agreement to take it over, along with its parent company, Sport Danmark, and 96 percent of its 100-plus affiliated stores trading ...
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DVS Shoe, the American action sports company that filed for...
DVS Shoe, the American action sports company that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week, is hoping to draw bids of at least $4.3 million at an auction to be held in June – if approved by the bankruptcy court. The company filed for bankruptcy protection under a procedure ...
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None of 125 people working at the head office of...
None of 125 people working at the head office of Champion Europe in Carpi was injured. Same for the 75-odd employees at the nearby office in Campogalliano of Game 7 Athletics, the Italian sporting goods retail chain owned by Champion Europe. However, they were all told to go home last Tuesday, after the second shock ...
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CDC Enterprises has injected €1.6 million more into Avance Diffusion,...
CDC Enterprises has injected €1.6 million more into Avance Diffusion, parent company of Degré 7, Duvillard and other apparel brands, bringing up its total investment in the French company to €4.5 million since its first step in August 2010. Including other brands, Avance Diffusion had total revenues of more than ...
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Rectifying some recent press reports, the management of Regatta Group...
Rectifying some recent press reports, the management of Regatta Group indicates that the total number of its warehouse employees in the U.K. should grow from 165 to 220 as part of a reorganization of its logistics that will see each of its three brands – Regatta, Dare2b and Craghoppers – centralizing ...
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The Ziener family, which owns the German producer of gloves...
The Ziener family, which owns the German producer of gloves by the same name, has sold a 34.5 percent share of the company to an institutional investor. Sport-Fachhandel, the German trade publication, reports that the new partner is Hannover Finanz Gruppe, a private equity company that has 44 companies in ...
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Frank Koch, a German veteran of the fitness equipment industry,...
Frank Koch, a German veteran of the fitness equipment industry, has become managing director of a new company, Sportart 3, that will be responsible for the distribution of a new line of Adidas badminton racquets and other Adidas branded products for boxing and martial arts in the German-speaking countries and ...
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Sportéco, the French trade magazine controlled by Horst Frankl of...
Sportéco, the French trade magazine controlled by Horst Frankl of SAZ, has launched a trade publication for the French bicycle market, called Bikéco
