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After 40 years in operation, Spain’s BM Sportech has a new CEO
José Maria Barcos Martínez, 67, is yielding control of the company he founded 40 years ago, BM Sportech, which still is a major distributor of sporting goods in Spain. His successor as CEO is a 21-year veteran of the company, Alberto Mastral, who will be joining a new executive board ...
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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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Sidas focuses on its own brands for all the seasons, drops X Socks
X-Technology Swiss is taking over the distribution of its X Socks line of sports socks in France, starting next April, after working for 20 years through Sidas. The latter company has decided to concentrate on its own brands: Podiatech, Sidas, the Sidas Academy, Therm-ic and Shoo IQ. Sidas has already ...
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Eastpak returns to North America
Eastpak’s iconic daypack has been and still is a hot item in Europe, thanks notably to the efforts of a dynamic French-based distributor, Kostia Belkin, in the 1990s. It also enjoys a strong popularity in Asia, which was the first export market for the brand. Founded in Boston in 1952 ...
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Under Armour in talks with a new Russian franchisee
Under Armour confirms a report that it is in negotiations with a new potential franchise partner to develop its Brand House retail format in Russia. The first stores may be opened in Russian shopping centers in the autumn of 2022, according to local sources. The new franchisee would take over ...
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Sugi is licensing Sergio Tacchini footwear for Europe
Sergio Tacchini Europe has signed a long-term licensing deal with Sugi International for the development, production and distribution of a new line of Sergio Tacchini footwear that will “significantly upgrade the quality and breadth” of the line, while expanding its distribution. The deal covers many countries in Europe, including Russia, ...
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ArticleWhile opening another franchise in Spain, Nike works with fewer retailers
Last year Nike made Italy’s Percassi Group its preferred partner in southern Europe, opening six stores with the Italian firm in Greece, Italy and Portugal as well as a flagship on a major thoroughfare in Barcelona, Paseo de Gracia. According to Palco23, a Spanish news service covering the sports business, ...
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Orage plans to return to Europe
Orage, a Montreal-based brand of outerwear that caters primarily to freeride skiers and snowboarders, is reportedly expanding back into the European market. After undergoing several changes of leadership and direction under the umbrella of Coalision and its CEO and president, Bernard Mariette, the brand was sold in 2013 to one ...
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Revo builds up its golf business in Europe
Revo Sunglasses has announced the expansion of its Revo Golf division to the U.K. and the European mainland under the leadership of Grahame Jenkins, a 35-year veteran of the golf industry who owns Tee to Green, a monthly golf magazine distributed in all the 400 golf clubs in Ireland. He ...
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ArticleAdidas to double minimum orders by Spanish buying groups
Next year, according to CMDsport, Adidas will be doubling the minimum order for any Spanish buying groups from €1 million to €2 million. While most of Spain’s numerous buying groups already exceed the threshold, certain retailers tell the Spanish trade paper that they believe Adidas is ratcheting up its strategy ...
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Brooks veteran will lead True Motion into the U.K.
Hamish Stewart, who has been working with Brooks Running for more than 20 years, has become U.K. country manager for True Motion, a German running shoe start-up. He will be assisted by another former running shoe veteran, Richard Outterside, as account manager. Stewart was instrumental in building up Brooks’ European ...
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SRAM integrates Time Sport into its manufacturing and distribution apparatus
Last February, the U.S.-based SRAM Group acquired the pedal business of France’s Time Sport, a former property of the Rossignol Group, including all related patents. It subsequently set up a pedal manufacturing facility in Coimbra, Portugal. SRAM already manufactures SRAM chains and Zipp wheels in Coimbra. Meanwhile, the group has ...
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Slinger Bag expands to China
After striking an agreement with another distributor for Hong Kong and Macau, Slinger Bag has clinched a deal with Powerway Sports to be its exclusive distributor in Mainland China for the next five years. Founded in 1999, Powersports has offices in Shanghai and Xiamen. It has an extensive experience in ...
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The Lifestyle Company will distribute O’Neill ready-to-wear in France
The Lifestyle Company will distribute O’Neill products in France, including the overseas departments and territories, in a new multi-year contract that will debut in spring 2022. The contract only involves the O’Neill ready-to-wear lifestyle offer. O’Neill Wetsuits, based in England, takes charge of the equipment and technical products. O’Neill is ...
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ArticleAsics cuts off some European retailers
Asics has decided to end relations with some retailers in Europe, starting with deliveries planned for January 2022 and afterwards, citing “unprecedented demand for our products,” combined with a challenging Covid-19 situation in many of its production countries. Running is booming, and as we have already reported, new supply chain ...
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BrandFusion will sell Champion and O'Neill shoes in the Netherlands
A Dutch sales agency, BrandFusion, has agreed to include the footwear collections of Pantofola d’Oro, Champion and O’Neill in its product portfolio for the Dutch market, according to Sport Partner. These brands are licensed for various territories by the five-year-old Brandsplus Group, which is also the distributor of Fila in ...
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Electric partners with Volcom in Europe
Liberated Brands Europe, an entity affiliated with Volcom Europe, is partnering with Electric for the distribution of the Californian sport and lifestyle eyewear brand in Europe. The agreement includes the wholesale distribution of Electric’s goggles and sunglasses as well as its e-commerce and marketing operations. The eyewear brand, which is ...
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11teamsports expands into the Iberian peninsula
According to CMDsport, the German football specialist Eleventeamsports has begun operations on the Iberian peninsula with an e-commerce site and is planning to establish a network of franchise stores there over the coming years. Its main competition in Spain is Fútbol Emotion. Founded in 2007, the German retailer and distributor ...
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ArticleHow can home fitness and commercial fitness coexist?
Severely impacted by the Covid pandemic, which has led to their closure and to a boom in home fitness all over the world, fitness studios and other types of membership-based gyms are being led to establish new connections with the home fitness industry while looking for new sources of revenues. ...
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Schmidt adds the Kappa license for Austria
The German Schmidt Group, which has been the licensee of Kappa for Germany since 1999, is taking over the license to the Italian brand for the Austrian market from Alois Wild, adding shoes to the range sold in the country. The Schmidt Group is also Kappa’s licensee for Poland since ...
