Latest Headlines – Page 380
-
Article
Lafuma Reports Declines, Especially In France
For its fiscal year 2008-09 ended Sept. 30, the Lafuma Group recorded a sales decline of 3 percent to €254.2 million. While the international business was basically flat at €104.0 million (-0.1 percent), sales decreased by 4.9 percent in the French home market to €150.2 million. The environment ...
-
Article
Golf Clothing Has A Significant Place In The European Market
The U.K. remains by far the biggest single market in Europe, but the rest of Europe has been gradually catching up in the past few years except in 2008, when the economic crisis hit the sector hard in certain countries such as Ireland, Spain and Russia. Using a relatively ...
-
Article
Golf Tech’S New European Distribution Network Seeks Synergies
A group of European golf distributors has teamed up under the leadership of Golf Tech, the biggest independent distributor of golf products in Austria, to offer one-stop coverage of the whole European market to prospective international brands – representing an interesting new business model. Founded in 1988, Golf Tech ...
-
Article
Golf Usa Expands In Europe And Africa
The European arm of Golf USA, the specialist golf retailing franchise, is opening a second store in Germany this month, in Mössingen near Stuttgart, with a view to a broader roll-out in the coming years. The foray is modeled on the expansion achieved by the franchise in the Netherlands, where ...
-
Article
Dubai Golf Brand Sets Sights On Europe
Scorpio Golf, a relatively young golf apparel company from Dubai, is investing heavily in the development of its presence on the European market, to a point where it is even considering the opening of a European head office. So far it has focused on the corporate market in the Middle ...
-
Article
Wippe From France Enters The Golf Apparel Market
Wippe, a French brand of women’s golf apparel, has made a remarkable entrance in the international golf business. Positioned in the medium-high segment of the market, this new brand ended as finalist of the Golf Europe awards for the clothing category. Its snazzy jacket with a very light and water-repellent ...
-
Article
Cutter & Buck Is Branching Out Throughout Europe
Cutter & Buck, the American golf apparel brand acquired by the New Wave Group in Sweden two years ago, is widening its European distribution for next year. New Wave, which otherwise owns Craft and distributes several other brands and corporate products, has come up with an entirely new range for ...
-
Article
Bunker Mentality Expands Into The U.S. And On The Web
Bunker Mentality, the punky British golf apparel brand, is opening its own office in the United States to widen its international distribution. It will be based in Florida and headed up by Ian Redman, who has been with the company for several months. Bunker Mentality already has distribution partners ...
-
Article
Good Start For Geox’ New Golf Shoe Range
The big Italian shoe company doesn’t want to give any sales figures at this stage, but Per Aaagren, the high-caliber Swedish executive who is running Geox’ new golf shoe division, says it is on target with the distribution of its first line of technical golf shoes, which was first presented ...
-
Article
Taylormade Labs Wants To ‘Friend’ You
TaylorMade Performance Labs in the U.S. have joined Twitter and Facebook. The labs, which custom-fit golf clubs, will inform followers and friends of company news and updates, as well as give tips on fitting clubs from PGA pros. To promote the new service, anyone who goes to one of the ...
-
Article
Intersport Wants To Bring ‘Sport To The People’ With New Products And Stores
Intersport has decided to restructure its private-label offerings and the layout of its stores as part of a new integrated product, marketing and merchandising strategy based on an enhanced brand image and a new philosophy of bringing “sport to the people.” The idea is to project a more universal, active, ...
-
Article
Italy’S Sport Point Group Will Work With Sport 2000
Sport Point Group (SPG) is a highly secretive Italian consortium of independent sporting goods retailers that has been working until now with another buying group based in France, Twinner International. It was even a shareholder of Twinner, but it had apparently become critical of its collaboration with Intersport in France, ...
-
Article
Private Label Takes 13% Of The Market
The NPD Group has calculated that private label merchandise made up an average of about 13 percent of sales in the five largest European sports markets during the 12-month period to the end of June 2009. However, the market research company indicates that the weight of private labels in the ...
-
Article
Go Sport Sells Ellesse Exclusively In France
The French sports retailer has obtained a license to sell Ellesse in the French market. The brand, which had not been distributed in France for about five years, will be launched on an exclusive basis in Go Sport stores next year, providing a broad lifestyle range and focusing on tennis ...
-
Article
Jjb Seeks To Raise Almost £100 Million By Issuing Many New Shares
After much ado last week, JJB Sports is going ahead with a plan to issue shares to raise £94 million (€101.7m-$151.9m) net of expenses – more than its market value. The beleaguered British sports retailer, which narrowly avoided bankruptcy earlier this year, badly needs the cash after deepening losses in ...
-
Article
Lady Ashton Proposes 15 More Months Of Duties, Importers Disagree Strongly
The trade directorate of the European Commission has produced a lengthy document in favor of maintaining the current anti-dumping duties on leather shoes from China and Vietnam for 15 months, giving more time for the process of adjustment of the European shoe industry to be completed. It said the duties ...
-
Article
Euretco Sport Changes Structure
Euretco Sport, the second-largest buying group for sports retailers in the Netherlands, has reorganized its business to split buying from retail functions. Marius Rovers, who had been heading up the entire Euretco Sport unit, has become buying manager for the same unit from the beginning of this month, while the ...
-
Article
Anwr Bundles Activities In Its Sport 2000 Subsidiary; Steps Into...
ANWR BUNDLES ACTIVITIES IN ITS SPORT 2000 SUBSIDIARY; STEPS INTO SWISS SHOE Ariston-Nord-West-Ring, the big purchasing and marketing organization for shoe and sports retailers with more than 5,000 points of sale across Europe, is the new helm of Swiss Shoe, Switzerland’s footwear buying group. Effective Jan. 1, the group ...
-
Article
Garant Freshens Up, Brekelmans Quits
Garant Schuh + Mode, which has refreshed its corporate design by cutting out the “Schuh + Mode” from its logo to make it more international, has announced the departure of Richard Brekelmans, effective immediately. The 46-year-old Dutchman was managing director of the big Dutch subsidiary of the group, Garant Schoenen ...
-
Article
Eybl Reports Moderate Growth
Sport Eybl & Sports Experts, the market leader in Austrian sporting goods retailing with an estimated market share of 25 percent, increased its sales in the fiscal year 2008-09 ended Aug. 31. Turnover grew by 2 percent to €378 million. Compared with the previous year, the number of stores remained ...
