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The Sports And Outdoor Industries Join In The Fight Against The European Anti-dumping Duties
The new European Footwear Alliance, which represents the sports and outdoor brands in addition to many others in the casual footwear sector, is understood to be filing a statement to the European Commission urging it to conduct a speedy investigation of the European shoe producers’ claims of continued dumping by ...
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The Global Branded Brown Shoe Market Grew By 10.9% In 2007
Our annual survey of the casual footwear market shows that it rose by 10.9 percent overall in 2007 in terms of invoiced sales by the major brands, but this was its growth in dollars. Sales in the USA increased by only 0.8 percent. Sales in the rest of the world ...
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New Deals For Macgregor Golf And Greg Norman In Europe
Severn Under, a new British firm controlled by Ray Hall, who made his fortune by selling slot machines for the gambling industry, announced today that it has become MacGregor Golf’s licensee for its Greg Norman Collection of golf apparel in the U.K. and Europe, to the exclusion of Italy and ...
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Nike Golf Has New Leaders In Europe And The Usa
Stan Grissinger will take over as Nike Golf’s manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at the beginning of December, while his predecessor, Mike Francis, will become Nike Golf’s general manager in the USA. The appointments come a few weeks after Cindy Davis, former U.S. general manager, took ...
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New Management And New Ideas At Chervo'
Francesco Guidetti, a 45-year-old Italian executive with a broad international experience, is now running Chervò, the leading Italian brand of golf clothing. He has been appointed as chief executive, taking over the functions of Manfred Erlacher, who is stepping back at the age of 60 years to act as president ...
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Masters Golf Is Under New Ownership
At the Golf Europe show, Masters Golf, the Austrian brand for golf apparel, presented itself under new leadership. Peter Landl, managing partner and majority stakeholder, recently acquired the company Alaska Sport Dress, which markets the golf brand. The name Alaska comes from the company’s history as a manufacturer of skiwear. ...
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Sunderland Teams Up With A Designer
Sunderland, the venerable Scottish brand of protective golfwear, has sealed a 50-50 joint venture with Tony Q’aja, a flamboyant designer, to jointly market a new range of golf apparel. The Q’aja golf offering was launched on a small scale in the U.K. last month, and a full-fledged range will hit ...
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New Owners For Oscar Jacobson
Oscar Jacobson, a Swedish men’s clothing brand with a growing golf range, was sold by the Bengtsson family in the middle of last month to Valedo, a Swedish pension fund, at an undisclosed price. The new owners intend to strongly accelerate the growth of the company, which has been partly ...
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Breathing New Life Into Cross
Cross Sportswear, the Swedish ski and golf company, is struggling to overcome several months of instability with a capital injection and a new chief executive. The company went through a rough patch, with a spate of management changes and a thwarted move of its headquarters, but the new shareholders have ...
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Glenmuir Scores Well In A Tough Market
Glenmuir’s sales to the U.K. trade grew by a glorious 16 percent this past summer thanks to a variety of factors and reaping the benefits of major investments made in the last four years. This was in stark contrast with the situation on the U.K. market where extremely wet weather ...
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Golf Europe Suffers Decline In Visitors, But Not From Eastern Europe
The 16th edition of the Golf Europe show held in Munich from Oct. 5 through 7 was visited by 14 percent fewer trade professionals than in 2007. Slightly more than 4,600 trade visitors came compared with more than 5,400 in the previous year. The show’s organizer, Messe München, attributes the ...
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Changes In Messe München’S Sports Fair Management
Stefan Reschke, Messe München’s exhibition group director in charge of ISPO Winter, ISPO China, Sports Source Europe and Sports Source Asia, has been appointed to head the company’s regional office in Vienna. Effective Nov. 1, he replaces Klaus Schabatka, who is leaving after 16 years. The Vienna office handles Messe ...
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Open To A Change Of Ownership, Arena Sees Sales Rising By 2.4%
The Arena group expects to close 2008 with an increase in consolidated net sales of about 2.4 percent to €84 million from €82 million in 2007. Speedo probably enjoyed a stronger in the last few months because of the numerous champions wearing its LZR Racer swimsuit, but Arena is confident ...
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Admiral’S Japanese Rights Are Sold
Continuing a process of liquidating some assets in order to strengthen its balance sheet, International Brand Licensing (IBL) has sold the rights to its Admiral brand for Japan to its local licensee, IPGI, and the Toyota Tsusho Trading Corporation, for 231 million yen (€1.7m-$2.3m) after several months of negotiations. ...
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The Latest On Logo Suits
The U.S. court that ruled in May that Collective Brands’ Payless ShoeSource had to pay Adidas $305 million in a trademark infringement case has reduced the judgment by more than 75 percent. The judge said there was no evidence that Adidas lost sales to Payless, which was selling two- and ...
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Outdry Secures Patent Rights
OutDry, the young Italian brand of waterproof membranes for footwear and gloves, has won a case against W.L. Gore before the Munich-based European Patent Office (EPO). Since 2004, Nextec srl, the marketer of the OutDry brand, has fought demands by Gore that it withdraw its patent EP1139805. The Patent Office ...
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New Balance Takes More Action In Europe
While upgrading its collection, New Balance is working more closely with some European retailers and appointing new country managers as part of its corporate goal to double sales by 2012. After the recently announced nomination of a new manager for its French subsidiary, Olivier Motteau, it’s now the turn of ...
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The Football Market Is Off
The European football market declined steeply to about €4.270 billion in 2007, a fall of 13 percent compared with the previous year, according to the latest research by NPD Group. The decline was chiefly attributed to the fact that there wasn’t any major international tournament to stimulate replica sales in ...
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Auditors Question Jjb’S Health
Shares in JJB Sports, the U.K.’s second-largest sports retailer, crashed in London today after it unveiled unexpected half-year losses – and the financial situation has apparently grown so tense that JJB’s auditors questioned whether it could continue as a going concern. In spite of firm reassurances by the company, JJB’s ...
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Jd’S Sports Stores Outperform The British Market
While the latest reports by U.K. retailers are turning into a horror series, the JD Sports Fashion group again unveiled an impressive performance, with a comparable sales increase of 6 percent for the half-year ended on Aug. 2. Due to the company’s takeover last December of Bank, a fashion retailer ...
