Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 252
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Orinoco of Ireland has become sole distributor for Ireland as...
Orinoco of Ireland has become sole distributor for Ireland as well as the UK of Waldies, the American brand of clogs.
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Bergans And Norrona Take Over The Distribution In Germany
Bergans Fritid is going even further than that by setting up an office in Hamburg, Germany that will steer the fast-growing distribution operations of the Norwegian sports apparel brand throughout most of Europe. They will be led by Peter Carati, former export manager at Hilleberg, the Swedish tent company, who ...
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Sportmarket AB has become the exclusive distributor of Kombi’s sports...
Sportmarket AB has become the exclusive distributor of Kombi’s sports gloves in Europe. The large Swedish distributor has secured sub-distributorships and other types of partnership in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, the UK, France and the Czech Republic. Other contracts are under negotiation. Kombi is an American brand of ski gloves ...
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Garmin has acquired its Spanish distributor, Electronica Trepat, retaining its...
Garmin has acquired its Spanish distributor, Electronica Trepat, retaining its management and staff. The American supplier of GPS equipment previously took over its distributors in France and Germany. In the 2nd quarter, Garmin reached total sales of $742 million, up 72 percent from the level of one year ago, but ...
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X-Freedom is the new distributor of Trespass in Spain....
X-Freedom is the new distributor of Trespass in Spain.
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R.G. Barry Corp. has been appointed as sole distributor and...
R.G. Barry Corp. has been appointed as sole distributor and licensee of Superga footwear in the USA under a contract that will be extended to Canada from 2008. The present contract, which runs from this month to December 2010, calls for minimum royalties of $1.6 million on revenues of $17.6 ...
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Maltese Nike Distributor Takes Urban Jungle Concept To The Rest Of Europe
After taking Nike to Nigeria, Libya and Algeria in the last few years, the brand’s exclusive distributor in Malta since 1988, Time International (Sport) Limited, is expanding rapidly into neighboring Italy with a very creative store franchising concept called Urban Jungle. This geographical diversification makes sense for Time International, which ...
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Anta Sports Products, a Chinese manufacturer and distributor of apparel...
Anta Sports Products, a Chinese manufacturer and distributor of apparel for Adidas, Reebok and Kappa, plans to go public on the Hong Kong Exchange, selling 600 million shares offered at HK$4.28-5.28 and raising a maximum of $460 million. The company plans to use proceeds of the initial public offering (IPO) ...
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Pacific Outdoor Equipment is named the exclusive distributor in the...
Pacific Outdoor Equipment is named the exclusive distributor in the USA for Laken, a Spanish brand of steel drinking bottles.
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Under Armour has signed a distribution agreement with Unlimited Sports...
Under Armour has signed a distribution agreement with Unlimited Sports Group (USG) for the Benelux countries. USG owns and operates the Perry Sport and Atkiesport retail chains and is a licensee for Le Coq Sportif, Maui and Sons, Pantofola d’Oro and Cars Jeans.
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Eurolight, a Dutch-based distribution company with a wide portfolio of...
Eurolight, a Dutch-based distribution company with a wide portfolio of tennis and winter sports brands, will distribute Mistral apparel in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, on the back of a deal with X-Wear, another Dutch-based company that obtained earlier this year a license for Mistral apparel in most other European ...
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R.A. Company, a Dutch distribution company that already sells CamelBak,...
R.A. Company, a Dutch distribution company that already sells CamelBak, Trezeta, Buff, Gabel, and OneWay Sport, has been appointed as Benelux agent for Bergans, the big Norwegian outdoor brand.
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Two large companies with production and distribution in China are...
Two large companies with production and distribution in China are trying to go public soon. Anta, a large Chinese producer and distributor of branded sportswear, is looking to raise $200-300 million of an initial public offering this month. Stella International of Taiwan, which manufactures shoes in China for Timberland, Clarks ...
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Columbia Sportswear will end amicably its 9-year-old Swedish distribution contract...
Columbia Sportswear will end amicably its 9-year-old Swedish distribution contract with Sportmarket AB, which represents many other brands in the country, after the delivery of the next Fall/Winter collection. The brand’s distributor in Norway, Patric Holmer, is opening an agency for the brand in Sweden, called Portland Sverige, which will ...
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Nike Distributor May Get A New Investor
Elmec Sport, a leading Greek sports retailer and wholesaler that is responsible for the distribution of Nike in Romania and Bulgaria, confirms that it has been in advanced talks with Laskaridis, a Greek shipping company, to sell part of its shares. While Elmec is listed on the Athens stock exchange, ...
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Industrias Mercury has become the Spanish distributor of Select....
Industrias Mercury has become the Spanish distributor of Select.
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The Adidas group is consolidating its distribution in the USA...
The Adidas group is consolidating its distribution in the USA for Adidas and Reebok footwear and apparel into a single site for the two brands in Spartanburg, South Carolina, which is currently hosting the American distribution center for Adidas’ footwear lines. By the Fall of 2009, two new buildings will ...
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A German distributor, WB Compagnie, is taking charge of sales...
A German distributor, WB Compagnie, is taking charge of sales of most of Hi-Tec Sports’ products on the German market as the British company is closing down its local sales subsidiary. WB Compagnie is led by Werner Berzl, who also markets the sportswear brand Homeboy. It has hired many of ...
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Alpargatas, Brazilian distributor of Mizuno, has begun selling the brand...
Alpargatas, Brazilian distributor of Mizuno, has begun selling the brand in Chile through a license ending in 2016.
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Adidas has acquired the distribution of the Reebok brand in...
Adidas has acquired the distribution of the Reebok brand in Greece from its former importer, RbK Hellas, for an undisclosed amount. Starting on Jan. 1, 2008, Adidas Hellas will take over responsibility for the brand in the country under the management of Alain Brouhart, who is in charge of the ...
