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Technogym sells Danish club management software firm
Technogym has announced the sale of Exerp ApS, a Danish company involved in the development of software for the management of club members, and its holding company, Amleto ApS, to a U.S. investment firm, Battery Ventures. Technogym will record a capital gain of €17.1 million on the €53.1 million price ...
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Technogym grows by 10.2%, with B2C home fitness up by 129.2%
Technogym reported a revenue increase of 10.2 percent to €128.7 million in the first quarter of 2021, with a growth of 13.1 percent in constant currencies. In terms of euros, they rose by 26.0 percent in Italy, by 1.3 percent in the rest of Europe, by 29.1 percent in Asia/Pacific ...
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Canada Goose rises by 33.7%
While reporting a 33.7 percent rise in fourth-quarter sales to 208 million Canadian dollars (€141.4m-$171.7m), an upbeat Canada Goose said it expects revenues to exceed C$1 billion (€680m-$826m) for the first time for the current financial year as it plans to open 10 new stores - six in Asia/Pacific, two ...
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ArticleLed by Europe, Asics returns to profits in Q1 on 25% higher sales
Asics Corp. reported a 24.8 percent sales increase to 106,549 million Yen (€802,901-$974,477) for the first quarter of 2021, with increases of 43.4 percent in Europe, 20.1 percent in North America, 95.8 percent in Greater China and just 0.5 percent in Japan. E-commerce outperformed, rising by 86 percent overall, with ...
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Nike sees HQ staff working at the office three days a week
Nike’s vice president of workplace design and connectivity, Jeff Nichols, has sent out in an email to affected employees, laying out a new in-office work policy for the company’s global headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. Nike is to begin raising capacity, services and amenities there as of next month, while continuing ...
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Mizuno finishes the year down by 11.4%
Net income returned to growth for Mizuno Corp. in the fourth quarter of its financial year, ended March 31, with net earnings rising by 28 percent to ¥1,811 million yen (€13,636-$16,550). The quarterly revenues fell by 7 percent to ¥43.7 billion (€329.1m-$399.4m), growing only in the Americas region because of ...
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News briefsHelly Hansen maintains sales momentum
In the first quarter ended April 3, Helly Hansen’s revenues increased by 12.2 percent to 136.3 million Canadian dollars (€92.8m-$112.1), growing at rou ghly thesame pace as in the fourth quarter of 2020 despite continuing store closures and restrictions on store operations because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Canadian Tire, which ...
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ArticleStrong Q1 leads Wolverine to raise guidance
Wolverine Worldwide raised its guidance for the full financial year due to better-than-expected e-commerce growth in the first quarter and optimism over Covid-19 vaccine roll-outs. The group’s revenues in the three months to April 3 rose by 16.3 percent to $510.7 million, just about missing estimates of $511.8 million. The ...
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News briefsPuma has a new marketing head for Europe
Puma has made Benoît Menard its regional marketing manager for Europe. He will be working out of the Puma group’s headquarters in the Bavarian town of Herzogenaurach. Menard has been with the company since 2018, having previously spent five years with Adidas and another five with a French TV channel, ...
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Sweden’s Stronger has a new owner
Stronger, a Swedish brand of women’s sports apparel, is now under the control of the Danish-Swedish venture capital firm Polaris, a specialist in Nordic mid-caps, which has won a bidding war to acquire a 51 percent stake in the company. The sales price has not been disclosed, but an anonymous ...
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News briefsAllbirds helps Adidas to develop its most climate-friendly running shoe
Working in remote mode in collaboration with Allbirds for 12 months, Adidas has developed its most sustainable performance running shoe. The first 100 pairs of the co-branded model, whose prototype is called Futurecraft Footprint, is being raffled off to members of Adidas’ Creators Club at the end of May. A ...
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S&P upgrades Under Armour’s outlook
The outlook for Under Armour has been changed by Standard & Poor’s from negative to stable based on the company’s improved financial metrics, while its issuer credit rating has been kept at BB. S&P expects UA’s debt/Ebitda ratio to decline from 2.7 times in 2020 to below 2.0 times by ...
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Callaway Golf’s sales soar amid Covid recovery
Callaway Golf Co. saw revenues in the first quarter soar by 47.3 percent as compared to the year earlier to $651.6 million, amid “unprecedented” demand for its golf equipment and a faster-than-expected recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic for Jack Wolfskin and the rest of its s oftgoods businesses and the ...
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Cole Haan launches its first tennis shoe
Cole Haan is releasing the Zerogrand Winner, its first sneaker designed specifically for the game of tennis. It is the third sport performance offering for the American lifestyle brand, which previously belonged to the Nike group. Cole Haan stepped into performance last year with a runnning shoe, followed by its ...
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Macron partners with Go-all to promote sport in early childhood in Italy
Macron has announced a new partnership with Go-all Asilo del Calcio to encourage sports activities in early childhood. Go-all Asilo del Calcio is an Italian network of franchised “Baby Soccer Schools,” as the organization defines them on its Facebook page, for children aged 2-5. Macron will support the development of ...
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Infographics & DataThe largest e-commerce sports shops in Europe - Q1 2021 Update
This exclusive interactive chart shows the largest e-commerce sports shops in Europe ranked by the number of website visitors in Q1 2021, with % changes vs June-August 2020. Included are regular sporting goods retailers and pure e-tailers. The chart and data can be downloaded. This is exclusive data and analysis for Premium Members.
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Timex to produce watches for Adidas Originals
Thanks to a new worldwide licensing deal, the Timex Group will be designing, manufacturing and distributing watches under the Adidas Originals brand name. The first collection is scheduled for release early next year through Adidas’ own stores, franchises and e-commerce as well as through the Timex Group’s sales network. Tobias ...
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New HR director for Lacoste’s parent
MF Brands, the holding company of Lacoste, Tecnifibre, Aigle, Gant and The Kooples, has hired Gaelle Petit-Perrin as director of human resources, starting on May 10. After spending more than eight years inside the Rocher beauty and fashion group, where she ran its digital marketing operations, she joined Russel Reynolds ...
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Hyperice gains a 20-year-old athlete investor
More and more sports professionals are investing in sports brands while becoming their ambassadors. Their age is not a factor, apparently. Erling Haaland, the 20-year-old Norwegian footballer born in England who plays for Borussia Dortmund and the Norwegian football team, has joined Hyperice as an athlete ambassador and investor. Haaland ...
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Everlast signs up Liam Smith
Everlast has announced a long-term partnership with Liam Smith. The British professional boxer will use Everlast equipment and wear the brand’s new Greatness sportswear range. The athlete, who is 32 years old, was born and raised in Liverpool in a family of boxers. His brothers Paul, Stephen and Callum Smith ...
