More about brands – Page 375
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The Chinese athletic brand Anta saw sales increase by 50...
The Chinese athletic brand Anta saw sales increase by 50 percent in the first half of this year to about $320 million, but experts have said that if it wants to realize its goal of being China’s top sportwear brand, it needs to increase its ad spending and emphasize its ...
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100-year-old Luhta Sponsors Santa Claus
Luhta, the oldest and best known brand of Finland’s L-Fashion Group, has secured the rights to act as official supplier of clothing to Santa Claus, who is supposed to live in Rovaniemi, a little Finnish town along the Arctic Circle where he has his own postal office to handle more ...
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Brantano, the leading Belgian shoe retailer that is to be...
Brantano, the leading Belgian shoe retailer that is to be acquired by Macintosh Retail Group in the Netherlands, has adjusted its full-year forecasts upwards after a strong performance in the 3rd quarter. The company’s recovery in the UK appears to be well under way, with positive growth in comparable sales ...
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Macintosh Offers To Buy Brantano
Brantano, a large-scale player in Belgian and British footwear, is likely to be bought in the next weeks by the Macintosh Retail Group, a Dutch retailing conglomerate selling footwear as well as cycling, furniture and telecom products. Among other measures, Macintosh plans to optimize joint buying of sports footwear: The ...
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Anta Triples Sales
Anta Sports Products, which claims a 3.2 percent share of the Chinese sports footwear and apparel market; is yet another big Chinese producer/wholesaler/retailer involved in the sporting goods market that went public recently, in the wake of Belle International and other such companies. Anta says its turnover jumped by 203 ...
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Amer Sports reports that Ajanta Oy has raised its interest...
Amer Sports reports that Ajanta Oy has raised its interest in the company to more than 5%.
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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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Blacks Antagonizes Suppliers
Several weighty suppliers are terminating their relationships with Blacks Leisure, apparently due to some tightened purchasing conditions that the British outdoor retailer sought to impose earlier this year in an effort to redress its sagging margins. Mountain Boot Co., the British distributor for Deuter backpacks and Scarpa climbing shoes, ...
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Merrell opens its second U.S. retail outlet, located in Atlanta....
Merrell opens its second U.S. retail outlet, located in Atlanta.
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Molten’s Acentec Vantaggio football becomes the new match ball of...
Molten’s Acentec Vantaggio football becomes the new match ball of the Kent Football League and the recommended match ball of the Middlesex Country Football League in the UK.
