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ArticleThule grants warrants after a small sales drop
While withholding the payment of dividends to save cash because of the Covid-19 epidemic, Thule Group’s annual meeting approved an incentive program for executives and key employees after the company reported a relatively small 7.5 percent decline in sales during the first quarter of 2020, with drops of 13 percent ...
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News briefsProducer of Indigo and Bogner skis files for bankruptcy
Schwabe & Baer Entwicklungsgesellschaft, which manufactures high-quality skis and ski equipment under the brand name Indigo, among others, filed for insolvency at the Munich district court on April 14. Under the supervision of the restructuring expert Rolf Pohlmann, the provisional insolvency administrator, operations will continue and the company will be ...
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JD suspends dividends
To save cash, JD Sports Fashion is suspending its annual dividend as all its stores in the U.K., the rest of Europe and the U.S. are now closed because of the coronavirus crisis. The U.K.-based retailer’s executive chairman, Peter Cowgill, is taking a pay cut of 75 percent, while members ...
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Pure Fishing gets lower rating
Moody’s has downgraded Pure Fishing, the company previously owned by the former Jarden Corp. that groups together fishing tackle brands like Abu Garcia, Berkley and Shakespeare. The company’s debt reached 9 times Ebitda last year, after running into a negative cash position following a 6 percent decline in its revenues. ...
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ArticleMcKinsey analyzes Covid-19 with WFSGI
After conducting consumer research and interviews with more than 25 industry players in the apparel and sports markets, McKinsey & Co. has made a series of interesting recommendations for best-practice actions that sporting goods companies can take to navigate through the current Covid-19 pandemic. They were presented in a webinar ...
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Adidas may forego government aid
The Adidas Group said ten days ago that the German government had approved in principle its request to contribute to a €3 billion syndicated revolving credit facility through its state-owned bank, KfW, to help the company weather the Covid-19 crisis. In return, Adidas would not pay dividends for the duration ...
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Former Sports Direct has some problems
Frasers Group says the current uncertainty caused by the Covid-19 “shock” is affecting its bank credit lines and its suppliers’ credit insurance. It understands that the majority of new credit insurance cover has been withdrawn for the time being. The British group, formerly called Sports Direct International, reports that it ...
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Bench returns to its origins in Manchester
Gordon Brothers of Boston announced the sale of its rights outside the Americas for Bench, the streetwear brand with British origins, to Wraith, an affiliate of Apparel Brands Limited of Manchester that is currently one of Bench’s primary European licensees. The purchase price has not been disclosed. Founded in 2017, ...
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Animal to close permanently in January
A slow market in the U.K. made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic is leading to the demise of Animal. The British surf fashion brand was begun in 1987 in the town of Poole to sell a hook and loop watch strap-designed by its founders, two surfers: Ian Elliot and Nigel ...
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Alibaba to expand its cloud
According to Reuters, Alibaba Group Holding will be investing 200 billion yuan (€26.1bn-$28.3bn) over three years to bolster its data center and develop semiconductors and operating systems for its cloud-computing infrastructure. The Covid-19 pandemic has spurred demand for business software in China, and high data volumes occasioned by quarantines have ...
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VF lowers its outlook, refinances
While releasing new financial data and targets and announcing new measures to refinance itself, VF Corporation indicates that it wants to acquire more fast-growing action brands like Altra or Icebreaker and become more “vertical,” boosting a direct-to-consumer (DTC) business that has come to represent 39 percent of its turnover.
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GoPro will focus more on DTC
While cutting costs, GoPro has decided to shift more of its business to the direct-to-consumer (DTC) channel as its sales have gone down because of the quarantine-shuttered brick-and-mortar retail sector. Accordingly, the American brand of action cameras has hired a chief digital officer – Aimée Lapic, former chief marketing officer ...
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Footway’s bid for Sportamore has succeeded
The tender offer launched by Footway for Sportamore has been accepted by 95.9 percent of the Swedish sports e-tailer’s shareholders. Footway, a more international-oriented online shoe retailer, is paying a total of 439 million Swedish kronor (€40.4m-$43.9m) for Sportamore. Because of its de-listing from the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange, the publication ...
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Columbia provides a detailed Covid-19 update
Columbia Sportswear has suspended its quarterly dividend, its stock repurchase program and the guidance that it had given on Feb. 6 for its results in the first half of 2020 and the whole financial year. The company will give a new update when it comes out with its first-quarter ...
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Wolverine holding virtual-only AGM
Wolverine Worldwide announced on April 17 that its annual general meeting of shareholders will be held in a virtual-only format on April 30, due to pubic health consideration related to the Covid-19 pandemic. Shareholders who were registered as such on March 18 will be invited to visit a dedicated website ...
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Remote voting for Thule’s AGM
Thule Group is encouraging shareholders to exercise their voting rights remotely in advance of the Swedish company’s annual general meeting, scheduled for April 28, in order to minimize the number of people gathered at its location. They have to fill out and send a registration form by April 22 to ...
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Big layoffs at Stadium
Just after the announcement of Intersport Sweden’s court-backed reorganization plan, the country’s biggest sporting goods retailer, Stadium, indicated that it was laying off many of its employees because of a big drop in sales, especially in the Stockholm area. Sweden is one of the few countries where retailers that sell ...
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ArticleIntersport Sweden gets protection from creditors
We have already reported about the recent bankruptcy and rescue of Gresvig, the former parent company of Intersport in Norway, and the more recent legal proceedings to save the parent company of Karstadt Sports in Germany. It’s now the turn of Intersport Sweden to seek protection from its creditors through ...
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O2Feel funding
O2Feel, the French e-bike brand, has raised €9 million thanks to investments by Compagnie d’Anjou and some partner banks. Based in Wambrechies, in the North of France, O2Feel posted revenues of €15 million in 2019.
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Hanesbrands downgraded by Moody’s
Hansebrands, the parent company of Champion, sees its corporate family rating downgraded by Moody’s from ”stable” to “negative.” The rating agency cites the closure of retail stores and the possibility of a protracted reduction in apparel consumption because of the coronavirus outbreak. The company said that it is guaranteeing the ...
