News Briefs – Page 348

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    CMDsport reports that the management of Deportes Cronos has spent...

    2019-11-28T00:00:00Z

    CMDsport reports that the management of Deportes Cronos has spent the year strategizing to make up for a projected loss in revenue of about €4 million next year, when it will stop distributing Nike products to its associated retailers. The American sports giant has determined that from now on retailers ...

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    On Nov. 15, Decathlon moved into the Potrero Center mall,...

    2019-11-28T00:00:00Z

    On Nov. 15, Decathlon moved into the Potrero Center mall, on the corner of 16th Street and Bryant Street in San Francisco. The new 38,370-square-foot store is the French retailer's third one in San Francisco's Bay Area and is highly digitalized, with a mobile checkout, endless-aisle kiosks, a robot to ...

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    Bringing its Genius project to Germany, Moncler opened a pop-up...

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    Bringing its Genius project to Germany, Moncler opened a pop-up store in Breuninger's main department store in Stuttgart on Nov. 7. Under this project, the Italian designer apparel and lifestyle brand will feature collaborations with various designers, such as Poldo, the dog couture brand, Craig Green, the British designer, and ...

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    Peloton, the U.S. fitness brand, has launched a pop-up store...

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    Peloton, the U.S. fitness brand, has launched a pop-up store concept with Sport Schuster, the big Munich-based sports retailer. Since Nov. 20, the fitness brand has been presenting new indoor bikes with fixed screens in Sport Schuster's store in the center of Munich. Peloton is producing training content for the ...

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    Vans has opened a store at 214 Oxford Street in...

    2019-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Vans has opened a store at 214 Oxford Street in London, its largest European store. The 4,714-square-foot flagship store, in a space previously occupied by Miss Selfridge, offers a wide selection of footwear, clothing and accessories for men, women and kids, as well as Vans' surf and pro-skate ranges. The ...

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    Colmar has opened its first Parisian boutique. The 120-square-meter store,...

    2019-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Colmar has opened its first Parisian boutique. The 120-square-meter store, which was opened on Oct. 18, is located at 44, rue Etienne Marcel, in the fashionable Marais district. The Italian brand has five other stores in France, located in Annecy, Lille, Lyon, Megève and Chamonix. Colmar opened two new international ...

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    Deportes Alaska, a well-known ski and mountaineering shop in Madrid,...

    2019-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Deportes Alaska, a well-known ski and mountaineering shop in Madrid, has moved to new premises. In tripling its area to 430 square meters, the shop has gained a storefront 12 meters wide on Calle Cristóbal Bordiú and, at last, a parking lot. The old shop had been tight for years ...

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    Moncler will be opening a flagship store at 119, Champs...

    2019-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Moncler will be opening a flagship store at 119, Champs Elysées, on the upper section of Paris' iconic avenue, according to reports in FashionNetwork.com. Moncler will take over a 1,500-square-meter space that was occupied by Nespresso from 2007 to October 2019. The date of the opening has not been unveiled. ...

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    Smith Optics' sales of goggles, sunglasses, helmets and eyewear have...

    2019-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Smith Optics' sales of goggles, sunglasses, helmets and eyewear have been affected by the consolidation of the North American logistics operations of its Italian parent company, the Safilo Group, into a new facility in Denver, Colorado. The group had three logistics hubs in the U.S.: Clearfield in Utah, Parsippany in ...

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    The Uvex Group has reported an increase in total sales...

    2019-11-28T00:00:00Z

    The Uvex Group has reported an increase in total sales of 5 percent to €475 million in the last financial year, ended last July. The winter-sports segment, which includes ski helmets and ski goggles under the Uvex and Alpina brands, suffered a year-on-year decline for the 2018/19 financial year. Uvex ...

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    Vista Outdoor reported an organic sales decline of 7 percent...

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    Vista Outdoor reported an organic sales decline of 7 percent in its Outdoor Products segment, excluding Bollé and other divested eyewear brands. The division's total sales were off by 14 percent to $234 million, but the adjusted gross margin was up by 3.97 percentage points to 26 percent. The remaining ...

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    Rocky Brands raised its sales by 2 percent to $67.2...

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    Rocky Brands raised its sales by 2 percent to $67.2 million in the third quarter, ended on Sept. 30. The company's retail sales jumped by 21.8 percent to $14.5 million. Wholesale revenues saw more moderate growth of 0.4 percent, reaching $47.2 million. In the military segment, sales decreased from $7 ...

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    UVT, a former Finnish sporting goods industry association that grouped...

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    UVT, a former Finnish sporting goods industry association that grouped 30 vendors, has decided to merge into a larger federation, the Fashion and Sports Commerce Association, that claims to be covering 80 percent of the country's fashion and sports retail sector. It plans to start recruiting new members among sports ...

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    Olivier Portrat has been appointed chief executive of the European...

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    Olivier Portrat has been appointed chief executive of the European Fishing Tackle Trade Association (EFTTA). He is replacing Jean-Claude Bel, who has retired. Portrat has traveled the world as a fisherman and as a writer and filmmaker covering the sport of angling. Half German and half French, he is the ...

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    Tennis Europe, the European branch of the International Tennis Federation,...

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    Tennis Europe, the European branch of the International Tennis Federation, has extended its deal with Sports Marketing Surveys (SMS), the international market research company based in the U.K. The partnership was established in 2004 to delve into the sport's data. SMS is responsible for the Next Generation player study. It ...

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    The High Court in London has ruled against the restriction...

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    The High Court in London has ruled against the restriction imposed on protestors outside Canada Goose's flagship store in the city. Since its opening in 2017, at 244 Regent Street, the store has been subject to protests by animal-rights activists over the brand's use of fur and down, especially in ...

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    Deichmann has lost a lawsuit against a Spanish producer of...

    2019-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Deichmann has lost a lawsuit against a Spanish producer of sneakers and sports shoes, Munich, regarding the use of a cross on its footwear. In a ruling issued in June, but only made public recently, the General Court of the European Union rejected an appeal made by the German company ...

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    After launching the women's version of the Air Force 1...

    2019-11-28T00:00:00Z

    After launching the women's version of the Air Force 1 Shadow, Nike has added materials from Gore-Tex in a new expansion of the Air Force 1 silhouette. The new Air Force 1 Gore-Tex comes in a high-top model which takes the tooling on the AF1 Duck Boot and adds a ...

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    Nike Swim is introducing Nike HydraStrong, a new high-performance, chlorine-resistant...

    2019-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Nike Swim is introducing Nike HydraStrong, a new high-performance, chlorine-resistant fabric designed for high-intensity training and competition. The new fabric will be featured in the majority of the Nike Swim performance swimwear line for spring/summer 2020. Nike launched HydraStrong after conducting research globally among young, competitive athletes from high school ...

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    A new 3D printing production technology for carbon frames has...

    2019-11-28T00:00:00Z

    A new 3D printing production technology for carbon frames has been unveiled by Atala, an Italian bicycle manufacturer in which Accell Group has a 50 percent stake. Set to revolutionize the alloy and carbon frame market, the innovation enables production-ready carbon frames to be printed in a single piece. The ...