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The North Face has appointed Tina Rolén as its new...
The North Face has appointed Tina Rolén as its new marketing director for the EMEA region, taking the place of Kathy Hines. Rolén joined VF last September as EMEA marketing director for Vans. Prior to that, she had worked for two years as worldwide marketing director for Haglöfs, the Swedish ...
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Tretorn has appointed a new chief executive, Magnus Månsson, who...
Tretorn has appointed a new chief executive, Magnus Månsson, who worked for the New Wave Group, Nike and Puma before running a Swedish fashion brand, Gina Tricot, in the past two years. He takes over the responsibilities of Joakim Appelqvist and Vasko Markovski, who took over a license for the ...
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PrimaLoft has appointed Jim Frazier as vice-president of global marketing....
PrimaLoft has appointed Jim Frazier as vice-president of global marketing. Frazier has extensive experience in the outdoor apparel sector. Most recently, he served as vice-president of United Sports Brands, the parent company of Nathan Sports, Shock Doctor, McDavid, Cutters and XO Athletic. He previously served as product development director for ...
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Keen Footwear appointed Dieter Klingenberg last month to the recently...
Keen Footwear appointed Dieter Klingenberg last month to the recently created position of sales and business development director for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia and Scandinavia. Simultaneously, Perry Laukens was appointed to the newly created position of sales and business director for the U.K., France, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy and nine ...
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OrthoLite, the American insole specialist, has hired Milton Brice as...
OrthoLite, the American insole specialist, has hired Milton Brice as chief financial officer and Mark Coffield as general manager for Vietnam, where OrthoLite has recently inaugurated a manufacturing plant. Brice has previously worked for The Hershey Company in Asia and South America. Coffield, who will lead Ortholite's new Vietnamese factory, ...
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VF Corp. has appointed Cameron Bailey as vice-president of its...
VF Corp. has appointed Cameron Bailey as vice-president of its global supply chain, effective June 1. He replaces Tom Glaser, who has left VF after 18 years to take over the role of chief operations officer at Tapestry, formerly known as Coach Inc. Bailey has spent his entire career in ...
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Milliken has announced the appointment of one of its own...
Milliken has announced the appointment of one of its own executives, Steve Layton, as president of Polartec, who will take the place of Gary Smith and lead the integration process. Leyton joined Milliken in 2012, serving most recently as vice president of sales and marketing for Westex, the flame-retardant fabric ...
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Under a previously agreed plan, Giovanni Zoppas, a former executive...
Under a previously agreed plan, Giovanni Zoppas, a former executive at Tecnica Group, will concentrate on his role as chief executive and general manager of Thélios, the joint venture officially created between the Marcolin Group and LVMH in April 2018, in which the French luxury group has a 51 percent ...
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Lululemon is entering the French market in a more serious...
Lululemon is entering the French market in a more serious way by launching its own country-specific website this month, followed by the opening of a physical store of 194 square meters in Paris, at 47 rue Bonaparte. The brand already has a shop-in-shop in the Bon Marché department store and ...
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Marquee Brands has announced a partnership with Global Brands Group...
Marquee Brands has announced a partnership with Global Brands Group (GBG) as the official apparel partner and distributor for the Dakine brand, overseeing all apparel categories including sport performance, lifestyle, outerwear and swim. The Sports & Lifestyle division of GBG will focus specifically on the design, development and distribution of ...
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Asos is reportedly planning to cut around 100 jobs at...
Asos is reportedly planning to cut around 100 jobs at its London head office in Camden, many of them in the marketing department. The last set of interim results, which the online retailer released in March, showed a drop of 87 percent in its pre-tax profits. The company has been ...
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Decathlon's U.K. branch is investing in a new warehouse and...
Decathlon's U.K. branch is investing in a new warehouse and has announced plans to create 200 new jobs in the country by 2021, according to reports in Fashion Network. Last year the retailer posted pre-tax losses of £10.8 million (€12.0m-$13.5m), but results were said to be in line with the ...
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Decathlon has opened its first store in Algeria. The French...
Decathlon has opened its first store in Algeria. The French sporting goods retailer was already present in the Maghreb region, with stores in Tunisia and Morocco. The new 1,850-square-meter shop, located in Algiers, at the Bab Ezzouar shopping center, was inaugurated on June 29.
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Mountain Hardwear, the subsidiary of Columbia Sportswear, has developed an...
Mountain Hardwear, the subsidiary of Columbia Sportswear, has developed an app that enables European retailers to display its equipment and apparel in augmented reality. For now, it features equipment for summer 2019 and technical apparel for winter 2019, including the Exposure/2 Gore-Tex collection.
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The European outdoor market fell by 1 percent in value...
The European outdoor market fell by 1 percent in value and by 0.5 percent in volume at the wholesale level in 2018, according to the European Outdoor Group, which gave a figure of €5.81 billion for the region. Sales declined in value by 0.9 percent in Germany but increased by ...
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The world's rugged outdoor footwear market rose by 6.8 percent...
The world’s rugged outdoor footwear market rose by 6.8 percent to €5.15 billion in 2018 in terms of dollars, according to an annual survey of key vendors conducted by the Outdoor Industry Compass in collaboration with Sporting Goods Intelligence. It rose by an estimated 6.1 percent in the U.S. and ...
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In 2021, online advertising will represent for the first time...
In 2021, online advertising will represent for the first time in history more than half of total ad spending. According to Zenith’s Advertising Expenditure Forecasts, web advertising will account for 52 percent of global ad spending, as compared to 44 percent in 2018 and a projected 47 percent in 2019. ...
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Diadora, which posted a 6.5 percent sales increase to €168...
Diadora, which posted a 6.5 percent sales increase to €168 million in 2018, is still doing well in 2019, according to a report by fashionmagazine.it and the statements of the brand's president, Enrico Moretti Polegato. The e-commerce share jumped by 65 percent last year and accounted for 6 percent of ...
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Andrea Tomat, president of Lotto Sport Italia and Stonefly, has...
Andrea Tomat, president of Lotto Sport Italia and Stonefly, has settled a legal dispute with Gianni Lorenzato, a former shareholder and vice president of Lotto. Lorenzato has agreed to sell his remaining stake of 24 percent in a holding company, NexTB, to Tomat on undisclosed terms. Tomat will thus be ...
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Bernard Tapie has won a court battle over his controversial...
Bernard Tapie has won a court battle over his controversial sale of Adidas in 1994. Citing a lack of evidence, a high court in Paris dismissed a request that he should spend five years in prison on charges of fraud and abuse of public funds. The French maverick investor was ...
