News Briefs – Page 382
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Devold of Norway has expanded the territory covered by its...
Devold of Norway has expanded the territory covered by its German sales subsidiary to distribute its merino wool products not only in Germany, Austria, Slovenia and Croatia, but also in Italy and France. Devold will use agents in both new markets. In Italy, it will work with Panorama Diffusion, which ...
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Raoul Ferenschild, a former Benelux country manager for Bergans, has...
Raoul Ferenschild, a former Benelux country manager for Bergans, has started his own agency for the same region, called Rafertrading, with a showroom in Leusden. One of his first clients will be Alchemy Equipment, the New Zealand-based company, which was previously working the market through another agent, Yves Sarto, ...
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Action Sports Sportartikel of Germany will take on the distribution...
Action Sports Sportartikel of Germany will take on the distribution of the Teva brand of shoes in Germany and Austria from the spring/summer 2020 season. Yendis Engelbertz, sales manager at Action Sports Sportartikel, will take care of the distribution of the brand, which belongs to Deckers Brands, working with a ...
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Keller Sports, the German e-tailer of premium sporting goods, has...
Keller Sports, the German e-tailer of premium sporting goods, has won the German Innovation Award for two services: the Keller sMiles reward app and the Keller Premium Membership. The sMiles app can connect to any of several activity-tracking apps, such as Garmin ConnectTM, Nike Run Club, Google Fit, Apple Health ...
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NK Sport, the high-end sporting goods store in Stockholm, will...
NK Sport, the high-end sporting goods store in Stockholm, will reopen in September after a renovation of its 1,800-square-meter space. It hopes to offer current and new NK customers an inspiring, modern sporting goods environment that is closely linked to the fashion scene. What used to be a focus on ...
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Brede Birkeland has left his role as chief executive of...
Brede Birkeland has left his role as chief executive of Platou Sport, a small Norwegian sports retailer. His brother and co-owner, Bjarte Birkeland, will take over. The reason for the shift is that the brothers have decided to split their tasks in a different way, partly because of an increased ...
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Puma has opened a new Ultra Football concept store in...
Puma has opened a new Ultra Football concept store in Sydney that features digital product displays giving information about an item when a customer touches them. The technology will be rolled out to other Puma flagship stores in the future.
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Anima Athletica, the French activewear brand founded by Alexia Romanet...
Anima Athletica, the French activewear brand founded by Alexia Romanet in 2012, is off to a fresh start. After going into receivership, then into liquidation in October 2017, the company is now being relaunched by Emmanuel Vial. As reported in the French edition of Fashionnetwork.com, the new Anima Athletica will ...
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After a beta test in France that began a year...
After a beta test in France that began a year ago, Google is taking its Shopping Actions experience to the U.S. With this application, customers are able to buy products online from a brand or a retailer through their own Google account, without registering for the service and without leaving ...
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In a further step toward becoming an online marketplace, Instagram...
In a further step toward becoming an online marketplace, Instagram has launched its own internet retail account internationally under @shop. Its own team recommends products such as shoes, handbags and pullovers, tracking trends and posting their pictures on its social media platform, which is owned by Facebook, just like its ...
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Zalando wants to reinforce its partnership with brick-and-mortar stores because...
Zalando wants to reinforce its partnership with brick-and-mortar stores because it is losing about 20-30 million transactions per year, which equals about €1 billion in sales, due to a lack of stock in its own warehouses. Zalando is already working with more than 1,000 shops in Germany, but wants to ...
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Gore-Tex recently opened a pop-up store at a German shoe...
Gore-Tex recently opened a pop-up store at a German shoe retail store called Schuh Reindl. The pop-up store, covering 40 square meters, is located in Rosenheim. It's the company's first pop-up store in Germany. There, consumers can test sneakers, casual shoes, trekking shoes and running shoes made with Gore-Tex fabrics. ...
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Giant Manufacturing posted sales of NT$ 14.69 billion (€414.8m-$467.0m) for...
Giant Manufacturing posted sales of NT$ 14.69 billion (€414.8m-$467.0m) for the first quarter of 2019, up by 5.2 percent compared with the first quarter of 2018. Giant Europe registered double-digit sales growth and outperformed the other regions, primarily driven by e-bikes, which registered a 60 percent sales increase. Sales in ...
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In France's mountain areas, the use of collective accommodation for...
In France’s mountain areas, the use of collective accommodation for tourists declined by 0.5 percent in the first quarter of the year as compared to the first quarter of 2018, according to data from France’s National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE), reported by sport-guide.com. The number of French ...
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The national police of Spain and the municipal police of...
The national police of Spain and the municipal police of Madrid have broken up a counterfeiting ring in Spain's capital. They have arrested six people and seized some 2,000 items, mostly apparel, bearing the logos of football teams in the Champions League, Spain's LaLiga and the Union of European Football ...
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Adidas succeeded in securing copyright registration in the U.S. for...
Adidas succeeded in securing copyright registration in the U.S. for the styling of the Yeezy Boost 350 v1 and v2 sneakers as the review board of the U.S. Copyright Office reversed an earlier decision rejecting the unique “artwork and sculpture” of the designs, according to The Fashion Law.
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Apparently, the trade war between in the U.S. and China...
Apparently, the trade war between in the U.S. and China is unlikely to end soon, with dire consequences for many outdoor companies, including non-U.S. companies that deliver China-made products to the U.S. President Xi of China warned his citizens that they may be facing another Long March on the issue. ...
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Rodger Parker of Los Angeles has invented a bicycle that...
Rodger Parker of Los Angeles has invented a bicycle that not only eliminates greasy chains but multiplies the power of each pedal stroke. Parker applied for a patent in 2016 and spent the intervening years, as well as about $250,000 in cash, finding a way to improve the mechanics of ...
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Jane Fonda, the 81-year-old actress and activist who started the...
Jane Fonda, the 81-year-old actress and activist who started the aerobic fitness movement for women, is launching the first activewear collection under her own name on July 5, according to WWD. It will be available on Evine Live as interactive video and an e-commerce company in the U.S. whose live ...
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Mammut is asking owners of its Generation 3.0 avalanche airbags...
Mammut is asking owners of its Generation 3.0 avalanche airbags to ensure that the airbag balloon is correctly attached to the inflation system or else get in touch with the company's customer service department. An improperly attached airbag can lose volume too quickly after inflation. The request is addressed specifically ...
