News Briefs – Page 396
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Sram has announced the promotion of Patrick Brandwagt, formerly general...
Sram has announced the promotion of Patrick Brandwagt, formerly general manager of Sram Europe, to global IT program director. Brandwagt's position as general manager of Sram Europe has been taken over by Anja Lagemaat. Alongside this new role, Lagemaat will continue to lead the European customer service team, a position ...
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Trek Bicycle Europe has appointed Harald Schmiedel to the newly...
Trek Bicycle Europe has appointed Harald Schmiedel to the newly created role of European director of sales. The appointment has immediate effect. Schmiedel joined the company in January 2003, as part of Trek's acquisition of Villiger-Diamant. During the past 16 years, he has contributed to the development of Trek's German, Swiss ...
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Trerè Innovation, the big Italian knitwear manufacturer that works with...
Trerè Innovation, the big Italian knitwear manufacturer that works with Armani and Rossignol, continues to expand internationally. This January, right after opening its first store under the new UYN (Unleash Your Nature) brand in Paris, Trerè created a subsidiary in Moscow called Trè Rus. Five employees are already working there. Together with ...
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On Sept. 25, 2018, Spin Capital took a controlling interest...
On Sept. 25, 2018, Spin Capital took a controlling interest of 90 percent in Pyua, the Germany brand of sustainable outdoor and ski apparel. The move comes about a year after Spin took over ABS Protection, a major supplier of anti-avalanche airbags. Pyua and ABS have recently bundled their sales ...
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Kant, the Russian sporting goods retailer and wholesaler, has become...
Kant, the Russian sporting goods retailer and wholesaler, has become the official distributor of Reusch in its country. The agreement, signed between the two companies during the 2019 Ispo Munich show, starts with orders for the autumn/winter 2019/20 collection. Kant plans to sell Reusch ski gloves throughout its own retail ...
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The SGN Group, the Finnish-based owner of the Sportringen and...
The SGN Group, the Finnish-based owner of the Sportringen and Team Sportia voluntary groups, is now launching Bike Nation, a new store format that is intended to bring together the expertise in cycling of all of its affiliated retailers. Those that qualify to manage the new concept can choose whether ...
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Fanatics has struck a deal to become the exclusive supplier...
Fanatics has struck a deal to become the exclusive supplier of licensed sports merchandise on Coupang, the South Korean internet marketplace. The deal takes effect this summer for a term of ten years. South Korea is definitely among the world's top ten e-commerce markets, well behind China and the U.S. ...
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Sportamore, the largest online sporting goods retailer in the Nordic...
Sportamore, the largest online sporting goods retailer in the Nordic countries, is preparing to enter new markets, with the first stop being France in the autumn of 2019. According to Sportfack, Sportamore has been working strategically over the past two years to build a scalable infrastructure with a high degree ...
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Decathlon made headlines in the French media with an announcement...
Decathlon made headlines in the French media with an announcement that it will stop selling sport hijabs under its Kalenji brand in France, although they don't cover the whole face. It did so after prominent politicians and members of the government went so far as to call for a boycott ...
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Decathlon plans to open at least 14 new stores in...
Decathlon plans to open at least 14 new stores in Switzerland in 2019, mostly in the German-speaking part. The company, which employed 401 people in the country as of Jan. 1, has announced that it will hire between 500 and 600 people this year, taking the total Swiss staff to ...
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Berkshire Hathaway made pre-tax earnings of $1.21 million in 2018...
Berkshire Hathaway made pre-tax earnings of $1.21 million in 2018 on revenues of about $12.5 billion from its Consumer Products segment, which includes Brooks Running, Fruit of the Loom, Russell Athletic, Spalding and many other properties including Duracell batteries. Sales increased by 3.2 percent and pre-tax earnings by 8.6 percent. ...
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Jim Gatto, former head of basketball marketing for Adidas, was...
Jim Gatto, former head of basketball marketing for Adidas, was sentenced to nine months in prison by a New York court on charge of defrauding a number of NCAA college programs by paying promising athletes to attend their schools, making them ineligible to play. Two of his assistants, Merle Code ...
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Vivienne Westwood, the British fashion designer, has agreed to create...
Vivienne Westwood, the British fashion designer, has agreed to create an exclusive limited-edition collection of footwear models for the Asics and Asics Tiger brands. The first two styles will be available in April at the physical and online stores of the two partners.
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Asics claims to have developed a running shoe that reduces...
Asics claims to have developed a running shoe that reduces ankle movement by almost 20 percent. The Metaride, as the shoe is called, emerged from two years of research and development at the Asics Institute of Sport Science (ISS) in Kobe, Japan. The key component, says the company, is the Guidesole3, ...
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Craft took home two Gold Awards at this year's Ispo...
Craft took home two Gold Awards at this year's Ispo Munich for a couple of interesting apparel items, one for the SubZ sweater in the Health & Fitness category and one for the CTM Baselayer Hood Long Sleeve in Snowsports. Both garments will be available in stores for autumn 2019. ...
