News Briefs – Page 416
-
News briefs
Nike has announced the appointment of Ann Hebert as vice-president...
Nike has announced the appointment of Ann Hebert as vice-president of global sales. She will replace Mike Best, who has decided to retire after nearly 30 years with the brand. Hebert is another Nike veteran, with 23 years at the company. Most recently, she was general manager of Asia-Pacific and ...
-
News briefs
Jet Set, the ski and sports apparel brand based in...
Jet Set, the ski and sports apparel brand based in Switzerland, has assigned Michael Michalsky, a well-known German fashion designer, to the position of creative director. Michalsky previously worked as a designer at Levi's and was until 2006 the creative director of Adidas. He has cooperated with several brands, among them ...
-
News briefs
Troy Sicotte will be Columbia Sportswear's vice president of North...
Troy Sicotte will be Columbia Sportswear's vice president of North American sales for the Mountain Hardware brand as of Oct. 22, 2018. He will report to Joe Vernachio, the brand's president. Sicotte has spent well over a decade in the footwear and outdoor industries, first at Birkenstock USA and then ...
-
News briefs
Chris Pawlus is the new vice president of product design...
Chris Pawlus is the new vice president of product design and innovation at Keen, the Portland-based maker of outdoor shoes. He will oversee the Outdoor, Lifestyle and Kids departments. Pawlus joins Keen from Timberland, where he spent 21 years, most recently as creative director and vice president of global product ...
-
News briefs
Mizu, the American brand of reusable bottles, has hired two...
Mizu, the American brand of reusable bottles, has hired two new executives while it is introducing a new water filtration and purification category. Craig Smith, who has been most recently the European sales and marketing manager of Dragon, will serve as European sales and marketing manager of Mizu Europe. Scott ...
-
News briefs
The Puig brothers, who own Gregal Sport, have purchased a...
The Puig brothers, who own Gregal Sport, have purchased a stake in Representaciones Fusfor, the distributor of Fusalp in Spain, Portugal and Andorra. Led by a renowned sporting goods industry figure, Xavi Riba, Fusfor was founded in 2010 specifically to distribute Fusalp on the Iberian Peninsula. Gregal Sport is the ...
-
News briefs
Wintex Italia, the company that took over the global management...
Wintex Italia, the company that took over the global management of the Sergio Tacchini brand in 2013, has signed a new licensing deal with Ubc-United Brands Company, which will now be in charge of the production of Sergio Tacchini apparel as well as its distribution in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. ...
-
News briefs
The relatively new internet portal Sportmarken24.de, which was launched in...
The relatively new internet portal Sportmarken24.de, which was launched in February by Dominik Benner, a German shoe retailer and former member of ANWR's supervisory board, has entered into a partnership with MeinEinkauf.ch as of this month. Private customers as well as companies located in Switzerland can now use the Swiss internet ...
-
News briefs
Rapha, the British maker of cycling apparel and accessories, opened...
Rapha, the British maker of cycling apparel and accessories, opened an office in Spain last month. The office is located in the Science and Technology Park of Gijon, in Asturias, the birthplace of professional cyclists Chechu Rubiera and Samuel Sánchez. Rapha is reportedly looking to establish an e-commerce team there.
-
News briefs
Keen has opened a new product distribution center in Sheperdsville,...
Keen has opened a new product distribution center in Sheperdsville, Kentucky. The 300,000-square-foot “Fan Engagement Center,” as the company has called the facility, is said to have the capacity to process 30 percent to 50 percent more daily volume than the company's previous distribution facility. The center, which was inaugurated ...
-
News briefs
Adidas and Nike were among the 237 brands that generated...
Adidas and Nike were among the 237 brands that generated sales of more than 100 million yuan renmimbi (€12.6m-$14.4m) at Alibaba's Single's Day consumption festival on Nov. 11. New Balance was also a winner with 60,000 pairs of shoes ordered during a pre-sales program. Overall, consumers placed orders for a ...
-
News briefs
Nike has inaugurated its flagship store in New York City,...
Nike has inaugurated its flagship store in New York City, dubbed as “House of Innovation 000.” The six-level space, including a below-street-level floor, covers around 68,000 square feet on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 52nd Street. The store has been designed to offer services that are highly customizable and effortlessly ...
-
News briefs
Sportamore is launching a new business model and technical platform,...
Sportamore is launching a new business model and technical platform, involving Adidas as its first strategic partner. The idea behind the Swedish online sports retailer's new platform is to enable suppliers to sell and deliver goods directly from their own warehouse to consumers via Sportamore's customer interface, starting with a ...
-
News briefs
Deportes Sevilla, an important regional sporting goods retail chain, has...
Deportes Sevilla, an important regional sporting goods retail chain, has joined Base Detall Sport, the Spanish buying group that recently joined Sport 2000 International. As CMD Sport reports, the deal bolsters Base's presence in Andalusia and establishes it for the first time in the autonomous community's capital, Seville. Founded in ...
-
News briefs
Rapha has set up a partnership with Wiggle, the British...
Rapha has set up a partnership with Wiggle, the British online and offline cycling retailer that has since merged with Chain Reaction Cycles. Certain items from Rapha's Core, Classic and Pro Team collections already appear on the Wiggle website. The partnership's stated purpose is to eliminate redundancies at Rapha's London ...
-
News briefs
In reporting its results for the third quarter, Canadian Tire...
In reporting its results for the third quarter, Canadian Tire said that Helly Hansen, the company that it recently acquired, had sales of 181.7 million Canadian dollars (€120.3m-$137.8m) during the period, of which C$ 25.2 million (€16.7m-$19.1m) were generated in Canada and C$ 156.5 million (€103.7m-$118.7m) in the rest of ...
-
News briefs
Goldwin, which also controls The North Face's trademark in Japan...
Goldwin, which also controls The North Face's trademark in Japan and has a stake in Woolrich International, saw net income shoot up by 47 percent to ¥1,563 million (€12.2m-$13.9m) for the first half of the year, which ended on Sep. 30. Sales for the period were up by 16 percent ...
-
News briefs
Higher sales of Dunlop tennis products and XXIO 10 golf...
Higher sales of Dunlop tennis products and XXIO 10 golf clubs, combined with improvements at Srixon and Cleveland Golf, helped Sumitomo Rubber's sports division to record better results in the U.S. and Europe in the first nine months of this year. The division's global sales went up by 10 percent ...
-
News briefs
Yonex' sales of tennis racquets went up in North America...
Yonex' sales of tennis racquets went up in North America and Europe in the first six months of its financial year, ended on Sept. 30, driven by Naomi Osaka's big victory at the U.S. Tennis Open, but badminton sales declined. Total revenues dropped by 5 percent to ¥30.6 billion (€237.4m-$272.1m), ...
-
News briefs
Globeride, the owner of the Daiwa brand and the Japanese...
Globeride, the owner of the Daiwa brand and the Japanese distributor of Prince, reported a 69 percent decline in comprehensive net income to ¥738 million (€5.7m-$6.6m) in the first half ended on Sept. 30, due to a negative currency swing of about ¥2.2 billion. Sales edged up by one percent ...
