News Briefs – Page 450
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Pentland Brands has announced that charity projects will have until...
Pentland Brands has announced that charity projects will have until April 20 to apply for funding and become part of its new corporate charity partners. The company said particular attention will be given to supporting projects that inspire people to become more active as well as projects that are meant ...
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Diffusion Sport has just published its 500th issue. The 35-year-old...
Diffusion Sport has just published its 500th issue. The 35-year-old Spanish trade magazine, which has since changed ownership in 2015, was one of our first partners 28 years ago, along with various trade magazines in other European countries, exchanging contents to help us to launch SGI Europe. Jaume Ferrer and ...
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CORRECTIONS: Our Feb. 10 article on X-Bionic had a couple...
CORRECTIONS: Our Feb. 10 article on X-Bionic had a couple of mistakes. X-Technology is going to take over the distribution of X-Bionic and X-Socks in Switzerland from a company called Fuchs-Movesa – not from Pilz International, which is the South Korean distributor. Also, X-Bionic is not sponsoring the German ski ...
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VF Corporation has decided to look for a new owner...
VF Corporation has decided to look for a new owner for Nautica, which was reclassified as a “discontinued operation” in its results for the fourth quarter of 2017, says Bloomberg. With its bright colors, big logos and oversized garments, the brand became popular in the 1990s, but it has since ...
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Chip Wilson, who founded Lululemon in 1998 sold shares in...
Chip Wilson, who founded Lululemon in 1998 sold shares in the company worth around $211 million between Feb. 12 and 14, according to Bloomberg, but has remained a significant shareholder. It was the first time that he did so since September 2014. Wilson, who resigned as chairman of Lululemon in ...
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Amer Sports has cancelled 2,000,000 treasury shares, keeping only 1,486,696...
Amer Sports has cancelled 2,000,000 treasury shares, keeping only 1,486,696 of them. The number of outstanding shares in the company has thus been reduced to 116,517,285.
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The board of directors of Rapala VMC has approved a...
The board of directors of Rapala VMC has approved a new performance share plan for about 40 key employees of the Finnish group. The potential rewards will be based on the company's sales, operating margin and average working capital ratio in 2020, plus its share price during 40 days in ...
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Zimtstern, the Swiss marketer of sports apparel, aims to terminate...
Zimtstern, the Swiss marketer of sports apparel, aims to terminate all its business activities in the course of this year. According to Zimtstern, a profitable business operation is no longer possible due to a difficult market situation. The company is currently checking whether it will continue with its bike apparel segment. ...
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Vibram has announced the opening of a new office in...
Vibram has announced the opening of a new office in Portland, Oregon, to support its clients in this important area of the U.S. for the outdoor industry. It will be run by Joel Enderle, who joins the Italian sole manufacturer after spending more than three decades in product development and ...
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W.L. Gore & Associates has opened an 11,000-square-foot R&D center...
W.L. Gore & Associates has opened an 11,000-square-foot R&D center in California's Silicon Valley that will connect it with companies in the aerospace, automotive, digital health, consumer electronics, fabrics, industrial and medical fields. A first project underway consists of funding a local startup, Krenzen, for the development of a digital ...
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Barry Mellis has been appointed general manager of Asics South...
Barry Mellis has been appointed general manager of Asics South Africa, taking the place of Brian Kerby, and as general manager of Asics EMEA. Mellis had been serving as managing director of the brand for the U.K. and Ireland since 2011, but this position was eliminated late last year along ...
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Vans has boosted its design team with the appointment of...
Vans has boosted its design team with the appointment of Erwin Federizo to the position of global executive creative director, who was previously engaged as art director in the New York office of Wieden + Kennedy. Federizo will report to Jaimie Reilly, Vans' global vice president of creative operations.
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Charles Tyrwhitt, a British clothing retailer, has poached Michael Stanier...
Charles Tyrwhitt, a British clothing retailer, has poached Michael Stanier away from Adidas as its new chief executive. Stanier was placed in charge of consumer-direct operations as “head of concept to consumer” at Adidas in 2013. He had joined Adidas in 2009 as chief retail officer. Before that, he worked ...
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Fred Perry has appointed Richard Gilmore as the brand's new...
Fred Perry has appointed Richard Gilmore as the brand's new managing director, effective Feb. 2018. He takes over the position left vacant by Barry Webb last May. Gilmore served as chief operating officer at Jigsaw, the British fashion retailer, for the past four years. He is now re-joining Fred Perry, ...
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Bic Sport saw its turnover decline by around 5 percent...
Bic Sport saw its turnover decline by around 5 percent at constant currencies in 2017. Sales had already declined at a double-digit rate, in 2016. Bic Sport was founded in 1979 by the Bich family, best known for the Bic pen, out of the family's passion for watersports and expertise ...
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Ping Europe has announced that Lisa Lovatt, its current operations...
Ping Europe has announced that Lisa Lovatt, its current operations director, has been appointed as general manager, a newly-created position that is meant to enhance the future position of Ping Europe in the U.K. and European golf markets. Lovatt has been with Ping Europe for more than 20 years.
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Andrés de la Dehesa, chief executive of Codesport and currently...
Andrés de la Dehesa, chief executive of Codesport and currently vice president of Afydad, the Spanish sporting goods industry association, has filed his candidacy to become its new president. The election will take place on March 15, and as of a few days ago, he was the only candidate that ...
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Adidas says it has launched a new “employer branding campaign”...
Adidas says it has launched a new “employer branding campaign” as part of recruitment efforts aimed at strengthening its in-house digital expertise and talent. It is looking in particular for software engineers. The campaign follows the creation of more than 200 new positions at the end of 2017 in the ...
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Peter Fabrin, former chief executive at Haglöfs, has been appointed...
Peter Fabrin, former chief executive at Haglöfs, has been appointed in the same function at Piste Group, a Danish holding company for several Nordic brands of ski holiday organizations and other tourist services. Fabrin became chief executive at Haglöfs in November 2014 and it was announced last September that he ...
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Axel Brosch has been appointed general manager for Central Europe...
Axel Brosch has been appointed general manager for Central Europe at Oberalp, starting on March 1. He succeeds Christoph Mannel, who resigned unexpectedly from his position in May last year. Benedikt Böhm, general brand manager at Oberalp, assumed Mannel's responsibilities on an interim basis. From Alpbach, a village in the Tirol ...
