News Briefs – Page 456
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Intersport Austria donated €7,000 to the SOS Children's Villages in...
Intersport Austria donated €7,000 to the SOS Children's Villages in Austria. SOS Children's Village is an independent, non-governmental international development organization, which has been working to meet the needs and protect the interests and rights of children since 1949. The social media campaign was launched on Facebook last December. Each new “like” ...
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Kering has been recognized as the world's most sustainable textile,...
Kering has been recognized as the world's most sustainable textile, apparel and luxury goods corporation, according to the Corporate Knights' Global 100 index, which was unveiled at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Jan. 23. It is the third consecutive year that the luxury conglomerate has been included in ...
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Zanier, the Austrian glove manufacturer, donated 10 percent of sales...
Zanier, the Austrian glove manufacturer, donated 10 percent of sales generated on its online store from Dec. 21 to Jan. 6 to the Austrian's Children Cancer Charity, Kinder-Krebs-Hilfe, for the regions of Tyrol and Vorarlberg. The total amount that was donated has not been announced. A related digital marketing campaign, ...
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Norway has pledged to phase out all fur farms by...
Norway has pledged to phase out all fur farms by 2025. The Conservative government of Prime Minister Erna Solberg has agreed to shut fox and mink farms that produce about one million pelts a year as part of a deal with the anti-fur Liberal Party, which is supposed to join ...
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CORRECTION: Skechers' stock market capitalization was higher than what we...
CORRECTION: Skechers' stock market capitalization was higher than what we had published in our annual stock chart on Jan. 15. It reached $6,003 million at the end of 2017, for an increase of 55 percent in the course of last year. This places the company in 15th place on our ...
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Del Hayes, one of the earliest employees of Blue Ribbon...
Del Hayes, one of the earliest employees of Blue Ribbon Sports and a Nike director for many years, passed away at the age of 82 earlier this month. Phil Knight met Hayes when he worked at Price Waterhouse after studying to become an accountant, and he was apparently in awe ...
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Adidas is joining many other investors in a new $200...
Adidas is joining many other investors in a new $200 million round of financing for Carbon that placed a $1.7 billion valuation on the company, higher than the $1.1 billion valuation of two other public supplier of 3D equipment and software, 3D Systems and Stratasys. Carbon's Digital Light Synthesis technology, ...
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While benefiting from the recently announced reduction in the U.S....
While benefiting from the recently announced reduction in the U.S. federal corporate tax from 35 percent to 21 percent from now on, Amer Sports will have to take a $13 million charge in 2017 to write down $40 million in deferred tax assets in the U.S. as part of the ...
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The Thule Group has opened a new assembly facility of...
The Thule Group has opened a new assembly facility of 13,500 square meters at Pila, in the western part of Poland, to expand its own production capacities in the Sport & Cargo Carriers category and to handle the manufacture of products that were previously subcontracted in the Active with Kids ...
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The large French Vivarte retail group announced on Tuesday that...
The large French Vivarte retail group announced on Tuesday that it has entered exclusive negotiations for the sale of André, the well-known French chain of urban shoe shops that was at the beginning of the group, to Spartoo, one of the two leading French online shoe retailers along with Sarenza. ...
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Karstadt Warenhaus has hired two more managers to support its...
Karstadt Warenhaus has hired two more managers to support its omni-channel retail strategy. Marco Werner became chief digital officer at the start of last week, in charge of Karstadt.de and customer relationship management. He previously held similar jobs at Tchibo and Fressnapf. Jens Diekmann started with Karstadt at the beginning ...
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Only a year after leaving Gresvig, Dag A. Johansen has...
Only a year after leaving Gresvig, Dag A. Johansen has made a return to the big Norwegian retail group. Together with Lars Tomas Tveit, who becomes chain director of Intersport in the country, Johansen will lead Gresvig's chains of G-Sport and G-Max stores. Both managers had similar responsibilities before. Johansen, ...
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Ulf Bjerknes, a veteran of the Norwegian sporting goods industry,...
Ulf Bjerknes, a veteran of the Norwegian sporting goods industry, has been appointed to a new position as chief operating officer of XXL ASA, the big Norwegian sports retailer that is expanding to new countries. He did an excellent job in terms of revenues and profits with two other important ...
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Vincent Isichei has resigned as German country manager for JD...
Vincent Isichei has resigned as German country manager for JD Sports Fashion. Simon Rider, the former manager of Foot Locker Europe who ran Karstadt Sports until the end of 2016, will reportedly run JD's German operation on an interim basis along with Isichei's brother Marc. The two brothers Vincent and ...
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Yves Corthésy, chief financial officer at Airesis, the Swiss holding...
Yves Corthésy, chief financial officer at Airesis, the Swiss holding company for Le Coq Sportif and Movement, has decided to leave the company from the start of March after 12 years. Corthésy explained in a statement that Airesis and its largest investment, Le Coq Sportif, have reached an important phase ...
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Eagle Creek has strengthened its European team with the addition...
Eagle Creek has strengthened its European team with the addition of three new managers in key positions at its headquarters in Midleton, Ireland. The producer of travel bags and backpacks from southern California has appointed Parvati Sauer to the newly created position of eCom specialist, Benjamin Rex as its new ...
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As part of a personnel reshuffle ahead of a planned...
As part of a personnel reshuffle ahead of a planned expansion, Polygiene has promoted its chief financial officer, Ulrika Björk, to the position of chief executive, taking over the post from Christian von Uthmann. The former CEO will now fill the position of vice president of new ventures and strategies ...
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Kering, the parent company of Puma, Volcom and a raft...
Kering, the parent company of Puma, Volcom and a raft of luxury goods brands, has appointed a new “chief client and digital officer,” Grégory Boutté, who has had an interesting career. After working in brand management at Procter & Gamble, Boutté joined a French online auction start-up that was acquired ...
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The Austrian Sport 2000 reports growth of around 15 percent...
The Austrian Sport 2000 reports growth of around 15 percent for the winter sports business of its 213 affiliated retailers as compared to the same period a year ago, thanks to the early start of the winter selling season and the demand for higher-quality products. The situation varied from one ...
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Himaraya saw its net losses decline to ¥ 48 million...
Himaraya saw its net losses decline to ¥ 48 million (€0.35m-$0.43m) in the first quarter of its fiscal year, ended Nov. 30, from ¥ 295 million in the same period a year earlier. The Japanese sports retailer's revenues fell by 3 percent to ¥ 15.4 billion (€113.5m-$139.3m) during the period, ...
