News Briefs – Page 472
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After focusing on the tennis-inspired lifestyle apparel market, Lacoste has...
After focusing on the tennis-inspired lifestyle apparel market, Lacoste has invested in tennis hardware by acquiring an 80 percent stake in Major Sports, the parent company of Tecnifibre, which is a big player in the global market for tennis strings. It also sells tennis racquets and balls, the latter through ...
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Amer Sports has revised its growth target through 2020, prioritizing...
Amer Sports has revised its growth target through 2020, prioritizing sustainable profitable growth. Instead of a minimum mid-single-digit growth rate on an organic and currency-neutral basis, which would have taken its turnover up to €3.5 billion by 2020, it is now simply aiming for mid-single-digit growth. The group said the ...
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Standard Life Aberdeen of Edinburgh and other major independent shareholders...
Standard Life Aberdeen of Edinburgh and other major independent shareholders in Sports Direct International said on Friday that they will vote against the re-election of Keith Hellawell, chairman of the company, and Simon Bentley, one of its directors, at the company's annual meeting scheduled for next Wednesday. They are also ...
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Mike Ashley has made a nice capital gain from his...
Mike Ashley has made a nice capital gain from his recent investment in Game Digital as the value of the British video game company's shares rose by more than 50 percent to 37 pence following better-than-expected results and a statement by the management that it will invest in the growing ...
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Clarus, the holding company previously registered as Black Diamond, has...
Clarus, the holding company previously registered as Black Diamond, has finally made an acquisition, paying $79 million for a highly profitable U.S. firm, Sierra Bullets, whose proprietary manufacturing process is said to give it the tightest tolerances in the ammunition market. The purchase price is equal to 6.3 times the ...
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A.S. Adventure, the big European outdoor retailer based in Belgium...
A.S. Adventure, the big European outdoor retailer based in Belgium that already owns several other chains including Bever in the Netherlands and Cotswold Outdoor and Snow + Rock in the U.K., has signed a deal for the takeover of McTrek Outdoor Sports, a proftable German chain of 39 outdoor shops, ...
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Neil Venables, former senior director of field sales at the...
Neil Venables, former senior director of field sales at the Adidas Group in the U.K., is taking over from Tom Foley as general manager of Intersport UK, covering the U.K. and Ireland. The handover started in August to make sure Venables is fully operational ahead of Foley's departure on Sept. ...
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Sebastian Janus has left Foot Locker Europe to undertake voluntary...
Sebastian Janus has left Foot Locker Europe to undertake voluntary work in Asia and South America. The 32-year-old chief financial officer of the company's European e-commerce business finished the job at the end of August. Janus joined Foot Locker's management team in 2013, after establishing Tredex, a specialist in e-commerce, ...
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Gary Bryant, who has been with Amer Sports for 14...
Gary Bryant, who has been with Amer Sports for 14 years, is going to serve as general manager for its cycling division, which includes Mavic and Enve, following the resignation of Bernard Millaud, who has led it for 15 years. Bryant, who is a British citizen, has served most recently ...
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Boardriders has appointed Alexandre Malsch as global digital brand manager...
Boardriders has appointed Alexandre Malsch as global digital brand manager for Quiksilver and Roxy, based at its European headquarters on the Basque Coast of France and reporting to the company's chief executive, Pierre Agnès. Nine years ago the 32-year-old manager co-founded a French online media group, the Melty Group, and ...
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Bergans is strengthening its international sales force. The new international...
Bergans is strengthening its international sales force. The new international focus includes the appointment of John-Olav Evans as international strategic account manager. In this new position, he will be responsible for serving and developing relations with Bergans' distributors and key strategic clients in the international market. Another new recruit is ...
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Schöffel has appointed Karoline Rettig as head of marketing. The...
Schöffel has appointed Karoline Rettig as head of marketing. The 46-year-old replaces Wolfgang Helmberger. Rettig has been with Amer Sports since 2006. At Amer, she was initially in charge of marketing for the cycling division in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Afterwards she was promoted to GTM (Go to Market) trade ...
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Claudia Lange has been appointed head of media relations at...
Claudia Lange has been appointed head of media relations at the Adidas Group. Lange assumed the newly created position, based at the headquarters in Herzogenaurach in Germany, at the beginning of August. She is responsible for the global media relations team and for the management and coordination of the media ...
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Creating a new position, Walter Wansauer has been named by...
Creating a new position, Walter Wansauer has been named by Fischer as head of sales for both Germany and Austria. The executive, who has been with the company for nearly 20 years, had been appointed a year ago as country manager for Germany, taking the place of Siegfried Passreiter after ...
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T.J. McMeniman, who served most recently as global marketing director...
T.J. McMeniman, who served most recently as global marketing director at Bauer Hockey, has been appointed vice president of marketing at Costa, the American brand of sports sunglasses recently acquired by Essilor International. He will have global responsibilities, reporting to Holly Rush, chief executive of Costa. Before joining Bauer in ...
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Footjoy has announced that Russell Lawes has been appointed sales...
Footjoy has announced that Russell Lawes has been appointed sales and marketing director for the U.K. region with immediate effect. For the past ten years, he has served as Footjoy's marketing manager. Lawes will be responsible for the overall sales and marketing operations in the U.K., Ireland and South Africa ...
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Brunswick Bowling Products has announced three promotions within the company,...
Brunswick Bowling Products has announced three promotions within the company, which come after the appointment of Corey Dykstra as the new chief executive in July of this year. Brian Graham has been named vice-president of consumer and aftermarket products. Graham previously led sales and marketing. Billy Orlikowski has been promoted ...
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Shoe retailers in Germany will get a selection of products...
Shoe retailers in Germany will get a selection of products for their stores from Nike if they belong to ANWR or Sabu Schuh & Marketing, the two major voluntary groups in the sector, starting from the spring/summer 2018 season. Nike will issue a single bill to each of the two ...
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A major Norwegian sporting goods distributor, ScanTrade, has launched a...
A major Norwegian sporting goods distributor, ScanTrade, has launched a proprietary brand called Fibra, which is aimed at sports clubs in Norway and Sweden. Umbro has long been the cornerstone brand of ScanTrade, and it will remain this way. However, with the launch of Fibra, ScanTrade will deal with more ...
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Briko, the Italian brand of high-performance helmets and goggles for...
Briko, the Italian brand of high-performance helmets and goggles for snow sports and cycling recently taken over by BasicNet, will be distributed by BMM Sports in Germany and Austria from September. BMM Sports also sells Under Armour, Tretorn, Roces and Dahu in different markets. Under Armour has been sold by ...
