News Briefs – Page 475
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Callaway Golf Co. has appointed Brian Lynch as its new...
Callaway Golf Co. has appointed Brian Lynch as its new chief financial officer. He will also continue as senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. Lynch, who joined Callaway in 1999, was named general counsel in 2012. He assumed the additional role of interim CFO in April, filling the ...
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The supervisory board of Kettler has appointed Olaf Bierhoff as...
The supervisory board of Kettler has appointed Olaf Bierhoff as the new managing director and chief financial officer to replace Stephan Mathys. The 53-year-old Bierhoff joins from Severin Elektrogeräte GmbH where he has worked for 17 years, most recently as head of finance and controlling as well as head of ...
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Carsten Schreiter has been appointed director of procurement for Willy...
Carsten Schreiter has been appointed director of procurement for Willy Bogner. His job will be to intensify relations between the sourcing and product development processes. The 48-year-old manager started his career at Klaus Steilmann, a big German apparel company. He then worked for the Holy Fashion Group and Strellson. He ...
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Spyder Europe has enrolled Felix Burmann as a sales manager...
Spyder Europe has enrolled Felix Burmann as a sales manager for key German accounts and European distributors. Burmann, aged 39, started in July and comes with a strong background in key account management. Recently he worked for one-and-a-half years with The North Face as a key account manager and then ...
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Nixon, the brand of sports watches and accessories, will have...
Nixon, the brand of sports watches and accessories, will have a new chief executive, Scott Kerslake. The American manager is set to leave the Columbia Sportswear group on Aug. 18. The has been running Prana since 2009, building it up to reach a turnover of $100 million by 2014, when ...
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Steve Woodside has stepped down as senior vice president of...
Steve Woodside has stepped down as senior vice president of Columbia Sportswear in charge of global sourcing and manufacturing, after three years in this function. The company has initiated a search for his successor.
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Martin Vergien has been appointed as vice president and managing...
Martin Vergien has been appointed as vice president and managing director of Coleman in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He formally takes over from Marc Hill, after several months in the same position on an interim basis. Vergien is taking charge on a regional basis of the Coleman, ...
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Black Diamond has expanded its engineering team from six to...
Black Diamond has expanded its engineering team from six to ten persons, and it has added two outdoor industry specialists to its apparel development team. The four extra engineering staff are Greg Woolston, previously in product design at Skullcandy, who joined the lighting team. Tom Santoro is to focus on ...
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Trangoworld has been distributed by Stéphane Hanssens in Belgium since...
Trangoworld has been distributed by Stéphane Hanssens in Belgium since April. The Spanish brand of outdoor and sports apparel, which was previously sold by a sales agent in the country, has been able to offset declining sales in the Spanish market, which accounts for 70 percent of the brand's total ...
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Confirming its master franchising agreement with the Falaknaz Sports Group...
Confirming its master franchising agreement with the Falaknaz Sports Group for the Gulf States (SGI Europe, vol. 28 – 5+6 of Feb. 22), Sport 2000 International unveils a plan to establish 30 Sport 2000 stores in the region over the next five years – 11 in the United Arab Emirates, ...
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As predicted, Zalando's growth softened in the second quarter, rising...
As predicted, Zalando's growth softened in the second quarter, rising by 20.1 percent to €1.1 billion, but the company is hoping to hit the upper range of the forecast of 20 to 25 percent for the full financial year. The operating margin (Ebit) declined by 1.4 percentage points to 7.4 ...
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Strong growth by Champion Europe, especially online, contributed to a...
Strong growth by Champion Europe, especially online, contributed to a 7 percent organic increase in Champion's global sales for Hanesbrands during the second quarter. The brand is also enjoying very strong growth in Asia and other markets due to new omnichannel investments. This and other factors, including the acquisition last ...
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Goldwin made a profit of 412 million yen (€3.2m-$3.8m) in...
Goldwin made a profit of 412 million yen (€3.2m-$3.8m) in the first quarter of its financial year, ended June 30, as compared to a loss of ¥62 million in the year-earlier period. Sales rose by 16 percent to ¥12.38 billion (€96.2m-$112.9m). The company is forecasting a profit increase of 2 ...
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Descente made a comprehensive net income of 2,041 million yen (€15.9m-$18.6m)...
Descente made a comprehensive net income of 2,041 million yen (€15.9m-$18.6m) in the first quarter ended June 30 versus a loss of ¥1,389 million in the same period of last year. Excluding the foreign exchange effect and other items, net earnings fell by 27 percent to ¥764 million (€5.9m-$7.0m). Sales grew ...
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Yonex reported a 45 percent jump in comprehensive net income...
Yonex reported a 45 percent jump in comprehensive net income to 455.5 million yen (€3.5m-$4.2m) for the first quarter through June, benefiting from a positive foreign currency swing of ¥222 million (€1.7m-$2.0m). Revenues went up by 4 percent to ¥15.91 billion (€123.6m-$145.0m). Boosted by badminton, sales grew by 4 percent in ...
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Globeride reports a comprehensive net loss of 370 million yen (€2.9m-$3.4m)...
Globeride reports a comprehensive net loss of 370 million yen (€2.9m-$3.4m) for the fiscal first quarter ended June 30, compared with a profit of ¥503 million in the year-ago period. The gross margin went down by 2 percentage points to 35.7 percent. Excluding extraordinary items and foreign exchange losses, the parent ...
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Adidas trails only the police for attractiveness as a future...
Adidas trails only the police for attractiveness as a future employer in the opinion of German students. In a recent survey on careers conducted with more than 20,000 students between the ages of 13 and 18, the sports brand was ranked first in the fashion industry and second overall out ...
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The number of golf rounds played in the U.K. in...
The number of golf rounds played in the U.K. in the second quarter of 2017 increased by 4 percent as compared to the same period of 2016, according to a study by Sports Marketing Surveys (SMS). The second quarter of the year was characterized by warm and dry weather, especially ...
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The global revenues from branded outdoor shoes by major vendors...
The global revenues from branded outdoor shoes by major vendors grew by 2.9 percent to $4.71 billion in 2016, according to an annual survey by The Outdoor Industry Compass, with increases of 2.4 percent in the U.S. and 3.5 percent in the rest of the world. The branded rugged outdoor ...
