News Briefs – Page 495
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Roeckl Handschuhe & Accessories filed for insolvency on March 21....
Roeckl Handschuhe & Accessories filed for insolvency on March 21. The company will close seven stores and 45 of its 200 employees will be made redundant. Roeckl Sports, which specializes in sports gloves and is managed and owned by Christian and Stefan Roeckl, is not affected by the insolvency, as ...
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XXL ASA has appointed Patrick Verwilligen as managing director for...
XXL ASA has appointed Patrick Verwilligen as managing director for its new Austria chain of sports and outdoor stores, starting on May 1. He will receive 63,467 share options as part of his compensation. Verwilligen is a Dutch citizen who grew up in Austria. He is currently head of leasing ...
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Greg Dacsyshyn, who has spent many years at Burton Snowboards...
Greg Dacsyshyn, who has spent many years at Burton Snowboards as its chief creative officer, is leaving the company after more than 20 years to set up his own creative agency, called Camp High. The agency will continue to set the creative direction for Burton in terms of products and ...
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Herbert Kenzelmann, aged 58, has been promoted to the position...
Herbert Kenzelmann, aged 58, has been promoted to the position of sales manager at Falke, the German socks specialist, joining its executive board. Coordinating all sales activities in the sports and legwear segments, he has taken the place of Jan van der Hagan, who is going back to Dedon, a ...
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Sequential Brands has appointed Karen Murray as its new chief...
Sequential Brands has appointed Karen Murray as its new chief executive officer. Most recently, Murray served as president of VF Sportswear, a wholly-owned subsidiary of VF Corp. She replaces Yehuda Shmidman, who is stepping down from his position and as a member of the board of directors. Murray joined VF ...
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Buff has appointed Kristin Moynihan Greenbaum as director of sales...
Buff has appointed Kristin Moynihan Greenbaum as director of sales for its U.S. subsidiary. Moynihan has previously worked at Eddie Bauer, Starbucks, Unionbay and Coal Headwear. She has also served as vice-president of sales at Pow.
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Roland Wagner is retiring as chief executive of his own...
Roland Wagner is retiring as chief executive of his own Munich-based sales agency, Die Sportsspezialisten (SO!), which represents brands such as Elan, Buff, Laken, Smellwell, Runtastic and Fila Skates, but he will continue to be its owner, while consulting for sports-related brands. The helm will go over to Marc Hasenstein, ...
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Planet Jogging, a French retailer of products for runners, is...
Planet Jogging, a French retailer of products for runners, is closing its last store, located in Paris, according to sport-guide.com. It had already closed two other stores in Marseille and Nice as well as its online shop because of intense price competition in the market. Jean-François You, who founded Planet ...
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The Mammut Sports Group saw its sales decline by 0.8...
The Mammut Sports Group saw its sales decline by 0.8 percent to 233.4 million Swiss francs (€218.2m-$233.4m) in 2016, which was a decline of 2.9 percent in constant currencies. As reported by the Conzzeta Group, which controls the Swiss outdoor company, Mammut's operating profit was up by CHF 1.1 million ...
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Basicnet has announced a net consolidated profit of €10.3 million...
Basicnet has announced a net consolidated profit of €10.3 million for 2016, down from €16.8 million in the previous year. The company owns brands such as Kappa, Robe di Kappa, K-Way and Superga, and licenses them in many territories outside its domestic Italian market. As previously reported, Basicnet's aggregated sales ...
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Briko scored a strong double-digit increase in its turnover last...
Briko scored a strong double-digit increase in its turnover last year, following a master licensing deal with Basicnet that became effective one year ago. Prior to the deal, the brand's annual turnover amounted to nearly €7 million, with about 60 percent of it was still generated in Italy. It is ...
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Hervis Sport booked a 5.2 percent sales increase to €493...
Hervis Sport booked a 5.2 percent sales increase to €493 million last year, with a 5.2 percent rise in its domestic Austrian market. The retailer, which belongs to Spar Österreich, operates also in Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania and the Czech Republic. The growth was partly due to the opening ...
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A 50 percent increase in sales of e-bikes, especially in...
A 50 percent increase in sales of e-bikes, especially in Europe, could not prevent Giant Manufacturing Co. from posting a drop of 5.57 percent in its global revenues to 53.09 billion Taiwan dollars (€1.64bn-$1.75bn). The major factor was a 20 percent decline in its bike sales in China, which are ...
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Giant is not the only Taiwanese bike company to be...
Giant is not the only Taiwanese bike company to be suffering from international competition. Merida's total sales outside Taiwan declined in volume by 26.9 percent to 1,601,623 units last year, according to Bike Europe, with a drop of 20.18 percent to 866,976 unit in the volume exported from Taiwan.
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Rubber prices shot up from a low of $1.50 per...
Rubber prices shot up from a low of $1.50 per kilo last September to $2.50 this past January, forcing suppliers of rubber soles to raise their own prices by a minimum of 10 percent. Among other factors, the price hike was due to floods in Thailand late last year, increases ...
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Adidas has launched a counterfeiting suit against Asics America, charging...
Adidas has launched a counterfeiting suit against Asics America, charging that the Japanese brand copied some elements of its fitness app. Filed in a Delaware court, the suit charges that Asics' Fitnesskeeper and Runkeeper apps, which it bought last year, breache ten patents registered by Adidas. Three years ago, Adidas ...
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Puma said it was trying to reach an out of...
Puma said it was trying to reach an out of court settlement with a Swiss maker of furniture and wooden household products, to put an end to a dispute around a logo. As reported by Textilwirtschaft, Puma objected when the Swiss company filed an application with the Swiss Federal Institute ...
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Members of the Development Committee of the European Union (EU)...
Members of the Development Committee of the European Union (EU) Parliament are urging the European Commission to propose binding human rights rules for all the players in the apparel supply chain. The Members of the Committee have suggested a series of measures including: a binding due diligence system based on ...
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Adidas has launched its first branded fitness app. All Day,...
Adidas has launched its first branded fitness app. All Day, available for iOS and Android, is meant to help users stay fit and healthy through tutorials covering a wide range of contents, from yoga moves to healthy recipes. The app also allows to track health-related aspects such as movement, nutrition ...
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On the occasion of Nike's Air Max Day campaign, the...
On the occasion of Nike's Air Max Day campaign, the brand has brought in a series of artists asking them to reinterpret the shoe. The “Vision-Airs” collection has brought in Riccardo Tisci, Marc Newson, and Arthur Huang to re-design the sneaker. Tisci designed a synthetic leather and suede black shoe ...
