News Briefs – Page 524
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Wintersteiger, the Austrian manufacturer of ski maintenance and service machinery...
Wintersteiger, the Austrian manufacturer of ski maintenance and service machinery and storing solutions, appointed Florestan von Boxberg, 54, as its new chief executive, or head of its board of management. He takes the place left vacant a year ago by the departure of Reiner Thalacker. Von Boxberg worked as project ...
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An Adidas veteran, Timo Pape, has joined Odlo International in...
An Adidas veteran, Timo Pape, has joined Odlo International in the new position of brand director, responsible for category management, design and marketing. He had been assisting Odlo in these areas and in communication since last year. After working for seven years at Adidas in Portland and Herzogenaurach, and two ...
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Fischer has appointed for the first time a marketing manager,...
Fischer has appointed for the first time a marketing manager, Jan Ekmark, who will restructure the existing marketing team of the Austrian ski company and cover digital marketing, sports marketing, trade marketing and other domains. Born in Sweden, Ekmark spent more than seven years with Adidas before he joined the ...
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Canada Goose has appointed Lee Turlington to the new position...
Canada Goose has appointed Lee Turlington to the new position of chief product officer and Kevin Spreekmeester to the new position of chief brand officer. Turlington, who worked previously in leading roles for Nike, Patagonia, The North Face and Fila, had been a consultant of Canada Goose over the last ...
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Christopher Lindner joined Acushnet last month as president of FootJoy....
Christopher Lindner joined Acushnet last month as president of FootJoy. He acted previously as president of Keds, one of the footwear brands owned by Wolverine Worldwide, which is now led by Gillian Meek. More in Shoe Intelligence.
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Andrew Cooper has been named president of Sequential Brands, reporting...
Andrew Cooper has been named president of Sequential Brands, reporting to Yehuda Shmidman, chief executive of the parent company of And 1, Avia, Revo and other brands. He was previously senior vice president of Priceline.com and then a partner of Pegasus Capital Advisors
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David Sharp has handed in his resignation as president and...
David Sharp has handed in his resignation as president and chief executive of Rocky Brands as well as a director of the American company, where he has served in various management roles since 2000. Mike Brooks, chairman, will take over his functions on an interim basis until his successor is ...
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Michael Burk has been appointed as chief executive at 21...
Michael Burk has been appointed as chief executive at 21 Sports Group, after Jörg Mayer, the founder and largest shareholder of the online sports retailer, became chairman of the supervisory board. The changes also led to the appointment of Henner Schwarz as chief financial officer and chief operating officer. Both ...
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Founded in 1983 in Colorado, Bula is one of the...
Founded in 1983 in Colorado, Bula is one of the largest brands of sports hats and beanies in North America and is also big in Europe. In the Nordic countries, it has been working through the Norwegian-based Active Brands group as a distributor since 1989. Now, Active Brands has bought ...
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Hickies, the clever American shoe lacing system, has been ordered...
Hickies, the clever American shoe lacing system, has been ordered by retailers operating 400 Intersport stores in Germany, accounting for about 16-17 percent of all Intersport stores in Germany, as well as by members of Intersport Austria. From autumn 2016, Hickies will also be sold by Intersport in England and ...
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Joma has converted its store in the Xanadù shopping center...
Joma has converted its store in the Xanadù shopping center of Madrid to its main brand store, after a major renovation. The brand has 14 stores all over Spain. They will grow to 15 by the end of this year.
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El Corte Inglés, a group that is one of the...
El Corte Inglés, a group that is one of the major retailers for sporting goods in Spain through its department stores, has reported a 34 percent increase in net profits to €158 million for the financial year ended last Feb. 29. Revenues went up by 4.3 percent to €15.2 billion. ...
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China Dongxiang says that a clearer positioning and an improved...
China Dongxiang says that a clearer positioning and an improved product mix for its online sales channel have helped to raise its sales by 8.9 percent to 650 million yuan renminbi (€86.4m-$97.3m) for the first half of this year. The Chinese sportswear group, which owns Phenix and rights to the ...
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Björn Borg posted a 23 percent sales increase in the...
Björn Borg posted a 23 percent sales increase in the second quarter, with sales reaching 122.2 million Swedish kronor (€12.9m-$14.4m). The Swedish fashion and sportswear brand said it strengthened its position in sports and sports apparel, especially in its male target market, during the quarter. Operating profit for the period ...
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Members of the European Platform for Sport Innovation (EPSI) decided...
Members of the European Platform for Sport Innovation (EPSI) decided at their general assembly on Aug. 31 to adopt the Research & Innovation Agenda (SRIA) as a roadmap for its activities in the five-year period until 2021. The networking organization strives for a more innovation-friendly environment, in order to stimulate ...
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A member of the European Parliament, Hannu Takkula, presented the...
A member of the European Parliament, Hannu Takkula, presented the key elements of a parliamentary report on the “Integrated approach to Sport Policy: Good Governance, accessibility, integrity” at a meeting organized at the House of Sport in Brussels on Aug. 29. The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry, Fesi, ...
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A delegation of the Federation of the European Sporting Goods...
A delegation of the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi) met with Gian-Franco Kasper, the president of the International Ski Federation (FIS), in Brussels on Sept. 6, and agreed on extending the Memorandum of Understanding for World Snow Day, the annual snow festival for children and their families, ...
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The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi) is...
The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi) is taking part in a conference to be held in Brussels on Monday, Sept. 12, as part of the second European Week of Sport (EWOS). The conference is organized by the House of Sport, which was created around the first EWOS ...
