News Briefs – Page 531
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Björn Hamacher is taking the place of Michael Price at...
Björn Hamacher is taking the place of Michael Price at Asics Europe as director of marketing for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, reporting to Alistair Cameron, chief executive of Asics EMEA. He will be responsible for Asics' performance brands as well as its lifestyle brands, Asics Tiger and Onitsuka ...
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XXL ASA has announced the appointment of Anders Kjellén as...
XXL ASA has announced the appointment of Anders Kjellén as the new managing director of its operations in Norway, starting in the 4th quarter of 2016. He has been the chief executive of Mammut Ajungilak since 2012, and he is currently the managing director of Mammut for all the Nordic ...
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Florian Grocs, who has been acting as German country manager...
Florian Grocs, who has been acting as German country manager for J.Lindeberg, has been appointed sales director for the whole Region Central Europe, as the Swedish company is taking over its former independent distributors in the Benelux countries. The former country manager for Switzerland, Mario Messerli, will be in charge ...
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Jean-Michel Granier, who has been heading up the Adidas Group...
Jean-Michel Granier, who has been heading up the Adidas Group in South Korea for the last two years, has been appointed as the group's managing director for Latin America from the start of July. Granier previously ran the Adidas Group's subsidiary in Italy and then became managing director for south ...
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Bedivar, which has been the agent of Crocs in Portugal,...
Bedivar, which has been the agent of Crocs in Portugal, changed its status to that of the brand's exclusive distributor in the country on July 1. Run by a Portuguese industry veteran, Carlos Alemão, Bedivar has been distributing foreign footwear brands since 1990. Crocs said the change was meant to ...
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JD Sports Fahion confirms a report in CMD Sport that...
JD Sports Fahion confirms a report in CMD Sport that it has acquired control of SportIbérica, the Portuguese company that has the license for The Athlete's Foot in the country. JD's Spanish subsidiary will run its 12 TAF stores under their current banner before transitioning them to the JD format. ...
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SportScheck is closing down its 5,500-square-meter store in Essen, considering...
SportScheck is closing down its 5,500-square-meter store in Essen, considering that it was too big to operate. The German sporting goods retailer, which is pushing omni-channel retailing, will thus reduce the number of its stores to 19. It opened two new stores of half the size in Mönchengladbach and Aachen ...
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Arc'teryx is stepping up its long-term relationships with Chamonix with...
Arc'teryx is stepping up its long-term relationships with Chamonix with the opening of its first French Arc´teryx partner store later this year. Five years ago, the Canadian technical outdoor brand chose Chamonix for its Alpine Academy. The fifth edition of the academy, which was held on June 16-19, attracted 360 ...
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New Balance has announced the opening of its first U.S....
New Balance has announced the opening of its first U.S. global flagship store at Boston Landing. The 6,566-square-foot store is located in the Brighton neighborhood, at 140 Guest Street, and has been designed to offer an immersive and interactive brand experience. Customers can buy women's training and studio products, baseball, ...
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Fila Korea reports a 22 percent drop in total revenues...
Fila Korea reports a 22 percent drop in total revenues to 168.2 billion won (€132.4m-$146.8m) for the first quarter ended March 31. Royalty income from its licensees in Asia and Europe was more or less flat, but sales fell by 17 percent in Korea to KRW 65.5 billion (€51.6m-$57.2m), and ...
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The demand for jerseys of the Icelandic national football team,...
The demand for jerseys of the Icelandic national football team, which has been sponsored by Errea since 2002, went up unexpectedly by 1,800 percent before the match in which the team lost against France in the quarterfinals of the current European championships. According to various media, the Italian producer of ...
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The global branded athletic footwear market rose by 6.3 percent...
The global branded athletic footwear market rose by 6.3 percent in terms of the sell-in in U.S. dollars in 2015, according to an annual study by Sporting Goods Intelligence. Sales increased by 11.1 percent in the U.S. They rose by only 3.3 percent in dollars in the rest of ...
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Global sales of sports apparel were basically flat last year...
Global sales of sports apparel were basically flat last year in terms of U.S. dollars at $75.6 billion, according to Sporting Goods Intelligence. They went up by 5 percent in the U.S., but the higher value of the dollar resulted in a 6 percent drop in the rest of the ...
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The highest French appeals court has upheld a decision by...
The highest French appeals court has upheld a decision by the Paris appeal court to quash an earlier arbitration ruling that awarded €404 million to Bernard Tapie, a French businessman, in relation to the sale of his majority stake in Adidas to investors around the late Robert Louis-Dreyfus in 1993. ...
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Overturning one of the rulings issued last November by a...
Overturning one of the rulings issued last November by a U.S. federal administrative law judge, the International Trade Commission ruled against an intellectual property claim lodged by Converse, saying in effect that the brand cannot protect the midsole design of its Chuck Taylor sneakers, which combines a toe cap, a ...
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Nike has filed a lawsuit against World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE),...
Nike has filed a lawsuit against World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), opposing its application for a U.S. trademark on the phrase “Just Bring It,” which would reportedly be used by WWE on various types of clothing. The phrase was made famous by a professional wrestler, Dwayne Johnson, also called “The Rock,” ...
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Alibaba has unveiled a new online system to help detect...
Alibaba has unveiled a new online system to help detect and remove fakes. The announcement was made by the company at the inaugural Rights Holders Collaboration Summit it was hosting in its hometown Hangzhou, China on July 1. The new “IP Joint-Force System” is an online platform designed to make ...
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Columbia has launched a high-performance, Bluesign-certified rain jacket made from...
Columbia has launched a high-performance, Bluesign-certified rain jacket made from 100 percent recycled polyester that does not contain perfluorinated compounds (PFCs). Columbia Sportswear said it spent two years developing a “durable waterproof membrane” for the OutDry Extreme Eco Shell which does not need to be treated with a durable water ...
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K-Way is partnering with N°21, a ready-to-wear fashion label from...
K-Way is partnering with N°21, a ready-to-wear fashion label from Milan, to produce a new capsule collection. For spring/summer 2017, N°21's creative director, Alessandro Dell'Acqua, has reinterpreted and restyled K-Way's iconic nylon windbreakers with unexpected fabrics. This is not the first time that the French waterproof apparel brand has collaborated ...
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Asics and Toray have jointly developed a new high-perfomance fabric,...
Asics and Toray have jointly developed a new high-perfomance fabric, called Camaleon Mesh, that changes color depending on the viewing angle. It will be used in Asics' Gel-Quantum 360 CM running shoe. Entirely made in Japan, the fabric is based on new technology that controls the placement of threads at ...
