News Briefs – Page 537
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Sports Direct International (SDI) has reportedly been outbid in its...
Sports Direct International (SDI) has reportedly been outbid in its attempt to secure assets of BHS, a British chain offering clothing and household items that went into administration (a form of receivership) around the end of April. The Financial Times reports that the SDI proposition was lower than bids put ...
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Schuh & Sport Mücke, the big German shoe and sporting...
Schuh & Sport Mücke, the big German shoe and sporting goods retail chain that was acquired by ANWR in May 2014, will not be converted to a public limited company. ANWR is now proposing to its general assembly, due to be held in Rotterdam on June 20, to keep it ...
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Rolf Schmid, one of the most prominent executives in the...
Rolf Schmid, one of the most prominent executives in the European outdoor industry, is to relinquish his job as chief executive of Mammut Sports Group. The departure has been agreed “by mutual consent,” says a statement from Conzzeta, the Swiss company that controls Mammut. Schmid has been with Mammut since ...
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Bogner has set up a new sales structure with three...
Bogner has set up a new sales structure with three sales divisions instead of independent country subsidiaries. Christian Ender, who has worked for Bogner since January, will be the company's international sales director, responsible for sales in the EMEA region, the U.S. and Asia. Christian Wiesender, who worked for 13 ...
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Patxi Fernández Allende is the new managing director of the...
Patxi Fernández Allende is the new managing director of the Spanish Intersport CCS buying group. He worked previously for various retailers including Lidl and Perfumerias If. He acted as managing director of Forum Sport, the Spanish sporting goods retail chain owned by the Eroski group. Reporting to Ignasi Puig, chief ...
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Henry Stafford, who has been with Under Armour for six...
Henry Stafford, who has been with Under Armour for six years, plans to leave the company in July. He has been most recently UA's chief merchandising officer, and Kip Fulks, the global marketing manager, will take on his responsibilities on an interim basis. The chief digital officer of the group, ...
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Fiona Laird has been appointed executive vice president and chief...
Fiona Laird has been appointed executive vice president and chief human resources and communications officer at Newell Brands, the new company formed by the recent merger of Jarden Corp. into Newell Rubbermaid. Laird, who started as a lawyer in the U.S., has worked for Unilever in various parts of the ...
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K-Swiss Global Brands has appointed the former Puma head of...
K-Swiss Global Brands has appointed the former Puma head of design, Sean O'Shea, as the new creative director of K-Swiss with immediate effect. In his new role he will oversee all facets of K-Swiss design and development globally, from concept to finished product, reporting directly to Barney Waters, K-Swiss president. ...
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Toi Ka Ho has resigned as chief financial officer of...
Toi Ka Ho has resigned as chief financial officer of Peak Sport Products. His duties will be assumed by Xu Zhihua, chief executive of the Chinese company, until the appointment of his successor.
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Björn Borg, the Swedish underwear and sportswear brand, has acquired...
Björn Borg, the Swedish underwear and sportswear brand, has acquired full ownership of its subsidiary in the U.K. The company has bought out a minority shareholder who owned 20 percent of Björn Borg U.K. The shareholder was Callum Sneddon, managing director of Björn Borg U.K., who left the company at ...
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Marc Nicolai Pfeifer, head of sports marketing for Germany, Austria...
Marc Nicolai Pfeifer, head of sports marketing for Germany, Austria and Switzerland at Hummel, has left the Danish sporting goods brand after five years. Olaf Steen, up to now sports marketing coordinator at Hummel, will replace him. Pfeifer will be manager for finance and marketing at the Stuttgarter Kickers, a ...
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Closed for several weeks, Adidas' largest European store has reopened...
Closed for several weeks, Adidas' largest European store has reopened – a flagship outlet at the bottom of the Champs-Elysées in Paris. The store adopted the Home Court concept that was already implemented in Beijing, Madrid, Berlin and London, with features such as the Shoe Base, an interactive bar with ...
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Sport 2000 Germany has enlarged its advisory board, electing four...
Sport 2000 Germany has enlarged its advisory board, electing four new directors who represent some of its more specialized sports stores. Martin Schwarz of Heymann & Schwarz in Wuppertal will represent the owners of 129 stores that specialize in team sports, although many of them also cater to other categories. ...
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21sportsgroup, the German sports retailer with both online and physical...
21sportsgroup, the German sports retailer with both online and physical stores, reports that it has obtained financing in the double-digit million euro range to reinforce its business in Germany and to expand in international markets. Specializing in running, cycling, triathlon, outdoor and action sports products, 21sportsgroup is the company behind ...
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Topshelf, an established Dutch sports retailer with five megastores, has...
Topshelf, an established Dutch sports retailer with five megastores, has pounced on two top locations that became available earlier this year after the bankruptcy of Vroom & Dreesman (V&D), a major Dutch department store chain. Several Dutch newspapers report that Topshelf has taken over the leases of former V&D stores ...
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XXL's online store has been ranked among the top 10...
XXL's online store has been ranked among the top 10 most popular Norwegian web shops according to a national ranking compiled by Netthandel.no, which covers the past six months. It places XXL.no in sixth place with 6.18 million visits during the period. According to figures published by the retailer itself, ...
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Evasion Running, a specialized Spanish retailer, has gone into receivership,...
Evasion Running, a specialized Spanish retailer, has gone into receivership, according to the Spanish media. The company had already closed two of its stores, in Barcelona and Valencia, leaving it with another store in Valencia and five franchises in Spain and France.
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Canada Goose has announced the opening of its first two...
Canada Goose has announced the opening of its first two stand-alone stores this coming autumn. The stores are set to open on New York's Wooster Street, in the heart of SoHo, and in the Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto. Each store, covering a surface of more than 4,000 square feet, ...
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Jaked will open two new stores in Milan in July....
Jaked will open two new stores in Milan in July. According to reports in Corriere della Sera, the stores will be located on corso Vercelli and corso Buenos Aires, with plans for more openings in Bologna and Napoli. The Italian sportswear brand, which was established in 2008, is owned by ...
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North Sails plans to open its first German store in...
North Sails plans to open its first German store in Hamburg on June 23, to be followed by others in the country. The Italian company already has 45 stores in the rest of the world.
