News Briefs – Page 538
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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.
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Forum Sport, one of the major Spanish sporting goods retail...
Forum Sport, one of the major Spanish sporting goods retail chains, raised its sales by 5.0 percent to €112.5 million in 2015, a year in which it opened four new stores and closed one. Profits more than doubled to €4.57 million. Sales have been rising for three years in a ...
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Goldwin raised its sales by 4 percent to 59.7 billion...
Goldwin raised its sales by 4 percent to 59.7 billion yen (€487.9m-$545.1m) in the fiscal year ended March 31, but comprehensive net income fell by 79 percent to ¥1,130 million (€9.2m-$10.3m). The gross margin expanded by 2.1 percentage points to 44.2 percent. Excluding foreign currency adjustments and other charges, net ...
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Li Ning Company reports that orders from franchised distributors at...
Li Ning Company reports that orders from franchised distributors at its trade fair held in March, for deliveries in the fourth quarter, moved up at a high single-digit rate compared with the same period in 2015. The increase was driven by low single-digit growth in footwear and a rise at ...
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Several heirs of Adi Dassler, the founder of Adidas, have...
Several heirs of Adi Dassler, the founder of Adidas, have teamed up to try and take more control of his legacy, according to Capital, the German magazine. Most of the heirs stayed away from the spotlight after the sale of Adidas in the early nineties by the four daughters of ...
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About 46,000 pairs of counterfeit Nike sports shoes were seized...
About 46,000 pairs of counterfeit Nike sports shoes were seized at the port of Hamburg a few days ago. Customs officers detected Nike sports shoes, suspecting that they may be counterfeits, next to unbranded shoes in a cleared maritime container in the port of Hamburg in mid-April. A couple of ...
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Crocs has announced that a ruling last year in the...
Crocs has announced that a ruling last year in the Shanghai Intermediate People's Court has been selected by China's Supreme People's Court as one of the top 50 leading intellectual property (IP) cases of 2015, and as one of the top 10 leading IP cases of the Shanghai Courts. In ...
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Skechers has filed a lawsuit against Eliya, the maker of...
Skechers has filed a lawsuit against Eliya, the maker of Bernie Mev footwear, for marketing and distributing footwear that allegedly infringes on its Skech-Air by Skechers product line. The suit, which has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, states that Eliya is selling ...
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Mike Ashley, the maverick boss of Sports Direct International, continues...
Mike Ashley, the maverick boss of Sports Direct International, continues his fight with the British Parliament. The institution's Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) committee has formally summoned him to attend a hearing in Westminster on June 7 regarding SDI's treatment of employees at its Shirebrook warehouse, intimating that he may ...
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New rules on customs valuation in the European Union prompted...
New rules on customs valuation in the European Union prompted the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi) to organize a webinar on May 31 with Raphael Barazza, a customs lawyer who has a working agreement with the French federation of sporting goods suppliers (Fifas) and has represented Fesi, ...
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The European sporting goods industry federation, Fesi, is inviting stakeholders...
The European sporting goods industry federation, Fesi, is inviting stakeholders from outside the sporting goods sector to work together to promote participation in winter sports, which is dwindling. Fesi made the proposal at its first “European Winter Summit,” which it organized on May 25 at Flanders' Bike Valley, the European ...
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Frédéric Basse has stepped down after nine years as president...
Frédéric Basse has stepped down after nine years as president at Eurosima, the association representing the board sports industry in Europe. The co-founder and former executive general manager of Rip Curl Europe chaired Eurosima's general meeting for the last time on May 27 in Anglet. The current general manager of ...
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Nike has signed a deal with Hewlett-Packard to accelerate and...
Nike has signed a deal with Hewlett-Packard to accelerate and scale its 3D printing capabilities. The world's largest sportswear brand has spent over three years developing 3D printing and Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) applications, which shorten the amount of time needed to produce and modify prototypes from months to mere ...
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic has announced on his social media accounts that...
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has announced on his social media accounts that he will soon unveil his own apparel brand, called A-Z. The launch is scheduled for June 7, during a special event in Paris. The name of the brand is short for “amateur to Zlatan,” to match the player's philosophy that in ...
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Growing interest from Chinese companies in global football could take...
Growing interest from Chinese companies in global football could take another dimension in the coming years as Alibaba Group Holding, the Chinese online retail giant, is reportedly in talks to become a top-level sponsor of Fifa. Bloomberg reported on such discussions based on “people familiar with the matter,” adding that ...
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In yet another huge endorsement deal, Under Armour has agreed...
In yet another huge endorsement deal, Under Armour has agreed to fork out $280 million for a 15-year contract with the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), which has been described as the largest shoe and apparel deal in the history of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). UCLA ...
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Mark King, president of Adidas North America, has reaffirmed the...
Mark King, president of Adidas North America, has reaffirmed the brand's strategy to sign dozens of endorsement deals with U.S. sports players in the coming years. The Adidas brand's sales shot up by 31 percent in North America in the first quarter of this year, but the rise was strongly ...
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Macron has signed a new technical sponsorship agreement with an...
Macron has signed a new technical sponsorship agreement with an important French football club, OGC Nice, which came fourth in the first division of the French Football League in the season just finished. The deal will run for three years. Burrda was the previous sponsor of the team.
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Hickies, the clever shoe lacing system, has enlisted its first...
Hickies, the clever shoe lacing system, has enlisted its first sponsored testimonial. He is Danny Willett, the English golf pro who won the Golf Masters in Augusta, Georgia, in April. The contract was signed just before his victory, so it was reasonably priced. It will include a signature series of ...
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Smith Sports Optics has enlisted David Luiz, the Brazilian football...
Smith Sports Optics has enlisted David Luiz, the Brazilian football player of the Paris Saint Germain (PSG) club as global brand ambassador. Meanwhile, Smith's Drake sunglass model has been named “Best Sports Shades” by the American Men's Health magazine.
