News Briefs – Page 592
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The dates of the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market have been...
The dates of the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market have been moved up by two weeks next year, to adjust to other events, the holiday calendar and final ordering deadlines. The show is to take place in Salt Lake City on Jan. 7-10, to avoid competing with the Sundance Film Festival ...
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A total of 2,843 “industry guests” attended Efftex, the European...
A total of 2,843 “industry guests” attended Efftex, the European fishing tackle show, held in Warsaw last month, which hosted about 200 exhibitors. Out of all the visitors, 1,290 didn't wear exhibitor's badges, with wholesalers and retailers taking shares of 48 and 34 percent, respectively. Predictably, Poland came at the ...
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Jack Wolfskin has reached “Leader Status” in the Brand Performance...
Jack Wolfskin has reached “Leader Status” in the Brand Performance Check 2015 of the Fair Wear Foundation. The company reached a benchmarking score of 82 percent after an evaluation period that lasted until Sept. 30, 2014. The company, which has been a member of FWF since 2010, notes that it ...
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Euro Brand Management has qualified to become a Certified...
Euro Brand Management has qualified to become a Certified B Corporation. The label is said to have been recognized as the highest standard for social corporate responsibility, applying to companies that use the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. This relatively new certification has been granted to ...
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CTC, the French-based certification agency for leather and leather products,...
CTC, the French-based certification agency for leather and leather products, reports that several of its experts in Europe, China and India have been accredited with the Sustainable Apparel Coalition.
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CORRECTION: Contrary to what we published in the last issue,...
CORRECTION: Contrary to what we published in the last issue, Tecnica Group has not yet completed its planned divestiture of Dolomite. We should have mentioned that: Tecnica owns also the Moon Boot brand; that it controls Lowa, with a share of 60 percent; and that the family of Giancarlo and ...
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Skechers USA has been upgraded by Standard & Poors Dow...
Skechers USA has been upgraded by Standard & Poors Dow Jones to its MidCap 400 Index. Meanwhile, financial analysts have been speculating that Nike and Adidas have been considering a takeover of the fast-growing American lifestyle and sports footwear brand. Apparently, there has been no expression of interest, though.
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Maier Sports Group, the German snow sports and outdoor apparel...
Maier Sports Group, the German snow sports and outdoor apparel brand, is to be taken over by Schwan-Stabilo, the German group that is already the owner of Deuter and Ortovox. Martin Riebel, chief executive at Deuter and Schwan-Stabilo Outdoor, said that Maier Sports neatly completed the group's offering in the ...
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Backcountry.com, a leading U.S. online outdoor retailer, has been acquired...
Backcountry.com, a leading U.S. online outdoor retailer, has been acquired by TSG Consumer Partners, an investment firm specializing in the branded consumer market. The deal was sealed with the previous owner, Liberty Interactive Corporation, at an undisclosed price. TSG said it would help the online retailer with the famous goat ...
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Pon Holdings, the acquisitive Dutch bicycle group, has taken over...
Pon Holdings, the acquisitive Dutch bicycle group, has taken over Santa Cruz Bicycles from California, which specializes in high-end mountain bikes. Its range is sold in about 70 countries under the Santa Cruz brand for men and Juliana for women. Pon, a major Dutch car importer, has been storming through ...
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Minerva, a Belgian bicycle manufacturer, was declared bankrupt on June...
Minerva, a Belgian bicycle manufacturer, was declared bankrupt on June 25 by a commercial court in Hasselt, Belgium. Employing 16 people, the company reportedly had an annual production of about 20,000 city and trekking bikes. Minerva is an established bicycle brand in Belgium and even more so in the province ...
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A diversified Chinese group, Dalian Wanda Group Co., has closed...
A diversified Chinese group, Dalian Wanda Group Co., has closed the transaction for its planned acquisition of a majority stake in Infronts Sports & Media, the Swiss-based international sports marketing agency run by Philippe Blatter, from the Bridgepoint private equity group. The transaction is valued at about €1.05 billion.
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A majority of Rocket Internet's shareholders has decided to raise...
A majority of Rocket Internet's shareholders has decided to raise up to two billion euros in new funding through convertible bonds and other means to help it to become the biggest internet platform outside the U.S. and China. The Berlin-based company, which helped Zalando to start up, already has about ...
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Zalando's listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange has been upgraded...
Zalando's listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange has been upgraded from the SDAX to the MDAX index of the 50 major German mid-cap companies. The market capitalization of the company has risen by 40 percent since it went public last October on the strength of its improved financial results.
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Diadora has reopened a production line at its factory in...
Diadora has reopened a production line at its factory in Caerano di San Marco, near Montebelluna, to make a “made in Italy” line of high-end sneakers in collaboration with leading sneaker stores. The goal is to reach an annual output of about 100,000 pairs. The plant has been closed for ...
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Fabian Engelhorn, who has been running the sports & leisure...
Fabian Engelhorn, who has been running the sports & leisure segment of the eponymous German department store operation, has become chief executive of the company, supervising all operations. Andreas Hilgenstock, who was in charge of fashion and general clothing, will concentrate on strategy and communication. Simon Engelhorn continues to take ...
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Anna-Lena Schulte-Angels has been appointed joint general manager of Sport...
Anna-Lena Schulte-Angels has been appointed joint general manager of Sport Voswinkel, the sporting goods retail chain controlled by Intersport Germany. She takes the place of Jochen Schnell, who has joined the executive board of the group. Schulte-Angels worked previously in leading positions at the cosmetics and jewelry chains of Douglas ...
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The top management has changed at Sport Alliance, the Italian...
The top management has changed at Sport Alliance, the Italian voluntary group led by Sportler of Bolzano and Sportland of Brescia. Georg Oberrauch, chairman of Sportler, has become its chairman again, replacing Marco Odolini of Sportland. Andrea Morin is its chief executive and commercial director, taking the place of Fabio ...
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Jin-Goon Kim, the former interim chief executive at Li-Ning, resigned...
Jin-Goon Kim, the former interim chief executive at Li-Ning, resigned as executive director and executive vice-chairman last week, marking his complete departure from the Chinese sportswear company. Li-Ning said he was leaving to pursue other business commitments. Kim was installed at Li-Ning from July 2012 by Texas Pacific Group (TPG), ...
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Jeffrey Delfgaauw, 38, has been named head of design for...
Jeffrey Delfgaauw, 38, has been named head of design for Brunotti Sportswear. After working for Quiksilver Europe in France, he served for 14 years as design manager at another Dutch-based boardsports apparel company, Protest, building up a team of 16 people. For its part, Protest has replaced Delfagaauw through the ...
