News Briefs – Page 600
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Vista Outdoor, the sporting goods and outdoor company recently spun...
Vista Outdoor, the sporting goods and outdoor company recently spun off from Alliant Techsystems (ATK), has appointed a vice president of marketing, Brett Merrell, and a vice president of investor relations, Michael Pici. They report to Mark DeYoung, chairman and chief executive of Vista Outdoor. Merrell has been placed in ...
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Heather Jackson, described as an expert in IT and change...
Heather Jackson, described as an expert in IT and change management, has become a non-executive director of JD Sports Fashion, parent company of Blacks, Millets and other outdoor retail chains in the U.K. She is also a non-executive director of Ikano Bank from Sweden, where she chairs the remuneration and ...
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Patrick Pons de Vier, former brand manager for Salomon, is...
Patrick Pons de Vier, former brand manager for Salomon, is head of global footwear at Brooks, the U.S. running footwear company, starting last month. Pons de Vier spent about 18 years at Salomon, starting in 1996 in marketing for snowboarding products. He was leading strategic business development for Salomon's winter ...
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Wolverine Worldwide announced that Gene McCarthy, who has been president...
Wolverine Worldwide announced that Gene McCarthy, who has been president of the Merrell brand since August 2013, has left the company. His functions are being taken over on a temporary basis by Jim Gabel, president of the company's Performance Group, which also includes Chaco and Saucony. Gabel came to Wolverine ...
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Keen has hired Chris Heffernan, a seasoned executive in the...
Keen has hired Chris Heffernan, a seasoned executive in the footwear industry, as general manager of Keen Utility. Heffernan previously spent three years at Honeywell International, as general manager of safety footwear and vice president of global product. He also worked for seven years at Timberland as global brand manager ...
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Jörg Aumüller is reportedly taking over as country manager for...
Jörg Aumüller is reportedly taking over as country manager for German and Austria at Helly Hansen in the middle of May. The job was previously handled by Harry Schedlbauer, who has left in January to become global commercial manager at Atomic Austria. Aumüller has been in the outdoor and sports ...
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Dean Polic has been appointed as country manager for Mammut...
Dean Polic has been appointed as country manager for Mammut in Germany, starting from June. He has been with the company for 14 years and is currently head of marketing for the Swiss outdoor brand in Germany. His predecessor, Ernst Schweble, who has been building up Mammut in Germany since ...
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Lowa is reinforcing its investments in Asia with the appointment...
Lowa is reinforcing its investments in Asia with the appointment of Matthias Preussel in the new position of sales director for Asia-Pacific. He previously worked as head of sales at Mammut, helping to set up a Chinese subsidiary for the Swiss outdoor brand, supervising its operations in South Korea and ...
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Shiner, the U.K.-based skate specialist, has taken over the distribution...
Shiner, the U.K.-based skate specialist, has taken over the distribution of Pro-Tec's skate and bike protective gear for Europe. Known especially for its helmets, Pro-Tec was founded in 1973. As reported in Boardsportsource, it was acquired in late 2012 by DYE Precision, a company based in San Diego, which began ...
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Herman van Beveren, chief executive of Decathlon in Belgium, told...
Herman van Beveren, chief executive of Decathlon in Belgium, told the Belgian newspaper Le Soir that the French retailer could expand by another 40 stores in the small country. Decathlon has already reformed the Belgian sports retail landscape in the last years by expanding to 23 stores. The latest store, ...
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Two major foreign sports retailers are planting their stores in...
Two major foreign sports retailers are planting their stores in the Paunsdorf Center of Leipzig, according to SAZ. One is Decathlon, which has reportedly rented space in the East German shopping mall to open a 4,200-square-meter store in the autumn. The other one is A3 Sport, a Czech retailer that ...
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Hervis continues to expand outside Austria by opening its fifth...
Hervis continues to expand outside Austria by opening its fifth store in Bavaria later this year, most likely in the autumn. The discount-oriented chain has rented a 1,000-square-meter space in a shopping center in Neumarkt.
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Go Sport, the French sports retailer, is opening two more...
Go Sport, the French sports retailer, is opening two more stores in Poland, to form a network of 28 stores. Covering 1,255 square meters, the first store is located in the northern Polish town of Elbag, in the Ogrody shopping arcade. The second store of about 1,224 square meters is ...
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Marks & Spencer has reportedly teamed up with Norman Walsh...
Marks & Spencer has reportedly teamed up with Norman Walsh Footwear, an upmarket British sports footwear company with production facilities in Britain. The Daily Telegraph reports that M&S is to sell a range of eight models at about £110 per pair under its Best of British label. The tie-up will ...
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New Balance has announced plans for a flagship store on...
New Balance has announced plans for a flagship store on London's Oxford Street, which should open around the middle of next year. The store on the ultra-busy shopping street is to cover 1,200 square meters. The displays will highlight the company's innovation as well as that it manufactures in England. ...
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Rebel Sports stores in New Zealand raised their turnover by...
Rebel Sports stores in New Zealand raised their turnover by 10.9 percent to 46.7 million New Zealand dollars (€30.5m-$34.9m) in the three months ended April 26, which is the first quarter of its fiscal year. The Briscoe Group, which operates Rebel Sports stores in New Zealand, reported that same-store sales ...
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Setting the record straight after some misleading reports, Intersport Spain...
Setting the record straight after some misleading reports, Intersport Spain says its retail turnover after VAT rose slightly to €250 million in 2014 from €248 million in the previous year. The number of stores rose to 271 after 18 new openings and 17 closures. Operating profits have been improving. Like ...
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Forum Sport raised its sales by 1.98 percent to €107.1...
Forum Sport raised its sales by 1.98 percent to €107.1 million in 2014, generating a vastly improved pre-tax profit of €2.15 million. The Spanish sporting goods chain had been suffering sales declines in the previous two years.
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Liberty Ventures said that revenues from its continuing e-commerce operations...
Liberty Ventures said that revenues from its continuing e-commerce operations grew by 1 percent to $276 million in the first quarter, led by increases of $10 million at Backcountry.com as well as at Bodybuilding.com. The adjusted operating profit on these operations increased to $29 million from $22 million in the ...
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Fila Korea saw its operating income fall by 7 percent...
Fila Korea saw its operating income fall by 7 percent to 27.6 billion Korean won (€22.2m-$25.5m) in the three months ended March 31. Revenues went up by 8 percent to KRW 215.17 billion (€173.4m-$198.5m) during the period. The gross margin declined by 3.16 percentage points, down to 44.9 percent of ...
