News Briefs – Page 606
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Mark Kaiway, president of Mizuno Italia, will also supervise Mizuno...
Mark Kaiway, president of Mizuno Italia, will also supervise Mizuno Iberia, the new subsidiary established in May 2013 for the Spanish and Portuguese markets. The Iberian operation, which is said to have been commercially successful, was previously supervised from the U.K. Kaiway is a 26-year veteran of the Japanese group. ...
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Nixon has promoted Tom Jones to the new position of...
Nixon has promoted Tom Jones to the new position of vice president of global marketing and creative. He was previously the creative director of the brand, formerly controlled by Billabong International. Before joining Nixon in 2014, Jones spent about 20 years in the action sports industry, working in executive creative ...
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Nick Meistrell has been appointed by Body Glove as social...
Nick Meistrell has been appointed by Body Glove as social media and content manager, reporting to Scott Daly, vice president of marketing. Meistrell comes to the company with more ten years of experience in marketing. He worked most recently at Freestyle Watches. He has been a freelance photographer for clients ...
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Hugo Boss is getting a sportier twist. Shareholders of the...
Hugo Boss is getting a sportier twist. Shareholders of the German fashion company are expected to elect a new chairman for its supervisory board, Michel Perraudin, at the company's annual meeting on May 12. Perraudin, 68, is the former member of Adidas' executive board who acted as president of the ...
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Sports Direct International (SDI), the leading British sports retailer and...
Sports Direct International (SDI), the leading British sports retailer and wholesaler, is to launch a range of apparel under the Tony Hawk brand online and its own stores around Europe later this year, under a licensing agreement with Cherokee Global Brands, the owner of the label. The range is named ...
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Arnold Sports is taking over the distribution of Skins compression...
Arnold Sports is taking over the distribution of Skins compression garments in Germany and Austria, starting this month. The Swiss-Australian brand was previously handling these territories directly, but apparently with a concentration on the southern part of Germany. Thomas Hieble, European export manager of Skins, will continue to coordinate distributors ...
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Tifosi Optics, the American producer of sports eyewear, has hired...
Tifosi Optics, the American producer of sports eyewear, has hired a Dutch company, Kruitbosch, to be its exclusive distributor for the Benelux countries, Kruitbosch has been a major supplier and distributor of bicycles, parts and accessories to bike specialty shops in the Benelux countries. Specializing in cycling, running and other ...
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Sweaty Betty, the British brand of activewear, has opened its...
Sweaty Betty, the British brand of activewear, has opened its first U.S. concession at the Bloomingdale's flagship store in Manhattan. The British brand moved into the U.S. market in 2012 when it opened stores in the Soho district of New York City and in Greenwich, Connecticut. A third standalone store ...
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Lyle & Scott has introduced Iconeme's beacon technology to the...
Lyle & Scott has introduced Iconeme's beacon technology to the mannequins in its flagship store on Carnaby Street in London. Customers download the Iconeme app on their mobile and once they have turned on Bluetooth, their smartphone can trigger beacons from a distance of up to 30 meters to receive ...
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Himaraya, the big Japanese sporting goods retail chain, reported a...
Himaraya, the big Japanese sporting goods retail chain, reported a 72 percent increase in net income to 225 million yen (€1.8m-$1.9m) for the six months ended Feb. 28. Sales rose by 4 percent to ¥34.6 billion (€274.1m-$290.0m). The gross margin improved by 1.1 percentage points to 37.4 percent, but operating ...
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Pou Sheng International, one of the two leading Chinese retailers...
Pou Sheng International, one of the two leading Chinese retailers of sports apparel and footwear, saw its sales increase by 23.9 percent to $580.5 million for the first three months of the year. The month of March alone yielded a sales increase of 16.7 percent to $197.2 million. Several Chinese ...
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Giant Manufacturing's revenues grew by 11 percent to 60.22 billion...
Giant Manufacturing's revenues grew by 11 percent to 60.22 billion Taiwanese dollars (€1,807m-$1,928m) last year. Unit shipments reached 6.6 million bicycles. The company is forecasting a sales increase of between 5 and 10 percent for this year.
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Marta Mercador is the new secretary general of Afydad, the...
Marta Mercador is the new secretary general of Afydad, the Spanish sporting goods industry association, from this month, taking the place of Paola Cobos. Mercador has collected experience in the organization of international trade shows and trade missions. Notably, she has worked for more than ten years in export promotion ...
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The Australian government has launched a new program, Play.Sport.Australia, to...
The Australian government has launched a new program, Play.Sport.Australia, to encourage more people to practice sports in a country where some 13,000 people die each year due to physical inactivity and where one-quarter of the children are overweight or obese. Australia's Ministry for Health & Sport wants to conduct a ...
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Helen Ford, formerly at Pentland Brands and Li & Fung,...
Helen Ford, formerly at Pentland Brands and Li & Fung, has been appointed from the start of April as the Asia director of the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI), based in Hong Kong. Ford spent many years at the Pentland Group, as a supply chain director and ...
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The German Supreme Court, the Bundesgerichtshof, has ruled in favor...
The German Supreme Court, the Bundesgerichtshof, has ruled in favor of Puma in its case against a company selling tee-shirts under the Pudel brand name, according to ispo.com. The name was accompanied by a logo that was meant to represent a jumping poodle but was clearly reminiscent of Puma's leaping ...
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Adidas has sued Marc Jacobs in an Oregon court for...
Adidas has sued Marc Jacobs in an Oregon court for the designer's use of four parallel stripes along the sleeves of some knitted garments. Adidas claims that they are confusingly similar to the three stripes used in two garments designed in cooperation with Yohji Yamamoto for its own Y-3 line.
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Fila USA has reached a settlement with Converse, joining H&M,...
Fila USA has reached a settlement with Converse, joining H&M, Ralph Lauren, Tory Burch, the Aldo Group and three other alleged infringers of the trademark rights related to its Chuck Taylor All Star collection of sneakers. The action is a response to a complaint filed by Converse last October with ...
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VF Corp. has struck a strategic partnership with FibeRio Technology...
VF Corp. has struck a strategic partnership with FibeRio Technology Corporation for the joint development of proprietary, high-performance nanofiber materials for the group's apparel, footwear and jeanswear. VF notes that FibeRio's Forcespinning technology has the unique advantage of producing advanced nanofiber textiles in high volumes, using a melt spinning process ...
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Jack Nicklaus, the famous American golf player who was nicknamed...
Jack Nicklaus, the famous American golf player who was nicknamed the Golden Bear, received a Congressional Gold Medal in the U.S. Capitol's Rotunda in Washington on March 24. Meanwhile, Allen Edmonds, a leading American manufacturer of goodyear-welted men's shoes, has put out a Jack Nicklaus Signature Collection of four styles ...
