News Briefs – Page 611
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Migros has announced that it has taken over all shares...
Migros has announced that it has taken over all shares of Ryffel, the specialty running retailer. The Swiss retail chain had already acquired a majority stake from the founders, Urs and Markus Ryffel, in 2011. The brothers have now sold to Migros the remaining shares. SportXX, Migros' sporting goods chain, ...
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Skilynx, the investment company that took over the Vuarnet brand...
Skilynx, the investment company that took over the Vuarnet brand of sunglasses a few years ago, has reached an agreement to take over the rights to the Vuarnet brand for all kinds of products in an asset deal with Jean Vuarnet, the famous French ski champion, and his son ...
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Four investment funds have expressed interest in the acquisition of...
Four investment funds have expressed interest in the acquisition of Bogner, according to Reuters, but they are giving it a valuation of between €250 million and €300 million. That would be close to one year worth of revenues and ten times the company's operating profit before amortization (Ebitda), which amounted ...
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Bodybuilding.com will open next month a new fulfillment center in...
Bodybuilding.com will open next month a new fulfillment center in Dunstable, England, serving customers in the U.K. and other parts of the European Union. U.K. customers will get next-day delivery. The U.S.-based online retailer of fitness equipment has been servicing European customers from a third-party warehouse in the Netherlands, selling ...
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Boardsport Source reports that the Austrian snowboard factory of Global...
Boardsport Source reports that the Austrian snowboard factory of Global Sports Technologies (GST) will cease production at the end of July. The plant's 85 staff were apparently informed on 25 February that the activity in Antiesenhofen had become untenable because production costs are relatively high in Austria while selling prices ...
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Kinetic, a division of Kurt Manufacturing, has doubled the size...
Kinetic, a division of Kurt Manufacturing, has doubled the size of its global logistics warehouse in Minneapolis, Minnesota and has relocated its European warehouse from the Netherlands to Austria. The warehouse in Minneapolis has expanded from 3,000 square feet to 6,000 square feet. The extension was made necessary by the ...
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Mission Athletecare, the six-year-old company behind the EnduraCool line of...
Mission Athletecare, the six-year-old company behind the EnduraCool line of instant cooling towels, skull caps, sleeves and hats, has raised $35 million in new venture capital. It has also added Hap Klopp, the founder and former chief executive of The North Face, to its board of directors. The new round ...
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Following a pattern already established in China, apparel factories in...
Following a pattern already established in China, apparel factories in Vietnam reported that only half of their workers showed up on Feb. 26 to resume production after the Lunar New Year holiday, although more workers were expected to return by March 3. Vietnam exported $25.4 billion worth of textiles and ...
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A list of the factories that make apparel for the...
A list of the factories that make apparel for the Adidas Group shows that it has added one in Myanmar for the first time. Combined with low labor costs, the recent lifting of international sanctions on the country, formerly called Burma, evidently played a role. Some 2,000 workers were reported ...
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Non-executive directors at Naibu Global International, a Chinese sports footwear...
Non-executive directors at Naibu Global International, a Chinese sports footwear company listed on the AIM stock exchange for fast-growing companies in London, have lost contact with the company's chairman and chief executive. The directors reported through a stock market announcement on 18 Feb. that their enquiries to these two managers ...
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Officials of Karstadt Sports decline to confirm the reported departure...
Officials of Karstadt Sports decline to confirm the reported departure of Michael Krayledat as chief financial officer and chief operating officer of the German retail chain, which is still run by Simon Rider and controlled by Signa Holding in Vienna. Krayledat had been appointed to the post in April 2014.
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Nike said it plans to appoint Michael Spillane as vice...
Nike said it plans to appoint Michael Spillane as vice president and general manager of global footwear, effective June 1. He will report to Jeanne Jackson, Nike's president of global product and merchandising. Spillane is currently vice president and general manager of Greater China. In his new role, he will ...
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Under Armour has appointed Kip J. Fulks, one of the...
Under Armour has appointed Kip J. Fulks, one of the original founders of the company, as president of footwear and innovation. Fulks previously served as Under Armour's chief operating officer and president of product. In his new role, he will lead the global footwear product category and will also continue ...
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Nina Graf-Vlachy has been appointed as head of global strategy...
Nina Graf-Vlachy has been appointed as head of global strategy at Puma earlier this month. The 32 year-old Slovenian joined the company's global strategy team in 2013 after assignments as a project manager at the Boston Consulting Group. She takes over from Arne Freundt, who held that function for three and a ...
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Alberto Gaudioso started as sales manager emerging markets at Asics...
Alberto Gaudioso started as sales manager emerging markets at Asics Europe from the beginning of February. Taking over from Ron van der Linde, his task is to support distributors in Europe as well as subsidiaries in Russia and South Africa. Gaudioso was previously marketing manager of Asics Iberia, a job ...
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Electric has hired Etienne Pinon as sales manager for the...
Electric has hired Etienne Pinon as sales manager for the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region. Pinon brings more than 15 years of experience in the action sports industry and international sales. Most recently, he served as head of sales for Europe at Neff Headwear. Prior to that, he ...
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Marcus Wibergh, chief operating officer of XXL ASA for all...
Marcus Wibergh, chief operating officer of XXL ASA for all the Nordic countries, has been appointed as Swedish country manager of the Norwegian sports retailers. He takes the place of Lars Bengtsson, who has chosen to act as the manager at a new XXL store due to be opened in ...
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Sport Partner reports that Brunotti Europe has appointed Frank Uyt...
Sport Partner reports that Brunotti Europe has appointed Frank Uyt den Boogaard, who spent nine years dealing with marketing at Just Brands, to join the Dutch board sports company as creative marketing director from the beginning of March
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SportScheck will open a new store of 2,500 square meters...
SportScheck will open a new store of 2,500 square meters in Mönchengladbach on March 26, but it will shut down its store in Essen early next year, pulling away from the Ruhr area. With its 5,500 square meters, the store in Essen was just too big. The company hopes that ...
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Ochsner Sport, the Swiss sporting goods retailer, is to open...
Ochsner Sport, the Swiss sporting goods retailer, is to open its first store in Germany this month, in the Glacis-Galerie in Neu-Ulm, according to a report filed by the Deichmann group, the big German shoe retailer that owns Dosenbach-Ochsner in Switzerland. Oddly, the opening in that shopping gallery has already ...
