News Briefs – Page 624
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YKK, the world's largest manufacturer of zippers, is reportedly planning...
YKK, the world's largest manufacturer of zippers, is reportedly planning to invest $88 million in its Vietnamese factory to raise its annual production by 30 percent to 10 billion units by the end of 2016 and to double it by 2017. The additional capacity will become available by November 2015 ...
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Fox Factory is set to purchase Race Face and with...
Fox Factory is set to purchase Race Face and with it, Easton's bicycle components business. Race Face purchased Easton in April this year. Race Face/Easton designs, manufactures, and distributes globally high-performance wheels for mountain and road bikes as well as other high-performance cycling components including bars, cranks, stems and seat ...
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Reed Business, a division of Reed Elsevier, has announced plans...
Reed Business, a division of Reed Elsevier, has announced plans to sell Bike Europe and 16 other B2B titles to B+B Vakmedianet, a Dutch publishing house. The decision is meant to allow Reed to focus on data and information solutions, the company said, as it is increasingly moving from digital ...
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Makalot, the Taiwan-based sportswear supplier, has announced a three-year plan...
Makalot, the Taiwan-based sportswear supplier, has announced a three-year plan to invest between $10 million and $15 million building two textile plants in Vietnam, one in northern Vietnam and one in the south. Both are scheduled to start operations in the first quarter of 2016. According to reports in The ...
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Nicolas Pelletier is set to replace Stéphane Saigre in March...
Nicolas Pelletier is set to replace Stéphane Saigre in March as general manager of Décathlon France, according to sport-guide.com. Pelletier has been involved with Décathlon's private running brand, Kalenji, since its launch ten years ago. He has been the brand's manager for the past six years. Saigre, who has been ...
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Massimo Fregonese, who resigned six months ago as international sales...
Massimo Fregonese, who resigned six months ago as international sales and marketing director of Camelbak, has joined Masters in the new role of brand director, charged of developing the Italian brand of ski, trekking and Nordic walking poles, and to increase its international presence. Masters is already a leader in ...
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Nike has announced that Tom Peddie will become vice president...
Nike has announced that Tom Peddie will become vice president and general manager of the emerging markets regions. He will replace Roland Wolfram who has decided to retire from Nike on Jan. 9, 2015, after 16 years with the company. Peddie will report to Elliott Hill, president of geographies and ...
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Patrick Boom has been appointed global director of marketing and...
Patrick Boom has been appointed global director of marketing and e-commerce for Hi-Tec and Magnum. He has been running Clockwork, an advertising agency specializing in digital marketing and based in the Netherlands. He has participated in the development of global marketing campaigns for brands such as Ikea, McDonalds and Senseo.
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Sunice has appointed Marc Gagnier vice president of marketing. The...
Sunice has appointed Marc Gagnier vice president of marketing. The 52-year-old joins the Canadian company after working on advertising campaigns for several accounts including Coca-Cola, McDonalds, The Home Depot, Molson, Nike, Ubisoft, Bombardier Aircraft and L'Oreal. He was most recently managing director of the Publicis agency in Montreal.
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Nelson Chan, a former chief executive of Magellan, has been...
Nelson Chan, a former chief executive of Magellan, has been appointed to Deckers Brands' board of directors, replacing Maureen Conners. Chan is currently chairman of Outerwall, the company behind the well-known Redbox and Coinstar operations. He acts as chairman or director at various other companies including Synaptics, described as a leading developer ...
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Ward Collins has been appointed by Icebug to the newly created...
Ward Collins has been appointed by Icebug to the newly created position of U.S. national sales and key project manager, in response to the Swedish company's continued growth in the U.S. market. He reports to Evan Wert, president of Icebug USA. Collins comes from a shoe insole company, Superfeet, where he worked for ...
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Kelly Slater, the famous surf champion, and his team have...
Kelly Slater, the famous surf champion, and his team have announced a raft of new collaborators who will be involved in the development and launch of his new brand of contemporary ready-to-wear, Outerknown. With the support of the Kering group, parent company of Puma and Volcom, it will start with ...
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Sanuk, a division of Deckers Brands, has announced that Jeff...
Sanuk, a division of Deckers Brands, has announced that Jeff Kelley, founder of the Sanuk brand, will be moving from an active role at the brand at the end of the year. Kelley said he will be pursuing his next entrepreneurial venture, TeaofaKind.com, a company that uses technology to allow ...
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Moncler has announced the departure of its general manager, Monica...
Moncler has announced the departure of its general manager, Monica Sottana, for personal reasons, effective January 2015. The executive will continue to collaborate with the brand as a consultant “on important projects for the group's business,” the group said. Remo Ruffini, Moncler's chief executive, will serve as interim manager until ...
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Speedo has extended its distribution agreement with Oberalp to cover...
Speedo has extended its distribution agreement with Oberalp to cover the markets of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, starting next July 1. The Italian company, which has sales subsidiaries in Poland and the Czeck Republic, started distributing Speedo in Italy in 2007 and extended the deal to Germany ...
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Xavier and David Berneda, the two Spanish brothers who own...
Xavier and David Berneda, the two Spanish brothers who own the Munich brand of sneakers, have set up a new distribution company, Bernher, to distribute Jaked, the Italian brand of high-tech swimwear, on the Spanish market. Eduardo Loriente, who ran Jaked's former distributor, Aquatic Global Sports, has joined Bernher.
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Snow Factory is taking on the distribution of Stöckli in...
Snow Factory is taking on the distribution of Stöckli in Spain and Andorra, starting on Jan. 1. At the same time, it is stopping the distribution of the various product lines of K2 Sports, except for Zoot, reportedly because the American group wanted to see an increase in the volumes ...
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Cisalfa Sport has launched a new retail concept, called Cisalfa...
Cisalfa Sport has launched a new retail concept, called Cisalfa 2.0, intended to place more emphasis on the product and to provide a more emotive shopping experience. It is starting off with a store located at 18 Corso Vercelli in Milan. It replaces a former Germani Sport owned by the ...
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New Balance has inaugurated a 1,500-square-meter flagship store in Madrid,...
New Balance has inaugurated a 1,500-square-meter flagship store in Madrid, taking the place of an old jewelry shop at 15, Gran Via. In addition to an actual retail store, it features a museum with samples of historic styles, a coffee shop and a running club.
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Rossignol has opened a pop-up store in a Paris museum,...
Rossignol has opened a pop-up store in a Paris museum, the Grand Palais, to showcase a new, elegant line of urban clothing to promote its development in the sector. The store is set against the backdrop of a large ice skating rink that will remain in place for the holidays ...
