Suppliers – Page 20
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German sporting goods suppliers and retailers are gearing up for...
German sporting goods suppliers and retailers are gearing up for the introduction of amended regulations on packaging that will come into effect at the beginning of next year. The BSI, the trade organization for German suppliers, has sealed a central agreement that will enable its members to efficiently obtain licenses ...
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FIFAS, the association of French sporting goods suppliers, has teamed...
FIFAS, the association of French sporting goods suppliers, has teamed up with the organizers of a new fair to promote sports and leisure activities in France. Called Bougez! ("Get moving!"), the fair will be held in Paris next June 12-14 to promote fun sports and nature-oriented sports activities. Instead of ...
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Amer Acquires Bulgarian Ski Supplier
Amer Sports has acquired the assets of Pamporovo Ski, a Bulgarian ski manufacturer that has been working for Atomic in different ways since 1980, for about €5 million. The exact amount will depend on the working capital when the transaction closes before the end of this year. Pamporovo’s current management, ...
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Suppliers And Retailers Deliver Good Results In Sweden For 2007
The small and medium brands have won market share from the big players in the Swedish wholesale sporting goods market, which grew last year by an average 8.4 percent according to Sportfack, the Swedish trade magazine. At the retail level Naturkompaniet, the specialist in outdoor products, delivered record ...
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Eurojersey, a major supplier of fabrics to the sports apparel...
Eurojersey, a major supplier of fabrics to the sports apparel sector under the Sensitive brand name, has inaugurated a new distribution center of 4,000 square meters at Caronno Pertusella, Italy, that should provide faster and more flexible logistics. It has a capacity for 4 million meters of finished fabrics. A ...
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Stride Rite Europe has opened its new logistic and customer...
Stride Rite Europe has opened its new logistic and customer service center at Heerhugowaard near Amsterdam. With a capacity to stock 300,000 pairs of shoes in a first phase, it will service the markets of Germany, the Benelux countries, Austria, the U.K. and Poland. A team of 20 people is ...
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Adidas has announced a contract to be the official supplier...
Adidas has announced a contract to be the official supplier to the England teams of the England and Wales Cricket Board for the next five years, replacing Admiral. The deal follows more than 18 months of research and development into a new kit that incorporates various Adidas technologies including ClimaCool, ...
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Erima makes a comeback in German football sponsorships as supplier...
Erima makes a comeback in German football sponsorships as supplier of the TSV 1860 München team from next summer on. The German brand, a former property of Adidas, has been in the past the sponsor of the German national football team and of high-caliber clubs such as Schalke 04, Borussia ...
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Technogym has been named the exclusive supplier of training equipment...
Technogym has been named the exclusive supplier of training equipment for athletes at the Olympic Games in Beijing. This marks the fourth time that the Italian company has been chosen to supply equipment for the games, following Sydney in 2000, Athens in 2004 and Turin in 2006. Its equipment will ...
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Nike’s logistic center for European, Middle Eastern and African (EMEA)...
Nike’s logistic center for European, Middle Eastern and African (EMEA) region, located in Laakdal, Belgium, officially opened a few weeks ago a new distribution center for equipment and accessories, enlarging the capacity of the whole complex by some 30,000 square meters. The construction of the new equipment distribution center began ...
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Puma, which will be the official kit supplier to 15...
Puma, which will be the official kit supplier to 15 national athletic teams at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, has just opened its first concept store in China. Located in Beijing like the flagship store already opened by Nike and the flagship due to be opened by Adidas, it will be ...
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Acting through M&S Market Service, the new consultancy of Markus...
Acting through M&S Market Service, the new consultancy of Markus Zaversnik, X-Action Function Wear has signed multiple distribution agreements since the launch of its international project in February 2007. The Austrian sock and functional wear manufacturer is now represented by Web Sport in Russia, Woodland in Greece, Skodsborg Sport in ...
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Go Sport Will Work With Fewer Suppliers
Groupe Go Sport will continue to reduce the number of SKUs and suppliers, currently consisting of 600 different companies. However François Neukirch, a former Décathlon executive who launched its Quechua and Tribord private labels and joined the French retailer as its new chief executive a few days ago, did not ...
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Cintamani, an Icelandic supplier of outdoor apparel, is going to...
Cintamani, an Icelandic supplier of outdoor apparel, is going to present a special footwear collection at the Friedrichshafen OutDoor show next month. The shoes feature “Green Diamond,” a new sole marketed by an Icelandic-Chinese company. The rubber contains industrial diamonds to increase the grip of the sole. The Icelandic company ...
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Scan Trade, one of the major suppliers of sporting goods...
Scan Trade, one of the major suppliers of sporting goods in Norway and Denmark, has become the biggest factor on the Norwegian market at the wholesale level through the acquisition of Ramo AS, the exclusive importer of Atomic, Nordica, Rollerblade and Scott in the country. The takeover will lift its ...
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One of the suppliers of Sergio Tacchini is said to...
One of the suppliers of Sergio Tacchini is said to be negotiating the acquisition of a certain portion of the company’s assets. The new candidate to the acquisition is reportedly Hembly, a Chinese company quoted on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The new scenario follows the apparent break-up of previous ...
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Blacks Antagonizes Suppliers
Several weighty suppliers are terminating their relationships with Blacks Leisure, apparently due to some tightened purchasing conditions that the British outdoor retailer sought to impose earlier this year in an effort to redress its sagging margins. Mountain Boot Co., the British distributor for Deuter backpacks and Scarpa climbing shoes, ...
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GolfStore Group and some leading suppliers, such as Acushnet and...
GolfStore Group and some leading suppliers, such as Acushnet and Callaway Golf, are working together with the Swedish Golf Federation on a project to stimulate participation in golf in reaction to the recent decline in the number of registered players. Together they are considering the organization in the Spring of ...
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Sympatex, the German supplier of membranes and other fibers and...
Sympatex, the German supplier of membranes and other fibers and fabrics, has created the position of a head of footwear at its new headquarters in Munich. The role is being assumed by Bernd Klink, who has been representing lately the Norwegian Viking brand of footwear on the German market. He ...
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Décathlon has decided to set up a new international logistic...
Décathlon has decided to set up a new international logistic platform at Dourges, bordering the A1 highway 20 kilometers south of Lille where its campus is based. It will be housed in a 51,000-square-meter building that is expected to come on stream in December 2008, employing up to 300 people ...
