Winter Sports – Page 20
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Strong quarter for Amer in winter sports and fitness
Amer Sports ended the year with a strong quarter for its winter sports, outdoor and fitness products, which made up for weakness in the ball sports business and enabled the Finnish group to report gains in sales for the full year.The group's turnover for the quarter moved up by 4 ...
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World Snowboarding will replace the World Snowboard Tour
The World Snowboard Federation (WSF) has announced the completion of the merger with TTR Pro Snowboarding (TTR). Starting with the 2017/18 season, the merged entity will offer direct membership for the sport's stakeholders. Following the merger, the World Snowboard Tour brand name will cease to exist. All existing and future ...
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Barrabès, the Spanish outdoor and winter sports retailer, has appointed...
Barrabès, the Spanish outdoor and winter sports retailer, has appointed Jesús Ferradas as sales area manager, charged with coordinating the operations of its seven physical stores and its online store at the strategic and sales levels. He previously worked for BM Sportech, Mammut and Millet.
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De Skihut op Scheveningen, a famous retailer of winter sports...
De Skihut op Scheveningen, a famous retailer of winter sports products located in the eponymous Dutch sea resort, was declared bankrupt but was then quickly rescued by Retail Investments Beilen, reports Quote, a Dutch business magazine. The publication worked out that nearly all of the shares in Retail Investments Beilen ...
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Bronder will run Jarden’s former winter sports brands
Christoph Bronder, the executive who has apparently worked wonders with Völkl while keeping the German ski brand's production in Germany, has been named as president and chief executive of K2-MDV Holdings, the new company set up by Kohlberg & Company to group together all the winter sports brands it has ...
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Private equity firm buys Jarden's former winter sports brands
Kohlberg & Company, a U.S. private equity firm, has agreed to take over Völkl, K2, Marker and eight other winter sports brands that were put up for sale by Newell Brands, in a deal that is expected to generate proceeds of $240 million. Newell has reached a separate agreement to ...
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Greg Dacsyshyn, who has spent many years at Burton Snowboards...
Greg Dacsyshyn, who has spent many years at Burton Snowboards as its chief creative officer, is leaving the company after more than 20 years to set up his own creative agency, called Camp High. The agency will continue to set the creative direction for Burton in terms of products and ...
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Burton Snowboards, which recently won the right to trade in...
Burton Snowboards, which recently won the right to trade in France with all the products under its own name, opened its first French store in the ski resort of Avoriaz, measuring 110 square meters, on Dec. 10
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Burton is putting out a snowboard named after Muhammad Ali,...
Burton is putting out a snowboard named after Muhammad Ali, the famous boxing champion
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Nidecker group buys Flow snowboarding
The Nidecker Group has reinforced its share in the snowboarding market by taking over the brand assets of Flow Snowboarding from Flow Sports, the Californian board sports group, at an undisclosed price.The two companies said that their assets were complementary, and the tie-up will enable both of them to sell ...
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Burton Snowboards has associated itself with Black Scale, the irreverent...
Burton Snowboards has associated itself with Black Scale, the irreverent brand of casualwear, for a collection of lifestyle clothing that has just hit the market with a selective distribution. As Burton puts it, Black Scale reinterprets logos and graphics inspired by religion, politics, personal identity and death.
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Burton Snowboards's president, John Lacy, informed its 900-odd employees on...
Burton Snowboards's president, John Lacy, informed its 900-odd employees on March 16 that about 4 percent of its global staff was being laid off because of the poor snowfall in the past winter, global economic instability and a “challenged retail landscape.” The bankrupt Sports Authority chain in the U.S. owes ...
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Salomon is sponsoring a German snowboard rider, Flo Corzelius, who...
Salomon is sponsoring a German snowboard rider, Flo Corzelius, who is said to be filming a cool new movie
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Victor De La Rue, a young French freestyle snowboarder, has...
Victor De La Rue, a young French freestyle snowboarder, has found two new sponsors – The North Face and Nitro. He was recently named Rider of the Year by Snowboarder Magazine. TNF has also signed a young Swiss snowboarding champion, Estelle Balet
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The snowboard industry targets former customers
Industry experts estimate that the global snowboard market will remain more or less stable with sales of about 600,000 boards by the end of this winter season, excluding private labels and smaller snowboard brands. Adding these two factors, sales are expected to reach about one million boards. The European snowboard ...
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Nike has stopped marketing snowboarding clothing under the Nike SB...
Nike has stopped marketing snowboarding clothing under the Nike SB label, but it has signed up Chloe Kim as an ambassador. She won the gold medal in the women's snowboard superpipe at last year's X Games in Aspen.
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Burton Snowboards announced just before Christmas that it will be...
Burton Snowboards announced just before Christmas that it will be able to market all its apparel products and accessories in France under the Burton brand name. Up to now, the American brand had to label these products as B Snowboards because the rights to the brand were owned by a ...
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Julbo is supporting Snowboard Germany by supplying sunglasses and helmets...
Julbo is supporting Snowboard Germany by supplying sunglasses and helmets for the members of its national team
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Keller Sports wins prizes, adds top winter sports brands
Keller Sports, the first online retailer in Europe to have chosen a premium positioning in the market, won a couple of important prizes a few weeks ago in a prestigious contest for the “Shop Usability Award,” organized by a German retail consultancy, Shoplupe. Competing against 533 other e-commerce websites in ...
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Seth Wescott, a 39-year-old American pro snowboard rider who has...
Seth Wescott, a 39-year-old American pro snowboard rider who has collected many medals, has made an unspecified investment in Winterstick Snowboards as the American company plans to set up its first workshop to make customized snowboards. The company will transform an old barn on the western side of Sugarloaf Mountain, ...
