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    Barry Bown leaves JD

    2014-06-25T00:00:00Z

    JD Sports Fashion has announced that its long-time chief executive, Barry Bown, is stepping down from its board with immediate effect, after 30 years with the company. He will remain a consultant to JD.While praising his “significant contribution to the growth and development” of the company, a public statement by ...

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    Wolverine brings in executives from Adidas and Pentland

    2014-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Wolverine Worldwide has announced three important new executive appointments including that of James D. Zwiers as president of its International Group, which it created three years ago to accelerate its global growth. While Zwiers is a company insider, the two other new executives come from important foreign groups.Zwiers has held ...

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    Samsonite acquires Gregory

    2014-06-25T00:00:00Z

    We have already reported on the development of another American brand of backpacks, High Sierra, under the ownership of Samsonite International. The international luggage giant, which has been based and publicly quoted in Hong Kong since 2010, has now signed a definitive agreement to purchase Gregory Mountain Products, a more ...

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    Global sports apparel rose by 1.8% in 2013

    2014-06-25T00:00:00Z

    The growth of the market softened from the rates of 8.1 percent and 2.6 percent recorded in 2011 and 2012, respectively, according to the annual study of the sports apparel sector conducted by Sporting Goods Intelligence. The major sporting goods companies raised their apparel revenues by only 1.8 percent to ...

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    Keen has a new president

    2014-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Steve Meineke has agreed to act as president of Keen Footwear, starting on June 1. He comes from Accell Group, the big Dutch-based bicycle manufacturing group, where he led its North American subsidiary for the past two years. He previously acted as president of Raleigh America, now a property of ...

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    Peak Performance improves margins

    2014-05-28T00:00:00Z

    IC Companys reports a 4 percent increase in the revenues of its Premium Outdoor segment, represented by Peak Performance, in the third quarter of its financial year, ended on March 31. The revenues grew at a wholesale level of 8.3 percent as compared to the corresponding period of 2013, largely ...

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    Outdoor is here to stay

    2014-05-28T00:00:00Z

    At a press conference in Prague at the end of the Czech press tour organized by Messe Friedrichshafen, Rolf Schmid, president of the European Outdoor Group, confirmed his belief that outdoor will remain a megatrend in the longer term, considering the fact that the market grew in Europe by 4 ...

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    Gore-Tex hikes with Surround into the outdoor

    2014-05-28T00:00:00Z

    The European office of W.L. Gore & Associates in Germany presented its program for the application of its “Gore-Tex Surround” technology to outdoor footwear at a meeting with key retailers and the trade press earlier this month. The Surround concept is not completely new as it has already been in ...

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    More on Timberland in Europe

    2014-05-28T00:00:00Z

    We have already reported about the 12 percent increase enjoyed by Timberland in the first quarter of this year as part of an article on VF Corporation's results for the period.As reported, sales went up by a high single digit in Europe for Timberland during the quarter. They continued to grow ...

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    FGO’s election reflects the internationalization of the market

    2014-05-28T00:00:00Z

    BSI, the federation of German sporting goods manufacturers, held its annual general meeting in Nuremberg on May 9. The agenda included the regular election of board members for the association itself and for its specialty committees. The most interesting part of the process was probably the election for the presidency ...

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    Sports Direct improves results

    2014-05-28T00:00:00Z

    In a preliminary report, Sports Direct International has announced that its sales went up by 10.3 percent in the nine weeks ended March 30, reaching £360 million (€438.85m-$610.70m), while the group's gross profit rose at a higher rate of 11.5 percent to £147.0 million (€179.19m-$249.37m), delivering a gross margin of ...

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    Jarden performs differently in the U.S. and Europe

    2014-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Sales declined by 1.6 percent to $684.1 million in the Outdoor Solutions division of Jarden Corp., which comprises some 20 different sports and outdoor brands including the likes of K2, Marker, Völkl and Marmot.Because of a very cold winter, U.S. retailers readily bought the remaining winter products in Jarden's inventories, ...

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    Hi-Tec swings into the fifth decade

    2014-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Hundreds of guests assembled at the party organized in Amsterdam a few weeks ago to mark the 40 years of Hi-Tec Sports – one of the few European sports footwear companies that managed to build up a brand with global reach while still under family control.Hi-Tec said it reached flat ...

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    Spotlight on the Czech Republic

    2014-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Messe Friedrichshafen, organizer of the OutDoor show, put the spotlight on the Czech Republic earlier this month by inviting a group of journalists to a tour of the country and meetings with key executives in the Czech outdoor sector. Contacts were made with Directalpine, Gumotex, Hiko, Hudy Sport, Singing Rock ...

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    SDI gains full control over Eybl

    2014-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Sports Direct International (SDI), the big U.K.-based sporting goods retailer and wholesaler, now owns 100 percent of the shares of Sport Eybl & Sports Experts, the troubled Austrian sporting goods retailing group. It acquired a majority stake of 51 percent last summer, while the founding Eybl family retained the remaining ...

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    Camelbak redeploys international operations

    2014-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Camelbak International is closing down one of its European offices in Italy at the end of this week pending the transfer of some of its activities to another location in Europe. The move is related to a reorganization of the group's international operations that should involve a strengthening of resources ...

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    Turkish outdoor brand gears up for international sales

    2014-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Kutupayisi, a specialist outdoor retailer and distributor in Turkey, is preparing the launch of its own brand on the international market. Puhu, meaning “owl” in Turkish, is a brand of thermal sports underwear with about 50 retail customers in its own country.Puhu garments are made by an Istanbul factory that ...

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    Fyfe becomes Icebreaker's CEO

    2014-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Switching jobs with the company's founder, Rob Fyfe has been appointed chief executive of Icebreaker, the New Zealand brand that pioneered merino wool apparel 19 years ago, with effect on June 2. The founder, Jeremy Moon, is going to act as executive chairman and creative director of the company.For the ...

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    Register to attend the next EOS near Munich !

    2014-05-28T00:00:00Z

    The organizers of the second European Outdoor Summit have opened registration on its website for the event, which will take place in the panoramic lake resort of Tegernsee near Munich in a shorter version than before - from Oct. 15 at noon to 2 PM on Oct. 16. Early bird ...

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    Asics launches a trail running event

    2014-05-28T00:00:00Z

    On June 21, the longest day of the year, Asics will be hosting “Outrun the Sun,” a race for two teams of trail runners who will attempt to race against nature and outrun the sun, as the name suggests. The athletes will have 15 hours, 41 minutes and 35 seconds ...