All Corporate articles – Page 67
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POW of Seattle has acquired Holden Outerwear, another American company...
POW of Seattle has acquired Holden Outerwear, another American company that was founded by a professional snowboarder, Mike LeBlanc, and a designer, Scott Zergebel, to bring street fashion to a mountain environment. POW is the parent company of POW Gloves and Spacecraft Collective, a brand that stands for very artistic ...
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Sympatex Holding has completed the sale of bonds worth €13...
Sympatex Holding has completed the sale of bonds worth €13 million, with a coupon of 8 percent and maturing in five years' time. They are trading on the Open Market of the Deutsche Börse. The management says that 30 percent of the proceeds will be invested in product development and ...
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Ploucquet, an affiliate of Sympatex Holding in Germany, will move...
Ploucquet, an affiliate of Sympatex Holding in Germany, will move all activities to its production site in Zittau. In addition to the existing “Tection” division, which covers technical textiles and applications, all the activities of the “Textiles” business area, which also includes fashion textiles, will also be operated in Zittau, ...
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JD Sports Fashion, which already operates 81 Blacks and 76...
JD Sports Fashion, which already operates 81 Blacks and 76 Millets outdoor stores in the U.K., is acquiring a controlling stake in Tiso Group, the largest outdoor retailer in Scotland, from the Tiso family, which will continue to be involved with a minority stake. Chris Tiso will remain as chief ...
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Equip Outdoor Technologies, the British company that owns Rab and...
Equip Outdoor Technologies, the British company that owns Rab and Lowe Alpine, has reached an agreement to sell the Podsacs brand to Planet X, the U.K. bike maker and retailer based in Sheffield. Equip, which is based in Derbyshire, acquired the Podsacs brand in 2007 from Pete O'Donovan, a climber ...
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Sport Partner reports that Snowworld, the company behind two indoor...
Sport Partner reports that Snowworld, the company behind two indoor skiing centers in Zoetermeer and Landgraaf, at the south-eastern tip of the Netherlands, is preparing for a stock market flotation to raise €7.5 million for further expansion. All going well, Snowworld should be listed on Euronext in Amsterdam by the ...
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Amer Sports has issued a bond worth 750 million Swedish...
Amer Sports has issued a bond worth 750 million Swedish kronor (€85.4m-$115.4m) to institutional investors, with a floating rate and a loan period of five years. It will use the bond for the repayment of loans and general corporate purposes. Nordea Markets acted as the sole book-runner for the bond, ...
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Osprey Europe has adopted the iVendix B2B e-commerce platform of...
Osprey Europe has adopted the iVendix B2B e-commerce platform of CenterStone Technologies. CenterStone's B2B e-commerce platform allows customer to check out Osprey's products online and order them at any time, seven-days-a-week. They can check stock availability for orders or reorders and monitor the status of orders already placed. CenterStone's multi-language ...
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Amer also reports that a total of 19,109 shares granted...
Amer also reports that a total of 19,109 shares granted as share-based incentives were returned to Amer Sports on Nov. 7 in accordance with the terms of an incentive plan as the employment of their holders came to an end. Amer holds now a total of 982,587 shares of its ...
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Johnson Outdoors has restored quarterly dividends for the first time...
Johnson Outdoors has restored quarterly dividends for the first time since 2008. It had suspended them only one year after going public. The resumption of dividend payments comes after major restructuring efforts which have led the company to reach an operating margin of 5.2 percent for the financial year ...
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New England Footwear, parent company of GoLite, plans to take...
New England Footwear, parent company of GoLite, plans to take some manufacturing back to the U.S. for some of its technical outdoor shoes. Doug Clark, who took over the brand from Timberland in 2008, is reportedly looking for funding to set up a $5 million factory in New Hampshire that ...
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A Dutch chain of textile shops, Zeeman (=The Sailor), has...
A Dutch chain of textile shops, Zeeman (=The Sailor), has reportedly acquired a majority interest in Vrijbuiter through an investment fund, Navitas Capital. Vrijbuiter operates four outdoor megastores in the Dutch cities of Roden, Gouda, Zaandam and Roermond. It also operates what it claims to be Europe's largest online store ...
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Beyond Clothing, an American supplier of technical clothing for outdoor...
Beyond Clothing, an American supplier of technical clothing for outdoor activities and professional use, has expanded its staff and its manufacturing facilities under the management of Rick Elder. It has appointed Peter Reichel as creative director and Jill Green as outside production director. Reichel has worked for Nike, while Green ...
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Wolverine Worldwide has promoted Jodi K. Watson to the new...
Wolverine Worldwide has promoted Jodi K. Watson to the new position of president of consumer direct operations, reporting directly to Blake W. Krueger, chairman, chief executive and president of the growing American footwear group, which is committed to expanding the online and retail operations of its brands around the world. ...
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Jarden Corporation is raising the number of shares in its...
Jarden Corporation is raising the number of shares in its secondary offering from 11.6 to 15 million, priced at $47 each. The proceeds of $678.7 million, which would increase to $781.4 million if an overallotment option is exercised, would help finance the group's newly announced acquisition of Yankee Candle Investments, ...
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IC Companys, parent of Peak Performance and other sportswear brands,...
IC Companys, parent of Peak Performance and other sportswear brands, has appointed a new chief financial officer shortly after naming Mads Ryder as its chief executive officer. The new CFO is Rud Trabjerg Pedersen, who has been in charge of finance for Levi Strauss' operations in Europe, the Middle East ...
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Jack Wolfskin has appointed Philipp Prechtl to the new post...
Jack Wolfskin has appointed Philipp Prechtl to the new post of head of retail, reporting to Markus Bötsch, chief sales officer. The 35-year-old worked most recently with Ernst & Young, after acting as regional sales manager of Aldi.
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Wolverine Worldwide has appointed Gene McCarthy as president of the...
Wolverine Worldwide has appointed Gene McCarthy as president of the Merrell brand, reporting to Jim Zwiers, president of the company's Performance Group. His experience of more than 30 years in the footwear and apparel industry includes leadership roles as senior vice president of footwear at Under Armour, co-president of Timberland, ...
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Deckers Ourdoor Corporation, which had already acquired a minority stake...
Deckers Ourdoor Corporation, which had already acquired a minority stake in Hoka One One in July 2012, has bought the balance of the shares for an undisclosed amount. Jim Van Dine, president of Deckers' Ahnu and Tsubo brands, will act as president of Hoka One One. The company's founders, Jean-Luc ...
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Authentic Brands Group (ABG) has completed the acquisition of Spyder...
Authentic Brands Group (ABG) has completed the acquisition of Spyder Active Sports, the snow-wear brand from Boulder, Colorado, for an undisclosed price, from the private equity firm Apax Partners, which had bought the brand in 2004 for about $100 million. In connection with the acquisition, ABG and LF USA, the ...
