The search for new investors is not preventing Collective Brands, the American multi-brand group, from accelerating its efforts to expand internationally: Saucony, its specialty brand of running shoes, has picked Tavistock Group Mexico as its new distributor for the Central American country. Tavistock, which operates through 160 business units in 15 countries, will also take on the development at wholesale and retail in Mexico for Sperry Top-Sider, another brand in the Collective Brands family. Saucony has also enlisted a distributor for Uruguay, Motociclo Sports, and one for Argentina, SAV. More distribution, retail and licensing agreements have been sealed for two other brands of the group, Keds and Pro-Keds, adding altogether ten new countries including Japan, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Indonesia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
