Performance Days launches a virtual side show 365 days a year
Performance Days, the twice-annual workshop for performance fabrics, went online last Friday, allowing product managers, designers and other interested parties to access the exhibitors’ information 365 days a year. Their virtual stand will be updated every six months. For the visitors, the registration process is free of charge. Visitors of the new virtual WTP Fair...
Lyle & Scott hires fashion designer
Lyle & Scott, the British golf apparel brand, has recruited a resolutely fashion-oriented designer to supervise two of its ranges from April. The company hired Carolyn Massey, an award-winning designer, who will focus on Lyle & Scott’s vintage and heritage lines. This comes as the Scotland-based golf brand continues to expand with its urban and fashion...
Basicnet expands in Russia
Basicnet is introducing K-Way to the Russian market via an agreement with Bosco di Ciliegi, the big company of Mikhail Kusnirovich that represents many Italian fashion brands in his country. The collaboration has started with the sale of K-Way’s spring/summer 2012 line in the Vesna shopping center, in the Novi Arbat district of Moscow. Marco...
Sports Direct buys two young fashion brands
Sports Direct International, the largest sporting goods retailer in the U.K. and owner of many sports brands including Dunlop and Karrimor, has acquired two British young fashion brands, Firetrap and Full Circle, according to the British magazine Drapers. Bidding against its archrival, JD Sports Fashion, Sports Direct has won the race to buy their wholesale...
Roll-out of Adidas Neo stores in Germany
Adidas is opening today its first Neo store in Germany, according to Textilwirtschaft, the German trade publication for the fashion business. Located in Hamburg, the store should be the first of a series, ending in mid-May. New Neo stores will open in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Berlin, Oberhausen, Nuremberg, Cologne and Stuttgart. With its Neo concept, the...
Adidas manager becomes boss of Peak Performance
Effective May 1, Henrik Bunge will be the new chief executive of Peak Performance. The 38-year-old currently acts as the managing director of Adidas Group Nordic. Adidas has yet to name a successor to Bunge. The appointment of Bunge at Peak Performance came after the Swedish brand had recruited Tobias Sachs for the position of...
Sports Direct catches Hot Tuna
Sports Direct International, the leading sports retailer and wholesaler in the U.K., is about to acquire Hot Tuna, the brand of surf apparel. SDI will pay £950,000 (€1.14m-$1.46m) in cash. Hot Tuna has been for sale since November, when it became known that sales had dropped by 58 percent to £210,000 (€252,678-$322,795) in the fiscal...
Peuterey gets the Post Card license
The Peuterey Group has reportedly signed a three-year licensing deal for Post Card, the Italian brand of luxury women’s snow wear, with an option to purchase it. Previously owned by Belfe, the brand has been the property of Alfredo Cionti’s Avirex Group since 2008. Avirex, which has since changed its name to Gruppo Cionti, subsequently...
Sportalm opens new stores
Sportalm, the Austrian brand of high-end skiwear and fashionable clothing, is about to expand its network of retail franchises with a new store in Bensheim, Germany, which is set to open by the end of February. Simultaneously, it has opened a new Sportalm store on two floors in Mayrhofen in Zillertal, the well-known Austrian ski...
Clouds will overshadow the autumn/winter 2013/14 sports collections
The IDEAS network of active sports designers has completed its color forecast for the autumn/winter 2013/14 season. The central theme is “clouds” – reflecting the uncertainty of the weather and the pervasive digital world. Both are intangible. There are contrasts and connections between the virtual and natural worlds. Shades of grey and red are among...
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