German Intersport is more creative than ever
Intersport Germany has won the creativity award of ZGV, the country’s federation of buying groups and cooperatives. ZGV awarded the buying and franchising group because of its initiatives for better quality, service, advice and a reasonable value-for-money ratio. Intersport won over two other nominees, Garant Möbel and Noweda, which are cooperatives of furniture retailers and...
Franz Julen, Intersport chief, wins Best of the Alps award
Franz Julen, chief executive of Intersport International Corporation (IIC), has won the “Best of the Alps” award for 2012. The prize goes to personalities for their outstanding achievements in sports, tourism and the cultural and political life in the European Alps. Julen will receive the award during a ceremony in Munich on July 10, attended...
Franz Julen stays at Intersport
The board of management of Intersport International Corporation (IIC) has extended the appointment of Franz Julen as the buying group’s chief executive until the end of 2018. Julen has been in charge at IIC’s head office in Bern since April 2000, overseeing a period of swift expansion for the buying group, in its existing...
German Intersport appoints new management for its Voswinkel chain
Due to the retirement of Klaus-Jürgen Caspar, Intersport Germany has restructured the leadership of its wholly owned chain Intersport Voswinkel: The group has brought back on board Jochen Schnell, who was head of the chain between 1998 and 2008. Since then he has served as managing director of Christ, a leading German jewelry retail chain....
Intersport invests in the future of top German athletes
Intersport Germany has donated €11,000 to Deutsche Sporthilfe (“German sports aid”), a nonprofit foundation that supports athletes and hopeful talents who may make it onto the stage at the Olympics or other top sports events. Since 1967, Deutsche Sporthilfe has supported 44,000 athletes with money (though until 1990 only West German sports enthusiasts benefited). Ninety...
Intersport moves into Lebanon
Intersport is moving into Lebanon through a license agreement with ABC, a strongly established Lebanese retail group. Owned at a majority by the Fadel family, ABC operates its own shopping centers and department stores. The company already is a master franchisee of international brands from Tommy Hilfiger to Caroll, Kookai and Desigual. The agreement with Intersport...
French Intersport posts healthy growth
Intersport France reached sales of €1,298 million at retail prices in 2011, 5.4 percent more than in the previous year. Because of the lack of snow, the 187 stores located in the ski resorts suffered a decline of a little less than 2 percent. The other 366 doors, 15 of which are in Belgium, saw...
Euretco is set to get the Dutch Intersport license
There is nothing official yet, but according to Dutch officials involved in the transaction, Euretco and Intres, the Dutch buying groups that run the Sport 2000 and Intersport banners in the Netherlands, respectively, have firmed up plans to retain Intersport as their only joint licensed banner if their intended merger is approved in the coming...
Dutch buying groups merge
Euretco and Intres, the Dutch buying groups that handle the Sport 2000 and Intersport banners in the Netherlands, respectively, said they have come to an agreement for their intended merger. As reported in SGI Europe, talks started last year for a tie-up that would form a mighty partnership in the tight Dutch sports market, competing...
Intersport becomes main partner of OM team
Olympique de Marseille, or OM, ranks as the French football club that has the largest number of fans - a total of 14 million – and that sells the highest number of replica shirts – an average of 400,000 per season over the last two years. The shirts will continue to be supplied by Adidas, whose logo...
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