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Ecco: Michael Waack is Head of Global Golf
Michael Waack is the new Head of Global Golf and in this function responsible for branding, retail, and sales. The 50-year-old oscillates between the Danish headquarters in Tønder and the German headquarters in Hamburg. In 2006, Ecco made a turnover of altogether 600 million Euro.
Skechers: New sports shoes brand for women
Skechers, supplier of trendy shoes, has a new sports shoes brand especially for women in its portfolio. The company has taken over right now the licence of Bebe, an American producer and retailer of fashionable and sportive clothing and accessories. The Bebe-sports shoes should be distributed in North America by the shops managed by Bebe itself and worldwide in selected sports and fashion shops. Bebe runs 280 shops in North America, among them 58 sports shops and an online shop.
Odlo opens second store in Germany
In Hamburg, the Swiss function wear supplier Odlo opens on February 28 a store which will be managed by the brand itself. The shop has a selling area of 140 square metres and is located in the shopping centre Europa Passage in the city. Hamburg is after Leipzig the second city in Germany to boast such a large Odlo store. Further shops like this are planned Europe-wide.
Jarden is satisfied: Marker & Völkl
Jarden Corporation, parent company of Coleman and Camping Gaz, will certainly not regret its entrance into the ski business by the takeover of K2: despite the bad season the business endured in 2007, Völkl stays worldwide the number four with 400.000 pairs of skis sold, while market share increase from 10 to 11 per cent. Marker holds number two with more than a million sold binding units (behind Tyrolia). In the USA, Marker is market leader and Völkl number two.
Intersport: With Salomon in the cross-country ski run
Since 2004, Intersport has used the binding system SNS for its private cross-country skiing brand Tecno Pro. This contract was prolonged until 2010. The partnership relates on the binding as well as on the corresponding sole technology. Salomon also agreed a similar contract with Sport 2000 for their brand V3Tech.
Odlo: Turnover hold
The Swiss functional wear specialist Odlo made a worldwide turnover of about 140 million CHF (88 million Euro) in 2007. This number includes also the business with Bjørn Dæhlie, whose licence was given back to the eponym by the end of the year. Odlo values the stable turnover in a positive sense because of the past difficult winter, which had a negative impact on their cross-country skiing business, a very important market for Odlo. The deficits in the Nordic sector could be compensated by the summer business.
Erima: Two-digit increase in all countries
Team sports supplier Erima (Pfullingen/Germany) achieved the best result of its company history in 2007; overall turnover increased nearly 10 per cent, up to almost 47 million Euro.
Head: Body and swim wear collection
At the Winter Ispo in Munich, Head presented its first body- and swimwear collection. Licensee of the products is the Italian producer Trerè Hosiery Innovation Srl (Asola) which will distribute them worldwide. All parts of the collection (bodywear, swimwear, and comfortable socks) are cut anatomically and equipped with antibacterially affecting silver fibres.
Arc'teryx: Reto Tischhauser new Brand Manager Europe
Reto Tischhauser is the new Brand Manager Europe for Arc'teryx. The 43-year-old replaces Gary Bryant who went as Vice President to the headquarters in Vancouver. Tischhauser is very familiar with the brand, because he represented it lately in Austria and in Switzerland. His office stays in Zurich.
Fischer: Decrease in turnover
Gregor Dietachmayr, General Manager of Fischer, forecasts only an overall turnover of 120 million Euro (previous year: 159.4 million Euro), which means a drop of 25 per cent.
The worldwide decreases of alpine skis are very painful: their volume reduced supposedly from 4.6 million pairs (2005/06) down to 4 million pairs (2006/07) and at the moment down to 3.4 million pairs. More dramatic is the situation of cross-country skis: 1.9 million pairs in 2005/06, 1.2 million pairs in 2006/07 and 1.4 million pairs this winter season.
