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[12 Feb 2010]
Intersport UK and Allied Partners are to merge from April 1.
[12 Feb 2010]
Terry Sands has successfully completed a management buy out of Samurai Sportswear.
[28 Jan 2010]
2009 really was the year of the deal. Supermarkets were packed with consumers picking up endless two-for-one offers, while business was brisk for food discounted as it reached its sell-by date.
[15 Dec 2009]
The Association for Professional Sales Agents (Sports and Leisure Industries) is organising a trip for its members to attend the ISPO show in Munich from the 7th -10th February 2010.
[03 Dec 2009]
Blacks has finalised the terms of a restructuring plan that has saved 4,000 jobs, although the British Property Federation has complained that landlords had very choice in the matter.
[12 Nov 2009]
Partridge of Redditch has been under the wing of Mustad of Norway for the past thirteen years, however they have decided to sell the brand in order to focus on their core business.
[01 Oct 2009]
Blacks is to close 89 loss-making stores and make 50 people redundant at its Northampton head office as part of a restructuring plan that it hopes will be acceptable to the company’s bank.
[12 Aug 2009]
The Office of Fair Trading has referred Sports Direct’s acquisition of 31 JJB Sports stores to the Competition Commission
[06 Aug 2009]
Ever keen to support initiatives that aim to increase physical activity in the UK, the FSPA has recently written to David Lewis, chairman of the Public Health Commission, and Andrew Lansley MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Health, in support of the Conservative Party’s Public Health Commission’s recommendation to cut VAT on sports goods to encourage the public to take up more exercise and thereby improve their health.
[05 Aug 2009]
adidas has posted a 93 per cent drop in group net income for the second quarter of 2009. Profits fell to nine million euros (£7.6million), compared to 116million euros for the same period last year.
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