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Sustainability – we all have a part to play.
In this first column, John Elliott of Escape Nominees urges businesses to be proactive about sustainability: With the threat of global warming becoming a bigger issue on the world, it is time businesses reacted to the problem and started the journey towards a cleaner and healthier planet.
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Team Merrell ‘thrilled with dream ride’
A dream come true is how the RCG Brands team of Hilton Brett and Ted Baldock describe the transition of the Merrell brand to a new distributor. Editor Maggie Coleman reports
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What do athletes want? Ask them!
Elite athletes are finely tuned sporting professionals where every aspect of their training and competitive regime is carefully monitored and evaluated.
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Adidas outdoor: China, here we come
Global sportswear giant Adidas is eyeing the massive potential of the Chinese outdoor marketplace and is using “the learnings” from its global outdoor launch to tackle the 3.6 billion RBM ($576 million) market there, reports Editor Maggie Coleman.
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Talking about which generation?
Social researcher Mark McCrindle says generational change from last century and cultural diversity are just two factors impacting floor stocks for sports stores.
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132 years and still going strong
Making the claim to be the world’s oldest sporting retailer is a brave one, but Mick Simmons’ “enthusiastic and involved” owner Trent Karoll qualifies the statement with “we believe.” Editor Maggie Coleman reports
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Sporting goods: on the road to recovery?
At the 2009 annual Australian Sporting Goods Association conference, the mood was decidedly positive. Can the industry build on this strength as the global economy continues to pick itself up? Samantha Schelling reports.
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Sustainability Challenge
The global sports brands are in a unique position to lead the world, internationally and locally, on sustainability and helping to save the planet. Manufacturers talk to editor Maggie Coleman about their environmental commitment.
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Archery: family sport growing fast
The Alcock & Pierce team are still finding life in the suburb of Bayswater very different to life as a retailer/wholesaler of archery and shooting based in Melbourne CBD but it certainly has its positives. So says chief executive Robert Brewer who has run the family company since 1970.
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Sports retail, starring the family De Grandi
Sports stores are often successful family businesses but the De Grandis of Geelong have made an art form of the concept.
With third and fourth generation family members actively involved and the second generation still contributing at age 84, it is the number of family members and the size of the operation which is so stand-out.
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Mark Davis: Sell more in your store
Sales are what matter most, international trainer Mark Davis told his audience of footwear retailers at the retail seminars, held in conjunction with the Australian Shoe Fair in mid-February.
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Schools supplier celebrates big 40
Adelaide-based Hughes and Loveday celebrates 40 years in business this year, and sees the milestone as an opportunity to make a little noise for a company which has been content to go about its constantly growing business quietly.
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Hart of the matter
Just one of the items in frequent use at Hart Sport is a big tub of very soapy water on the floor of one of the three warehouses, writes Maggie Coleman.
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Cashing in on the passion
Hope is a legitimate business strategy in sport, Dr Colin McLeod told the annual Sports Business Summit, with sport business “largely driven by uncertainty of outcome.”
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SWF: New world order
Water is the magic ingredient for Brisbane company Surf Wind Fire. Editor Maggie Coleman reports
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Beijing: how was it for you?
The Paralympics are currently drawing to a close in Beijing and the 2008 Summer Olympics are all over bar the shouting, with a question still remaining over who won most in this (thankfully) once every four years extravaganza.
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Street sports, social sites, being green
These are the major influences on today’s retailers, now and in the next few seasons says style gurus WGSN, and “the key directional trends to follow to get your store or your brand recognised, which is what retailing is all about.” Maggie Coleman reports
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Project Sportsmode
Trying to be all things to all men (and women and children) can be a recipe for disaster or a recipe for outstanding success. David Dodd and his team are through the survival phase and into the building phase, reports editor Maggie Coleman
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ASGA: Priorities in revenue and investment
With an income of about $300,000 – compared to the $6.26 million of ‘other industry bodies of our importance’– ASGA is ‘punching way above its weight’, says Martin Hirons
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Hong Kong's sports shoe alley
Hong Kong residents love shoes and they love to shop. So what better way to choose from the very latest in sports shoes than to visit Fa Yuen Street and see everything first? Editor Maggie Coleman checked it out
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Star tracker
Former star footballer Peter Daicos has devoted his post footy life to kids, developing training devices and kits to get them onto the field and continuing to turn up week after week to train and play. Now he launches ‘the best training devices yet’. Editor Maggie Coleman reports
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Joining up the dots
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has published its overview of Australia, looking at sport and fitness from the point of view of who plays what and when, who watches them do it and who helps out to keep the show on the road.
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Cracks in the fabric
Changes in Australia’s composition, employment patterns and lifestyle are creating substantial challenges for the sport sector, Mark Peters told the Sports Business Summit, in Sydney in late August.
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Official: It's a jungle out there
And in a jungle, all the noise and clutter compete for attention. That’s what is happening in the sport sponsorship marketplace, reports Sweeney Sports in its winter edition of the respected Sweeney Sports Report.
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