Luxottica Group reported for a second straight quarter that strong performance in its wholesale division, which includes Southern California-based Oakley, helped propel improved sales for the Italian eyewear company. Overall net sales ...
Tags: eyewear, Light Industry
Beck's Beer, the most popular German beer brand in the world and longtime friend of the arts, has unveiled the six original pieces of artwork that will comprise the 2013 Beck's Art Labels project. Each year, Beck's selects six artists, ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Beer Labels, Label
Smith Optics has made some staff changes in its sales and product development departments. Lindsey Johnson has been appointed to international business development manager for Smith Optics, reporting to Blair Clark, Smith's senior VP of ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
Easton-Bell Sports has hired some new faces and promoted some current employees in its Bell/Blackburn business unit. The company has hired Andrew McSorley as director of product marketing for the Bell bike division. McSorley will be ...
Tags: Bell&Blackburn, Transportation
Italian eyewear company Luxottica Group reported this month that first-quarter sales for its wholesale division — in which Southern California-based Oakley is a key brand — jumped 7.5 percent compared with a year earlier to 781 ...
Tags: Transportation
A new survey carried out by PriceGrabber.co.uk illustrates that the way we buy fashion has evolved with nearly half of all of respondents (47%), admitting that they now buy the majority of their fashion online. Conducted from March 12 to ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories
Gordon Campbell-Kelly brings years of industry and retail experience to his new family-oriented shop on the Island of Montreal, Golden Sports. He got his start as a tech at Giant by Teal Sport in Quebec and worked for numerous other shops ...
Tags: Quebec Shop Golden Sports, bike
Worldwide shipments of computerized smart glasses are expected to hit nearly 10 million units by 2016, largely driven Google's Glass project, a research firm said. That's an impressive number considering that Google's Glass eyewear, the ...
Tags: Smart Glass, Computer Products
Lapierre, a French bike brand with little presence in North America currently, will become "the premiere performance brand" within the newly formed Accell North America, the company said this week. The new North American Accell group's ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
Oakley is introducing a new downhill mountain biking goggle that will be used by world Downhill champion Greg Minnaar at the Sea Otter Classic this week. The new goggles, called the Airbrake MX, feature a new lens technology using ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
The Spring/Summer 2014 Los Angeles International Textile Show (LA TEXTILE) took place February 25 - 27, 2013 at the California Market Center (CMC) with a solid flow of traffic that included an array of prominent designers, manufacturers and ...
Tags: LA TEXTILE, textile, trim, luxe, décor
Logicalis has agreed to acquire four European subsidiaries of the defunct computer services company 2e2 for €24m (£20.7m). The managed services provider will acquire the Spanish and Irish systems integration businesses, which ...
Bust computer services company 2e2 outsourced large amounts of the data it was managing for clients to third-parties, raising question marks over the due diligence that companies need to perform before putting data and applications "in the ...
Tags: computer service, 2e2, datacentre business
SAP consultancy G3 Global has completed a cash-funded acquisition of former 2e2 company Diagonal Consulting. Diagonal was founded in 1986. It is a systems integrator that provides SAP implementation and consulting services for customers ...
Tags: SAP, G3 Global, acquisition, Diagonal Consulting
The datacentre business of bankrupt 2e2 has been acquired by Oakley Capital Private Equity in an eleventh hour deal. The acquisition will save existing users from either having to pay up to keep the datacentre going or migrating to an ...