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Greaves Sports resigns as Partick Thistle retail partner


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reaves Sports has announced it will not renew its exclusive retail


partnership with SFL club Partick Thistle at the end of their four-year contract. The board of Greaves has informed


Thistle’s chairman of its intention not to renew the deal in order to give the club adequate time to fi nd an alternative partner prior to season 2013/14. One of Scotland’s leading independent sports retailers said the partnership with Thistle was an emotional arrangement more than a commercial one with managing director Sandy Greaves citing his family’s historic fondness of the club as the main motivation in fi rst establishing the deal. The partnership with Greaves has seen the club receive a guaranteed annual royalty payment which would rival any SPL club’s retail arrangement outside of the Old Firm. In addition to giving the club a designated Thistle area in its Sauchiehall Street store in Glasgow City Centre, Greaves operates


the club’s match day retail and online store. In partnership with


Puma licensee Genesis, Greaves was responsible for some of the club’s most ambitious kit launches such as the pink hooped away kit and the current purple thistle print away jersey which has almost sold out. A spokesman for Greaves Sports


said: “We would like to thank the Partick Thistle fans for their support of our business over the years, they are a tremendous group of fans and it’s been an honour to serve them. We always tried to innovate and give them something a bit diff erent from rival clubs and they bought into that. “Our kit launches have knocked the Old Firm off the back pages at times and have even made headlines in the Italian press; we’ve sent Thistle jerseys all over the world from Vegas to Vancouver and we even managed


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Mueller Present OPRO With International Distributor of the Year Award


JACK WOLFSKIN appoint Elke Stein


as the new director of marketing and product development


ISPO increase exhibitor space by 2%


for 2013. This has meant the show is fully booked two months before the show opens its doors


VF INTERNATIONAL has confirmed that


their Jansport brand will be exiting the Europe market in 2013


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t the recent Medica Show in Dusseldorf, OPRO


International’s sales director, Richard Evans, was presented by Mueller with the International Distributor of the Year Award in


recognition of the levels of sales the company has achieved for Mueller in 2012. Despite OPRO only taking on the


distributorship in early 2012, Mueller has seen sales of their products into


Sondico and Vandanel announce launch of Sondico Pro


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andanel, the professional football kit supplier has announced the launch of


Sondico Professional. The new brand, launched in


association with Sports Direct, will provide sports apparel to all levels


the UK retail market increase which led them to present OPRO with this award. Speaking after the awards ceremony,


award by beating off competition


We have won this


from over 50 very successful and well established distributors from all over the world


Richard Evans expressed his delight at receiving the accolade: “It has been a great team eff ort to achieve such positive results in the fi rst year and I should make special mention of Catherine Hughes who as Mueller brand manager has been the driving force behind everything we have done. “We have won this award by beating off competition from over 50 very successful and well established distributors from all over the world. This is a great achievement for the whole Mueller team at OPRO.” SGB


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