Team Insight - November, 2005
Introducing The ‘Intelligent’ Team
We don’t like to blow our own horns too often, but in this issue I want to use this space to share with our thousands of readers the incredible talent and experience that is writing and publishing Team Intelligence. As we bring you the second issue o...
Schutt's Circle Closes
The consolidation within the team industry continues with last month’s announcement that Circle System Group, the team sports equipment reconditioning company based in Easton, PA, has been “recapitalized” by Gridiron Capital, LLC, of New Canaan, CT. ...
Play By The Rules
Periodically Team Intelligence will track important rule changes that have the potential to impact on team sales. LACROSSE: Revised the color of tooth and mouth protectors and stipulates that they must be of a readily visible color (not white or c...
Adi-Bok Takes Aim At Nike
While the team industry looks on with amused interest from the sideline of the big Adidas acquisition of Reebok, the ensuing power battle between the combined forces against Nike rages on two continents and should eventually have a significant impact...
Volley for Fun
Volleyball is equal parts equipment, uniform and balls, and a sampling of new products from some major volleyball vendors covers this demand.
MIKASA … “A real trend is towards more color in the indoor volleyball game,” says national sales manager Nick Bettis, a trend started when the blue/yellow/white Mikasa MVP200 was first used in the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. New for 2006 are Mikasa...
New goal: Soccer Goes Mainstream
Dealers are beginning to welcome soccer as a sport, now that they have figured out how to sell it.
Remember the good old days when there WERE the Big Three – football, basketball and baseball – and there was a certain order in the team sports universe? Everything was much simpler then. But then about a generation ago a foreign sport called socc...
Time for dealers to get healthy
Whether the products are designed to prevent injuries or treat them, sports medicine may just be the shot in the arm TEAM dealers need IN 2006.
What’s one thing that every team in every sport at every level has in common? (Besides the fact that budgets aren’t what they used to be.) Simple: The kids playing them get hurt. That’s why sports medicine is a no-brainer category for every tea...
The Role of the Rep
DEMANDS ON THE INDEPENDENT SALES REP HAVE INCREASED AT THE SAME TIME THe INDUSTRY DEBATES THEIR EXACT ROLE IN THE FUTURE OF TEAM SPORTS.
Pity the life of the poor sales rep. Pressed between a rock and a hard place, balancing the demands of his customers with the even greater demands of his factories … fighting off increased competition from those same factories as well as myriad direc...
Team Uniforms: Dress Code
Styles and color trends come in go in team uniforms, but the one constant remains the team dealer's need for reliable delivery
What’s hot in team uniforms? Actually, with modern fabrications no one should ever be hot in a team uniform, but that’s a different topic. But opinions on uniform style trends depend on who you ask. Technology, particularly in fabrications, is a...
The Sock Solution
VENDORS ANSWER THE SEVEN MOST PRESSING QUESTIONS IN THE TEAM SOCK BUSINESS TODAY.
Team socks usually don’t command much attention, especially among dealers who just want to order them from a favorite vendor and expect them to show up with the rest of the order. Any delivery problems are all up to the vendor. But the past couple...
The Back Page
A collection of the new, unique and just plain interesting in the world of team sports NEW BOUNCE AT SPALDING Five years after changing the face of the inflatables market with its award-winning Infusion basketball that featured a pump within the ...
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