The U.K.’s largest outdoor gear retailer Blacks Leisure Group Plc, has agreed to give the U.K. distribution of O’Neill products back to O’Neill Europe according to a story on Bloomberg.com.
O’Neill Europe will take over the British wholesale business by the end of May, Northampton, England-based Blacks said today in a statement. The entire current sales force will transfer as well, it shows. . . . The retailer runs 57 Freespirit and O’Neill board-sports shops as well as 260 Millets stores and 110 outlets carrying its own name. Blacks aims to remain a “key retail partner” for O’Neill after the wholesale transfer, the statement shows.
[Link: Bloomberg]
