Sports equipment makers could boost margins by combining relationships with retailers and professional and amateur sports teams, and by merging supply chain management and sales and marketing forces.

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Quelle made a disastrous deal, merging with department store chain Karstadt in 1999, and was poorly managed for years.

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In October 2011 he created Commune Hotels by merging the San Francisco-based Joie de Vivre chain with Thompson Hotels of New York.

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