FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) – German sportswear makers Adidas and Puma renew their own decades-old rivalry when football teams Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund meet in Europe’s Champions League Final at Wembley on Saturday.

Adidas is the long-standing kit supplier to Bayern and owns a stake of around nine percent in the Bavarian club, while Puma became the sportswear partner of Dortmund a year ago.

FRANKFURT/LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) – German sportswear makers Adidas and Puma renew their own decades-old rivalry when soccer teams Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund meet in Europe’s Champions League Final at Wembley on Saturday.

Adidas is the long-standing kit supplier to Bayern and owns a stake of around nine percent in the Bavarian club, while Puma became the sportswear partner of Dortmund a year ago.

FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) – German sportswear makers Adidas and Puma will renew their own decades-old rivalry when Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund meet in the Champions League Final at Wembley on Saturday.

Adidas is the long-standing kit supplier to Bayern and owns a stake of around nine percent in the Bavarian club, while Puma became the sportswear partner of Dortmund a year ago.

FRANKFURT/LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) – German sportswear makers Adidas and Puma will renew their own decades-old rivalry when Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund meet in the Champions League Final at Wembley on Saturday.

Adidas is the long-standing kit supplier to Bayern and owns a stake of around nine percent in the Bavarian club, while Puma became the sportswear partner of Dortmund a year ago.

FRANKFURT, May 15 (Reuters) – German tourism group TUI AG’s
new chief is cutting costs, restructuring loss-making
resorts and cruise operations, and will boost cooperation with
unit TUI Travel in a shake-up aimed at resuming dividend
payments in 2014/15.

The plan, while called oneTUI and intended to cut overlaps
between the two, does not mean another attempt at a merger with
TUI Travel, Chief Executive Friedrich Joussen said on Wednesday.

FRANKFURT, May 14 (Reuters) – Trainers and sportswear maker
Puma SE warned of shortfalls in sales and profit on
Tuesday as its performance faltered in Europe and China,
highlighting the challenge in store for its new chief executive.

The group is undergoing its biggest reorganisation in 20
years after suffering a 70 percent drop in net profit last year
and last month hired a new chief executive from Danish jeweller
Pandora to inspire its recovery.

FRANKFURT, May 3 (Reuters) – Germany’s Adidas
posted its highest-ever gross profit margin as the sale of
higher-priced products through its own stores and a new running
shoe helped offset weak consumer spending in Europe and problems
at Reebok.

Despite a 2 percent fall in sales in the first quarter, with
fewer big sporting events than the year before, operating profit
at the world’s second-largest sports apparel maker behind Nike
rose by a greater-than-expected 8 percent to 442 million
euros ($578 million).

FRANKFURT, April 29 (Reuters) – Global internet retailer
Amazon.com could be facing its first strike in Germany
by warehouse workers seeking better pay and benefits.

Amazon employs around 9,000 people across Germany and has
come under fire from trade union Verdi for refusing to implement
a collective agreement on employment conditions, in keeping with
the country’s other mail order and retail firms.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Lufthansa (LHAG.DE: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) was virtually grounded on Monday, Germany’s largest airline cancelling nearly all of its flights because of a second strike in a month over workers’ pay.

Lufthansa scrapped 1,700 flights, leaving only about 30 running, after all-day strike action was announced at Germany’s biggest airports, including Frankfurt, Munich and Hamburg.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German airline Lufthansa said it is considering legal action after trade union Verdi called on thousands of workers to go on strike on Monday to increase pressure on management in pay negotiations.

Lufthansa said the planned action, which would see workers walk off their jobs for a full day at several airports – including Europe’s third largest at Frankfurt – goes far beyond a regular “warning strike” and would cost the airline tens of millions of euros.