PRESENTATION OF THE SPRING/SUMMER 2008 MENSWEAR COL LECTION SMASH This is about Bjorn Borg’s legacy, aspiration and mind set. We create expressions and energy from his persona.
Smash is about conscious strengths and flamboyant manners. The collection is inspired by Bjorn Borg’s heydays in the end of the seventies and beginning of the eighties New York. The impressions from the Pop and Disco era, the long lasting garage mixes, the art world with all the sparkling influences, charm meets integrity, distinguished tennis having an affair with fashion. When new classic shapes in sophisticated innovative fabrics evoke meaning, that’s our definition to “another sport”. “We wanted to create a new formula for men’s fashion. It’s about being masculine and chic, just like Bjorn Borg was in his glory days”, says Peter Simonsson, CD for Bjorn Borg AB.
ABOUT BJORN BORG The Group develops and conducts its operations under the Bjorn Borg brand.
The operations currently comprise the following five product areas: clothing, footwear, bags, eyewear and fragrances. Bjorn Borg products are sold in ten markets in Europe, the largest of which are Sweden and the Netherlands. Sales of Bjorn Borg products in 2006 totaled SEK 1,404 million at the consumer level.
The Group’s sales during the same period amounted to SEK 325 million and profit after financial items to SEK 81 million. The company has 64 employees. The Bjorn Borg share has been traded in the Mid Cap segment of the Stockholm Stock Exchange’s Nordic List since May 7, -2007.
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND HIGH RESOLUTED PICTURES, PLEASE CONTACT
Livio Facchini, Public Image PR, Telephonhone: +33 1 42 76 00 00, E-mail: everyone@publicimagepr.com
Rocky Brennicke, PR- & Event manager, Bjorn Borg, Telephone: +46 8 506 337 00, Cellphone: +46 709 20 20 80, E-mail: rocky.brennicke@bjornborg.net,
