uhlsport

The uhlsport GmbH is a German sports goods manufacturer in the market of suppliers of team sports. Founded in 1948 under the name Haase & Uhl OHG, 1994 from the Karl Uhl GmbH uhlsport GmbH. The headquarters of the international company is Balingen in Baden -Württemberg.

Companies and brands

The company was founded in 1948. At that time the focus was on the production of leather studs. Uhlsport 1953 also began with the production of soccer soles for sports shoe manufacturer. In the coming years, more and more products such as shin guards, sports bandages, soccer balls and goalie gloves were added to the product range, the uhlsport GmbH developed to football full-service provider. Since 2002, the company pursues a multi- brand strategy for soccer, handball and basketball.

The same brand uhlsport focuses on the sport of football, and in particular the goalie equipment. Handball equipment is marketed since 2002 on the in-house brand Kempa, also holds the uhlsport GmbH, the European sales rights of the American Basketball Spalding brand, a trademark of Russell Brands, LLC.

The German company introduces an indirect sales structure with subsidiaries in France, Spain and Sweden and International Agencies in the UK, Benelux and Switzerland. In addition uhlsport has over 80 distribution partners worldwide. In 1998 the sale of the uhlsport GmbH by the family Uhl to the Daiss family.

Football sponsorship

Sponsor partner of the football brand uhlsport include the TSV 1860 Munich, the first FC Union Berlin, 1.FC Kaiserslautern, FC Valenciennes, the SSV Reutlingen 05, 1.FC Magdeburg and the Women's Bundesliga club VfL Sindelfingen. The company is the official supplier of the French League Cup Coupe de la Ligue and ball sponsor of the Ligue 2 In addition, one uhlsport goalkeeper Hugo Lloris as, Lukasz Fabianski, Michel Vorm and Ron -Robert Zieler to his ambassadors.