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    Italy’s Accademia Outdoor Pro evolves into 'Outdoor Scenario'

    14 March 2025

    Italian Outdoor Group has unveiled the new format for its annual training opportunity.

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    Anna Ferrino honored with Compasso d’Oro career award

    25 June 2024

    Source: Ferino Anna Ferrino Anna Ferrino, the CEO of the Italian outdoor brand Ferrino, has won an ADI Compasso d’Oro career award. The award ceremony took place at the ADI Design Museum in Milan on June 20, alongside the inauguration of an exhibition of the projects and ...

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    Prowinter in Bolzano with ski hardware, Test Days in January

    8 December 2023

    All the new features of the twenty-fourth edition of Prowinter, which will take place in Bolzano, Italy, from Jan. 10 to 12, 2024, were presented at a digital press conference this week. “At the request of the companies, the 2024 edition has been extended for an additional day,” said Geraldine ...

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    Italian Outdoor Village at ISPO Munich 2023

    4 November 2023

    The Italian Outdoor Group (IOG), part of Italy’s sporting goods industry body Assosport, has announced the names of the 14 companies that will showcase their products at the Italian Outdoor Village in Munich on Nov. 28-30, on the occasion of the upcoming edition of ISPO Munich. The Italian companies at ...

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    Italy’s Accademia Outdoor Pro held two sessions this year

    3 April 2023

    Accademia Outdoor Pro 2023, the annual training opportunity for salespeople from specialist outdoor stores in Italy, held two sessions this year, including the usual one in Villafranca di Verona on March 20, in northern Italy, and an additional session at the Hotel Valentino in Terni on March 27, to attract ...

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    Italian outdoor market posted 27% increase in 2021, exceeding European average

    13 July 2022

    In Italy, sales of outdoor products (sell-in) increased by 27 percent in 2021 compared to 2020. The increase in Europe in the same period was 18.7 percent, based on European Outdoor Group (EOG) data. Growth in Italy is primarily driven by technical gear and footwear. More specifically, Italy has emerged ...

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    Assosport supports the Bike & Wine Press cycle tourism series

    24 March 2022

    Assosport, the Italian sporting goods industry association, is supporting for the second consecutive year Bike & Wine Press, an event series in which the participants are journalists who want to promote cycle tourism across the country. The first Bike & Wine Press event of 2022 will take place in the ...

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    Italian Outdoor Group to further reinforce presence at Outdoor&Running Business Days

    9 August 2021

    The Italian Outdoor Group (IOG) is further reinforcing its presence at the Outdoor&Running Business Days, the Italian trade show on outdoor and running, of which IOG is a partner. At the 2021 event, the IOG will have a dedicated 100-square-meter networking area located at the heart of the exhibition village ...

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    A round table on the future of Italy’s outdoor industry

    2 May 2021

    The Italian Outdoor Group (IOG) hosted an online round table for the actors of the Italian outdoor industry on April 29, titled “Outdoor: domani è adesso” (tomorrow is now). The IOG is part of Assosport, the Italian association of sporting goods manufacturers. The event was moderated by Benedetto Sironi, chief ...

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    ​Oberalp Group postpones winter clearance sales

    24 December 2020

    As many retailers had to close their doors for a long time in 2020 due to the pandemic, the South Tyrolean Oberalp Group has decided to postpone the winter clearance sales in its own brand shops to Jan. 30. The management-led family business already approached Anna Ferrino, president of Assosport, ...

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    The Italian Outdoor Group has a new chairman

    3 December 2020

    Source: IOG Günther Acherer Günther Acherer, the owner of Panorama Diffusion, has been elected as the new chairman of the Italian Outdoor Group (IOG), which is part of Assosport, Italy’s association of the sporting goods industry. Acherer, who takes over from Luca Pedrotti, was elected unanimously during ...

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    A glimpse into next year’s Ispo shows

    12 November 2020

    (SGI) The three top executives of Messe München charged with Ispo’s development and digital transformation – Tobias Gröber, Jeanettee Loos and Markus Hefter – gave a few details about the format of the next Ispo Munich and OutDoor by Ispo shows at the end of the virtual general assembly of ...

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    Anna Ferrino is Assosport's new president

    12 November 2020

    Anna Ferrino, the 58-year-old president of the eponymous Italian brand of outdoor products, has been elected as the new president of Assosport, the Italian sporting goods industry association. After four years on its executive board, she is taking the place of Federico De Ponti for the next two years. Anna ...

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    The Outdoor Italia campaign has been a success

    1 November 2020

    #outdooritalia, the digital campaign launched by the Italian Outdoor Group (IOG) in June to support tourism and outdoor activities during the 2020 summer season, has generated more than one million impressions on the dedicated campaign website and 40,000 interactions on social media – Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. The IOG is ...

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    Italy’s outdoor industry promotes nature and tourism

    9 May 2020

    The Italian Outdoor Group (IOG) has launched Outdoor Italia, a social media campaign to promote the country’s natural areas through the images and voices from these places and with regular news from the outdoor brands that are participating in the initiative. The campaign features brand ambassadors, alpine guides and tourist ...

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    Assosport releases a statement on coronavirus

    1 March 2020

    (Updated March 15) Assosport, the association of the Italian sporting goods industry, has published an open letter to its members from its president, Federico De Ponti, in relation to the coronavirus crisis. In the letter, De Ponti explains that Assosport has taken action through Confindustria, the Italian employers’ federation and ...

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    Fourth edition of Assosport’s “Accademia IOG” canceled due to Covid-19

    28 February 2020

    Update: Due to the latest ministerial provisions, Assosport was forced to cancel the event. Assosport, the association of the Italian sporting goods industry, will be organizing the fourth edition of its Accademia IOG this March. The academy is an opportunity for salespeople from specialist outdoor stores to participate in product ...