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Sasta wins Scandinavian Outdoor Award for plus size jacket

23 June 2021

In an online ceremony hosted by the Scandinavian Outdoor Group (SOG), two Finnish companies were among the six winners of the Scandinavian Outdoor Awards for Spring/Summer 2022: Sasta (based in Nurmes) and Halti (headquartered in Vantaa, Lapland). Source: Sasta / SOA Sasta Mella Jacket The Overall ...

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Scandinavian Outdoor Overall Award 21/22 goes to Bergans of Norway

1 February 2021

A total of six products were honored on Feb. 1 with the Scandinavian Outdoor Award (SOA) for the autumn/winter 2021/22 season. The overall winner is a fully circular anorak with a fully circular business model by Bergans of Norway. Last year, Bergans and Spinnova already won the Scandinavian Outdoor Sustainability ...

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Bergans to open new brand store in Trondheim

13 January 2021

Bergans of Norway will open a new brand store in the Norwegian city of Trondheim. Anett Kolstad, the brand’s retail director, said that she has been looking for a vacant retail space in the city for quite some time and has now found what she says is “the perfect venue” ...

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Spinnova, Bergans and Halley Stevensons launch second Collection of Tomorrow product

10 November 2020

One year after the Finnish fiber company, Spinnova, and outdoor company Bergans of Norway presented their innovation project called The Collection of Tomorrow, which aims to develop 100 percent circular textile products only using renewable resources, the two partners are launching a second product, the Spinnova x Bergans Shirt. ...

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Bergans resumes advertising on Facebook

19 August 2020

After refraining from advertising on Facebook and Instagram in support of the “Stop Hate for Profit” campaign, Bergans of Norway announced that it would now resume its advertising activities on social media. The Norwegian outdoor brand said it had a good dialogue with Facebook, which in turn had implemented several ...

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Bergans and Kaibosh to release vintage-style eyewear collection

24 July 2020

It all started with the Instagram account of Norway’s National Library, which posted a newspaper ad from the 1930s showing that Bergans of Norway once made eyewear. Someone at the company noted a resemblance to his wife’s pair of Kaibosh glasses. And so a collaboration was born. The Kaibosh x ...

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Bergans starts second mobile repair tour through Norway

23 July 2020

Together with students from the fashion school Esmod, Bergans of Norway is to continue its “Tour de Sy” through Norway this August, offering all kinds of repairs for hiking clothes. Last summer, the Bergans repair vehicle was on its first Tour de Sy through the East and South of the ...

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Vaude and others join Facebook boycott

30 June 2020

Vaude is the first German outdoor brand to join the international #StopHateForProfit campaign, which wants to encourage Facebook to take more action against hateful, violent and racist content in its networks. The outdoor brand has stopped all paid advertising on Facebook and Instagram from July 1 until further notice. The ...

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The winners of the 2020 Scandinavian Outdoor Awards

2 March 2020

The annual winners of the Scandinavian Outdoor Awards (SOA) for next year’s autumn/winter season were announced by the Scandinavian Outdoor Group (SOG) at Ispo Munich. The international jury, which included experienced outdoor journalists and retailers, evaluated 25 products nominated on to the criteria of design, innovation, functionality, quality and sustainability. ...

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Sustainable innovations from Ispo Munich 2020

17 February 2020

For the 50th birthday of Ispo Munich, the sports fair claimed to be more sustainable than ever before. More and more brands are looking for solutions for more sustainable products and more sustainable consumption. This time, recycling was one of the core issues of sustainable innovation. While recycled polyester from ...

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Bergans fights for the seasons (Video)

11 February 2020

Bergans of Norway and WWF Norway delivered a letter to the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment in mid-January asking the Minister to help get the seasons – the actual seasons of the year – onto the UNESCO World Heritage List. The initiative originated with Bergans, which has entered into ...