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ArticleColumbia restructures senior leadership to support omni-channel, digital plans
Columbia Sportswear Company announced a series of senior leadership changes executing on transition plans, supporting the company’s omni-channel plans for growth and unlocking digital opportunities. Before Thomas Cusick, executive vice president and chief operating officer, will retire from the company after 18 years in the second half of 2021, he ...
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News briefsColumbia launches Omni-Heat Black Dot warming technology
Columbia Sportswear has introduced what it claims is the industry’s first external thermal shield against cold weather. The exterior of each jacket in its new Omni-Heat Black Dot collection is covered by thousands of dots made of aluminum and coated in black. These dots collect heat from scattered sunlight, and ...
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News briefsColumbia sponsors NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace
Columbia Sportswear intends to draw attention to its outdoor products with NASCAR, the popular U.S. motorsport series. For this purpose, the company has signed a multi-year sponsorship agreement with a driver of the NASCAR Cup Series, Bubba Wallace. Wallace is the newest brand ambassador for Columbia, and the outdoor company ...
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ArticleColumbia ends Q2 with loss
After a difficult first quarter to 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic, Columbia Sportswear Company is not having more luck in the second one. It has posted a net loss of $50.7 million, compared with net income of $23.0 million for the year-ago quarter, while sales dropped by 40 percent ...
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ArticleColumbia Sportswear releases 2019 Corporate Responsibility Report
Columbia Sportswear Company (CSC) released its 2019 Corporate Responsibility Report, which includes highlights from the progress made throughout 2019 in the three main areas of focus in its corporate responsibility strategy – empowering people, sustaining places and responsible practices. The 56-page report assesses work accomplished in 2019 by its four ...
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ArticleThe outdoor community supports Black Lives Matter
It started last Tuesday, when large parts of Social Media turned dark: Companies, celebrities and private individuals darkened their posts and media feeds, placed solid black images or meaningful solidarity texts on black backgrounds, all connected by the hashtag #blacklivesmatter. And not only in the USA, the country where, after ...
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News briefsColumbia reopens stores in 10 U.S. states
Columbia Sportswear has decided to reopen 30 of its branded brick-and-mortar stores in ten U.S. states on May 15, bringing back more than 250 of its furloughed retail employees. All stores will give priority to providing a safe environment for customers and employees. Among the measures being taken are the ...
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ArticleColumbia’s results are hit by Covid-19
After a brilliant financial year in 2019, Columbia Sportswear did not have a great start to 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Its net profits stood at just $0.2 million, down from $74.2 million for the year-ago quarter, while sales dropped by 13 percent to $568.2 million. Lower consumer demand ...
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News briefsMountain Hardwear supports American retailers
Mountain Hardwear, a subsidiary of Columbia Sportswear based in Richmond, California, has launched a program in the U.S. to support authorized specialty dealers who have closed or are under severely reduced operations. Participating retailers will have the opportunity to receive a 40 percent commission on any transactions they generate leads ...
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Columbia’s Covid-19 update
Columbia Sportswear has suspended its quarterly dividend, its stock repurchase program and its Feb. 6 guidance for its results in the first half of 2020 and the whole financial year. The company will provide a new update with its first-quarter results on April 30. Meanwhile, it reports that the vast ...
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ArticleColumbia and VF executives cut their paychecks
Without going as far as Tim Boyle at Columbia Sportswear, Steve Rendle, chairman, president and chief executive of VF Corp., has pledged to cut his compensation in half for the next four months to help save cash for the fight against the coronavirus outbreak. Boyle, president and CEO of Columbia, ...
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News briefsColumbia expands team at MOC in Munich
Columbia Sportswear is expanding its sales and marketing team at the Munich Order Center in Germany for the German, Austrian, BeNeLux and Eastern European markets. In April 2019, Julia Bauer joined Columbia as marketing manager for Germany, Austria, BeNeLux and Eastern Europe. She is an experienced marketing professional after positions ...
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Columbia closes North American and European stores
In addition to the closure of its brick-and-mortar stores in North America through Friday, March 27 (see our article here), Columbia Sportswear has now also closed, until further notice, all European retail stores owned and operated by the brand. Beyond the closures, Columbia has taken further steps to implement the ...
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ArticleCorona infecting the sports and outdoor industries
On Dec. 31, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) country office in China was informed of a cluster of patients with pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan, a city of 19 million people in the Hubei Province of China. Since then, we have been witnessing the spread of the coronavirus, ...
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News briefsPrana’s new swimwear line is made of 100% recycled nylon
(SGI) For its current swimwear collection for spring/summer 2020, Prana, one of Columbia Sportswear’s brands, is using 100 percent recycled Econyl fiber, eliminating the use of virgin polyester or nylon made from petroleum. The fiber is made from waste such as fishing nets, fabric remnants, old carpets and industrial plastics. ...
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News briefsOutDry’s inventors present new membrane
Columbia Sportswear acquired OutDry Technologies 10 years ago and decided at the time to restrict the membrane to products under its own brands, such as Columbia and Mountain Hardwear. This compelled OutDry’s more than 50 external customers to look for alternatives. OutDry’s inventor, Matteo Morlacchi, and his brother Luca, who ...
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Tim Boyle named chairman of Columbia
At its meeting of Jan. 24, the board of directors of Columbia Sportswear appointed as its chairman the company’s long-standing president and chief executive, Tim Boyle, who is now 70 years old. He takes the place on the board that was previously occupied by his “tough mother,” Gert Boyle, who ...
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