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Columbia expands team at MOC in Munich

2020-04-07T11:54:00Z

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 ...

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Columbia closes North American and European stores

2020-03-18T08:58:00Z

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 ...

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Corona infecting the sports and outdoor industries

2020-03-02T08:19:00Z

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 ...

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Prana’s new swimwear line is made of 100% recycled nylon

2020-02-26T14:41:00Z

(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 ...

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OutDry’s inventors present new membrane

2020-02-11T10:27:00Z

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 ...

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Tim Boyle named chairman of Columbia

2020-02-11T10:21:00Z

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 ...