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    Columbia sees ‘challenging’ year, sets profit and growth plan

    2024-02-02T07:00:00Z

    With a warm winter and a difficult US marketplace to contend with in its seasonally strong final quarter of the year, Columbia Sportswear reported a 27 percent drop in operating income to $113.1 million from $155.4 million and a 9 percent decline in total revenues to $1.06 billion from $1.17 ...

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    Global outdoor footwear market grows 17.8%

    2023-11-29T07:38:00Z

    2022 outdoor footwear sales are up. 5 companies represented just over 50% of all sales. Find all the sales, growth and market share numbers here.

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    Columbia Sportswear releases 2022 Impact Report

    2023-09-21T11:02:00Z

    Columbia Sportswear Company has released its Impact Report 2022, which highlights the company’s performance and progress across the three pillars of its corporate responsibility strategy: Empowering People, Sustaining Places and Responsible Practices. In the report, the company says that 2022 was another challenging year, with operations around the world affected ...

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    Columbia cuts outlook as net falls 17% in Q2

    2023-08-02T08:32:00Z

    Bloated inventories and challenging market conditions in the U.S. are forcing Columbia Sportswear to take a “more conservative” stance on its H2 and full-year results despite explosive year-over-year Q2 sales growth in China and in its lower-margin international distributor businesses. Saddled with a 21 percent year-over-year increase in Q2 ...

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    Outdoor brands top desirable resale items in latest report

    2023-04-19T06:38:00Z

    U.S.-based ThredUp, an online resale service provider and platform for women’s and kids’ apparel, has released its eleventh annual Resale Report. The report examines the current market as well as the expected value of the sector. Although based on American consumers, it is expected similar figures would apply in Europe, ...

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    Sporting goods industry supports earthquake relief measures in Turkey and Syria

    2023-02-15T13:51:00Z

    9,210 apparel, footwear and textile manufacturers were located around the epicenter of the 7.8 and 7.7-magnitude earthquakes, which caused widespread damage across Turkey and northern Syria when they hit during the night of Feb. 6, 2023, according to the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. Many retailers have already committed ...

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    Gorpcore: Where fashion and sportswear meet

    2023-01-20T08:58:00Z

    Gorpcore: the trend you may have missed and the huge potential it holds for performance brands. We explain it and evaluate its potential.

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    Columbia Sportswear sees Q3 sales jump 19% as margins squeezed, inventories pile up

    2022-10-28T14:38:00Z

    Columbia Sportswear posted record revenues of $955.0 million in the third quarter, up by a reported 19 percent on the year earlier and 22 percent higher at constant currency rates, as its top line benefited from the more favorable timing of Fall ’22 shipments compared to the year earlier. The ...

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    Columbia will lean on key markets for tempered FY22 sales growth

    2022-07-28T09:52:00Z

    Simultaneously reporting results for its seasonally lowest volume quarter, Columbia Sportswear reduced its full-year sales and profit outlooks. The company is concerned about the current state of the consumer and potential retail order cancellations later this year. It cited deteriorating market conditions and the economic climate, particularly in the U.S., ...

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    Columbia exceeds forecast, driven by DTC

    2022-02-04T17:08:00Z

    Despite persistent supply chain disruptions that negatively impacted its wholesale revenues, Columbia Sportswear reported impressive fourth-quarter results on the strength of its Direct-To-Consumer and e-commerce businesses and an improvement of 1.6 percentage points in the gross margin to 52.2 percent, as higher freight costs were more than offset by a ...

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    Columbia appoints new VP U.S. sales

    2022-01-13T09:18:00Z

    Source: Columbia Jim Beeman Columbia Sportswear Company has named Jim Beeman vice president, U.S. sales for the Columbia brand. In this role, Beeman will report to Tim Sheerin, senior vice president, global wholesale for the Columbia brand. Beeman spent more than 22 years at Nike, most recently ...

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    Columbia lifts guidance after strong Q2, but CEO attacks freight “monopoly”

    2021-08-03T15:37:00Z

    Columbia Sportswear swung to a second-quarter profit and raised its full-year 2021 forecasts but warned that “escalating” ocean-freight prices and ongoing port congestions were dragging on the annual outlook. The outdoor gear producer reported net income of $40.6 million for the three months to June 30, compared with a ...

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    Columbia raises guidance after a good Q1

    2021-04-30T13:02:00Z

    Columbia Sportswear Company performed better than expected in the first quarter, despite port congestion problems in North America. The group’s net income reached $55.9 million, jumping from $213,000 in the year-ago quarter when the pandemic first hit the company. Revenues gained 10 percent to $625.6 million, including a ...

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    Columbia bounces back in Q4

    2021-02-05T10:37:00Z

    Columbia Sportswear Company performed better than expected in the fourth quarter and predicted that results would return to its 2019 level next year. The group’s net income was down by 16 percent from the year-ago quarter to $95.8 million, a strong improvement from the third quarter. The bottom line ...

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    Columbia hires new senior VP for U.S. sales from Nike

    2021-01-12T08:30:00Z

    Columbia Sportswear has named Tim Sheerin senior vice president of U.S. sales for the Columbia brand. Before joining Columbia, Sheerin spent twenty years in various senior sales and strategy positions at Nike . In his most recent role as VP, North American sales, he led Nike’s wholesale business ...

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    Columbia posts lower sales and earnings

    2020-11-01T09:30:00Z

    After a difficult first half of 2020 due to the impact of the pandemic, Columbia Sportswear Company performed better in the third quarter, but results remain far below those of last year. Its net income tumbled by 47 percent from the year-ago quarter to $62.8 million, while sales dropped ...

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    Growth of 7.0% for branded outdoor shoes in 2019

    2020-08-28T05:12:00Z

    As they do every year, many brands gave us their numbers or indications of their performance in the outdoor footwear market to help establish its growth in the wholesale channel and to benchmark themselves against one another. The result of this joint study by The Outdoor Industry Compass and the ...

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    Columbia Sportswear releases 2019 Corporate Responsibility Report

    2020-07-31T04:59:00Z

    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 ...