All Corporate articles – Page 50
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ArticleÅre Skidfabrik invests for the future
As previously reported, the Swedish ski manufacturer Åre Skidfabrik recently expanded its facilities near the ski resort of Åre. It has now been revealed that the expansion was part of the company’s largest single investment in its 40-year history. In addition to the 50 percent larger production area, this also ...
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ArticleOpen Air Group invests in fast-growing Swedish outdoor brand Garphyttan
Open Air Group (OAG), a Stockholm-based group that includes the Chevalier, Tracker, Alaska 1795, Burrel and Valio brands and e-retailers Widforss.se, Widforss.no, Retkitukku.fi and Koiravaruste.fi, is becoming a minority owner of the fast-growing Swedish outdoor brand Garphyttan. Garphyttan develops clothing for outdoor life, work and leisure and has in a ...
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Dorel calls special shareholders’ meeting for going-private transaction
The shareholders of Montréal-based Dorel Industries, the parent company of Cannondale, GT, Schwinn and other bike brands, will hold a virtual extraordinary meeting on Jan. 12 to vote on the offer by Cerberus Capital Management to take the company private at a price of CAD14.50 per share. Dorel’s board of ...
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ArticleHeiQ now listed on the LSE
On Dec. 7, thanks to a reverse takeover into Auctus Growth Plc, the textile materials company HeiQ was listed on the London Stock Exchange, under the ticker symbol HEIQ. The stock was oversubscribed on issue and raised £60 million (€66m-$80m) before expenses. The new public interest in the company doubtless ...
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News briefs3M continues to restructure, impacting 2,900 jobs worldwide
U.S. technology company 3M announced the continuation of its restructuring plan initiated last January, which will result in a cut of about 3 percent of its global workforce, amounting to roughly 2,900 jobs. After introducing a new global operating model in January that was meant to enhance the way the ...
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German sports crowdfunding platform breaks €10 million mark
Germany’s largest sports crowdfunding platform, fairplaid.org, has reached a record, with a total of €10 million distributed to athletes, sports clubs and regional projects throughout the country. The sum was achieved with more than 1,700 fairplaid projects and more than 125,000 supporters. According to a spokesperson for the platform, fairplaid’s ...
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ArticleNew outdoor brand Artilect to hit stores next year
A new outdoor brand, Artilect®, has announced its launch on the global market. The founders of the brand, based in Boulder, Colorado, are Trent Bush and Corry Taylor. Bush is no stranger to building brands. He founded his first brand, the Twist Clothing Company, in the early 1990s. Since then, ...
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Velocio with new European staff
The American bicycle apparel brand Velocio announced two new hires to drive European growth. Friederike “Ricky” Buckenlei has assumed the newly created role of head of Europe, overseeing all elements of the brand’s European strategy. The position builds on her managerial experience and her previous work with brands such as ...
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News briefsTecnica comments on situation at Ski Excellence Center Austria
Earlier this week, some media reported that the ski manufacturer has stopped production at its Tecnica Group Ski Excellence Center in Mittersill, Austria, which has triggered various suspicions and rumors regarding the Covid-19 situation. The Tecnica Group has now officially commented and clarified that the Tecnica Group and its production ...
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ArticleInterview LaMunt: “Women are no longer mere appendages in mountain sports”
The South Tyrolean Oberalp Group, which owns the Salewa, Dynafit, Wild Country, Evolv and Pomoca brands, has presented the new mountain sports brand LaMunt, exclusively for women, at the Oberalp Convention. It is scheduled to be launched in stores in winter 2021/22. Ruth Oberrauch, creator of the brand and daughter ...
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ArticleLafuma’s board approves Calida’s offer
In a lengthy and detailed press release, Lafuma reported that its board of directors is recommending acceptance by its minority shareholders of a preliminary offer made on Oct. 2 by Calida Holding to acquire the balance of the shares it doesn’t own at a unit price of €17.99. The price ...
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ArticleOberalp launches LaMunt - a premium mountain sports brand for women
At the Oberalp Virtual Convention on Oct. 29, Ruth Oberrauch, member of the board of the Oberalp Group, officially presented LaMunt, the new mountain sports brand under the umbrella of the group. “LaMunt is the mountaineering brand from women for women, which opens up a new, female perspective on alpine ...
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Safety and rescue equipment stolen from Kong’s facility in Italy
Kong, an Italian specialist in carabiners for mountaineering and other safety and rescue equipment, based near Lecco, in the country’s northwest, was subject to a break-in at its headquarters the night of Oct. 19-20. The company said that it was especially concerned because of the type of products that were ...
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Brav centralizes its management
The Brav Group – owner of the Swix, Toko, Lundhags, Ulvang, Helsport and Hard Rocx brands – resorted to video conferencing this spring to achieve a reorganization at the height of the Covid-19 quarantines. Leading the charge was the company’s new chief executive, Espen Falck Engelstad, who was instated with ...
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ArticleAmazon is up and running in Sweden
Amazon’s dedicated Swedish platform, Amazon.se – which leaked over the summer through a Finnish software developer – is now live. It offers about 150 million products in 30 categories, with free delivery on orders exceeding 229 Swedish krona (€22.20-$26.10). There is a mix of Swedish (Electrolux, Lagerhaus, OBH Nordica, Ellos, ...
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Rab and Lowe Alpine to open sales office in Helsinki
The British outdoor brands Rab and Lowe Alpine, both owned by Equip Outdoor Technologies Ltd., will be opening their own regional office in Finland on Dec. 1. It will be managed by Heikki Tapaninen, who has worked for Rab and Lowe Alpine in the past and was sales manager at ...
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Fischer: Production and deliveries not affected by factory fire
After the reports of a fire breaking out at Fischer’s Ukrainian ski factory last week, the Austrian ski company said it has immediately relocated some of its ski production to its Austrian plant in Ried. By adding labor shifts at both locations, the company said it will be able to ...
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ArticleInterview: Goldwin opens Munich flagship; expects positive business development
Clean, minimalist styling, first-rate functionality and zero-compromise performance – the new Goldwin flagship store in Munich undoubtedly reflects the core principles behind the Japanese brand that started out with knits and ski clothing. Today, Goldwin is still offering a technical and fashionable ski collection, but the main focus has changed ...
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ArticleMajor fire in Fischer’s Ukrainian ski factory
Various news sources have reported that a fire broke out in a ski factory in Ukraine last week. According to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES), the roof of a large one-storey building at the JSC Tysa ski factory caught fire on Oct. 12 at 2:00 a.m. Kyiv time. ...
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News briefsBurton opens new Hub, appoints territory manager and marketing coordinator for Nordics
Burton Snowboards will open a new multi-use space, referred to as the Burton Hub, at Norrlandsgatan 20 in Stockholm, Sweden, on Oct. 15. After establishing the concept of combining retail store, showroom, and office spaces already in Innsbruck, Munich, and Zurich, the company now expands to Scandinavia. The new Burton ...
