All Corporate articles – Page 52
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ArticleLloyds Fonds acquires 2.4% of Polygiene AB
As we reported earlier, the Swedish fabric technology brand Polygiene, which was founded in 2006 as a spin-off of the Swedish chemical company Perstorp, was among the winners in the Covid-19 pandemic thanks to its new antiviral treatment, ViralOff®, which was launched in April. This success also aroused the interest ...
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Arc’teryx opens new brand store in Calgary
Arc’teryx opened its first North American brand store in 2020 in Calgary’s largest retail center, the Chinook Centre, on Aug. 29. The new 130 square-meter store is the brand’s third store in the Canadian province of Alberta, and the second one in the city of Calgary. The design incorporates a ...
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News briefsSmith & Wesson spins off American Outdoor
Smith & Wesson, the American manufacturer of firearms, completed the spin-off of its outdoor products and accessories business, American Outdoor Brands, on Aug. 24. As of the following day, American Outdoor is trading on the NASDAQ exchange under a new ticker symbol: AOUT. Each holder of Smith & Wesson common ...
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ArticleBradshaw Taylor repositions Le Chameau
After Bradshaw Taylor Ltd, an outdoor sales specialist from Oakham, UK, bought the premium boot brand Le Chameau last November, the family business has invested heavily in the brand. To position it well for the future, company boss Corry Taylor and his team have made drastic and daring changes that ...
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News briefsPeak Performance opens new flagship store in Hamburg
Peak Performance will open its new flagship store in Hamburg, Germany, on Sept. 3. The store is centrally located in Hamburg’s city center at Bleichenbrücke 10/Kaufmannshaus and builds on the Swedish brand’s strategic approach of combining fashion and function. The focus is on urban lifestyle and nature and is balanced ...
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News briefsNo More Boots secures new capital for SkiClicker and more
The Swedish company No More Boots™, which was founded in 2015 and invented the SkiClicker™ concept, reports that is has raised new capital. While round-one investors in the company, Almi Invest and E14, are re-investing, the company has told The Compass that among the new investors are Tommy Eliasson Winter, ...
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News briefsHurley family launches new apparel label with surf champion John Florence
John “John John” Florence, the two-time world champion surfer from Hawaii, has announced the launch of his new label, Florence Marine X, in partnership with Bob Hurley and his sons, Jeff and Ryan. The new brand will focus on apparel, especially “products for outdoor exploration and thriving in the elements, ...
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Clim8 raises €2.75 million in Series A funding
Clim8, a French start-up specializing in wearable technology, has raised €2.75 million from Seventure Partners, Agileo Ventures and the Deveaux Group. The company said that this round combines three main objectives: First, Clim8’s ambition is to be able to bring its technologies to new industries and new international markets; second, ...
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ArticleRussian outdoor goods industry resumes operation
Russian outdoor industry companies hit by the Covid-19 pandemic are gradually getting back to business. N1Sport – according to its owner, Alexey Surkin – has not only resumed production but expanded its range, beginning to manufacture athletic apparel for the mass market under the Sterin brand. The first products in ...
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News briefsGerman outdoor chain McTrek back on track?
After the Yeah! AG from Germany, majority-owned by the Belgian A.S. Adventure Group and operator of 43 McTrek outdoor stores and an online shop, filed for insolvency on April 1, the retail chain can now reposition itself after a successful restructuring carried out by Thomas Rittmeister, lawyer and restructuring expert ...
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Unsecured Go Outdoors creditors likely to receive only small repayments
We have previously reported on the problems of UK retailer JD Sports Fashion with its struggling outdoor chain Go Outdoors. Shortly after Go Outdoors was put into administration in June and Deloitte was appointed administrator, JD Sports Fashion bought the business back in a pre-pack deal, saying that unfair rents ...
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News briefsVF to open multi-brand store in Milan
VF Corp. will be opening its first multi-brand store, called Orefici 11 Milano, in the autumn. Located in the Italian city, the three-level, 22,000-square-foot store is meant to reflect its surroundings, mimicking the courtyards, façades and balconies of typical Milanese apartment buildings, the so-called case di ringhiera (guard-rail houses). As ...
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Woolrich Europe acquires Ranft-Soller’s shares in Woolrich Germany
As part of the repositioning of the Woolrich brand, Ranft-Soller Holding is transferring its shares of Woolrich Germany to Woolrich Europe. Ranft-Soller Holding, founded in 2000, is made up of the Munich-based sales agency Komet und Helden, the Gents Multibrand Store in Munich and Woolrich Germany. Komet und Helden had ...
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News briefsBritish outdoor brand Alpkit raises €1.6 million on crowdfunding platform
In an investment campaign launched on the CrowdCube investment platform on June 29, British outdoor and bike brand Alpkit was able to raise £1.5m (€1.6m-$1.9m) and surpass its crowdfunding target in less than eight minutes. With the campaign, Alpkit, whose range includes gear to run, hike, climb, camp, swim and ...
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JD re-acquires Go Outdoors and commits to stores, staff and liabilities
Only shortly after confirming speculations that “strategic options“ for its Go Outdoors subsidiary have been considered, and one day after appointing Deloitte to administer the struggling outdoor chain, JD Sports Fashion (“JD”) has announced that Go Outdoors “has a future in the Group.” JD consequently re-acquired the business and substantially ...
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JD subsidiary Go Outdoors is struggling
JD Sports Fashion has confirmed speculation that a number of strategic options for its Go Outdoors subsidiary have been considered and that the directors of Go Outdoors have filed the Notice in Court. This announcement leads to an immediate moratorium around the company and its property, which will last ten ...
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Substantial shareholder urges GoPro to consider a sale
According to SGB Online, Korr Acquisitions Group Inc., a New York-based investment advisor and significant shareholder of GoPro Inc., has sent an open letter to Nicholas D. Woodman, chairman, chief executive officer and founder of GoPro, and Kenneth Goldman, the company’s senior independent director, requesting that the company considers a ...
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Globetrotter moves into SportScheck store in Berlin
Globetrotter, the German outdoor retail chain that is part of the Fenix Outdoor group, will move into SportScheck’s 10-year-old store in Berlin-Steglitz, which is scheduled to closed on July 20. Decathlon has a store that is located opposite to the new Globetrotter store, on the premises of a former SportScheck ...
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Salomon opens second Paris store
Salomon opened its second store in Paris on May 27. The new 220 sqm store is located at 12 boulevard de la Madeleine, on one of Paris’ “grands boulevards.” Besides the brand’s products, the store offers 3D foot scanning and boot fitting services. The first Paris store, opened two years ...
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Yeti shareholders cash out at a low price
Major former shareholders of Yeti Holdings have continued to unload many of their shares, but they apparently did it at a slight loss in a secondary offering, underwritten by Goldman Sachs, that was scheduled to expire on or around June 1. On May 28, they offered 6,067,125 shares at a ...
