All General Outdoor articles – Page 265
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American outdoor industry body launches workforce assessment
The Washington, D.C.-based Outdoor Industry Association (OIA), the nonprofit trade body of the outdoor industry in the U.S., and several partner organizations have launched the Outdoor Industry Workforce Assessment. The voluntary survey, open to the leadership and management teams of companies and organizations in the outdoor recreation industry, will gather ...
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ArticleAllbirds files for IPO but remains loss-making, plans to open up new apparel categories
Allbirds, the B Corporation-certified San-Francisco-based footwear and apparel brand, has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering. The document lists the size of the transaction at $100 million, which is an estimate used only to set the registration fee of $10,910. Allbirds was last ...
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ArticleOeko-Tex reports successful 2020/21 year, with strong growth for Made in Green label
In its annual report for 2020/21, Oeko-Tex looks back to a turbulent era by changes and challenges due to the pandemic and the increasing pressure to move all partners in the supply chains to more sustainability and less CO2 emissions. During the last year, Oeko-Tex went live on Instagram for ...
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News briefsManufacturing company PTT receives ISO 9001 certificate, passes Puma audit
Textile manufacturer ProTecTekstil (PTT) in Muskosredicze, Croatia, has completed two comprehensive certification processes and now holds the ISO 9001:2015 certificate. Besides that, the plant – owned by Munich-based functional clothing specialist Hyphen Sports GmbH – passed an audit by German brand Puma for possible production at the site. PTT offers ...
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Climate Action Summit by ClimatePartner hosted digitally and physically
During this year’s Climate Action Summit, scheduled on Nov. 24-25, Munich-based ClimatePartner plans to bring roughly 1,500 of its clients as well as company representatives and climate experts together to discuss upcoming challenges, opportunities for action and successes in the attempt to reach the Paris Climate agreement’s goals. The summit ...
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News briefsSwedish WeSports group in a buying mood, acquires six brands
The Swedish WeSports Group AB has taken over a number of brands and companies in the recent weeks and months. After the acquisitions of Rawbike and the Nordic Outdoor & Sports Group, which were completed in April this year, the Stockholm-based enterprise has taken over six more companies during the ...
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News briefsU.S. resale startup Trove raises $77.5 million
Trove, a California-based branded resale company that counts Patagonia, Arc’teryx, REI and Lululemon among its customers, has received $77.5 million in a Series D funding round led by G2 Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to date to $122.5 million. Bank of Montreal, Capital One Ventures, Commerce Ventures and Wellington ...
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News briefsSOLE launches climate accountability initiative and carbon-negative insoles
Canadian footwear company SOLE has launched CO2negative, an initiative in collaboration with ReCORK™ to promote and facilitate the accurate labeling of the climate impact of consumer products and the certification of CO2-negative products, and simultaneously announced its first CO2negative™-certified insoles, the Performance footbed collection. Made from ReCORK recycled cork, the ...
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News briefsUSWE swings to Q1 profit as sales soar on demand surge
Swedish outdoor and sports brand USWE reported a jump of 253 percent in net sales to 29.3 million Swedish kronor (€2.86m-$3.37m) for the three months to June 30. It generated an operating profit before depreciation and amortization (Ebitda) of SEK 5.58 million (€0.55m-$0.64m), or a margin of 19 percent of ...
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ArticleSport Holding acquires Bergans of Norway
Sport Holding, Norway’s largest sports retail player with more than 360 company-owned and franchised stores throughout Norway, divided into Sport 1, Intersport, Anton Sport, Löplabbet, Sportsnett and Skandinavisk Høyfjellsutstyr, is acquiring 100 percent of the shares of Bergans Fritid AS. Source: Hans Kristian Krogh-Hanssen Jan Tore Jensen, CEO ...
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News briefsWith 27% growth in H1, Tecnica performed better than in 2019
Italian Tecnica Group posted revenues of €173.7 million in its H1 that ended June 30 (+27 percent compared to H1 2020). Ebitda increased to €17.1 million from €2.7 million in H1 last year. The net result shows a loss of €2.5 million (€14.2 million in H1 2020). Lowa, Rollerblade and ...
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Isbjörn promotes Maria Eklind Enström to content manager
Swedish children’s outdoor brand Isbjörn of Sweden has appointed its former customer service employee, Maria Eklind Enström, as its new content manager. The newly created position is part of the company’s ongoing digital and e-commerce strategy. Prior to Isbjörn, she worked as a buyer at J.Lindeberg for eleven years and ...
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News briefsBig Agnes receives RDS brand certification
After purchasing certified down for all of its sleeping bags and apparel for years and an intensive audit including a physical visit of the brand’s facilities and products in its Salt Lake City distribution center, U.S. outdoor equipment brand Big Agnes announced that it has officially received its Responsible Down ...
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ArticleAnta’s profits more than double in H1, Amer bounces back
Anta Sports Products saw revenues jump by 55.5 percent to 22,812 million yuan renminbi (€2,999m-$3,524m) in the six months ended June 30, supported by strong growth in all brands and benefiting from the easing of Covid-19 restrictions. In addition to a surge in demand related to the Xinjiang issues, e-commerce ...
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News briefsNew GM for the Norwegian branch of Fenix Outdoor
Kyrre Ufert Lømo is the new general manager of Fenix Outdoor Norway AS. Lømo has more than 10 years of experience in sports marketing, multichannel business development and communications, and most recently spent 2.5 years at Columbia Sportswear as regional director for the Nordic and Baltic countries. The Norwegian subsidiary ...
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Is Puma targeting the outdoor market?
In an interview on Aug. 23 with Süddeutsche Zeitung, one of the leading German newspapers, Bjørn Gulden, who has been CEO of Puma since 2013, said: “We need to focus more on outdoor. Not as an outfitter of extreme athletes or ambitious summiteers. But there is a big trend towards ...
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News briefsApplication for Outdoor Sports Inclusion Awards ends Sept. 1
The application phase for the new Outdoor Sports Inclusion Award initiated by the EOG, the It’s Great Out There Coalition and the European Network of Outdoor Sports (ENOS) is closing on Sept. 1, 2021. Products that are useful and easy to use for people with disabilities and made with inclusive ...
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News briefsOn opens temporary travel agencies for local recommendations in Berlin and L.A.
On Aug. 26, On will launch the new Cloudaway, a new hybrid outdoor shoe, sustainably produced, ultra-lightweight and flexible, created for the new travel, which On says is all about moving consciously, walking slower, staying longer and being mindfully present. Source: On The new Cloudaway outdoor hybrid shoe ...
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ArticleNew CEO and board members for Ecco
Ecco’s CEO Steen Borgholm has stepped down from his post on Aug. 20 “by mutual agreement” after four years and more than two decades with the Danish footwear company. He will be replaced by Panos Mytaros, who has been with the company for 27 years. Mytaros started his career with ...
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News briefsGregory backpacks see a 33.6% sales hike in H1
Gregory Mountain Products enjoyed a 33.6 percent increase in local currencies in the first half of 2021, reaching a level of $32.7 million, but it did not quite recover to the $34.9 million of the first half of 2019. Like before, Samsonite’s less technical brand of backpacks, High Sierra, under-performed, ...
