Hiking & Trekking – Page 102
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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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Keen named one of the most admired companies in the state of Oregon
U.S. footwear brand Keen has been named one of the most admired companies in the U.S. state of Oregon in 2020 by the Portland Business Journal for the third year in a row. According to the 400 respondents to the annual survey, which was conducted throughout Oregon and southwest Washington ...
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New North American business unit director for Tecnica Footwear
Tecnica Group has appointed Rob Phillips as North American business unit director for Tecnica Footwear, a newly created role. Responsible for overseeing commercial operations, product and marketing, Phillips comes to Tecnica with over 14 years of diverse sales and management experience, including seven years with 5.11, where he helped lead ...
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Spyder adds footwear to its offerings
The lifestyle, ski and outdoor brand Spyder has partnered with Footwear Unlimited, a U.S. full-service company that designs, manufactures and distributes footwear. With the launch of its own shoes, Spyder is rounding out its head-to-toe offerings for men and women. According to the brand the new collection fuses elements of ...
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News briefsJack Wolfskin plans to continue Wolftrail hiking trips in 2021
Source: Jack Wolfskin Wolftrail Scotland Jack Wolfskin will continue its Wolftrail campaign in Scotland in the new year, the Covid-19 situation permitting. The campaign first started in Romania last March – at that time, the brand had developed a first, exclusive long-distance hiking trail with its long-term ...
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Alpkit to expand into Scotland in 2021
Alpkit, an outdoor brand from Nottinghamshire, England, has announced plans to open its first Scottish store in Edinburgh early next year. The store, which will be located on Edinburgh’s Causewayside, is reportedly recruiting 12 staff members. In addition to selling gear to hike, climb, camp, run, swim and cycle, the ...
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ArticleArc’teryx aims for Fair Trade certification
With a goal of having 80 percent of its products certified by Fair Trade USA by 2025, Arc’teryx has announced plans to convert three production facilities in Vietnam to Fair Trade CertifiedTM in the coming year. The move comes as part of the company’s response to the global garment workers’ ...
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The North Face “NSE Expedition” capsule celebrates climbing and sustainability
The North Face has released the NSE Expedition capsule collection, which commemorates Sally McCoy’s attempt to become the first American woman to climb Mount Everest in 1987. During that attempt, extreme weather conditions unfortunately halted the effort. The NSE Expedition capsule comprises a short assortment of warm outerwear that are ...
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Ferrino presents its new historical digital archive
Ferrino, the Italian outdoor company celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, has presented Archivio Storico Digitale Ferrino, a new digital archive that allows you to trace the history of the brand. The new digital tool gathers and makes accessible memories and documents from the company’s long-standing history. The company said ...
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News briefsNew Salewa store in Graz
A new Salewa brand store will open in the Austrian city of Graz on Dec. 11. The South Tyrolean mountaineering sports brand, part of the Oberalp Group, is opening its latest flagship store on 85 square meters in the center of the Styrian capital in a historic country house at ...
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Kathmandu Group’s CEO is resigning
Kathmandu Holdings, the owner of the Kathmandu, Rip Curl and Oboz brands, has announced the resignation of its group chief executive, Xavier Simonet. After five and a half years with the company, Simonet has decided to pursue another opportunity in the Australian Public Service in a senior position. He will ...
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Superfeet launches custom-insole system in Europe
The insole and footwear manufacturer Superfeet brought its Fitstation – which it describes as a “personaliszd” insole- and footwear-fitting system – to Europe in November. Already rolled out in the U.S., the system pairs elements from both the Swedish footwear-tech company Volumental and the American computer company HP. Volumental’s Engage ...
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Schmidt-Eisenhart will be Calida Group’s new CEO
The board of directors of the Swiss Calida Group, which includes the Lafuma Group with the outdoor brands Millet and Lafuma, has appointed Timo Schmidt-Eisenhart as chief executive officer of the Calida Group. Schmidt-Eisenhart will succeed Reiner Pichler in the first half of 2021. As reported earlier, Pichler will continue ...
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ArticleOutdoor stands out at Schwan Stabilo
The outdoor division of the German Schwan Stabilo Group recorded a drop in revenues for its financial year ended June 30, 2020, due to pandemic-related lockdowns from mid March to early May 2020. Sales declined by 5.1 percent from the previous year to €159.7 million. All four brands in the ...
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Berghaus with new distributors for the Iberian Peninsula and Italy
British outdoor brand Berghaus, a Pentland Brands business, has appointed Dicaltex Internacional as distributor for Iberia and Out Lab Distribution as sales agency for Italy. Both companies are already representing other Pentland companies, including Endura, Ellesse and Speedo, and will focus on building Berghaus sales through specialist outdoor retail channels ...
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Karpos launches the Mountain Friday
Karpos has announced that it will be donating 10 percent of the proceeds from the sales on its online store from Nov. 23 to Nov. 30 to mountain rescue services in the Italian areas of Belluno, Piedmont and Tuscany. The timing of the initiative, dubbed Mountain Friday, coincides with the ...
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ArticleKathmandu’s revenues keep surging thanks to surf label Rip Curl
Following record sales for its financial year ended on July 31, boosted by the acquisition of Rip Curl in October 2019, Kathmandu Holdings kept the momentum going during the start of its new financial year. In a trading update, the company said that revenues for the first fiscal quarter ended ...
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Staff changes at Groupe Rossignol in Austria
The Austrian branch of Groupe Rossignol has announced a series of staff changes. Sandro Aichner, sales manager of Rossignol Austria at the Innsbruck office since 2011, will assume responsibility for the Dynastar, Lange, Look and Kerma brands on top of Rossignol. The previous sales manager for Dynastar, Lange and Look, ...
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News briefsEntire Austrian territory now covered by RECCO’s search technology
The Swedish rescue technology company RECCO has reported that Austria is the first country in the world to fully cover its entire territory with RECCO SAR detectors. Searches will be carried out jointly by the Austrian Air Police (BMI) and the Austrian Mountain Rescue Service (ÖBRD). The detectors are placed ...
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Outdoor Research has a new president
Source: Outdoor Research Roger Barton Seattle-based outdoor brand Outdoor Research (OR) announced a new leadership structure with industry veteran Roger Barton taking the helm of the company. Since 2018, Barton has led all aspects of finance and operations at OR, building on a range of recent successes ...
