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    Millet Mountain Group will soon have a new boss

    2020-10-15T11:12:00Z

    Romain Millet will take over from Frédéric Ducruet as the new managing director of Millet Mountain Group. Ducruet had been at the helm for the past seven years, and have worked for Millet for 19 years. According to reports in sport-guide.fr, Millet will be appointed to the new role on ...

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    VF matches its management to its new business model

    2020-10-14T14:46:00Z

    VF Corporation is changing its management structure to suit changes in the way it does business, notably the dividing of all of its brands between two portfolios. Core Brands comprises Vans, The North Face (TNF) and Timberland. Steve Murray has become global brand president of TNF. He served as president ...

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    ​Klättermusen expands agency network in Europe

    2020-10-13T14:08:00Z

    Klättermusen, the Swedish outdoor brand well known for its sustainable products, is reorganizing its European agency network unimpressed by the difficult situation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Sales director Patrick Kaulen named seven new agencies in Europe: Brandabout in Spain, WS White & Sinclair in northern, southern and central Italy, ...

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    Oberalp Virtual Convention to focus on women; introduction of new brand expected

    2020-10-12T21:46:00Z

    As the first ”Oberalp Virtual Convention” in May 2020 was extremely positive for the Italian company and its brands Salewa, Dynafit, Wild Country, Evolv and Pomoca with more than 37,000 clicks, and as ongoing travel restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic continue to make physical events difficult, the family-owned company ...

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    ​Successful SA8000 audit of Tatonka’s factories in Vietnam

    2020-10-09T13:39:00Z

    The production facilities owned by the German outdoor brand Tatonka in Ho Chi Minh City and in Binh Dinh Province in Vietnam, which are operated by Mountech Co. Ltd., meet all the requirements of the current SA8000:2014 social standard, as confirmed by the current audit conducted by TÜV Rheinland on ...

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    Tecnica goes partly direct in the U.K.

    2020-10-09T08:00:00Z

    After 17 years of collaboration, the Tecnica Group has decided to stop working with a distributor in the U.K. and Ireland for the Blizzard, Tecnica and Nordica brands, using sales agents instead. The current distributor, TKC Sales, will deliver the autumn/winter 2020 collections as planned, with the exception of the ...

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    London Mountain Film Festival to take place during 2021 London Mountain Week

    2020-10-06T13:59:00Z

    The London Mountain Film Festival (LMFF) is broadening its horizons and reaching out to retailers, brands, sporting clubs, venues, community projects and any other organization that wants to host their own event as part of the city-wide London Mountain Week April 16-25, 2021. While LMFF will list and promote the ...

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    Texon unveils new recyclable insole technology

    2020-10-06T11:08:00Z

    Texon, a UK-based producer of materials for the footwear industry, has unveiled a new insole technology that is based on 85 percent recycled polyester (rPET) and is 100 percent recyclable. Texon Ecoline is produced with a special fusion-bonded process that enhances the internal bond structure of the material’s fibers, which ...

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    New design lead for Rab and Lowe Alpine

    2020-10-05T13:40:00Z

    Italian product design expert Jacopo Bufacchi will join the British outdoor brands Rab and Lowe Alpine, both owned by Equip Outdoor Technologies, as their new design lead on Nov. 1. Bufacchi succeeds Jonn Langen, who left Equip in the summer. In his new position, he will be responsible for creating ...

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    New Iberian distributor for Berghaus

    2020-10-02T22:59:00Z

    Dicaltex Internacional has taken over the distribution of Berghaus for Spain and Portugal, starting with the servicing of the present autumn/winter collection and the sale of the spring/summer 2021 collection. Viper was the previous Spanish distributor of the British outdoor brand, but the contract ended in June.

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    Vasque Footwear has a new president

    2020-10-02T22:58:00Z

    In September, the hiking brand Vasque Footwear appointed Bryce Wernsman as its president, in replacement of Allison Gettings. Wernsman had spent the previous three and a half years as senior director of global marketing at Vasque’s parent company, Red Wing Shoe, helping to steer its brand, retail network and digital ...

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    Ispo Munich will be hybrid

    2020-10-02T17:07:00Z

    Messe München has announced that its next Ispo Munich show will be a hybrid event – on-site and digital. It will be smaller and more digital in physical terms, but it will be intended to reach a more international audience through the internet. We understand that the new format will ...

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    Interview: Corona and the impact on tourism in the mountains

    2020-10-02T15:22:00Z

    With Covid-19 and the lockdown in March, pretty much all industries were facing severe challenges. One of the sectors that were hit the hardest right from the beginning was the travel industry. After a while, people were allowed to travel again, but in a very limited manner. However, as the ...

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    ​The North Face introduces the Explorer Team

    2020-10-02T11:04:00Z

    The North Face (TNF) has announced the launch of a new team that will involve everyone around the world who see themselves as explorers or adventurers – from scriptwriters and photographers to trail runners and powder enthusiasts. TNF took the inspiration for its “Explorer Team” from the Covid-19 period and ...

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    Jack Wolfskin has a new CFO

    2020-10-02T08:25:00Z

    André Grube has been appointed new chief financial officer of Jack Wolfskin. He has been in charge of the company’s financial division as well as the tax & legal, human resources and office management departments of the German outdoor brand since Oct. 1. Grube succeeds Ante Franicevic, who will be ...

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    New sales director at Cascade Designs

    2020-10-01T12:56:00Z

    Jeremy Hancock is the new senior director of sales at Cascade Designs, the Seattle-based company behind the Therm-a-Rest, Mountain Safety Research (MSR), Platypus, SealLine and PackTowl brands. Hancock is joining the company after previously serving as director of North American sales for CamelBak, where he worked with specialty and key ...

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    Bergzeit receives EMAS certification

    2020-10-01T11:54:00Z

    The Chamber of Industry and Commerce of Munich and Upper Bavaria and the Bavarian Environmental Agency awarded the mountain sports retailer Bergzeit for its long-standing holistic environmental commitment that goes far beyond legal obligations. The company based in Otterfing near Munich received the EMAS certification on Sept. 25. EMAS (Eco-Management ...

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    Rainer becomes Oberalp’s CSO, Busa is Salewa’s new GM

    2020-09-30T21:39:00Z

    Justifying the introduction of a new sales structure with a shift to a “channel-driven approach” rather than a geographical basis under the management of Christoph Engl, the Oberalp Group has announced that Stefan Rainer will become its chief sales officer on Oct. 1. Rainer, who has been the general manager ...

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    ​New Wave GmbH reorganizes management

    2020-09-29T15:16:00Z

    Andre Bachmann, managing director of the German company New Wave GmbH, which is best known for the distribution of the Swedish brand Craft, has granted general procuration to his long-time employees Henriette Pfeiffer and Felix Lechner. Pfeiffer, New Wave’s chief financial officer, has been with New Wave for 14 years. ...

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    Dynafit strengthens its sales team

    2020-09-26T15:45:00Z

    Mountain sports specialist Dynafit has strengthened its team. The newly created position of strategic account specialist was filled by Herbert Steinmaßl, who has already worked for Dynafit for more than five years and was most recently brand representative responsible for Bavaria. His previous job has been taken over by Lisa ...