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Italian ski resorts to introduce tighter restrictions in view of reopening

2020-12-29T10:05:00Z

Italy’s Technical Scientific Committee (CTS) has recommended tighter restrictions for ski lift operations connected with the ongoing pandemic. Ski resorts in the country are currently shut but are due to reopen on Jan. 7. The guidelines that regional authorities submitted did not fully convinced the committee at the end of ...

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Oberalp opens new Mountain Shop in Cogne, Italy

2020-12-21T06:31:00Z

Oberalp opened a new Mountain Shop on Dec. 4 in Cogne, in Italy’s Aosta Valley. The new shop follows the opening of two other Mountain Shops in Italy this year – one in Campo Tures in July and one in Bergamo in October. The store in Campo Turis was in ...

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A proposal to postpone winter sales in Italy

2020-12-21T06:27:00Z

In an open letter to Assosport’s president, the chief sales officer of the Oberalp Group, Stefan Rainer, recently called for a postponement of winter sales from their usual early January start to the beginning of Feb. 2021 or later, in consideration of the special conditions brought about by the Covid-19 ...

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Are we going to ski this winter?
Europe is divided

2020-11-29T21:52:00Z

With the ski season approaching, a discussion about winter sports during the Corona crisis has flared up. Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte wants to keep ski resorts closed at least until Jan. 10, 2021. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel is calling for a joint decision by the member states of ...

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The Italian bicycle market will post record sales in 2020

2020-11-29T21:18:00Z

According to data from ANCMA (Associazione Nazionale Ciclo Motociclo Accessori), the sector’s trade association, bicycle sales in Italy are expected to increase by 20 percent this year as compared to 2019. The pandemic provided the primary drive for the growth, followed by the mobility bonus that was allocated by the ...

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Berghaus with new distributors for the Iberian Peninsula and Italy

2020-11-27T10:57:00Z

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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Tecnica among the best performing companies in Italy’s northeast

2020-11-27T07:04:00Z

Tecnica Group has been ranked among the 100 top-performing companies in Italy’s Triveneto area for 2019. The ranking is available in TOP 100, a special supplement that the Gedi publishing group has devoted to the best-performing companies in Italy’s northeast. The supplement has been on sale since Nov. 20 with ...

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Oberalp will distribute Falke and Burlington in Italy

2020-11-24T10:21:00Z

The Oberalp Group will take over the distribution of Falke and Burlington for the Italian market from January 2021. The Group, still a family business and based in Bolzano in South Tyrol, was founded in 1981 by Heiner Oberrauch. The group, which includes the brands Salewa, Dynafit, Pomoca, Wild Country, ...

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Regional government refunds Moncler’s unused donation

2020-11-10T16:54:00Z

The government of the Italian region of Lombardy has returned €10 million donated last March during the first Covid-19 wave by the outdoor brand Moncler to support the construction of a hospital on the site of the former Milan Fair. During the summer, Moncler was informed by the regional government ...

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Safety and rescue equipment stolen from Kong’s facility in Italy

2020-10-29T12:38:00Z

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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La Sportiva and Società Alpinisti Tridentini collaborate in Italy’s Trentino region

2020-09-08T08:02:00Z

La Sportiva signed an agreement with the Società Alpinisti Tridentini (SAT), the Trento branch of the Italian Alpine Club (CAI), with the aim of preserving more than 5,000 km of mountain trails and the active diffusion of the mountaineering culture within the borders of the northern Italian region of Trentino, ...

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Italy’s outdoor industry promotes nature and tourism

2020-05-09T10:07:00Z

The Italian Outdoor Group (IOG) has launched Outdoor Italia, a social media campaign to promote the country’s natural areas through the images and voices from these places and with regular news from the outdoor brands that are participating in the initiative. The campaign features brand ambassadors, alpine guides and tourist ...

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2021 will see winter edition of Outdoor & Running Business Days (Video)

2020-03-03T10:31:00Z

Outdoor & Running Business Days, the Italian B2B fair for the outdoor and running industry, has announced an additional winter edition for 2021. More details will be unveiled in the coming months. Meanwhile, this year’s edition of the trade show in Riva Del Garda, in the northern Italian province of ...