All La Sportiva articles – Page 2

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    La Sportiva opens brand store in Courmayeur

    2020-12-10T12:32:00Z

    La Sportiva has opened a monobrand store in Courmayeur , the well-known Alpine resort at the foot of Mont Blanc, in Italy’s northwest. It is the tenth store of the Italian brand, founded in 1928. It will sell all the brand’s product ranges, and not only winter sports items, including ...

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    La Sportiva launches sustainability contest

    2020-11-10T06:35:00Z

    La Sportiva has launched #LaSportivaCares , an online contest that is meant to promote awareness of sustainability among the brand’s customers while also informing them of the company’s strategy and actions in the area of sustainability. In order to enter in the contest, participants must connect online and ...

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    La Sportiva to offer wide sizing

    2020-10-21T08:01:00Z

    The Italian mountain and climbing shoe specialist La Sportiva is beginning to offer wide sizing. Available in the Nucleo High II GTX and the Ultra Raptor Mid II GTX hiking boots initially, the new wide sizes will accompany traditional widths to appeal to a broader customer base. ...

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    La Sportiva opens brand store on the Greek island of Kalymnos

    2020-09-10T09:11:00Z

    At the end of July, after some delays due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the first Greek La Sportiva monobrand store was opened in Massouri on the island of Kalymnos. The store is intended to become a landmark not only for the local climbing scene, but also for all those ...

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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 ...

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    Growth of 7.0% for branded outdoor shoes in 2019

    2020-08-28T05:12:00Z

    As they do every year, many brands gave us their numbers or indications of their performance in the outdoor footwear market to help establish its growth in the wholesale channel and to benchmark themselves against one another. The result of this joint study by The Outdoor Industry Compass and the ...

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    La Sportiva to resume production

    2020-05-14T14:20:00Z

    The Italian mountain and climbing footwear specialist La Sportiva resumed production of climbing and mountaineering footwear at the Ziano di Fiemme production plant on May 18. In the initial phase, the 200-plus production staff (out of over 360 in the entire plant) will work in two shifts of four ...

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    La Sportiva launches “For Your Mountain” campaign (Video)

    2020-05-14T10:09:00Z

    La Sportiva is launching a new campaign that features Michele Graglia , the Italian ultra-marathon runner and model. The campaign, entitled “La Sportiva for Your Mountain,” focuses on the internal challenges for both athletes and ordinary people who engage in outdoor activities, and how the brand’s technical apparel and ...

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    More outdoor companies produce masks and gowns

    2020-04-20T11:56:00Z

    As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to paralyze large parts of the outdoor industry, the Compass receives several press releases each week from brands that have converted their productions or source capacities for production of the highly sought-after face masks and medical gowns. Here is the latest news of ...

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    Dynafit postpones 2021 summer collection

    2020-04-10T14:17:00Z

    Dynafit has announced that 80 percent of its current 2020 summer collection of apparel, footwear and equipment will be carried over to 2021. The decision was made in connection with the difficulties generated by the coronavirus crisis, and notably the company’s willingness to support its retail partners, as the ...

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    La Sportiva postpones SS21 collection by one year

    2020-04-07T10:26:00Z

    After the Italian outdoor brand La Sportiva closed its production plant in Ziano di Fiemme due to the Covid-19 epidemic and switched production to protective masks and clothing for the Trento civil defense, it now has announced that it will postpone the presentation of most of its new ...

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    Lavaredo Ultra Trail canceled

    2020-04-03T17:34:00Z

    The 14th edition of La Sportiva Lavaredo Ultra Trail , which was scheduled to take place on June 25-28, has been canceled. In 2013, the organizers had been forced to modify the race route because of the snow, but the event had never been canceled before.

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    La Sportiva is producing masks and scrubs

    2020-04-02T05:29:00Z

    La Sportiva had already stopped production lines at its factory in Italy ahead of the ministerial order imposing the closure of the factories for unnecessary goods. Now the outdoor company is converting part of the machinery, originally designed for cutting and sewing leather and rubber, for the production of ...

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    Staying active at home with La Sportiva

    2020-03-19T09:26:00Z

    La Sportiva has launched the campaign #sportividacasa (Italian for “active at home”), in response to the coronavirus situation that is forcing people to stay at home. The company will be sharing videos of its ambassadors under taking physical activity at home via its Facebook and Instagram ...

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    La Sportiva shuts down production until April 3

    2020-03-13T10:58:00Z

    La Sportiva , the Italian producer of climbing and hiking shoes and clothing, announced on March 12 the closure of its head office, store and manufacturing plant at Ziano di Fiemme in Northern Italy because of the coronavirus epidemic, at least until April 3. The facilities employ a total of ...