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ArticlePeak Performance releases 2019 Sustainability Report
With its Sustainability Performance Report 2019, Peak Performance provides information about its sustainability work and the progress the brand made last year. In 2018, the Swedish outdoor brand published its first sustainability report and has since continued to push the agenda. The brand says it has made significant progress in ...
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ArticleLafuma Group hit by Covid-19 amid restructuring
Groupe Lafuma said the company was “shaken” by the Covid-19 pandemic in mid-March during a period of structuring its brand portfolio and activities. It has made efforts in the past months to adapt to structural changes in its markets and in customer consumption patterns, including investments to improve the customers’ ...
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ArticleU.S. Congress passes Great American Outdoors Act
On July 22, the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of the Great American Outdoors Act. The bill, which passed by a bipartisan vote of 310-107, is now headed to President Donald Trump in order to become law. In a public statement, the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) celebrated the ...
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ArticlePatagonia starts campaign for regenerative organic farming
Believing that it is one of the most effective ways to combat climate change and feed a growing population while maintaining a healthy planet, Patagonia will be drawing attention to regenerative organic farming this fall. Switching from industrial agriculture to regenerative organic farming creates healthy soils that bind significantly more ...
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ArticleGarmin hit by cyber attack
Garmin confirmed that the company was the victim of a cyber attack on July 23 in which some of Garmin’s systems were encrypted by outsiders, resulting in a significant failure of the company’s popular fitness tracking services. The German news site Spiegel Online reported indications that the company was attacked ...
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ArticleForced labor in China: brands to stop sourcing in Xinjiang
A coalition of more than 180 civil society organizations last Thursday urged the global apparel industry to stop sourcing in the Xinjiang region of China because of the “serious risk of forced labor.” Human rights activists estimate that at least one million Uighurs and other Muslims are held in prison ...
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ArticleVaude introduces repair index
Vaude has introduced an innovative new tool called Repair Index to systematically embed repairability in product development to ensure that products are designed to be as repairable as possible from the very first product idea. With the new tool, the repairability of Vaude products can now be evaluated. A comprehensive ...
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ArticleThe French are outdoor passionate; camping strong after lockdown
A YouGov France survey has revealed that 62 percent of the French people participate in outdoor activities. The French favorite outdoor activities are hiking (58 percent), cycling (also at 58 percent) and swimming (43 percent). Hiking is especially successful in the 55 or older age group (70 percent of respondents ...
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ArticleSwiss sports retailers predict 10% sales drop
Excluding bikes, which are becoming more popular in the country, the Swiss sporting goods market achieved modest growth of 1.4 percent in 2019 in comparison to the previous year, according to the Swiss Association of Sports Retailers (Asmas), which compiled the figures in collaboration with the GfK market research institute. ...
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ArticleTatonka remains a strong retail partner after the lockdown
German outdoor brand Tatonka, founded in 1993 and family-run from the beginning, is starting the 2021 ordering season with an adjusted product range and a bisected hardware collection in reaction to the recent corona-related lockdowns. The “2021_1” collection, delivered in the first half of 2021, will include a well-balanced mix ...
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ArticleOberalp releases handbook with sustainability guidelines
The fourth consecutive annual sustainability report of the Italian Oberalp Group, entitled “Contribute,” has been supplemented by a series of new guidelines for more sustainability in the mountains. While Salewa, Dynafit and Wild Country were awarded “Leader” status by the Fair Wear Foundation for the third consecutive time, many other ...
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ArticleBergans starts second mobile repair tour through Norway
Together with students from the fashion school Esmod, Bergans of Norway is to continue its “Tour de Sy” through Norway this August, offering all kinds of repairs for hiking clothes. Last summer, the Bergans repair vehicle was on its first Tour de Sy through the East and South of the ...
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ArticleFenix’s recovery driven by Europe
After a difficult first quarter due to Covid-19 restrictions, Fenix Outdoor International started seeing a small retail recovery in April with strong increases in online sales, making up for some lost sales in brick-and-mortar stores. In May and June, the improvement continued and was also supported by improved physical stores’ ...
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ArticleThule gets sales rebound late in the quarter
Thule Group, the Swedish company best known for its roof boxes and bike racks, but also selling strollers, luggage and roof tents, saw its net income for the second quarter drop by 25.6 percent from the year-ago quarter to 312 million Swedish kronor (€30.5m-$34.8 m), while revenues went down by ...
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ArticleState Of Trade: The Outdoor industry has grown in 2019
With its State of Trade market research project, the European Outdoor Group (EOG) has been delivering results on industry-wide sales for ten years. Since its launch in 2010, State of Trade has grown into the most comprehensive and robust market research project for the European outdoor sector. The latest results ...
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ArticleCraghoppers wins Brand of the Year at Drapers Sustainable Fashion Awards
With its inaugural Sustainable Fashion Awards, London-based B2B fashion magazine Drapers seeks to recognize the industry’s progress in the reduction of its environmental impact and in creating fairer working conditions throughout its supply chain. The awards range from Brand and Retailer of the Year to the Best Supply Chain Initiative ...
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ArticleGore-Tex brand supports Protect Our Winters
On the initiative of an employee already involved with Protect Our Winters (POW), the Gore-Tex brand has now officially announced its corporate support for the climate protection organization in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. POW provides educational services on climate change and implements actions for and with the outdoor sports community ...
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ArticleBurton transforms retail experience with NewStore’s omnichannel platform
NewStore, a leading omnichannel store solution from Berlin, has revealed that Burton Snowboards has started to run its stores on the NewStore Omnichannel Platform. With a mobile point of service (mPOS) and inventory and fulfillment solutions available on iPhone apps, the snowboard company’s stores will benefit from a more intuitive ...
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ArticleXXL is back on track
(SGI) After many quarters stuck in a downward spiral, XXL ASA, the leading Nordic sports retailer, has been taking drastic steps to turn the business around such as cutting costs, clearing inventory and searching for new “sustainable” sources of liquidity other than new equity. This has started to bear fruit. ...
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ArticleAnta Sports issues warning on first-half profits
Anta Sports Products said it expects to report a drop of about 25 percent in its earnings for the first half of this year, largely as a result of restrictions implemented during the Covid-19 crisis. They are even expected to be down by 35 percent from the year-ago period when ...
