Latest News & Analysis – Page 183
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Slower growth for Thule
After a very strong start of the year, the Thule Group said that it grew at a slower pace in the second quarter. In constant currencies, the Swedish-based company's revenues grew by 3.0 percent from the year-ago period to 2,311 million kronor (€219.7m-$247.1m), hampered by currency headwinds. Its operating income ...
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Berg Outdoor goes out of the market
Portugal's Sonae Group ceased operations for its Berg Outdoor brand last month. Orders already taken for spring/summer 2019 were still delivered as planned, but there will be no further collections. The big Portuguese retail group had examined alternative strategies for the brand, which was created in 2002 as a private ...
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Many awards at the OutDoor by Ispo show
Vaude won two OutDoor by Ispo Gold Awards in July: one for its new, seamless Lizard 1-2 P Tent and one for its new Meglis Eco 700 SYN sleeping bag. At this year's OutDoor by Ispo show in Munich, the German-based outdoor company also won another award in the category ...
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Nordisk came first in the SOG Awards
At this year's OutDoor by Ispo show in Munich, the Scandinavian Outdoor Group named Nordisk as the overall winner of the traditional SOG Awards for the spring/summer 2020 season for its Midgard 9.2-square-meter tent. The Danish company's modular tent concept has been applied to four different tent sizes – 20 ...
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Promising start for the OutDoor by Ispo show
The European Outdoor Group (EOG), which owns the OutDoor brand name with two capital letters, overwhelmingly decided early last year to move its OutDoor show to Munich, after its 25 years of existence on Lake Constance, and its choice has apparently proven correct. The numbers were pretty good, for a ...
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Good prospects for the new trade show in Munich
The new OutDoor by Ispo show has received more acceptance from the industry than expected after Messe München won the race for holding the show against Messe Friedrichshafen at a landmark meeting of the European Outdoor Group last year. With its more central geographical location and a major activation program, ...
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ArticleThe global outdoor footwear market grew by 6.8%
The world’s rugged outdoor footwear market rose by 6.8 percent to €5.15 billion in 2018 in terms of dollars, according to an annual survey of key vendors conducted by the Outdoor Industry Compass in collaboration with Sporting Goods Intelligence. It rose by an estimated 6.1 percent in the U.S. and ...
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NPD says footwear is the fastest category in Europe
It will be interesting to see what the European Outdoor Group will have to say for the European market for footwear, apparel and equipment at the new OutDoor by Ispo show in Munich this coming Sunday. Like our survey, its study is based on the brands' sales to the trade.According ...
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Oberalp acquires Evolv
Oberalp has announced the acquisition of Evolv, described as the first fully-fledged American brand of climbing shoes, from BRS Outdoor Holdings, an investment platform of BRS & Co. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed. The brand, which generated sales of about $8 million last year, will fit neatly ...
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Oberalp grows steadily
Oberalp's sales rose by 5 percent in 2018 to €220 million. About 75 percent of the turnover was generated by its house brands, led by Salewa, whose revenues rose only slightly because of a major clean-up of the brand's distribution in the past three years that helped the company to ...
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Consolidation and sustainability
Under the management of Christoph Engl, who became the family-owned group's chief executive last September, the company wants to consolidate its present product portfolio before considering other acquisitions. Engl took the place of Massimo Baratto, who is now the European director of Under Armour, based in Amsterdam.Last summer, Oberalp reinvested ...
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Claes Broqvist has left
Meanwhile, Claes Broqvist has left as vice president of international sales of Oberalp to become the first international sales director of a young American company, Vicis, from Aug. 5. Based in Seattle, the young American brand has developed a special concussion technology that has led its helmets to get the ...
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Mountain Warehouse posts sales and profit growth
Mountain Warehouse has reported a 13 percent sales increase for the year to Feb. 24, 2019, with sales reaching £255 million (€286.0m-$323.7m). It was the 22nd consecutive year of rising sales, and it was partly due to the opening of new stores. The growth was primary driven by the international ...
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New, sustainable e-commerce platform launched in Sweden
The topic of “Sustainability as a Competitive Advantage” will be discussed at a panel organized with the collaboration of the Outdoor Industry Compass on Tuesday July 2 between 11 and 12 AM in the Retail Lounge of the OutDoor by Ispo show. Located in Hall A4, booth 40, the Retail ...
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Weekendbee.com of Finland stands out through sustainability
There is a growing trend of outdoor industry retailers differentiating themselves through their commitment to sustainability. The Finnish based e-commerce platform weekendbee.com is recent example.Launched in October of 2018, the platform carries products only from outdoor or active lifestyle brands whose mission is to make their products and operations as ...
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Icebug insists on sustainability and profitability
“Is this the most sustainable trail running shoe in the world?” Rather than make the claim, Icebug asks the question in a press release to introduce its new Outrun RB9X model, calling on other brands to challenge the company and offering to share its knowledge in the belief that cooperation ...
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Milliken acquires Polartec
While no figures have been given – not even for the turnover of the two companies – Versa Capital Management is probably going to make a nice capital gain from its sale of Polartec to Milliken & Company, a large and diversified U.S.-based textile group. The strategic investment contract is ...
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Helinox optimizes European distribution
Helinox, the young Korean brand of camping equipment, has signed with ProAgencies, a network of sales agents and distributors, to represent it in the U.K. with immediate effect. ProAgencies represents several brands in the outdoor sector such as Eagle Creek, Asolo and PackTowl.The Helinox business will be handled by Lawrence ...
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Deuter’s parent invests in China
Schwan-Stabilo, the parent company of Deuter and other outdoor brands, is in the process of setting up a sales subsidiary for the outdoor division in China next month, to take the place of a former distributor of the brand. Provided that it gets its registration by July 1, it would ...
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New home base for Scott Sports
Scott Sports moved a few weeks ago into an impressive new headquarters in Givisiez, the Swiss town it has called home for 40 years. The construction of the new, single building began in June 2016 and cost about 60 million Swiss francs (€54m-$60m). The result is a seven-story structure of ...
