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Alfa rebuilds its Swedish business
Alfa Sko is rebuilding its business in Sweden with the appointment of two former Haglöfs managers, with the target to multiply its sales ten-fold to about 50,000 pairs in the country in the next five years.The Norwegian footwear brand was previously owned by Haglöfs and it lost most of its ...
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Helinox changes European distribution
Helinox, a South Korean supplier of light-weight camping furniture, has started building a team to handle its own European sales from the start of this month, from an office in Paris and a warehouse in Rotterdam.The company is most famous in the outdoor industry for its Helinox Chair One, but ...
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Ruffwear spreads in European outdoor stores
Ruffwear's distribution has expanded to more than 300 outdoors stores around Europe, as the regional partner for the Oregon-based brand of active dog gear is supporting them to work this category, which is not dependent on the weather.The Accapi Group started distributing Ruffwear in the U.K. seven years ago, and ...
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Bergans buys an expedition company
Bergans of Norway has established its own expedition company, Bergans Turglede, after the acquisition of Fram Expeditions from its two Norwegian founders, Cecilie Skog and Bjørn Sekkesæter.The new entity will be headed by Sekkesæter as general manager and tour guide. He was already in charge of the management of Fram ...
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Thule grows fast, reaching a 24% Ebit margin
The Thule Group reported a 13.3 percent increase in sales to 1,955 million Swedish kronor (€205.0m-$241.0m) for the second quarter ended June 30, up by 6.8 percent organically and by 8.6 percent in local currencies. As the first quarter had been very strong, too, the overall growth for the first ...
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Outdoor drives Garmin’s results
Garmin raised its full-year guidance after posting earnings for the second quarter that exceeded its expectations, rising by 6.1 percent over the year-ago quarter to $171 million. On an adjusted basis - which excludes the impact of foreign currency gains and losses and certain income tax items - profits inched ...
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Rocky Brands follows an upward trend
After posting a strong first quarter that marked its return to profitability, Rocky Brands is staying on an upward trend, posting a net income of $1.5 million for the second quarter of the year, compared with a loss of $1.8 million for the year-ago period. The company said the profit ...
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More double-digit growth and high margins at Moncler
Moncler reported consolidated revenues of €407.6 million for the first half of the year, up by 17 percent at constant exchange rates and 18 percent at current exchange rates as compared to the first half of 2016. The second quarter was the 14th consecutive quarter of double-digit growth for Moncler ...
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Gore’s latest fabric technologies on display at Outdoor Retailer
WL Gore & Associates showcased the latest version of its Gore-Tex Active fabric and other recent developments from its Gore Fabrics division, including the latest weather-protective technologies for running shoes, at Outdoor Retailer, the trade show held in Salt Lake City, Utah on July 26-29.Garments using the newest version of ...
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DuPont unveils its new Intexar technology for connected garments
DuPont's Advanced Materials division showcased its newest smart clothing technology at the latest Outdoor Retailer (OR) Summer Market, which took place in Salt Lake City on July 26-29. The company unveiled a new technology called Intexar, which is said to enable an easy transformation of regular fabrics into connected garments.DuPont ...
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Some growth in Europe for outdoor, except for footwear
Preliminary figures collected by the European Outdoor Group among more than 100 brands for its annual State of the Trade research project indicate that the European outdoor market grew last year at the wholesale level by 3.4 percent in volume and by 3 percent in value to €5.47 billion. That ...
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A positive and slightly more international OutDoor show
The earlier dates of the European OutDoor show, which took place in Friedrichshafen on June 18-21, did not cause the big decline in attendance that some suppliers had feared. At 21,412, the total number of daily visits to the show was only slightly lower than at the July 2016 edition, ...
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Will the OutDoor show stay on Lake Constance?
Messe Friedrichshafen invested €5.5 million in a new, badly needed air cooling system that pleased exhibitors and visitors at the OutDoor show. It also made some creative additions to its format, which were praised by the European Outdoor Group (EOG).It's not sure, however, whether the leading European outdoor show is ...
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Mark Held is going to leave the EOG
The European Outdoor Group (EOG) formally announced at the OutDoor show that Mark Held has decided to step down as its secretary general as soon as his successor is found.We understand that he would like to leave in one or two years – possibly by the middle of next summer ...
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Helly Hansen reorganizes in the U.S. market
Helly Hansen has appointed Waypoint Outdoor as its master sales representative across the U.S. market, for both its sportswear and workwear wholesale activities. The Norwegian sailing and outdoor brand says the new business model is to accelerate its U.S. business after a clean-up in the last two years, with a ...
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Silva to acquire North American rights
Silva Sweden, the Swedish specialist in compasses and headlamps, has reached an agreement with Johnson Outdoors to acquire distribution rights for the Silva brand in North America. They have signed a transfer agreement with the intent to close the sale at the start of next year.Johnson Outdoors, which owns brands ...
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Jack Wolfskin lauded for fully recycled jacket
Jack Wolfskin claims to have come up with the first waterproof outdoor jackets using fully recycled materials. The range, which will be launched at retail in the spring of 2018, combines a shell fabric and the Texapore Ecosphere membrane, which are both made from recycled polyester. The trimmings, zippers and ...
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Icebreaker streamlines its growing European business
Icebreaker raised its European sales at a double-digit rate for the fiscal year to the end of March, thanks to reinforced partnerships with key accounts as well as increased investments in branding and marketing.The merino wool specialist from New Zealand has gone through a reorganization that saw it take more ...
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Spanish outdoor and bike retailers work together
Mundo Mammoth, one of the major physical and online retailers for bicycles in Spain, has announced an agreement to integrate its operations into those of Barrabès Esquí y Montaña, which is regarded as the leading Spanish outdoor and ski retailer. Based at Huesca, in the Basque region of Spain, it ...
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German buying groups want more joint buying
In an effort to become a more vertically integrated system supplier, Sport 2000 Germany is striving to determine a standard range of products that would represent up to 70 percent of the offer in the affiliated stores and that would be centrally ordered at better conditions. More in detail, 25 percent of ...
