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Youth attitudes and online growth on the EOS' program
Sally McCoy, president and chief executive of Camelbak, is one of the latest speakers to be confirmed on the agenda of the European Outdoor Summit (EOS), which will take place in Sheffield on Oct. 13-15. She is to speak about the ways in which new generations are redefining outdoor experiences, ...
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Two more years in Salt Lake City for OR
While refraining to take a decision for the longer term, organizers of the Outdoor Retailer (OR) trade show have opted to prolong their agreement with Salt Lake City to hold their winter and summer fairs in the city until at least 2018.Emerald Expositions, which organizes the U.S. outdoor fair, had ...
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New reports on outdoor participation in the U.S.
The Outdoor Foundation has just released 11 individual reports on participation in outdoor activities in the U.S. The Foundation is providing greater insight into participation in adventure racing, mountain biking, paddle sports, trail running, climbing, stand-up paddling, sport climbing, road cycling, hiking, bird watching and backpacking. These reports are supposed ...
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Greenpeace finds industry-related hazardous chemicals in mountain areas
As part of its study on “Footprints in the snow - Hazardous PFCs in remote locations around the globe,” eight Greenpeace teams led expeditions to explore mountain ranges and lakes on three continents. Participants collected snow and water samples in China, Chile, Italy, three Nordic countries, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland and ...
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Gore to explore more ecological water-repellent solutions
W.L. Gore & Associates has announced plans to invest more than $15 million in research over the next five years to explore alternative water-repellent treatments, often referred to as DWR. Gore's initiative is in response to the ongoing debate regarding the environmental threat represented by perfluorinated chemical compounds (PFCs), which ...
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ZDHC updates its roadmap on hazardous chemicals in the textile industry
The Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC) group has released an update of its Joint Roadmap on the elimination or substitution of hazardous chemicals in products and their manufacture, and related efforts. The recent update covers the transition of the roadmap from seven workstreams into four focus areas which now ...
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Two top industry managers go for the peak of Mont Blanc
laus Dittrich, chairman of the executive board of Messe München, which organizes the Ispo trade shows in Munich and China, and Rolf Schmid, chief executive of the Mammut Sports Group and former president of the European Outdoor Group, made a pitch for the summit of Mont Blanc on Sept. 4. ...
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Growth of 15.5% for the global rugged outdoor shoe market in 2014
The global rugged outdoor footwear market grew last year at double the rate of 7.4 percent that we had calculated for 2013. The key vendors' sales of branded outdoor shoes to the trade jumped by 15.5 percent to $4.94 billion in 2014, with increases of 18.5 percent in the U.S. ...
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Urban outdoor trends and category overlaps at OR
Favorable weather, urban outdoor fashion trends and several constructive industry initiatives contributed to the upbeat atmosphere at the Outdoor Retailer (OR) trade show in Salt Lake City earlier this month. The organizers boasted strong attendance at the four-day event where more than 1,600 brands were represented, 376 of them new to ...
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Online-driven, the Chinese market’s growth decelerates
China's outdoor market expanded by 10.9 percent to 17.06 billion yuan renmimbi (€2.4bn-$2.7bn) at retail last year, marking a further slowdown in its growth rate after an increase of 16.2 percent in 2013 and more in the previous years. The estimate is based on the latest market research by the ...
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Oversupply and changing leisure trends hit the Korean market
Battered by a mix of structural and incidental issues, the South Korean outdoor market is estimated to have shrunk by at least 20 percent in the last year, encouraging some outdoor brands to adjust their strategies or to move into other sports categories.The market had rapidly expanded in the previous ...
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Descente gets control of Inov-8
In pursuit of its new, previously announced globalization strategy, the Japanese company announced the acquisition of an 80 percent stake in the U.K.-based Inov-8 group, for an undisclosed amount. Descente has already been the distributor of the fast-growing brand of off-road running shoes and accessories in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong ...
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Lower net revenues for Mammut
Citing a general weakening of growth in the outdoor market worldwide and the strength of the Swiss franc, Conzzeta has reported a 4.2 percent drop to 99.3 million Swiss francs (€91.5m-$101.6m) for its sporting goods segment during the first half of this year. The operating margin of the segment, which ...
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Black Diamond grows by 7% currency-neutral
The Black Diamond group's sales grew by 7 percent in local currencies during the second quarter of 2015, but the strength of the dollar and the breath of the company's international coverage caused it to report an increase in reported dollars of only 2 percent to $35.1 million for the ...
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Johnson Outdoors reports higher sales and profits
Johnson Outdoors has reported slightly higher sales and vastly improved earnings for the third quarter ended July 3. The growth was primarily driven by strong market momentum around new products across its consumer-oriented fishing, camping and water recreation products, which offset declining sales of diving equipment and lower revenues from ...
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Big outdoor growth in Norway?
Some 1.2 million Norwegians have been making plans to go hiking in their home country, following at least one of the T-marked routes maintained by the Norwegian Trekking Association (DNT), which maintains many of the hiking trails and cabins throughout the country. This level of outdoor participation, which was revealed ...
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Kathmandu rejects a takeover bid
Kathmandu's board of directors and its largest institutional shareholder, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, have rejected a hostile takeover offer for the New Zealand-based outdoor retail chain from the Briscoe Group, a retailer in New Zealand that operates about 80 stores selling homeware and sporting goods. Its 33 sporting goods stores ...
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Icebreaker expands sideways
Icebreaker has reinforced its European team with three regional managers for sales and marketing, as it continues to build on its merino-based outdoor products to move into adjacent categories.Ibrahim Can, former country manager in Switzerland, was appointed in March to supervise sales in the German-speaking countries, Eastern Europe and the ...
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Nomad embarks on new journey
Nomad, the Dutch outdoor company, held a gathering at its stand at the OutDoor fair to launch a campaign that is meant to give “a little kick” to the brand, after its change of management and ownership earlier this year.Nomad flew many of its employees to the fair this year, ...
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New Haglöfs chief outlines strategic adjustments
Haglöfs, the Swedish outdoor company, has adopted nine strategic initiatives to adjust the brand's proposition and improve its profitability in the coming years. The changes are led by Peter Fabrin, the company's chief executive since November.The Dane emphasizes that he has taken the helm at a company with strong brand ...
