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Crocs is not yet out of the woods
Crocs' new focus on fewer products, fewer stores and fewer geographical markets is not expected to bear its best fruits until the first half of 2016. Gregg Ribatt, the company's new chief executive, sees the business continuing to stabilize around the globe, and sales declined by 8 percent in the ...
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New leadership for the European Outdoor Group
John Jansen, who runs Keen Footwear's European operations, was voted in as the new president of the European Outdoor Group (EOG) at an extraordinary meeting of the association yesterday, taking the place of Rolf Schmid, president of the Mammut Sports Group. The EOG, which owns the OutDoor fair in Friedrichshafen, ...
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New leadership for Eoca
John Jansen, the European director of Keen Footwear who has become the new president of the European Outdoor Group (EOG) has now been succeeded at the helm of the European Outdoor Conservation Association (Eoca), which he led for the last three years with excellent results in terms of membership and funding.The new ...
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Osprey’s founder is Celebrity of the Year
Mike Pfotenhauer, the remarkably talented and relentless designer behind Osprey Packs, was named Outdoor Celebrity of the Year 2015 at the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen last month. Beginning with a single sewing machine in 1974, he built up one of the most influential brands of backpacks and continues to design ...
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Osprey upgrades European logistics
Osprey Packs wants to deliver its products more rapidly around Europe with the opening of a warehouse in the Netherlands. The company's European distribution is currently handled from an office and warehouse in the U.K. While Osprey is building an expanded office near the current location in Poole, in the ...
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A nearly stable OutDoor show
The European OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen last month ended with a minor drop in the number of visitors, down to 21,464 from 21,912 a year ago. The organizers noted increased attendance from France, the U.K. and several countries outside Europe, including China and Australia.Several exhibitors at the trade show felt ...
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Asia Outdoor to be held one month earlier in 2016
The organizers of the Asia Outdoor show in Nanjing celebrated its 10th anniversary on July 23-26, reporting an increase in the number of trade visitors to 19,002 from 17,298 in the previous year. The Compass team was a little surprised that there was an actual rise in the number of ...
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SDI sales rise driven by U.K. stores
Sports Direct International (SDI), the leading British sports retailer and supplier among other properties, which owns the Karrimor brand and Field & Trek, lifted its sales by 4.7 percent to £2,832.6 million (€4,067.6m-$4,424.4m) for the full fiscal year ended April 26, in spite of a weak winter sports season in ...
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Outdoor fuels Intersport Germany’s sales
At the OutDoor show, Kim Roether and Jochen Schnell, chairman and member of the executive board of Intersport Germany, respectively, gave an insight on the evolution of the buying group in the first half of 2015. Compared with the previous year, the affiliated retailers improved their turnover in terms of ...
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German Sport 2000 expands its speciality retail network
By the end of June the German section of Sport 2000 had increased the number of affiliated retailers by 83 above the number a year ago. The group had won 107 new members, lost 24 and currently has a total of 888 companies running 1,184 stores.A major boost came from ...
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Salewa partners with Michelin
Salewa is coming out with two types of innovative outsoles for loose and hard grounds, developed for the first time in partnership with Michelin, the French rubber tyre company that is well known for its innovative solutions. Besides outdoor shoes, Oberalp, parent company of Salewa, Dynafit, Wild Country and other ...
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Alchemy brings its full range to Europe
Alchemy Equipment, an urban apparel brand from New Zealand with the functionality of technical outdoor garments, has come up with a summer range for the northern hemisphere, which should support its move into European markets.Frank Spiewack, a seasoned outdoor executive who built up European sales for Macpac Wilderness Equipment and ...
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Revo partners with Bono
Revo, the American brand of sunglasses, is launching a program aimed at collecting $10 million to improve access to eye screening and vision correction for more than five million people in disadvantaged communities around the world. For every pair purchased by consumers, it will donate $10 to the Brien Holden ...
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NPD sees the 2014 outdoor market up by 2%
At the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen next Wednesday, the European Outdoor Group is scheduled to reveal the main findings of its annual report on the European outdoor market in 2014, based on the input it has received from most major brands and some retailers. Meanwhile, the NPD Group tells us ...
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Many activities, debates and more at the OutDoor Show
In addition to a new layout and a new look, the OutDoor Show taking place in the German town of Friedrichshafen on July 15-18 is launching a new website and a new app. The “myOutDoor” smart service platform will enable synchronization between devices. After setting up a personal account, users ...
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Schwan-Stabilo buys Maier Sports Group
Maier Sports Group, the German snow sports and outdoor apparel brand, is to be taken over by Schwan-Stabilo, the German group that is already the owner of Deuter and Ortovox, for an undisclosed price.Martin Riebel, chief executive at Deuter and Schwan-Stabilo Outdoor, said that Maier Sports neatly complemented the group's ...
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Garmont gets a €1 million injection
An equity investment firm controlled by the Veneto region, Veneto Sviluppo, is injecting €1 million in Garmont International through an equity increase that gives it a 25 percent stake in the company, which took over most of the assets of the former Garmont in the spring of 2014. The investment ...
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Puma sells Tretorn
As part of its strategy to focus on its most important assets, Puma has agreed to sell the industrial property rights of the Tretorn Group to the Authentic Brands Group (ABG). Tretorn managers are acquiring an operating license from ABG to run Tretorn's business in Scandinavian and other European countries. ...
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Investment firm buys Backcountry
Backcountry.com, a leading U.S. online outdoor retailer, has been acquired by TSG Consumer Partners, an investment firm from San Francisco specializing in the branded consumer market. The deal was sealed with the previous owner, the former Liberty Interactive Corporation, at an undisclosed price.TSG said it would help the online outdoor ...
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The battle of the Basks is “resolved”
Bask, the Russian outdoor brand, has been split between two groups of owners since the start of a dispute in 2009. But Vladimir Bodganov, who established Bask in 1992 with his brother Sergey and other investors, says they have retrieved all assets related to the brand.The split occurred when a ...
