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Ribatt will run Crocs
Gregg Ribatt, a seasoned executive who helped to strongly build brands such as Sperry Top-Sider and Stuart Weitzman, will act as the new chief executive of Crocs, starting in late January. He takes the place left vacant by the retirement of John McCarvel last spring.Andrew Rees will remain president and ...
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Potential LBO for Columbia?
Citigroup, the parent company of Citibank also known as Citi, has ranked Columbia Sportswear in seventh position among the American shoe and apparel companies that may go soon for a leveraged buyout based on price, debt levels, potential operational improvements and assumptions that it may be truly for sale.The company ...
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Omni-channel will dominate the retail landscape
The internet, smartphones and other technologies have given a new course to the customer's “shopping journey.” Various speakers at the European Outdoor Summit indicated that this journey can more easily lead to a purchase if vendors and retailers cooperate in facilitating the decision-making process along all its stages and through ...
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Taking the outdoors to the cities
A major trend discussed by several speakers at the European Outdoor Summit was the people's growing yearning for active outdoor leisure, be it in the great outdoors or in the city. A trend to bring outdoor sports into the city is encouraged in some European countries like Denmark, where the ...
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Looking at sustainability from another angle
Sustainability was discussed less prominently at Tegernsee than at previous industry gatherings but this important topic was handled with particular verve and some provocation by Michael Braungart from EPEA Internationale Umweltforschung ( Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency - International Environment Research). He urged the outdoor industry to come up with more ...
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New generation re-launches Five Seasons with big goals
The Swedish brand of value-priced sports apparel is being re-launched with a new logo, a new fashion-oriented collection and a stronger focus on large key accounts all over Europe. Five Seasons has also signed new agency and distribution contracts with experienced partners in Central Europe.It's all part of a three-year ...
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Oberalp signs deals with Halti and Spyder
Oberalp, the big Italian company that owns Salewa, Dynafit, Pomoca and Wild Country, is adding two important assets to its portfolio of distributed brands. It has signed a five-year deal with Halti to sell the Finnish brand in Italy and Austria, starting last Nov. 1, with an option to expand ...
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Johnson Outdoors hikes sales and profits
A strong finish of the financial year has been reported by Johnson Outdoors, attributing much of the progress to the fact that new products generated one-third or more of sales for the tenth consecutive year. Particularly in the second half of the financial year, ended on Oct. 30, the introduction ...
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Nike believes in urban outdoor
Nike has relaunched and rebranded its technical outdoor line, Nike ACG, with a stronger positioning in the urban outdoor market. Spanning over outerwear, footwear and portable storage, its new NikeLab ACG collection is “designed to meet the demands for mobility and weather protection in any urban setting,” said Nike about ...
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EOCA reports on a positive year
The European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA) is looking back to a record year in terms of consumer awareness of its conservation projects. In two voting rounds, it reached more than 18 million consumers who cast a total of 90,000 votes for its projects, on which it has budgeted to spend ...
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Ispo Munich expands outdoor and other segments
The Ispo Munich show will again have a full house on Feb. 5-8 with more than 2,500 exhibitors from over 50 countries on 180,000 square meters of exhibition space. There will be interesting novelties in the outdoor, fitness, action sports and textiles areas.With a new Ispo Outdoor Lounge in Hall ...
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VF achieves best score in Climate Change Report
VF Corp. has announced that it achieved its highest-ever score - 90 out of 100 - in the 2014 Standard & Poor's 500 Climate Change Report by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). The CDP is a non-profit organization, which provides companies and cities with a global system to measure, manage, ...
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Fenix takes over Globetrotter
A new company, Frilufts Retail Europe (Frilufts AB), is taking over all the retail operations of Globetrotter Ausrüstung, Germany's largest outdoor retailer, along with the two major outdoor retail chains in Sweden and Finland, Naturkompaniet and Partioaitta. Together, they will have an annual turnover of around €260 million before VAT, ...
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Fenix – a big gamble?
Who would have guessed that Fenix Outdoor would be ready to play the really big card in European outdoor specialty retailing? The Swedish group has notoriously had big ambitions as a retailer. However, it has been looking outside Sweden because it could not play a significant role against the big ...
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Fenix scores better with brands than at retail
The announcement of the merger between Globetrotter and the retail side of the newly named Fenix Outdoor International group came just a few days after the latter announced better quarterly results for its brands - Fjällräven, Hanwag, Tierra, Primus and Brunton - than for its retail operations, represented essentially by ...
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Former Puma product chief takes the helm at Jack Wolfskin
Michael Rupp is unexpectedly leaving Jack Wolfskin after less than two years at the helm of the German outdoor company, to be replaced with Melody Harris-Jensbach, a former board member in charge of product at Puma and chief product officer at Esprit.The company said that Rupp had decided not to ...
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Slow progress for Peak Performance
Peak Performance performed a little better than before in the first quarter of its financial year ended Sept. 30, but not at retail, according to its parent company, which has changed its name from IC Companys to IC Group. The brand's total sales were up by 3 percent to 353.0 ...
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Camelbak's parent buys Sterno's parent
Compass Diversified Holdings (Codi) has announced the acquisition of Sterno Candle Lamp Company, which is well known in the outdoor sector for its Sterno branded fuel canisters, stoves and fire starters for camping, tailgating and other users. Most of its revenues, which reached $133.6 million last year, come from the ...
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Ternua proceeds with Lorpen's integration
As previously reported (Compass vol. 7-15-16 of July 21), the two Spanish brands have come under the joint ownership of the Lasa family, which controlled Ternua and Astore, a small brand of team sports products. The new company, which has come to be called Ternua Group, says it has largely ...
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Samsonite will not distribute Gregory in Europe
Samsonite, which took over Gregory Mountain Products from Black Diamond Equipment in July, is not going to use its own offices in Europe for the distribution of the brand in Europe, where Gregory will continue to be sold by outdoor experts. Andrea Meerholz, the former European brand director of Gregory, ...
