Latest News & Analysis – Page 242
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Mammut grows by 5.7%
The Swiss Conzzeta Group reports a sales increase of 3.4 percent to 103.6 million Swiss francs (€85.83m-$112.69m) in the first half of this year for its sporting goods business, represented essentially by the Mammut Sports Group. On an organic basis, excluding changes in foreign exchange rates for the Japanese yen and ...
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Growth of 7.4% for outdoor shoes in 2013
The branded rugged outdoor footwear market grew by only 7.4 percent around the world last year - at wholesale and in terms of dollars - reaching $4,266 million, according to our estimates - a nice performance. It did not increase by 9.2 percent, as we had erroneously reported in the ...
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Missing Link regroups and cuts costs
The Norwegian Missing Link Group (MLG) has been through some turbulent years recently, as we have reported in the past, with declining sales and continual changes in leadership. Its sales fell last year to NOK 51 million Norwegian kroner (€6.3m-$8.2m) from NOK 60 million in 2012.However, according to an interview conducted ...
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Founder leaves Five Ten
Five Ten, the specialist climbing and cycling footwear brand, is turning a page after its founder, Charles Cole, left the company in July, about three years after selling it to the Adidas Group. Since then he had been acting as president. The U.S. company is now led by Wally Barker, ...
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Ex Officio starts European distribution
The European brand manager appointed by Ex Officio last year has started to spread the outdoor apparel brand owned by Jarden Corp. Marcus Ehlig is backed up by the European infrastructure of the Marmot brand owned by the same group but selling directly to retailers, instead of leaning on Marmot's ...
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Prana eyes more foreign and own retail sales
Growing international distribution should be one of the pillars of the Prana brand's development under the ownership of the Columbia Sportswear group, which bought this progressive American outdoor and yoga apparel brand in April (see details of the transaction in The Compass, Vol. 7 n° 7-8).Outlining the benefits of the ...
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Vasque to build European platform
Vasque, the outdoor footwear brand of the Red Wing Shoes group, is moving ahead with plans to return to Western Europe after an absence of about three years. The company pulled out due to product issues that have since been resolved. It wants to set up a full-fledged European platform, ...
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Gramicci widens scope with licensing deal
Gramicci, a U.S. company specializing in climbing, yoga and organic clothing, is eager to expand into new foreign markets in the coming years following a three-year apparel licensing agreement signed in July with the Hampshire Group, which should enable it to lean on a more efficient sourcing platform.Paul Buxbaum is ...
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Patagonia launches a new “Vote the Environment” campaign
Patagonia has launched a crowd-sourced campaign asking artists across the U.S. to create a collection of designs expressing why they believe the environment is the key issue in the upcoming mid-term election and inspire people to vote, especially young people. According to a study by Harvard University, only 23 percent ...
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More funding for Eoca and its projects
The European Outdoor Conservation Association (Eoca) raised more funds than ever before at the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen in July. It collected nearly €31,000 during the four-day event for its environmental conservation projects. The amount was about double what it raised at previous editions of the trade show and enough ...
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Altra widens European distribution
Altra, an American brand of running footwear with a shaped toe box and a flat cushioned sole, has made rapid headway in Europe by sealing another batch of distribution agreements in the last months. The expansion has been led by Frank Warnars, previously in charge of European sales at Saucony, ...
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Sony veteran becomes Black Diamond chief
Zeena Freeman, the new president appointed to replace Peter Metcalf as president of Black Diamond as of last week, is expected to implement a new omni-channel distribution strategy at Black Diamond, which may also involve the establishment of mono-brand stores. She will eventually also become chief executive of the company ...
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Ottervanger quits Etnies for Icebreaker
Peter Ottervanger, a Dutch expert in retailing, is leaving as vice president and general manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Sole Technology, parent company of Etnies and other skate and snowboard brands, to take on a similar role at Icebreaker, the fast-growing brand of merino wool garments ...
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Johnson Outdoors’ sales rebound after two difficult quarters
Johnson Outdoors reported a 6 percent sales increase to $137.1 million in the third quarter ended June 27 as compared to the year-ago period. Sales growth was mostly driven by consistently strong demand for new products across its brand portfolio. Despite the growth in the quarter, year-to-date sales compare unfavorably ...
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Confluence in multiple takeover talks
Confluence Outdoor, an American group that owns eight paddle sports brands, is holding talks with about eight companies to wrap up at least one acquisition by the end of the year. We have learnt this about four months after the company was acquired by J.H. Whitney Capital Partners and added ...
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Camelbak hires Edi Kaiser
Camelbak went through 80 different applications before choosing Edi Kaiser as its new European sales manager. A former sales & marketing director for Spyder Active Sports, he worked until the end of May as general manager for Germany and Austria at Skins, the Australian supplier of compression garments.Kaiser will take ...
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VF claims progress in working conditions in Bangladesh
VF Corporation, owner of brands such as The North Face, Wrangler and Timberland, has published a progress report in which it highlights its work with the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety to prevent unsafe conditions at the factories in that country with which it contracts. According to the statement, which ...
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Big recovery for the global outdoor shoe market in 2013
The global market for outdoor shoes recovered in 2013 from the 2.4 percent drop suffered in 2012, rising by an estimated 9.2 percent in terms of dollars to $4.27 billion at the wholesale level, according to an annual study by The Outdoor Industry Compass in combination with Sporting Goods Intelligence.Some ...
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Globetrotter returns paw-branded e-commerce to Jack Wolfskin
Effective end of August, Globetrotter Ausrüstung, Germany's leading outdoor specialty chain, will no longer be in charge of Jack Wolfskin's internet shop. For nearly a decade, the retailer has been handling the brand's e-commerce business in connection with the fulfillment, returns and service of the orders.Jack Wolfskin described the long ...
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The Korean market continues to soften
South Korea remains the second-largest market for outdoor products after the U.S., due to a combination of active outdoor participation and outdoor-oriented lifestyle fashion, but it is not growing as rapidly as before. According to Dong Chil Kwon, president of Treksta and chairman of the Korean Footwear Industries Association, the ...
