Latest News & Analysis – Page 256
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Attendance slowed down at Asia Outdoor
The Asia Outdoor show held in Nanjing, China, on July 24-27 had a total of 18,563 visitors, down from 20,542 last year. According to its organizers, attendance was strongly up on the first two days, while the third day was rather weak and the fourth day, which was open to ...
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Sanfo is happy with sales growth, but less with profits
In 2012, Sanfo, China's leading outdoor specialty retailer, lifted its sales by around 25 percent to RMB285 million (€35.1m-46.5m). Heng Zhang, the group's chief executive, said that sales remained flat on a same-store basis. Most of the increases came from additional doors, but, most importantly, from a thriving business of ...
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Hi-Tec sets up team for the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Austria
Hi-Tec Sports has appointed Peter Korver to head a new team covering the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Austria. The move follows the Dutch-based sports and outdoor footwear company's decision to take over its own distribution in Germany and Austria from WB Compagnie, a specialist in corporate products based in eastern Germany, ...
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Rewoolution expands its international sales network
(Already published in Asia Outdoor issue). Rewoolution, the Italian brand of premium outdoor apparel made of merino wool, will be selling its products in SportScheck stores in Germany from autumn/winter 2013, adding to some 250 points of sale that already carry its Italian-made products around Europe after only three ...
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Buff’s bandanas repel insects
(Already published in Asia Outdoor issue). Original Buff has launched the first headwear with built-in insect protection in European markets under a five-year cooperation agreement with an American brand, Insect Shield. The products were already launched in the U.S. and are now being made available to European clients in 12 ...
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New Finnish competitor in the barefoot space
(Already published in Asia Outdoor issue). Feelmax is currently re-launching its brand of “barefoot shoes.” The Finnish company exhibited for the second time at the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen and reported on its expansion to other European markets. After a change of ownership in 2011 and the nomination of a ...
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Less than 100 tickets left for the European Outdoor Summit
There are now less than 100 tickets left out of a total 300 tickets available to attend the first European Outdoor Summit, organized jointly by the European Outdoor Group and the Scandinavian Outdoor Group, with the Outdoor Industry Compass acting as its international media partner. Scheduled for Oct. 16-18, the ...
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Positive vibes from the 20th OutDoor show
(Already published in Asia Outdoor issue). The OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen went better than expected, considering the difficult market situation in Europe during the first half of this year. In terms of daily attendance at the fair, the number of trade visitors was down slightly to 21,465 from 21,730 a ...
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Remembering the past at OutDoor
(Already published in Asia Outdoor issue). The celebration of the 20th anniversary of the OutDoor show added to the positive mood at the fair, strengthening the feeling that an increasingly solid international outdoor community has been formed around the event over the years. All of them speaking in English ...
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The outdoor industry is developing differently
(Already published in Asia Outdoor issue). Figureheads of the industry agreed at a discussion held at the OutDoor fair in Friedrichshafen earlier this month that the market has changed beyond recognition since the show was launched two decades ago. Among other factors that transformed the business, they pointed to the ...
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Flattish market for the sports shoe brands in 2012
We are going to publish the full version of our annual chart on the International Rugged Outdoor Footwear Market in the next issue of The Outdoor Industry Compass, reporting the figures and the estimates that we have obtained for more than 20 major companies or brands. Meanwhile, here are the figures ...
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Globetrotter: a preview of its private label strategy
As reported at the last OutDoor show a year ago, Globetrotter Ausrüstung, the big Hamburg-based specialty retailer, will leave the Euro Family, the informal cooperation of leading European outdoor and sporting goods retailers. As a result, Globetrotter will no longer take part in the development of the alliance's private labels, ...
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Marmot outlines its moderate retail plans for Europe
Yesterday at the OutDoor show, Andy Schimeck, managing director of Marmot Mountain Europe, outlined the company's plans for the development of single-branded stores across Europe. In an interview, he said that the establishment of corporate stores will remain extremely moderate. The intention is to open three to five own stores ...
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China slows down – but just a little
Just ten days before the upcoming Asia Outdoor show in Nanjing, Knut Jaeger, the founder and organizer of both the Chinese outdoor trade show and the Asia Bike show scheduled for October at the same place, released yesterday a few detailed figures on the Chinese market. Messe Friedrichshafen, organizer of the ...
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The North Face will show at Asia Outdoor
The North Face has decided to exhibit for the first time at the Asia Outdoor fair, which will run in Nanjing on July 24-27. TNF will also organize the first Asia Outdoor-China Bouldering Open together with the Chinese Mountaineering Association (CMA) during the first two days of the show. The ...
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Big growth potential in the women’s market
The Outdoor Industry Compass and its more generic sister publication, Sporting Goods Intelligence Europe, have decided to diversify their market research efforts, launching a specific study of the women's market for outdoor products and other types of sporting goods, which is often neglected by some brands and some of their ...
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EOG is optimistic
The European Outdoor Group (EOG) was unable to offer the results of its annual “State of the Trade” survey at the opening of the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen yesterday, due to technical problems such as the installation of new software for the collection of the data. However, its secretary general, ...
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Haglöfs marches ahead with Asics’ technology
Footwear sales are soaring at Haglöfs as the Swedish outdoor brand is beginning to reap the benefits of its acquisition by Asics, the Japanese running footwear specialist, almost exactly three years ago. Shoes made up 8 percent of the Swedish brand's sales last year, but the rate jumped to 14 ...
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McKinley will be joined by premium label
For next spring/summer, Intersport International Corporation (IIC) will introduce a new sub-brand, called RED, which will be part of McKinley, the big exclusive outdoor brand of Intersport's global network of retailers. RED stands for Real Experience Design and is due to cover a substantially higher price range.Klaus Jost, chairman of ...
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German buying groups’ business is influenced by bad weather
The Intersport and Sport 2000 buying groups are both behind last year's sales for the period between January and June. Compared with last year's period, the two groups suffered a decline in sales on the retail level of 3 and 3.1 percent, respectively. This is no surprise after the weather ...
