Latest News & Analysis – Page 267
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Yeti wins an OutDoor Industry Award with Toray fabric
Miko, described as the lightest down men's vest in the world, has won one of this year's OutDoor Industry Awards. Weighing only 128 grams, it has been developed by Yeti with a special new high-tech fabric by Toray, called Next to Nothing 0.2, or NTN 0.2 for short. Yeti has ...
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Gold Reflect Line helps perform and recover
Some French suppliers exhibiting at this week's OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen will present prototypes of sleeping bags, trail-running garments and other products coated with a special bioceramic powder, labelled Gold Refect Line, that is said to improve performance in a variety of outdoor activities by capturing the “far infrared” ...
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New outdoor market research project starts with Sweden
The OutDoor fair in Friedrichshafen will see the launch of a new outdoor market research project by EDM Publications, publisher of the Outdoor Industry Compass. It is expected to provide unprecedented details and insights into the scope, the dynamics and the most interesting players in up 23 outdoor markets in ...
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Outdoor spending in the U.S. stays ahead of the economy
The Outdoor Industry Association in the U.S. has put out a new economic impact study, updating the last one from six years ago. “The Outdoor Recreation Economy 2012” lays out the relationship between spending on outdoor gear and travel: for $1 that Americans spend on outdoor products and vehicles, they ...
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Swiss food retailer moves into specialty outdoor
Reacting to a difficult economic environment in Switzerland, Otto's, a medium-sized food retailer in Switzerland, has proceeded with its diversification strategy by moving into outdoor retailing. Otto's already operates various retail businesses, both brick-and-mortar and web-based, including food, furniture, cars and car rental services. Altogether, it has some 100 doors ...
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Black Diamond buys Poc Sweden
Black Diamond Inc. has sealed an agreement to take over Poc Sweden, a company that has grown rapidly in the last years with its distinctive ski helmets and other protective gear, ahead of a more recent diversification of its well-designed product line. Poc said that it would retain much of ...
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Schoeller buys Eschler’s plant and sports buz
Schoeller Textil of Switzerland has agreed to take over the German production plant of Eschler Textil in Balingen and its Swiss-based sales organization for sports products, as part of a deal that will reinforce the long-standing partnership between the two Swiss family-owned companies. The tie-up will enable Schoeller to offer ...
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Lowa is more cautious after a strong performance in 2011
Lowa reached sales of €143.0 million in 2011, up by 8.3 percent as compared to €132.0 million in the previous year. The worldwide sales of the Lowa brand alone increased by €11 million, or 9.8 percent, to €122 million. The remaining €21 million in sales were generated in Germany alone ...
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Katadyn weathers the storm in spite of currency problems
The Katadyn Group of Switzerland, global market leader for portable water purification solutions, is happy with its 2011 results in spite of the strength of its local currency, the Swiss franc. While the group reached growth on the basis of local currencies, global sales declined by 4.4 percent to CHF ...
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Scarpa scouts for partnerships and acquisitions
Reporting sharply improved financial results, Scarpa says it is planning to take over the distribution of its products in some foreign markets in the course of this year. With corporate assets worth €24.6 million and virtually no debt, the Italian company, which specializes in mountaineering boots, is also looking around ...
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Lafuma improves results
Millet is no longer the only major positive element in the outdoor segment of the Lafuma Group. Following on the heels of the successful redesigning of its collection of camping furniture, the Lafuma brand registered an encouraging response at its recent international sales meeting to some of the technical innovations ...
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Some interesting changes at Ferrino
One of the two joint managing directors of the Italian company, Anna Ferrino, is now fully in charge of exports except for South America. That territory is now covered by the former export manager, Andrea Ferrino, who has moved to Buenos Aires after marrying an Argentinian woman. He will coordinate ...
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Changes at the top of TNF EMEA; parent sees big chances in Asia, South America
Arne Arens has been appointed vice president and general manager for The North Face in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Arens joined The North Face EMEA as sales director in 2010. He will take over from Timo Schmidt Eisenhart, who will switch to Timberland, another company in the ...
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Big growth abroad for Norrøna
Norrøna, the Norwegian outdoor brand, has sealed a distribution deal for the Japanese market with Fullmarks, which built up Haglöfs and still sells a spate of other Scandinavian brands in the country, from Poc to Aclima, Houdini and Hestra. Haglöfs set up its own business in Japan earlier this earlier, ...
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Asia lifts sales and investments at Haglöfs
Haglöfs, the Swedish outdoor brand, reported an almost exactly flat turnover reaching 626.1 million Swedish kronor (€70.6m-$88.2m) last year, but its sales jumped by 4.5 percent in constant currencies. The company could provide figures on its own business for 2011 after Asics, the Japanese group that owns Haglöfs, published its ...
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American Rec introduces three brands to European buyers
American Recreation Products, which was formed as a group of outdoor companies last year, is preparing to step up investments in the European market with the introduction of its three specialty brands, Sierra Designs, Kelty and Ultimate Direction, at the OutDoor fair in Friedrichshafen.American Rec, which is owned by Sun ...
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Columbia Sportswear deals with sweat differently
Columbia Sportswear presented a few days ago some interesting technical innovations for the spring/summer 2013 season that are partly intended to make the company less dependent on winter weather conditions and to build up a strong point of difference with some of the major sports brands. In its efforts to ...
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A.S. Adventure is flat, but remains top of Europe
Hurt by unfavorable weather conditions, the A.S. Adventure Group has reported nearly flat sales for last year, in spite of eight store openings. But it remained the largest outdoor retail group in Europe, with a turnover of nearly €290.9 million, down almost imperceptibly from €291.1 million in 2010. Owned by ...
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Fenix Outdoor posts good growth but profits are down
Fenix Outdoor, the parent company of brands such as Fjällräven, Hanwag, Brunton, Primus and Tierra along with own retail operations in Sweden and Finland, had a good first quarter in terms of sales, which grew by 22 percent to a total of 402.9 million Swedish kronor (€44.8m-$56.4m) as compared to ...
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Black Diamond enjoys strong increases
In announcing its group's good results for the first quarter, the management indicated that it was close to an acquisition, but declined to divulge any details, pending due diligence proceedings. The group is also making preparations with key retail clients for its first apparel line.Sales grew by 19 percent to ...
