Latest News & Analysis – Page 271
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Quechua eyes stronger own retail, tourism and improved design
Oxylane, the parent company of Décathlon, has opened the first flagship store for Quechua, its big specialty private label for outdoor products, in an important location for outdoor activities. The selling surface of 80 square meters is located on Chamonix' prestigious Avenue de l'Aiguille du Midi. The new door is ...
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Kamik works with Gore-Tex; uses synergies with Aku
Starting with the 2012-13 fall/winter season, Genfoot, the marketer of the Canadian Kamik brand, has decided to use Gore-Tex in parts of its collection of winter boots. Richard Cook, Genfoot's president, told this publication that 5 to 10 percent of Kamik's adult shoes may feature the membrane, while the proportion ...
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Icebreaker expands in the Far East
The specialty brand of apparel made of merino wool has signed an agreement for distributorship in the Japanese market. Goldwin markets its own brand of outdoor apparel under the same name and represents a wide range of Western brands such as The North Face, Helly Hansen, Ellesse, Speedo and Champion. ...
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Adidas manager becomes boss of Peak Performance
Effective May 1, Henrik Bunge will be the new chief executive of Peak Performance. The 38-year-old currently acts as the managing director of Adidas Group Nordic. Adidas has yet to name a successor to Bunge. The appointment of Bunge at Peak Performance came after the Swedish brand had recruited Tobias ...
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Better than expected, the OR show weighs future locations
Combined with the effect of higher raw material prices, unseasonably warm weather throughout most of the U.S. in the past weeks have negatively impacted the outdoor and winter sports market in the country, as they have done in Europe. As already published in our sister business newsletter, SGI Europe, the ...
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EOG puts out hard figures on the European outdoor market
The European Outdoor Group (EOG) has completed its report on the state of the outdoor business in Europe and its development over the 2008-10 period. The report has been made available exclusively to the companies that took part in a major survey of the market, but some interesting new ...
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Scandinavian retail battle heats up with XXL’s expansion
The battle between Scandinavia's leading sports and outdoor retailers is heating up, as the XXL Sport chain of megastores has gone on a leasing spree that will increase its total retail space by about 35 percent next year. Adding 30,000 square meters of extra space, the second-largest Norwegian sports retail ...
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Haglöfs walks away from Gresvig
After Norrøna, Helly Hansen and Bergans, Haglöfs confirmed that it was putting an end to its centralized distribution deal with Gresvig, the leading sports buying group in Norway with the G-Sport, Intersport and G-Max banners. Instead, the Swedish outdoor brand will tighten its relationship with Gresvig members who have a ...
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Berghaus installs a new EMEA structure
The British outdoor company has set up a new management structure to better service the region of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with a focus on the German market. The move excludes the company's operations in the British Isles, which continue to be handled from Berghaus' head office ...
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Blacks in disarray as nobody wants to buy it
Blacks Leisure Group appeared to be in disarray last week after its second failure to attract the interest of any potential investors, like one year ago. Speculation is mounting that the debt-ridden owner of the Blacks and Millets outdoor retail chains in the U.K. would have to go into pre-packaged ...
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Buoyant year sparks sell-off talk at Helly Hansen
Peter Sjølander, chief executive of Helly Hansen, said that the company was about to end another buoyant year, whose results might attract takeover bids as early as next year. However, the Norwegian company insisted that it was not starting an auction and that it would gladly continue to build up ...
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Timberland plans new product introductions
At the recent FFANY footwear show in New York, Timberland announced that for next autumn's collection, all three of its main segments – classic, outdoor performance and casual – would meet the Earthkeeper green standards that the brand started in autumn 2007. It has also added new supplemental categories, warm/cold, ...
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Lafuma turns around
The Lafuma Group has reported a net profit of €3.9 million for the financial year ended last Sept. 30 compared with a loss of €3.6 million the year before.The gross margin improved by 2.3 percentage points to 53.9 percent of sales, thanks in particular to a better sales mix and ...
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Dubarry goes for premium performance outdoor lifestyle
Dubarry, an Irish brand of shoes that diversified into clothing five years ago, has successfully carved out an interesting niche for its outdoor-inspired products by avoiding the specialty retail circuit and targeting instead a segment of the fashion retail circuit that it likes to define as “premium performance outdoor lifestyle.” ...
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Argentinian outdoor leader moves head office, expands abroad
Montagne Outdoors, which claims to be the largest producer and retailer of outdoor products in Argentina, is moving its administrative and commercial services into a new five-floor corporate building. The company's new head office is located at 5369 Córdoba Street in Buenos Aires, in an interesting area of the ...
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The OutDoor show will stay at Lake Constance beyond 2013
Messe Friedrichshafen has won a pitch that did not happen. The five-year deal between the European Outdoor Group (EOG) and the trade show operator will be extended through a “rolling contract” that is automatically renewed in the absence of any major complaints - the way EOG has dealt with Ispo ...
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Bradshaw Taylor gets a pan-European deal for Sherpa of Nepal
Bradshaw Taylor, the British outdoor distribution company, has obtained a deal to sell the Sherpa Adventure Gear apparel brand nearly Europe-wide. The Nepalese brand will be displayed at Ispo early next year and deliveries to European outdoor retailers will start in the second half of the year.Italy and Austria were ...
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Outnet acquires Get Out
Outnet, a Swedish online retailer specializing in outdoor products, has acquired all the shares in Get Out, another strongly recognized online retailer based in Sweden that focuses on outdoor equipment. Their joint annual turnover should reach more than 70 million Swedish kronor (€7.6m-$10.2m) this year, with nearly SEK 50 million ...
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Blacks may need yet more financing
Citing weakening marketing conditions, Blacks Leisure Group predicted that its results will be below expectations and that it will thus need additional funding to execute its strategic plans, notably by strengthening its capital structure among other options. The announcement sent the value of its shares on the London Stock Exchange ...
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Bailo merges with Vist
The two Italian companies are merging into a new group, due to be called Officine Italiane, that will allow them to offer a complete range of snow and outdoor sports products and to generate synergies at various levels, including product development and international distribution.The goal is to reach combined consolidated ...
