Latest News & Analysis – Page 276
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Coleman wants to get more into specialty retail in Europe
After the move of the headquarters for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) from Lyon to Frankfurt two and a half years ago, Coleman, along with its other brands Camping Gaz, Sevylor and Airbed, sees itself in a good position to strengthen its presence across the region for all ...
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Silva plans to expand under new owners
Silva, the Swedish brand of lights and compasses, is preparing to explore more openings in sports retailing and in international markets after its acquisition by Karnell, a Swedish investment company. Unveiled earlier this month, the sale of Silva by Fiskars should have a positive impact of about €6 million on ...
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Vasque uses two distributors to cover much of Europe
This brand of Red Wing Shoes, which is introducing a new brightly colored line of outdoor shoes for spring/summer 2012, has signed up two distributors, one in Spain and the other one in Germany, to cover many different countries in southern, Central and Eastern Europe.While focusing on different product lines ...
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Vibram takes over FiveFingers’ distribution in Europe
Vibram has amicably parted ways with Aicad, the Italian producer of Lizard sandals, by not renewing a contract that had given it the right to distribute its own line of FiveFingers shoes in Europe for the past five years. Aicad will have until the end of this year to clear ...
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Vibram attacks Fila over FiveFingers patents
Vibram USA and its parent company in Italy, Vibram SpA, filed a complaint last July 6 in a U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, alleging that the “Skele-Toes” range introduced by Fila USA last February infringes on three U.S. patents. The main patent, issued last Oct. 5, covers “footwear having independently ...
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Amer pushes e-commerce, own retail
Amer Sports plans to increase sales from e-commerce and corporate single-brand stores to 10 percent of the group's net sales. The group has already started pilot e-commerce operations in France for Salomon and Suunto, and now plans to launch new online shops in other parts of Europe and North America. ...
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Friedrichshafen’s numbers are up again
It was probably one of Messe Friedrichshafen's targets to organize an OutDoor show that was better than the weather outside the halls. The makers managed to achieve this goal even though that was not difficult to do. During the show, the weather was horrible – except for Saturday which was ...
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Shanghai was a success, Frankfurt says, but.....
The China Outdoor show that was held in Shanghai at the end of June was a success, according to its organizer, Messe Frankfurt. The official release says that slightly more than 6,000 professional buyers and outdoor enthusiasts attended the event held at Shanghai Exhibition Centre.They were welcomed by 103 brands ...
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Branded outdoor footwear on fire
We are going to publish our annual rugged outdoor footwear chart in the next issue of The Compass, reserved only to subscribers. It will show a big increase in the international market for the major brands in this category in 2010, especially outside the U.S. Much of the growth was ...
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Icebreaking news: Kiwis want to double in four years
Icebreaker, the New Zealand specialty apparel made from Merino wool, projects global sales at $150 million for the current year after it managed to reach $120 million last year and $100 million in 2009. Jeremy Moon, the company's founder and chief executive, told this publication that doubling the business within ...
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Haglöfs moves ahead with Asian expansion
Haglöfs, the Swedish outdoor brand, is preparing to move into the Chinese market as part of a three-year strategy for expansion in Asia starting next year. Inspired by Asics, the Japanese company that bought Haglöfs last year, the plan calls for the Swedish brand to move into three leading Asian ...
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Norwegian investor on buying spree
Active Brands, the Norwegian holding company that bought Nanok earlier this month, is set to continue its acquisition spree in the coming years: Simen Mørdre, chief executive of the company, said he wanted to build up a group of brands with an annual turnover of between 2 billion and 3 ...
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Blacks may need more capital
Blacks Leisure, the leading British outdoor retailer, said that it had to increase its debt and that it might try to raise capital again to finance store openings, as its turnover continued to decline sharply in the last months.The company, which runs the Blacks and Millets stores, saw its comparable ...
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Outdoor Research puts more effort into product development
Outdoor Research is boosting its product development team with several new designers. Jason Duncan is the new technical sportswear manager, focusing on combining technical performance with stylish designs. He was previously a senior product manager for base layers, mid-layers and softshells, as well as head of buying of external apparel ...
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EOG has better outdoor market data
The European outdoor market grew in 2010 by more than 6 percent to an estimated €9,677 million after taxes at retail, according to the initial data collected from a far-reaching survey conducted by the European Outdoor Group among suppliers, distributors and retailers, covering 19 countries and providing details about 11 ...
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German Sport 2000 posts contrasted sales for the first six months
The outdoor range of products of Sport 2000 grew in the first half of 2011 by 5.7 percent in comparison with the same period in the previous year, despite the very strong increase in the previous business year with 17 percent growth.While outdoor shoes experienced an increase of 8.1 percent ...
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Outdoor-Profis grows through new members; worried about order calendar
Outdoor-Profis, the group of specialty retailers within Sport 2000 Germany with 105 members, has been able to increase its sales in the first half of 2011 by 30 percent compared with the same period in the previous year.This sales figure is understood to come mainly from new members and not ...
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German Intersport posts the first decline of outdoor sales in years
Intersport Germany did not manage to escape from unfavorable weather conditions in the first six months of the current year either. Compared with other categories, however, the decline of outdoor sales was moderate: Snow sports fell by a massive 32 percent after winter was disrupted very early in January. Team ...
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Paul Petzl is the outdoor celebrity of the year
The OutDoor Industry Awards ceremony has been held at the OutDoor trade show in Friedrichshafen yesterday. Paul Petzl, president of Petzl, the French company of mountaineering and safety equipment, has been awarded with the award “OutDoor celebrity of the year”.Petzl, whose distribution network covers 51 countries worldwide, achieved global sales ...
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Schwan-Stabilo: Ortovox is set to remain an independent company
Sebastian Schwanhäußer, managing director of Schwan-Stabilo, the new owner of Ortovox, the German mountaineering brand, went into details about the plans for his new baby. It has been clear since 2006 when the group acquired Deuter that its outdoor division is set to expand through further acquisitions. Ortovox fit into ...
