Latest News & Analysis – Page 288
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Katadyn Pumps Fresh Water Into Its Money Box
The Katadyn Group, clear global market leader in the business of portable water purification solutions, recorded another year of growth for 2009. Sales went up by 2.7 percent and reached 38.2 million Swiss francs (€28.4m-$36.6m). The operating profit was CHF 6.1 million (€4.5m-$5.9m). The company says that it ...
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Teva And Ugg Make Deckers Happy
Deckers Outdoor Corporation's total revenues jumped by 34 percent to $137.1 million in the second quarter ended June 30. Net income grew by 222 percent to $8.9 million. Gross margins rose by 4.5 percentage points to 44.3 percent with the gain attributed to improved Teva sales, fewer closeouts and a ...
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The Outdoor Show Was Big – And Hot
The heat was on at the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen that ended on July 18. The number of trade visitors increased by 6 percent to 20,460. Following the procedure introduced by AUMA, the council of German trade fair operators, these figures mean entries per day rather than visitors, but the ...
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China’S Outdoor Trade Becomes More Chinese
The wholesale and retail turnover of outdoor brands in China posted another record year in 2009, according to the China Outdoor Commerce Alliance (COCA). At the retail level, total sales reached 4,850 million yuan renminbi (€569.1m-$716.5m) compared with RMB 3,650 million (€428.3m-$539.2m) in 2008. At the wholesale level, turnover ...
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Point6 Gets Its Foot Into Europe
Point6, the young brand of Merino socks, is launching its international business at this OutDoor show, where it showed for the first time. The U.S. company announces that it has just appointed two distributors for the Italian and German markets. These markets are covered by Scarpa SpA and Scarpa Schuhe ...
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The Global Outdoor Shoe Market Rose By 2.1% In 2009
The global outdoor footwear market expanded by an estimated 2.1 percent in terms of U.S. dollars at the wholesale level in 2009, despite the financial crisis, according to an annual survey of major brands by The Outdoor Industry Compass, in cooperation with the publishers of the American and European editions ...
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Eog Sees Market Growing, Prices Rising And Eco Standards Being Clarified
While recognizing the need for better market research data, the European Outdoor Group (EOG) estimates that the specialist market for outdoor products grew last year by at least 2 to 3 percent on average in Europe to an approximate level of €6 billion, with many important groups such as Jack ...
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Haglöfs Will Expand Beyond Europe
Haglöfs will widen its distribution beyond Europe after its takeover by Asics, which was detailed in our previous issue. In the last years, the Swedish outdoor company has expanded from Scandinavia to a flurry of other European markets, but the company’s managers told us at the OutDoor fair yesterday that ...
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Salewa Studying Possible Acquisitions
The Salewa/Oberalp group is considering the possible acquisition of a brand and the representation of others on the Italian market to help reach a target of €200 million in annual sales by the year 2015. In 2009, the Italian group’s sales increased by 12 percent to €152 million in spite ...
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Schöffel Takes The Austrian Business Into Its Own Hands
Schöffel has decided to end its cooperation with its Austrian distributor after more than 30 years. Instead, Schöffel is going to start its own subsidiary. Les Sports, the current distributor led by Klaus Taxer, will remain incharge of the pre-orders for the next summer season 2011.Christophe Weissenberger, the new sales ...
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Good Growth At Wolverine
Wolverine World Wide reported yesterday a 4.8 percent increase in revenues to $258.2 million for the second quarter ended June 19. The growth would have been even higher if a big shipment to an unnamed distributor had not been delayed until the third quarter. The group also had lower close-out ...
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Smartwool Expands Management
The U.S. Merino manufacturer has reacted to its strong global growth by reorganizing its management team. Three new positions were created and filled from within the company to meet international expansion requirements.Chris Hahn, was appointed as general manager international business to coordinate marketing strategy and daily business in Europe and ...
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Black Diamond Installs Sales Trio For Europe
As of July 2010, the Switzerland-based European operations of Black Diamond have three sales managers to intensify work in Europe. All three appointments come from within the company.David Ledouble has been sales manager for Europe since 2005 and will now focus on southern Europe. Sebastian Weiche, former manager at Scarpa, ...
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German Intersport Is Set For Another Outdoor Record…
Yesterday, Klaus Jost, next to Kim Roether one of the two presidents of Intersport Germany, gave some estimates for the evolution of the German outdoor market and its major protagonists for 2010. Once again, he sees the group that he presides out in front with sales of €630 million after ...
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…And The Same For Sport 2000 And Outdoor-profis
The German section of Sport 2000, too, announces good sales of outdoor products. For the entire group the outdoor category represented 20.8 percent of total sales from July 2009 to June 2010. In the previous year’s period it represented “only” 18.7 percent. The increase was €43 million at retail prices ...
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Bo Hilleberg Is The “Celebrity Of The Year”
The “Outdoor Celebrity Award” was presented yesterday at the OutDoor show for the fifth time and went to Bo Hilleberg. With an established reputation for high-end tents, the Swede started in cooperation with his wife Renate in 1971. In 2003, he walked away from operating business at the Hilleberg company ...
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Asics Takes Haglöfs And Hikes Into The Outdoor Business
In a major diversification move that surprised several observers, Asics Corporation announced that it has reached an agreement to buy 100 percent of the shares of Haglöfs Holding, the leading Swedish brand of outdoor products. After multiple discussions with Ratos AB, which has owned Haglöfs since 2001, Asics’ board of ...
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Lowe Alpine Drops Out Of Apparel
Blaming the financial crisis of the past two years, Lowe Alpine International says it has decided to close down its apparel division in Italy, effective on July 1, because of a continued reduction in the bank credit lines that it has obtained in 2009 and 2010. The British company, which ...
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Vaude Reorganises Its Sales Force And Segments Its Eco-friendly Products
Vaude has reorganized its sales force for both the Vaude and the Edelrid brands in the German-speaking countries. While Jan Lorch remains at the top of the sales management, long-time Vaude manager Hannes Mayer is now in charge of Edelrid’s sales in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, whereas Mark Cole continues ...
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Many New Products And New Product Lines From Cascade Designs
In an interesting diversification move, Cascade Designs announces the upcoming release of a new line of hydration packs, called Platypus Origin, and a new collection of adventure travel gear, called Traveling Light, that includes travel bags, backpacks, waist packs, pillows, fast-dry towels and other products.The American company has decided to ...
