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Growth Of More Than 40% For The Mountain Boot Company
While the British retail market for outdoor products grew by about 12 percent last year, thanks to favorable weather conditions and the residents’ desire to forsake holidays abroad, The Mountain Boot Company saw its turnover jumped by more than 40 percent to £8.6 million (€m9.6-$12.8m). The British company ...
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At Ispo China, Brand Building Was What Chinese Firms Where After
The organizers of Ispo China feel that they have taken a leading role in the Asia-Pacific region, reporting 21 percent more visitors for the show held in Beijing last March 4-6 than in 2009. Nearly 16,300 attendees showed up, a record. Several major players exhibited there for the first time, ...
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Under Armour: First We Take Britain And Then The Rest Of Europe
Under Armour, the fast-growing American brand that specializes in base layers, has teamed up with Jason Robinson, former sales manager of The North Face in the U.K. and Ireland, to introduce the brand in the British outdoor business. Beacons Outdoor, a company owned and run by Robinson, will operate as ...
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Gregory Puts More Markets On Its Shoulders
The backpack brand from California has big ambitions in terms of entering new markets. After the appointment of Hugo Youngman as new European sales manager, Gregory is moving fast forward. It has recently appointed no less than five distributors in Europe. The new distributor in the Czech Republic is ...
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Jarden Plans Big Expansion For Marmot Mountain
Jarden Corporation announced at a recent investor presentation that it plans to double the revenues coming from Marmot in the next four to five years. It wants to increase its market share in technical outerwear, sportswear and equipment to 10 percent, and expand its retail operations all over the world. ...
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Outdoor Performs Better Than The Rest At Garmin
The fourth quarter was good for the outdoor/fitness segment of Garmin, with a 24 percent increase in sales to $149 million. It contributed 27 percent of the company’s whole operating income. Overall, the company had just a 1 percent increase in turnover to $1.06 billion. The gross margin grew by ...
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Deckers Takes Over The Distribution In Several European Countries
Deckers Outdoor Corporation, the company behind the Teva, Ugg and Simple footwear brands, is reinforcing its European operations through the acquisition of its Dutch and British distribution partners. It opened a subsidiary for the Benelux countries and France at the start of this year and will do the same in ...
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Sgi Europe Offers Comprehensive Report On The German Outdoor Market
One reason why the reader of The Compass had to wait very long for this issue was the fact that its editor was busy with putting the finishing touch on a huge report on the German sporting goods market. The editor apologizes for the delay, which shall remain an exception. ...
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More Action On Anti-dumping Duties For Shoes And Bicycles
Fesi, the European sporting goods industry federation, has formally filed a lawsuit in the European General Court, challenging the procedures used in the investigation that has led the European Union to extend its anti-dumping duties on imports of leather shoes from China and Vietnam last Dec. 22. It claims that ...
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International Recognition For Carlos Barrabés
The World Economic Forum of Davos has named Carlos Barrabés, who founded the famous Spanish outdoor web store barrabes.com with his brothers in 1994, one of the “Young Global Leaders” who can change the world. The only other Spanish personality mentioned on the list this year is Spain’s young Minister ...
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New Management Structure For The European Outdoor Group
David Udberg, managing director of Lowe Alpine U.K., has been elected president of the European Outdoor Group, chairing a new multi-national board of directors where each member will take on specific responsibilities. Each director will work on specific areas together with Mark Held, who remains as secretary general of the ...
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Vf’S Results Are Driven By Outdoor And Action Sports
VF Corp. has decided to allocate an extraordinary budget of $40 million this year to support special new marketing activities. The bulk of it will be spent to boost the development of three brands – The North Face, Vans and 7 For All Mankind – that seem to have the ...
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Transa Is Building Switzerland’S Largest Outdoor Store
Transa, the big-box specialty retailer in Switzerland, is preparing the country’s largest outdoor store in the heart of Zurich. The opening of the 3,000-square-meter selling surface is scheduled for Sept. 22, 2012. The store is designed to be the “best and largest center of competence” for travel, outdoor and mountain ...
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Top Merger In Turkish Outdoor Retailing
Bati, the Turkish outdoor wholesaler and retailer that runs the Adventure Republic stores, achieved overwhelming leadership in the country’s outdoor and winter sports business by taking over the Adrenalin banner at the end of last year. Adrenalin then consisted of five stores, and the network has since been enlarged with ...
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French Firms Launch The Outdoor Sports Valley
That’s the name given to an association of companies operating in the area of Annecy, the city in the Savoy region of France that has applied to host the Winter Olympic Games in 2018. After five years of lobbying and preparations, they have obtained a commitment by local authorities to ...
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Columbia Is Building Up A Dedicated Sales Force For Sorel
Columbia Sportswear seems to have more and more fun with the growing success of its Sorel brand in Europe. As reported before, the mission is to transform Sorel from purely rugged footwear into something fashionable without surrendering the functionality of the footwear. In some European markets, Sorel is building ...
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Mountain Hardwear Cracks $100 Million; Intensifies Grass-root Marketing
In the fiscal year 2009, Mountain Hardwear, the higher-end label in the family of Columbia Sportswear’s brands, exceeded global sales of $100 million for the first time ever. To be precise, it reached a level of $100.5 million, or 5.8 percent more than in the previous year. At ...
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Sioen Positions Its Baleno Brand In The Outdoor Business
Sioen Industries, a big Belgian player in the realm of spinning, weaving, coating and manufacturing of outdoor apparel, is serious about bringing its own brand, Baleno, into the outdoor retail circuit. This apparel brand has been around for a while, but it has been concentrating exclusively on the hunting ...
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Lafuma Is Happy About Its Surf And Mountaineering Divisions
For the first quarter of its 2009-10 fiscal year, ended last Dec. 1, the Lafuma Group reports a sales decline of 3.9 percent to €51.4 million. Sales in France were up by 3.4 percent to €32.2 million, while the international business lost 13.9 percent and went down to €19.3 million. ...
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Mover Strikes License Deal With Cionti
Mover, the Swiss-owned ski apparel brand, has sealed a licensing and distribution agreement with Cionti, a rapidly expanding Italian supplier and owner of sports and leisure apparel brands. While the five-strong Mover team in Lausanne will focus on design and marketing, Cionti will organize the production of Mover apparel ranges, ...
