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Dynafit And Scarpa Become Best Buddies To Make The Tour Together
Two big players in the realm of touring skiing are about to join forces for the winter 2010-11 season and beyond. Dynafit, a Salewa brand, has granted a license to Scarpa to use its “Quick-Step-In” insert. The core of that strategic alliance is to be partners in binding interfaces, meaning ...
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Canada Goose Flies Into Europe Via Sweden
Canada Goose, the high-end brand for down apparel, gives a new structure to its European distribution. The Canadian company has appointed Jocke Südow general manager for Europe. He has been with Canada Goose since 1993 and has acted as its Swedish distributor. His office continues to take care of the ...
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The Barkers Pack Their Bags At The Top Of Eagle Creek
Steve Barker and his wife, Nona, the founders of Eagle Creek, a specialty brand of travel bags and accessories, have decided to reduce their involvement in the company’s operations. After 34 years in office, Steve Barker has stepped down as president of Eagle Creek, though he will remain a consultant ...
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Drowning In Snow, British Outdoor Companies Are Happy
The British Outdoor Industries Association is happy about the unexpected loads of snow that have fallen over the U.K. during this winter. Apparently, the unusual stiff weather conditions on the British Isles caught the locals quite unprepared and caused a run on the shops. Managers of Cotswold Outdoor, the ...
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Shoe Duties May Become A Never Ending Story
Meeting in a technical committee of the European Council, a tiny majority of 14 out of the 27 member governments of the European Union supported yesterday the European Commission’s proposal to keep the current anti-dumping duties on non-athletic leather shoes imported from China and Vietnam for another 15 months, but ...
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With Brunton, Fenix Outdoor Cooks Up A New Deal
Fenix Outdoor, the Swedish outdoor group, has agreed to buy Brunton, an American brand of backpacking and outdoor accessories. The seller is Fiskars, the Finnish company, which indirectly acquired Brunton when it took over Silva, another Swedish company specializing in compasses and pedometers, three years ago. The transaction should be ...
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Lafuma Feels The Worst Is Over
The management of the French outdoor and surf group is quite confident that its results will improve markedly as of the first half of the current financial year, which began on Oct. 1, although its revenues are likely to be down slightly. It’s good news for its new shareholders, ...
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Founder Of Five Seasons Buys Back His Baby
Five Seasons, the Swedish outdoor and golf apparel company, has been bought back by its founder, Gunnar Johansson, almost exactly three years after he sold the company to EQT Opportunity, a Swedish-based investment fund. At the time, EQT also acquired Tenson and it later added Lundhags, two other Swedish brands, ...
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Peter Blom Adds Another Brand To His Start-ups
Peter Blom, one of the founders of Peak Performance and Cross Sportswear, has launched yet another apparel brand, Snoot. It’s a menswear brand with a leisure-oriented design and the technical features of a functional jacket, with a distinctively high-end positioning in price. Four black jackets under the Snoot brand have ...
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Powertraveller Sends Wilderness Of Monkeys To Ispo
Powertraveller, the U.K. brand of power and charging devices, is serious about moving into the sports and outdoor business. The privately owned company of founder, owner and chief executive Jerry Ranger has appointed Gareth Hughes, a former executive of Pepsi, key account manager for the outdoor retail channel. The appointment ...
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Blacks Leisure Escapes Insolvency
At meetings this week, the creditors and members of Blacks Leisure Group and its subsidiary The Outdoor Group (TOG) approved company voluntary arrangements (CVAs) with the landlords of hundreds of stores. The CVAs will settle the claims from landlords of 101 stores that are closed or closing and another nine ...
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Opponents Of Footwear Duties Have Won A Battle, But Not Yet The War
There is still no answer to the question of whether the European Union will keep the anti-dumping duties on non-athletic leather shoes imported from China and Vietnam that it imposed in October 2006 at the request of shoemakers in Italy, Spain, Portugal and a few other European countries that still ...
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Berghaus Goes Into Direct Internet Sales In The U.K.
The British brand is going to sell its merchandise via internet directly to consumers in the U.K. by March 2010. Berghaus sees the initiative as part of a broader strategy not only to extend the appeal of the brand, but also to develop the outdoor segment as a whole. ...
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Tnf Europe Moves To Switzerland
VF International, a unit of VF Corporation headed up by Karl Heinz Salzburger, has announced its intention to move the European head office of The North Face from Pederobba, a little Italian town in the area of Montebelluna, to the group’s European office in Lugano, Switzerland, where Vans, Reef and ...
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Amer Sports Bundles Central European Operations
The Finnish parent company of Salomon and Suunto is creating a new structure for Austria, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany. Effective Jan. 1, there will be a Central Zone in place that will be headed by Armin Fuchs, until now the country manager for the Netherlands and Germany, a position ...
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Lundhags Adjusts Management To Conquer New Markets
The Swedish brand of outdoor boots, equipment and apparel, which is a part of the Scandinavian Norrwin group, has promoted Jonas Hellentin to international sales and marketing director. He has acted until now as marketing manager and will now centralize both marketing and sales under his direction. Sales previously ...
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Mammut Is Quickly Developing Its Franchise Network
This November, Mammut is doubling the number of its franchised stores in Switzerland from two to four (not counting various small points of sale in local climbing halls). On Nov. 11, store No. 3 opened in Lucerne on a selling surface of some 230 square meters. The store is run ...
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Dominated By Geox, The Montebelluna Cluster Feels The Pinch
Together, the 34 producers of outdoor shoes operating in the Montebelluna area delivered a total of just over 4.6 million pairs of hiking and trekking shoes worth €182.7 million in 2008, indicating a wholesale price per pair of €28. The values are very similar to those counted for 2005, which ...
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Timberland Presents Its New Report On Csr
On 30 pages, Timberland has presented its latest report on corporate social responsibility. The purpose of the report is to make transparent the company’s achievements and future plans in the fields of sustainability, working conditions, global warming and partnerships with non-profit organizations. This is the sixth report since 2001, and ...
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New International Virtual Shop For Outdoor Products From Spain
Addressing customers all over Europe and in the U.S. in seven languages, the new virtual shop carries the domain name www.trekkinn.com. It has been more or less operational for the past five months, but its launch has been announced only now by its operators in Girona, Spain. Competing against ...
