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Penfield Revamps Its Distribution In Europe And Canada
Penfield, the down apparel brand that moved from the U.S. to the U.K, announces substantial changes in its distribution for Canada and various European countries. In Canada, the new distributor is Montréal-based Tiger Distribution; the Canadian market was handled through Penfield’s U.S. operations before. In France and Norway, the former ...
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Yeti And Nordisk Conquer Eastern Europe
Nordisk, the Danish brand of outdoor equipment, has appointed for itself as well as for its subsidiary Yeti, the German sleeping-bag brand, various agents in countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The entire business in the East is now supervised by Wolfgang Petschacher, a former executive of Yeti’s Austrian competitor, ...
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Intersport Prepares Mckinley For Its 25th Anniversary
McKinley, Intersport’s exclusive label for outdoor goods, will turn 25 next year. The group will use the anniversary as an opportunity for a large promotional campaign. Klaus Jost, the general manager of the German section in charge of marketing, purchasing and sales, told The Compass that it is an international ...
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Lafuma Cuts Spending After A Poor Financial Year
In reporting disappointing financial results, the Lafuma Group said it would stop adding new single-brand stores to its network of five Lafuma shops and 12 Oxbow stores, although combined they had a 10 percent sales increase on a same-store basis over the past year. The related virtual stores have also ...
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Peak Performs Well; Rebuilds Austrian Distribution; Hires New Designers
IC Companys, parent of Peak Performance and several other apparel brands, had 6 percent growth in sales to 1,261.6 million Danish kroner (€169.4 m-$220.7m) in the first quarter of its 2008-09 financial year, ended on Sept. 30. However, the operating profit fell by 8 percent to DKK 230.4 ...
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Schöffel And Lowa Open Their Fifth Co-branded Store
The two brands continue to follow their program to open bi-branded doors, but the latest one is not owned by their joint venture, Schöffel Lowa Sportartikel, but by a local retailer on the island of Sylt, which is the most northern point of Germany before the Danish North Sea coast. ...
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A Kiwi Brand Breaks The Ice In Its Euro Distribution
Icebreaker took over last summer the distribution for France and Switzerland from its partner, Rockline Nature Zone. The brand is now doing the same for Norway, Sweden and Germany. Starting with the Fall/Winter 2009-10 collections, a new subsidiary called Icebreaker Pure Merino, located in Starnberg outside Munich, will oversee the ...
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Berghaus Reshuffles Distribution In Ireland And Hong Kong
After a seven-year collaboration, Berghaus and Maguire have decided to discontinue their distribution agreement on the island of Ireland. Effective January 1, Xtrem Agencies will take over as an agency of the Berghaus business in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Xtrem Agencies will be run by ...
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Vaude Opens Shop In Poland; Appoints New Swedish Distributor
The German outdoor brand will have its first door in Poland by January 2009. The 200-square-meter surface in Kraków will be operated by HiMountain, a specialty retailer that already runs 40 outlets in the country. The move means a comeback in Polish retailing for Vaude after it failed with ...
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Globetrotter Makes It To Munich At Last
It has never been a secret that Globetrotter Ausrüstung, Germany’s and probably Europe’s largest specialty outdoor retailer, wanted to conquer the southern cities of its home market to overcome its focus on the northern region of Germany. With its superstores in Hamburg, Dresden, Frankfurt, Berlin and Cologne as well as ...
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Transa Reshuffles Its Single-brand Franchise Business
The Swiss leading outdoor retailer, Transa Backpacking, just completed a new store franchising deal with Jack Wolfskin, a brand that the Zurich-based retailer first introduced in Switzerland nearly 20 years ago. In a related move, the former chief executive of Transa, Lukas Arnold, has agreed to take over the first ...
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Columbia Sees New Horizons For Sorel
Columbia Sportswear presented its collection for Fall/Winter 2009-10 to some of its top European retail customers. According to what the team of THE COMPASS could hear and see at the company’s European headquarters in Geneva, retailers were not only pleased with the promising collection, but also with the way the ...
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The Nordic Outdoor Industry Says Good Bye To Gunnar Molander
After a long and severe disease, Gunnar Molander has passed away at the age of 68. The list of attendees to his funeral reads like a who’s who of the Scandinavian and north German outdoor industry. The Swede was a pioneer in introducing Scandinavian brands in Central Europe starting in ...
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Mountain Hardwear Might Reach Sales Of Nearly $100m In 2008
Mountain Hardwear, the high-end outdoor label of Columbia Sportswear, is expected to reach global sales of $97.2 million this year compared with $82.6 million in 2007. The brand’s most important European market continues to be the U.K., followed by Italy, France and Germany at pretty much the same level. According ...
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The Renamed Pyua Brand Walks Into The Summer Business
PYUA, a new marketer of skiwear that launched its business with the upcoming Winter season, will introduce its first functional outerwear collection for Fall/Winter 2009-10 season. PYUA, a name inspired by the English word pure, stands for 100 percent recycled garments. It uses, for example, the Eco Circle materials of ...
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JULBO BENEFITS FROM SHUTDOWN OF CÉbÉ
Benefiting in part from the shutdown of Cébé’s sports-related activities, the French company that owns the Julbo brand of eyewear will enjoy a big boost in its turnover this year to around €20 million. That will include sales of €16 million under the Julbo brand, up from €14 million last ...
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An Industry Veteran Will Run Prana
Michael Crooke has been hired to run PrAna, the environmentally conscious American brand of rock climbing and yoga apparel, as the company's co-founder, Beaver Theodosakis, takes a step back to concentrate on brand strategy. His wife Pam will continue to head up product design. Crooke has a long history ...
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Charges And Sales Drops In Europe And The Usa Cause A Big Loss For Crocs
Analysts who believed in Crocs’ continued success through product and brand extensions, foreign development and acquisitions were disappointed by its latest sales and profit report. The company, which has some of its products sold in many outdoor stores, had a net loss of $148 million in its third quarter, ...
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Eybl Creates Shops For Its Private Label
Intersport Eybl, Austria’s big sporting-goods retail chain, is developing its private label for outdoor activities, Seven Summits, through stores exclusively dedicated to this exclusive brand. The first Seven Summits store recently opened in Innsbruck. The store in the capital, Tyrol, has a selling surface of 250 square meters and is ...
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Adidas Moves Into Outdoor Specialty Retail
After a couple of years of abstention, Adidas Outdoor will exhibit again at Friedrichshafen’s OutDoor show in 2009. This move is part of the Three Stripes’ new strategy to embrace core specialty retailers after focusing more on their general sports customers in retail. According to Rolf Reinschmidt, who acts as ...
