Latest News & Analysis – Page 309
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Friedrichshafen Reports Successful Outdoor Show
Messe Friedrichshafen recorded an all-time high number of trade visitors at the OutDoor show that ended on July 20. It welcomed 18,900 visitors or 2,000 more than in the previous year. The share of German visitors was 47.9 percent followed by Switzerland at 10.4 percent Italy at 6.7 percent and ...
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Garmont Selects New Distributor For Central Europe; Moves Into Trail Running
Garmont, the Italian footwear company, has switched the distribution of both its outdoor footwear and the newly presented line of trail running shoes in Austria and Germany. In charge now is Franz Siegesleuthner who runs the Hagan touring ski company and who has been distributing Garmont’s line of ski boots ...
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Nanjing’S Asia Outdoor Records Strong Increase In Exhibitors
The third edition of Asia Outdoor in Nanjing/China will be held from July 30 till August 1. Its organizer, a cooperation of Nanjing Nantex International Exhibition Center and Messe Friedrichshafen, the host of the international OutDoor show in Europe, targets a number of professional visitors at some 9,000. The ...
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Euro Family Adopts Two Joint Private Labels
Euro Family, an informal consortium of leading outdoor specialist retailers, has decided to adopt two joint private labels, replacing in due time some or all of their existing private brands. The partnership will enable them to reduce costs through economies of scale, working with fewer but stronger private brands that ...
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Vaude Is Prepared For Change Of Generation
At this OutDoor show, Vaude gave an outlook on how the structure of the management is expected to look like after its founder, Albrecht von Dewitz, steps down from his job as managing director. When his daughter Antje takes over in early 2009, she will be supported by an advisory ...
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Chiruca Fills White Spots On The European Map
Chiruca, the Spanish brand of outdoor and hunting footwear, is adding two more markets to its European map. The Spaniards have just hired four agents to cover both Austria and Germany, where they did not have any presence before. Another major European country which is again a white spot ...
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Splendid Increase For Camp
Italy’s Camp group achieved sales of €20 million in 2007, amounting to an increase of 13 percent. About 75 percent of the sales are generated by the Camp business from Italy, while the rest comes from its French subsidiary and Camp’s secondary brand, Cassin. The export ratio is at ...
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Taiwanese Textile Suppliers Want To Be Recognized As Brands
Taiwan has long been a source for high-performance functional textiles for the outdoor industry, but the names of the high-technology companies behind these fabrics are virtually unknown. The island has quietly become the home of powerhouse OEM and ODM suppliers, and now a government initiative aims to establish them as ...
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Eog Sees European Outdoor Market's Growth Slowing And Prices Going Up
The European outdoor market rose by 3.35 percent to €5.676 billion after VAT at the retail level in 2007, judging from an annual survey conducted by the European Outdoor Group (EOG), but the growth is expected to slow down this year, with a projected rise of just 2.48 percent for ...
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The Outdoor Fair Hosts 150 New Exhibitors
Organizers of the OutDoor fair reiterated their commitment to improve infrastructure in Friedrichshafen, as the event continues to grow. This year’s fair is held in 11 halls, including one of two new halls promised by the organizers as they defeated Messe München last January in its bid to host the ...
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The North Face Grows By More Than 40%
The star brand of the American group, The North Face, delivered a sales increase of more than 40 percent in dollar terms during the second quarter ended June 30, rising at similar rates in the U.S. market and in the rest of the world. It was partly aided by the ...
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Britons Spend More In Blacks Stores This Summer
Blacks Leisure told its shareholders yesterday that its outdoor retail sales had dropped by 2.2 percent on a same-store basis in the 19 weeks ended on July 12, compared with a buoyant trading period at the same time last year. The British group’s total same-store sales fell by 5.4 percent ...
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German Intersport Posts Strong Outdoor Performance
The German Intersport members recorded strong sales for the first half of 2008. Turnover increased in the first six month by €77 to 1.127 billion in retail prices after VAT. The good performance was mainly due to two factors: sales of team sports products before and during the Euro 2008 ...
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New Agency In Germany For Carinthia And Other Brands
Miguel Ferreira, a 39-year-old salesman who has worked in Germany for 15 years for Suunto, Katadyne, Primus, Mountain Hardwear and Tropicare, has set up his own agency, representing various foreign brands in Germany and other countries. He is representing Carinthia in Germany and in the Benelux countries. This large ...
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Mammut And Tatonka Adopt Coldblack, And Bluesign Gets A New Partner
Schoeller, the Swiss developer of high-tech functional fibers and fabrics, is introducing its latest technology, Coldblack, at the OutDoor show, providing better temperature management and protection against UV rays. This innovation had its sneak preview at last year’s show, but this time it has been incorporated into the first branded ...
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Outdoor Industry Awards Attract 43 More Entries
This year’s OutDoor Industry Award competition, the third to be held at OutDoor, attracted a total of 280 entries from 25 different countries. An international jury of experts presented two gold and six silver awards on the first day of the show, honoring exceptional performance in the field of design ...
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The Outdoor Market Rises By 4% Worldwide, Says Npd
The global market for outdoor sports goods reached $44.7 billion or €29.8 billion last year, according to the market research group NPD, with a margin of error of 20 percent. This would represent 4 percent growth over the figure for 2006. In Europe, the outdoor market grew by 3.4 ...
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Cascade Designs Globalizes Management, Launches New Gear
The U.S. company, which markets a variety of outdoor-related brands including Therm-a-Rest, MSR, SeaLine and Platypus, used to have separate management for Europe, based in Ireland, and for the rest of the world, based at the global head office in Seattle. A growing number of top executives are now assuming ...
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Keen Europe Moves To Rotterdam
The move from the Munich region to Rotterdam, the hub of European logistics, is partly due to the termination last month of an agreement with FLA, a Belgian-based service provider that had been offering a full range of services to the American outdoor brand including customs clearance, logistics, billing, finance ...
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Trezeta Teams Up With Kamik In Germany And Gpg In France
Trezeta, the Italian boots brand, and Kamik, the Canadian footwear manufacturer, are joining forces to develop common global strategies. In a first step, Kamik’s German distributor has been appointed as Trezeta’s new master agent for both Germany and Austria. Genfoot Marketing Europe will sell Trezeta in the region through nine ...
