All Legal & Institutional articles – Page 43
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La Sportiva has entered a collaboration with Jonathan Wyatt, a...
La Sportiva has entered a collaboration with Jonathan Wyatt, a professional runner from New Zealand, as part of its program to further develop its range of mountain running footwear, particularly in the trail running segment. He will participate in trade marketing activities, organizing product clinics and providing sales support. Wyatt ...
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Lowa has received a prize for its reliability and the...
Lowa has received a prize for its reliability and the saleable quality of its shoes from a German footwear trade magazine, Schuhkurier, following a survey of its readers
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Heiner Oberrauch, president of the Oberalp Group, has been awarded...
Heiner Oberrauch, president of the Oberalp Group, has been awarded one of the highest honors by the Austrian government. Wolfgang Spadinger, consul general of Austria in Bolzano, pinned the Great Order of Merit to Oberrauch's jacket at the end of August in a ceremony held in the city, where the ...
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Travis Campbell, president of Smartwool and first vice chairman of...
Travis Campbell, president of Smartwool and first vice chairman of the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA), has been elected chairman of the American lobbying group. He is taking the place of Gordon Seabury, who stepped down after the expiration of his two-year mandate in the post.
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Sport Partner reports that the outdoor section of the FGHS,...
Sport Partner reports that the outdoor section of the FGHS, the Dutch organization for sporting goods suppliers, has opened an Outdoor Opportunity Concept Store at the Sports Business Center in Leusden. Set up a few months ago, the outdoor section aims to raise the share of outdoor products in the ...
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Garmin International has announced that it has won its patent...
Garmin International has announced that it has won its patent dispute with Navico as the previous rulings in the dispute have been reversed by a Federal Court in the U.S. In December 2015, the International Trade Commission (ITC) found that Garmin had infringed patents related to Navico's sonars. The U.S. ...
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The Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) has condemned President Donald Trump's...
The Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) has condemned President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, joining numerous companies and heads of state around the world. Noting that the outdoor industry is directly affected by climate change, Amy Roberts, executive director of the OIA, said President ...
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Outdoor Sports Valley (OSV) is launching a call for projects...
Outdoor Sports Valley (OSV) is launching a call for projects to support the creation of jobs related to nautical sports in France's Upper Savoy region, in partnership with Pôle Métropolitain du Genevois Français and Chablais Léman Développement. Project proposals can be submitted by entrepreneurs, companies and associations. The initiative will ...
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Gregory, the backpack specialist owned by Samsonite, has joined the...
Gregory, the backpack specialist owned by Samsonite, has joined the European Outdoor Group
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The North Face and other outdoor brands have formed a...
The North Face and other outdoor brands have formed a new non-profit, membership-based association to help promote participation in outdoor activities across Europe. The names of the founding members and the association's program will be unveiled at the Ispo show in Munich on Sunday. The association, which has already secured ...
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President Barack Obama has signed the Outdoor REC Act into...
President Barack Obama has signed the Outdoor REC Act into law, following its unanimous passage in both chambers of the U.S. Congress. It provides for the outdoor recreation economy to be appraised and counted as part of the national GDP. The Outdoor Industry Association (OIA), which lobbied strongly for the ...
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The Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) of the U.S. has promoted...
The Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) of the U.S. has promoted Alex Bolan to vice president of government affairs
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The U.S. Defense Department is proposing legislation to the U.S....
The U.S. Defense Department is proposing legislation to the U.S. Congress that would make it mandatory to provide athletic footwear that is 100 percent made in the U.S. to recruits for their initial training, in compliance with the Berry Amendment. New Balance can already do that. Wolverine Worldwide is adding ...
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Lowa invited 170 sales professio nals from the German shoe...
Lowa invited 170 sales professio nals from the German shoe and sporting goods retail sector to some very special events in Nuremberg, Hinterzarten and Rettenberg in Bavaria. Professional actors integrated participants in a crime comedy act that was written exclusively for Lowa. The act combines the crime story with elements ...
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After similar research conducted in Austria and the U.K., the...
After similar research conducted in Austria and the U.K., the U.S. should be able to measure the contribution of outdoor recreation to the U.S. economy, which would be made part of the country's GDP. The House of the U.S. Congress has unanimously passed a vote for the Outdoor Recreation Act, ...
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Enertor, the Arizona-based orthotics brand, has signed a new agreement...
Enertor, the Arizona-based orthotics brand, has signed a new agreement with Human Race to become the official insole partner of Human Race Events for the 2017 season. The deal covers 12 running and triathlon events including the Cancer Research UK Winter Run Series and Windsor Triathlon, which attracted a total ...
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Anne Schott will replace Remi Forsans as executive director of...
Anne Schott will replace Remi Forsans as executive director of Outdoor Sports Valley (OSV), the French trade association based in Annecy, after the end of this year. Schott has accompanied Forsans as the association's general manager for the past six years. Forsans is said to be planning to start a ...
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Bearpaw has announced its first television campaign, which comes on...
Bearpaw has announced its first television campaign, which comes on the heels of the brand's recent venture into the apparel market. The national campaign, which will debut this month, is set to increase brand awareness through commercial spots broadcast on popular U.S. networks for women and families such as Bravo, ...
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Helly Hansen has been chosen as the new ski apparel...
Helly Hansen has been chosen as the new ski apparel partner for the Swedish alpine ski team. This means that the members of Ski Team Sweden Alpine will now also be taking advantage of Recco reflectors, which have been integrated into Helly Hansen's ski apparel for many years. The reflectors ...
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Pertex has received the Outdoor Writers Guild's Derryck Draper Award...
Pertex has received the Outdoor Writers Guild's Derryck Draper Award 2016 for its CS10 Technology, which uses unique diamond-shaped filaments to provide fabrics with abrasion resistance and improved water beading properties. The textile brand was already the recipient of the first Derryck Draper Crystal Award back in 1999 for Pertex ...
