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Chamatex to open “smart” footwear factory in France with Salomon and others

20 September 2020

French textile producer Chamatex has teamed up with Salomon, Babolat and Millet as well as an investment company on the construction of a new footwear manufacturing facility called Advanced Shoe Factory 4.0 (ASF 4.0) in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France. ASF 4.0 was founded by Chamatex with the goal of ...

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Group CEO of Calida Group is stepping down

4 September 2020

Reiner Pichler, group chief executive of the Calida Group since April 2016, which includes the Lafuma Group with the outdoor brands Millet and Lafuma, is stepping down to take on new tasks that will give him more flexibility and no longer require a full-time presence, which is most likely an ...

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Millet and Lafuma expand environmental and social strategy

7 August 2020

The French outdoor brands Millet and Lafuma, brands of the Millet Mountain Group, which belongs to the Calida Group, have further developed their environmental and social strategy in line with current developments under the motto “Rising Change.” According to its own statements, the Millet Mountain Group has already been paying ...

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Lafuma Group hit by Covid-19 amid restructuring

29 July 2020

Groupe Lafuma said the company was “shaken” by the Covid-19 pandemic in mid-March during a period of structuring its brand portfolio and activities. It has made efforts in the past months to adapt to structural changes in its markets and in customer consumption patterns, including investments to improve the customers’ ...

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Calida Group helps with all its brands

10 April 2020

The Calida Group announced that it wants to support nurses and doctors quickly and efficiently with the possibilities available from all its brands. For this purpose, the Millet Mountain Group started producing medical protective clothing made of cotton at its Hungarian production facility. The garments will be distributed to hospitals ...

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Calida to revise board leadership

29 March 2020

To weather the storm of Covid-19, the Calida Group is withholding its financial forecasts and asking its shareholders not to pay a dividend for the 2019 financial year. The Swiss owner of the Lafuma, Millet and Oxbow brands has also nominated Hans-Kristian Hoejsgaard for the presidency of its board of ...

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A year of restructuring for Lafuma ahead of divestitures

11 March 2020

(SGI+) Groupe Lafuma made efforts in 2019 to adapt to structural changes in its markets and in customer consumption patterns, with a decline in physical store traffic and an increase in online activity. The management said consumers now have higher requirements in terms of sales channels, innovation, quality, sustainability, proximity ...

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Millet motivates people to never give up

28 February 2020

Millet has launched a new video revolving around the Rise Up concept, an invitation for sports enthusiasts and people in general to pursue their objectives without giving up. The two-minute video, produced by Almo Film, was shot in the French Alps as well as Nice and Paris between January and ...

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The Calida Group continues to slim down the Lafuma Group

15 February 2020

The Calida Group continues to slim down the Lafuma Group, focusing it on the Lafuma and Millet brands. It reports that Rainbow, a company founded by Emmanuel Debruères and Jean-Christophe Chetail, has offered to acquire Oxbow from Lafuma, adding that Debruères and Chetail seek to raise Oxbow toa new stage ...