All Mountain Hardwear articles
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ArticleColumbia withdraws FY2025 outlook due to tariff impacts
The US-based outdoor apparel group pauses its annual forecast as global trade pressures and consumer uncertainty cloud the second half of 2025.
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News briefsMountain Hardwear launches Earth Day collection with a message
From art to action: The Earth Day collection blends streetwear style with ‘Leave No Trace’ values to protect wild places.
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ArticleColumbia ramping up marketing spend, new products this year
Columbia Sportswear plans a marketing revamp, cost reviews and global expansion to counter a challenging FY24.
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News briefsMountain Hardwear named Leave No Trace’s ‘Partner of the Year’
Recognized for environmental stewardship and outdoor education, the outdoor brand collaborates to amplify sustainability initiatives worldwide.
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ArticleColumbia’s Q3 sales dip, but gross margin improves
Despite a 5 percent decline in revenues largely attributable to weak consumer demand in the US, Columbia Sportswear improved its Q3 gross margin by 150 basis points to 50.2 percent due to lower freight costs and a favorable channel and regional sales mix. Third quarter operating income slipped by 16 ...
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ArticleColumbia’s brand awareness rises in Europe despite Q2 loss
While performing better in important overseas markets than in North America, Columbia Sportswear maintains its full-year guidance despite a weak second quarter.
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ArticleColumbia lifts FY guidance slightly despite lower Q1 profit
Columbia Sportswear continues to project a 2 to 4 percent annual sales decline to $3.35 to $3.42 billion for the full fiscal year but has raised its operating profit outlook from a prior forecast by a modest 1 percent to $259–$291 million. Annual gross margin is now forecast to expand ...
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ArticleColumbia sees ‘challenging’ year, sets profit and growth plan
With a warm winter and a difficult US marketplace to contend with in its seasonally strong final quarter of the year, Columbia Sportswear reported a 27 percent drop in operating income to $113.1 million from $155.4 million and a 9 percent decline in total revenues to $1.06 billion from $1.17 ...
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ArticleDIY repairs: 12 brands making repairs easy
Our listicle highlights the outdoor and sporting brands and retailers who are already helping consumers repair their own outdoor gear at home.
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ArticleColumbia lowers FY23 outlook, braces for challenging Spring ’24
Columbia Sportswear, despite making strides in its ongoing inventory reduction program and improving its quarterly gross margin by 70 basis points to 48.7 percent, reported a 7 percent decline in Q3 net income to $103.5 million from $111.8 million for the period ended Sep. 30. Period operating income was also ...
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ArticleColumbia Sportswear releases 2022 Impact Report
Columbia Sportswear Company has released its Impact Report 2022, which highlights the company’s performance and progress across the three pillars of its corporate responsibility strategy: Empowering People, Sustaining Places and Responsible Practices. In the report, the company says that 2022 was another challenging year, with operations around the world affected ...
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ArticleColumbia cuts outlook as net falls 17% in Q2
Bloated inventories and challenging market conditions in the U.S. are forcing Columbia Sportswear to take a “more conservative” stance on its H2 and full-year results despite explosive year-over-year Q2 sales growth in China and in its lower-margin international distributor businesses. Saddled with a 21 percent year-over-year increase in Q2 ...
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ArticleSporting goods industry supports earthquake relief measures in Turkey and Syria
9,210 apparel, footwear and textile manufacturers were located around the epicenter of the 7.8 and 7.7-magnitude earthquakes, which caused widespread damage across Turkey and northern Syria when they hit during the night of Feb. 6, 2023, according to the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. Many retailers have already committed ...
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ArticleColumbia Sportswear sees Q3 sales jump 19% as margins squeezed, inventories pile up
Columbia Sportswear posted record revenues of $955.0 million in the third quarter, up by a reported 19 percent on the year earlier and 22 percent higher at constant currency rates, as its top line benefited from the more favorable timing of Fall ’22 shipments compared to the year earlier. The ...
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ArticleColumbia Sportswear releases 2021 ESG report
Just after publishing its FY22 sales and profit outlooks, Columbia Sportswear has released its 2021 environmental, social and governance (ESG) report, highlighting the progress made throughout 2021 in the three pillars of the company’s CSR strategy: empowering people, sustaining places, and responsible practices, with a focus on Columbia’s four primary ...
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ArticleColumbia will lean on key markets for tempered FY22 sales growth
Simultaneously reporting results for its seasonally lowest volume quarter, Columbia Sportswear reduced its full-year sales and profit outlooks. The company is concerned about the current state of the consumer and potential retail order cancellations later this year. It cited deteriorating market conditions and the economic climate, particularly in the U.S., ...
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ArticleColumbia Sportswear posts double-digit sales gains in EMEA, U.S.
Columbia Sportswear’s first-quarter net income rose by 20 percent to $66.8 million as total sales increased by 22 percent to $761.5 million against $625.6 million for the period ended March 31. Operating income was down slightly at 11.0 percent versus 11.3 percent, while gross margin was off 170 basis points ...
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ArticleMountain Hardwear expands its leadership team
Mountain Hardwear, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Columbia Sportswear Company, has announced three internal promotions, including a new vice president of product line management and merchandising, and two new hires. In 2021, Mountain Hardwear experienced tremendous growth over the past year, including a 33 percent increase in net sales and a ...
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ArticleColumbia exceeds forecast, driven by DTC
Despite persistent supply chain disruptions that negatively impacted its wholesale revenues, Columbia Sportswear reported impressive fourth-quarter results on the strength of its Direct-To-Consumer and e-commerce businesses and an improvement of 1.6 percentage points in the gross margin to 52.2 percent, as higher freight costs were more than offset by a ...
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News briefsMountain Hardwear promotes Sablle Scheppmann to director of sales
Mountain Hardwear, a wholly owned subsidiary of Columbia Sportswear Company, has promoted Sablle Scheppmann, who has served as the brand’s national sales manager for the past three and a half years, to its new director of sales. Scheppman helped the company focus on the brand’s specialty business and structure its ...
