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The funeral was held in Asolo's cathedral on Dec. 23...
The funeral was held in Asolo's cathedral on Dec. 23 for Luigi Parisotto, an Italian shoemaker who was closely connected with the history of the Italian ski and mountain boot manufacturing industry. He passed away on Dec. 20 at the age of 86. Luigi Parisotto started to work at the ...
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Bob Swanson, one of the original founders of Sierra Designs,...
Bob Swanson, one of the original founders of Sierra Designs, has passed away. Swanson founded the company in 1965 with George Marks, naming it after the outdoor playground he knew in California. The two friends considered that camping and backpacking should be about healthy fun, with the use of appropriate ...
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Edoardo Rabajoli, honorary chairman of Ferrino, has passed away, leaving...
Edoardo Rabajoli, honorary chairman of Ferrino, has passed away, leaving three children. In 1971, he became a shareholder of the company founded by Cesare Ferrino around 1890, with a stake of 50 percent. One of his children, Augusto Rabajoli, became joint general manager of Ferrino in 2008 along with Anna ...
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Lawrence Pugh, who accompanied VF Corporation's rise as a leading...
Lawrence Pugh, who accompanied VF Corporation's rise as a leading U.S.-based denim and sportswear company, has passed away at the age of 82. VF Corp is the owner of The North Face, Vans and Timberland along with many other sports, denim and fashion brands. Pugh was appointed president in 1980. ...
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Skip Yowell, a co-founder of JanSport, passed away at 69...
Skip Yowell, a co-founder of JanSport, passed away at 69 on Oct. 13 at his home in Kansas, following an illness. Yowell founded the company in 1967 in Seattle, Washington, together with his cousin, Murray Pletz, and a seamstress, Jan Lewis, to make backpacks for the outdoors. The company went ...
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Manuel Abad Sáenz, who founded Calzados Fal 50 years ago, passed...
Manuel Abad Sáenz, who founded Calzados Fal 50 years ago, passed away on Oct. 24 at the age of 78. He began by making vulcanized outdoor shoes for the local farmers in the region of La Rioja. The company subsequently launched a brand, Chiruca, which is regarded as the biggest brand ...
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Leon Gorman, head of L.L.Bean, died on Sept. 3 at...
Leon Gorman, head of L.L.Bean, died on Sept. 3 at his home in Yarmouth, Maine. He was 80 years old and reportedly suffered from cancer. Gorman, who was the grandson of the company's founder, was president and chief executive of L.L. Bean from 1967 to 2001, chairman from 2001 to ...
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Francesco Delladio passed away on June 29, at the age...
Francesco Delladio passed away on June 29, at the age of 88. He worked all his life for La Sportiva, the Italian company founded in 1928 by his father Narciso Delladio, expanding its presence internationally. La Sportiva is currently run by Francesco's son, Lorenzo Delladio, and by his granddaughter, Giulia ...
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Harrison Greenberg, 19-year-old son of Michael Greenberg, president of Skechers...
Harrison Greenberg, 19-year-old son of Michael Greenberg, president of Skechers USA, died unexpectedly on April 6 while on a vacation in Thailand. His death was attributed by the company to a tragic and sudden choking accident. Introduced since the age of 15 to the family's business, he had been working ...
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Joan Fontfreda, who founded the Chiruca brand of hiking and...
Joan Fontfreda, who founded the Chiruca brand of hiking and hunting boots together with his brother Lluís in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, has passed away at the age of 92. Working out of the company left by their mother, who died early, they decided to make mountain ...
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More than 900 people gathered at a church in the...
More than 900 people gathered at a church in the Netherlands on Aug. 13 for the funeral of Barry Kooijmans, the 47-year-old managing director of The Nomad Company, according to the Sport Partner magazine. Kooijmans died along with his wife April and their two daughters on the Malaysia Airlines' flight ...
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The Dutch outdoor industry has been shaken by news that...
The Dutch outdoor industry has been shaken by news that Barry Kooijmans, director of The Nomad Company, was among the victims of the Malaysia Airlines air crash in the Ukraine last week, along with his wife April and their two young daughters, Sport Partner reports. Barry was well known in ...
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On March 7, Mogens Arens, the owner of Oase Outdoors,...
On March 7, Mogens Arens, the owner of Oase Outdoors, the Danish maker of camping equipment and marketer of the brands Outwell, Robens and Easy Camp, passed away after a long illness. Arens was 74. He founded Oase Outdoors and ran the company between 1984 and 2004 when he handed ...
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Richard N. Cabela, co-founder and chairman emeritus of Cabela's, passed...
Richard N. Cabela, co-founder and chairman emeritus of Cabela's, passed away at his home in Sidney, Nebraska on Feb. 18. He was 77. Along with his wife Mary and brother Jim, he founded the American outdoor retail firm somewhat inadvertently in 1961, when he bought $45 of fishing flies in ...
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An emblematic personality in the Swedish outdoor industry, Åke Nordin,...
An emblematic personality in the Swedish outdoor industry, Åke Nordin, has passed away at the age of 77. He was the hard-headed Swedish entrepreneur who built his own backpack at 14 and founded Fjällräven in Örnsköldsvik in 1960. The company subsequently diversified its range and bought other outdor companies to ...
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Polish suppliers and visitors at the OutDoor fair were shaken...
Polish suppliers and visitors at the OutDoor fair were shaken by news that Artur Hajzer, an emblematic figure of the Polish outdoor industry, died last week after an attempt to reach the summit of Gasherbrum in the Karakorum range. Hajzer, who was 51 years old and was known among Polish ...
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Carl Elsener, “senior leader” of Victorinox, passed away at the...
Carl Elsener, “senior leader” of Victorinox, passed away at the age of 90. He had been lately the chairman of the company, founded by his family in 1884. He worked for the company behind the well-known Swiss army knife over a period of more than 70 years. Elsener was born in ...
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Bill Forrest, the legendary climber and inventor from Colorado who founded...
Bill Forrest, the legendary climber and inventor from Colorado who founded Forrest Mountaineering, died on Dec. 21 of a heart attack while snowshoeing with his wife, Rosa. He owned 17 U.S. patents, generally related to climbing and snowshoeing equipment. One of his legacies is the first rock-and-ice hammer with interchangeable picks, ...
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At the age of 86, Tosaku Nishida, the founder of...
At the age of 86, Tosaku Nishida, the founder of Goldwin Inc. of Japan, died on Sept. 1. Nishida started his career in 1951 by establishing a knitting factory. He moved on to found Goldwin, which became one of the most important market players for sporting goods in Japan. A ...
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Klaus Lenhart was definitely a product-driven man with a passion...
Klaus Lenhart was definitely a product-driven man with a passion to his gear. To improve the poles again and again was his mission, but he was also visionary: He did not believe just in constructing great poles. He saw the hand, the glove and the pole as a functional ...
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