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News briefsOsprey’s Green Friday is dedicated to a plastic-free outdoors
Osprey is repeating its fight against Black Friday and returns with its own Green Friday. Between Nov. 27 and 30, the U.S. backpack specialist will be donating 20 percent of its turnover to its long-term partner European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA). The organization finances nature conservation projects and makes a ...
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News briefsLeki reports growing interest in Nordic Walking in times of Corona
German ski and hiking pole specialist Leki has reported that in November, the company sold more Nordic Walking poles than Alpine ski poles - an unprecedented result. According to managing director Matthias Hatt, the Nordic Walking product group is stronger than ever due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the warm ...
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Stöckli and software company Axess cooperate for ski rentals
Ski and sporting goods manufacturer Stöckli Swiss Sports will equip its retailers with a rental system software developed by the Austrian company Axess. This will enable ski rental stores to provide faster service, especially in times of Covid-19, but also beyond. As a first step, Axess will modernize the systems ...
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News briefsBritons started Christmas shopping in October
Britons started their Christmas shopping early this year, according to data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). In October, retail sales volumes increased by 1.2 percent in the U.K. when compared with September, marking the sixth consecutive month of growth. The increased reached 6.4 percent for non-store retailing, ...
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ArticleAnalysis: Pushing the boundaries of what a sports store can be
Everyone has a sport. We’re not talking about a gym membership, but full immersion into a discipline, where we have to have the right clothing, equipment and an app to help with training and motivation. Whether it’s working towards a black belt in Taekwondo, competing in triathlons or mastering yoga inversions, sport has become serious. In addition, there are other driving factors such as the increasing interest in wellness, more female participants in more sports and the acceptance of leisure wear in almost all areas of life. This is pushing growth in the sporting goods market, and it also has a knock-on effect on what we expect from our sports stores. If we’re prepared to spend a good amount of our disposable income in this area, we want the brands we chose to offer above and beyond the everyday retail journey.
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ArticleBlack Friday, and how our industry deals with it in times of Covid-19
While in many consumer goods sectors, it seems that people still don’t think about how our planet suffers from fast, cheap, and unsustainable shopping, some members of the outdoor industry have tried to resist the sell-out madness for quite some time now. In the home country of Black Friday, the ...
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ArticleArc’teryx opens first Icon Store with flexible DTC services
Arc’teryx has launched a new retail store concept called The Icon Store. The first store was opened in Walnut Creek, California, on Nov. 12 with 77 square meters of floor space, inspired “by wood-frame backcountry huts.” The compact store is designed to streamline the shopping experience by showcasing only a ...
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News briefsKlarna explores the future of shopping
Klarna has launched a new initiative called the Future Shopping Lab, a research project that examines how different aspects of shopping and retail experiences might look like in the future. In its first project, the Swedish-based global shopping service is exploring the future of the postal mailbox, “transforming it from ...
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News briefsSchöffel calls for solidarity with local retailers
During the current “soft lockdown” in Germany, the family-owned outdoor brand Schöffel has launched a new campaign to support local businesses. With video messages and social media postings, Schöffel is calling for solidarity with stationary retailers. In a commercial, which has been played out via the company’s social media channels ...
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News briefsGet a sneak peek of Haglöfs Restored on Green Friday
Haglöfs’ Green Friday initiative has become known for its commitment to tackle the environmental and social dangers of excessive consumption. In recent years, the company closed stores and webstores on Black Friday, and last year even increased prices, with profits going to non-profit environmental organizations. This year ...
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News briefsGlobetrotter has a new CEO
Source: Globetrotter Andreas Vogler, CEO Andreas Vogler is the new chief executive of German outdoor retailer Globetrotter. Vogler replaces Henrik Hoffman, who, alongside Andreas Bartmann, Ulf Gustafsson and Vogler, remains a member of the management board of the German subsidiary of the Swedish Fenix Outdoor Group. In ...
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News briefsGlobetrotter opens city store in Dortmund
Globetrotter, the German outdoor retail chain, which opened its first store in Hamburg in 1979 and was bought by the Swedish Fenix Group in 2014, is opening a new city branch in the city of Dortmund in spring 2021. On almost 800 square meters of sales space across two floors ...
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Haglöfs expands into Andorra
Haglöfs has opened an own store in Andorra. Located at the Illa Carlemany shopping mall, this is the Swedish mountaineering brand’s first such store in the small Iberian country. Haglöfs’ other own stores are in Tokyo, Japan; Oslo, Norway; Helsinki, Finland; Chamonix, France; and the Swedish capital of Stockholm.
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News briefsVictorinox opens first Austrian brand store
On Thursday, Nov. 12, the first Victorinox store in Austria will open its doors in Vienna, directly on the historic Michaeler square. In the new brand store, the Swiss company will carry its entire product range. At a pocket-knife personalization station, customers can assemble their own knife and have it ...
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News briefsKingswood Capital completes acquisition of MEC
We previously reported that the announcement of the sale of Canada’s largest outdoor chain with 21 doors, Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC), to Kingswood Capital Management, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, sparked widespread discussions and even outrage among Co-op members across Canada. This week, Kingswood Capital announced that it has ...
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Db says „Sold exclusively not here“ to support local retailers
In support of local retailers, Swedish ski and travel luggage brand Db, formerly Douchebags, has launched a new color collection of its best-selling bags, which are not sold through the brand’s website but exclusively through its network of retailers. The Brightside Yellow collection includes 6 models and was launched in ...
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ArticleAmazon is up and running in Sweden
Amazon’s dedicated Swedish platform, Amazon.se – which leaked over the summer through a Finnish software developer – is now live. It offers about 150 million products in 30 categories, with free delivery on orders exceeding 229 Swedish krona (€22.20-$26.10). There is a mix of Swedish (Electrolux, Lagerhaus, OBH Nordica, Ellos, ...
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News briefsThe Luis Trenker store in Kitzbühel is moving
The South Tyrolean brand Luis Trenker is moving its store in the Austrian ski town of Kitzbühel to a new location on Oct. 29. The new store is located in Vorderstadt 31 and occupies 180 square meters on 2 floors. The rustic-luxurious interior of the store combines city and country, ...
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Oase posts good results thanks to camping and outdoor trends
Sales progressed by 32 percent at Oase Outdoors for the third quarter, as the Danish camping equipment company benefited from the increased interest in camping and the outdoors in the wake of Covid-19. Its turnover reached 82 million Danish Kroner (€11.0m-$13.0m). On an organic basis, revenues grew by 34 percent. ...
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Black Friday: Arc’teryx rewards American trade-in customers
To shift the focus away from the mass consumption usually associated with Black Friday, Arc’teryx will for the full month of November be rewarding consumers in the U.S. and Canada who trade in their used equipment with a gift card worth 30 percent of an item’s original retail value, a ...
