All Scarpa articles
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News briefsFive Italian brands launch the Sportsystem Sustainability Network
Aku, Alpinestars, La Sportiva, Scarpa and Tecnica announce a joint initiative focusing on sustainability.
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News briefsScarpa partners with Nikolai Schirmer to launch new ski boot
The renowned Norwegian freeride skier brings expertise to Scarpa’s latest product launch.
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News briefsScarpa mourns the loss of Filippo Zanin and Francesco Favilli
The two staff members of the Italian footwear company were expert mountaineers.
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News briefsNew distributor for Friction Labs in Germany and Austria
Scarpa Germany is taking over the distribution for the US supplier of high-quality climbing chalk.
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News briefsScarpa has a new minority shareholder
Italian investment holding company Nuo acquired a stake in the company, with Cornaro, the family holding company, retaining majority ownership and control.
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Data & AnalysisGlobal outdoor footwear market grows 17.8%
2022 outdoor footwear sales are up. 5 companies represented just over 50% of all sales. Find all the sales, growth and market share numbers here.
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News briefsScarpa could reportedly sell 25% stake to external investor
Scarpa is believed to have hired the investment bank Finint to find an investor ready to buy about 25 percent of the Italian footwear company, according to the daily Corriere della Sera. The transaction would enable the company to raise funds to accelerate its expansion, which could include acquisitions, it ...
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News briefsNew status moves Scarpa one step closer to B Corp. ambitions
Scarpa has achieved Benefit Company status – a legal status introduced in Italy in 2016 to identify those companies that, besides profit, pursue specific goals of common benefit, with the aim of generating value for people, the planet, businesses, and the productive realities of the country. Brands designated as a ...
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News briefsScarpa records double-digit sales increase
Scarpa posted consolidated sales of €169 million for 2022, which marks a 26 percent increase from 2021. The Ebitda of €21.5 million compares to an Ebitda of €18.8 million in 2021. In 2022, the Italian outdoor footwear specialist further strengthened its commitment to sustainability through the launch of LIFE Re-Shoes, ...
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News briefsScarpa starts collecting used shoes for the “Life Re-Shoes” European project
Scarpa has started collecting shoes for the Life Re-Shoes project, a recycling initiative backed by the European Union (EU). As reported in November, Scarpa is the project leader and coordinating the efforts of a consortium of international companies that involve the recycling of end-of-life footwear reprocessed into new footwear. Over ...
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News briefsScarpa and Politecnico di Torino collaborate on foot insulation
Source: Politecnico di Torino Testing in the Comfort Lab at PoliTO Italian outdoor footwear specialist Scarpa and Politecnico di Torino (PoliTO), the prestigious engineering school located in Turin and founded in 1859, are collaborating on a new project to develop a thermal insulation analysis model for mountaineering ...
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News briefsScarpa’s cataloged and stored production scraps make a new ski boot
Scarpa has launched a version of its Maestrale alpine-touring ski boot made entirely from production scraps saved from its ski boot manufacturing operation. The Maestrale Re-Made is manufactured using a polymer derived from roughly three tons of manufacturing scraps that Scarpa has recovered since it began storing and cataloging its ...
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News briefsScarpa leads EU-funded recycling project
Scarpa, the Italian outdoor footwear specialist, has announced the launch of Re-Shoes, a recycling initiative backed by the European Union (EU). As the project leader, Scarpa will coordinate the efforts of a consortium of international companies that involve the recycling of end-of-life footwear reprocessed into new footwear. The project, which ...
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ArticleRugged outdoor footwear market rebounds in 2021
After a disappointing 2020, impacted adversely by the global pandemic, the global branded outdoor shoe market returned to growth last year. Worldwide rugged outdoor footwear sales climbed 28 percent higher to $6,756 million in U.S. dollars in 2021, based on research conducted by the Outdoor Industry Compass in partnership with Sporting Goods Intelligence.
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News briefsScarpa partners with Slow Food to promote walking and local food
Scarpa, the Italian specialist in outdoor footwear, has partnered with Slow Food on a new book, Il Gusto di Camminare (A Taste for Walking), in collaboration with the Italian Alpine Club. Written by Irene Pellegrini and Barbara Gizzi, with a foreword by Paolo Rumiz, the book is dedicated to those ...
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News briefsScarpa posts double-digit sales increase
Scarpa, the Italian specialist in outdoor footwear, posted sales of €134 million in 2021, which marked a 22 percent increase year-over-year. Export accounted for 82 percent of its revenues. The U.S. was its leading foreign market, with a share of 20 percent, followed by Germany and Benelux, the U.K., France ...
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News briefsFull Circle Everest Expedition summits and sets a sign of diversity in climbing
Seven members of the all-black climber’s team of the Full Circle Everest Expedition reached the summit peak on May 12, 2022, roughly 60 years after the first U.S. citizen climbed Everest for the first time. The Full Circle Everest Expedition (counting eleven experienced climbers) set out to make history with ...
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News briefsExped steps into new distribution partnerships in Austria and France
Zurich-based company Exped is expanding its brand presence in Austria and France and altering its distribution model for Austria. As of Sept. 15, 2022, the Austrian market will be served by Exclusiv Sportartikelvertrieb GmbH, which also carries Italian footwear specialist Scarpa as a sales agency. Thomas Miedl will be the ...
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News briefsScarpa unveils the eco-friendly Mojito Planet Denim
Scarpa has unveiled the Mojito Planet Denim, an all-terrain shoe made using recycled fabrics from production waste that are regenerated and transformed into new yarns. The process is based on an energy-saving technology that allows saving more than 65 percent of water compared with traditional systems, Scarpa says. The upper ...
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News briefsBode Miller becomes Scarpa brand ambassador
Scarpa announced that U.S. ski star Bode Miller is the new ambassador for the Italian footwear brand. Miller won four World Championship titles in four different disciplines (combined and GS 2003, super-G and downhill 2005) and six medals at the Winter Olympics – silver twice (GS and combined) in Salt ...
