PRODUCT & MARKETING
+++ Bell, a Vista Outdoor brand, announced that the Moto-10 Renen Krone, a limited-edition collaboration helmet with motocross apparel brand Renen, founded by accomplished designer and entrepreneur Pete Fox, is now available for purchase at BellHelmets.com
+++ Kokopelli, the Colorado-based creators of lightweight and packable inflatable packrafts, has brought back its full kevlar X-Series ”backpacking boats,” available again with a re-launch of the Nirvana Self-Bailing X and Rogue-Lite X +++
EXECUTIVE CHANGES
+++ Cocona Labs, the maker of the temperature-regulating 37.5 materials, has appointed Wes Burgess, who has been with the company for 10 years and was most recently vice president of sales, engineering and business development, as chief product officer +++
CORPORATE AND M&A
+++ Newell Brands, the owner of Coleman and Campingaz, among others, has completed the sale of the Illinois-based Connected Home & Security business to Resideo Technologies, Inc. for a purchase price of $593 million, subject to customary working capital and transaction adjustments +++
TRADE SHOWS & EVENTS
+++ Cortina will host on April 6 the first edition of the Alpinathlon, a running and alpine skiing contest of Italy’s Alpine Troops Command, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Italian Army’s specialist mountain infantry (Alpini) +++
RETAIL & DISTRIBUTION
+++ Semperfli, the British fly-tying materials manufacturer, will have its products distributed in Japan by Tokyo-based Tiemco, as of April 1 +++
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