Urban Outdoor – Page 11
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ArticleTNF drives VF Corp.’s sales and outlook
VF Corp., the owner of brands such as Vans, The North Face and Timberland, cut its overall sales guidance for the financial year ending in March 2022 to $11.85 billion from a previous $12.0 billion, as it once again lowered the forecast for its Active segment, led by Vans, while ...
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News briefsPolartec launches “Outdoors are for Everyone” campaign on diversity
Polartec kicks off the new year with a new digital campaign, “Outdoors are for Everyone,” showcasing the diversity of nature and outdoor enthusiasts. The fabric specialist has created a separate web page for the project. The central element of the campaign is a two-minute video scored by Grammy Award nominees ...
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News briefsGore fabrics division gets GRS certification for German and Chinese facilities
The Gore fabrics division, part of W.L. Gore & Associates, has achieved full compliance with the Global Recycled Standard (GRS) certification for its production sites in Germany and China. GRS is an international, voluntary product standard (issued by the nonprofit organization Textile Exchange) that sets requirements for the certification of ...
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News briefsReima cooperates with designer Klaus Haapaniemi
Finnish kidswear brand Reima has launched its first designer collaboration capsule, created by graphic artist Klaus Haapaniemi, who is best known for his colorful designs inspired by Finnish folklore. With this collection, Reima (being a pure outdoor clothing brand to date) also premiers as a children’s indoor apparel brand. The ...
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News briefsEquip reports successful trial run of polybag recycling project
Source: EOG/Rab U.K. outdoor brands Rab and Lowe Alpine (owned by Equip Outdoor Technologies Ltd.), together with the European Outdoor Group (EOG), have presented the first results of their polybag recycling project, conducted as part of the EOG’s Single Use Plastics (SUP) project. In this test run, ...
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News briefsHohenstein expands collaboration with data management platform Texbase
Germany-based textile testing institute Hohenstein (also the owner of the Oeko-Tex labels and certification processes) has broadened its collaboration with Texbase Inc., a cloud-based data management platform for the textile and consumer product industries. Hohenstein customers can now collaborate, send test requests and receive test reports within the Texbase Connect ...
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News briefsBackcountry launches Shaun White's Whitespace brand
U.S. retailer Backcountry, parent company of German retail specialist Bergfreunde, has teamed up with pro snowboarder Shaun White for his new Whitespace brand of hardgoods and apparel. Backcountry will act as the exclusive retailer for Whitespace and is kicking off the partnership with a limited-edition Whitespace Freestyle Shaun White Pro ...
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News briefsArc’teryx continues global brand store expansion
Source: Arc’teryx Arc’teryx has increased the number of its own brand stores by 15 percent Canadian brand Arc’teryx Equipment opened 21 stores internationally in the past twelve months, ending 2021 with a total of 159 brick-and-mortar brand shops globally. In addition to the new stores, Arc’teryx also ...
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News briefsSpinnova invests in Rieter system for new yarn fabrication in Finland
Spinnova has purchased a full line of production machines from Swiss spinning technology specialist Rieter to be installed at the company’s premises in Jyväskylä, Finland. Following the agenda published before, Spinnova plans to spin the wood pulp fiber into yarn on the Rieter system on a large scale by the ...
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News briefsMaloja founders to hand over to new management
According to German business newspaper Handelsblatt, the founders of German brand Maloja, Klaus Haas and Peter Räuber, are planning to resign from their current leadership positions to hand over to a new management team. Eighteen years after the brand was founded, Haas and Räuber want a younger generation to take ...
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News briefsBlue Tomato expands cooperation with POW
Austrian boardsports and lifestyle retailer Blue Tomato is expanding its cooperation with the global environmental protection organization Protect Our Winters (POW), established around 15 years ago by U.S. pro snowboarder Jeremy Jones, and is now also the official merchandise partner of POW Europe. When POW products are purchased through the ...
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News briefsGoldwin opens flagship store in Beijing
With the opening of Goldwin Beijing on Dec. 27, 2021, the Japanese brand is consistently following a long-term global growth strategy. After Goldwin San Francisco (2019) and Goldwin Munich (2020), Goldwin Beijing is the third brand-owned flagship store outside Japan. Goldwin Beijing, placed in the heart of Chinese winter sports, ...
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News briefsRed Bull's AlphaTauri opens Vienna flagship store
The lifestyle and sports brand AlphaTauri from the Red Bull brand group has opened a flagship store in a prime location in downtown Vienna. The shopping street Graben, where the two-story AlphaTauri shop is found in a former Nespresso location, even has its own website and is around the corner ...
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ArticleFashion for Good launches new polyester recycling research project
Innovation platform Fashion for Good, based in Amsterdam, has launched the Full Circle Textiles Project – Polyester with the ambition to validate and scale promising technologies in polyester chemical recycling and to encourage financing and offtake commitments in the apparel industry. The project aims to bring together a consortium of ...
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News briefsSateri Lyocell fiber production in Rizhao receives Oeko-Tex STeP certification
Chinese viscose fiber producer Sateri has received the qualification to carry the Made in Green by Oeko-Tex product label for the product coming from its Lyocell factory in Rizhao. The plant commenced operation in May 2020 and has an output of 20,000 metric tons of Lyocell fiber. The same site ...
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ArticleExperts discuss different textile recycling options at meeting hosted by The Lycra Company
In the second global panel discussion of a row hosted by The Lycra Company, 28 apparel industry experts have evaluated the pros and cons of mechanical recycling versus chemical recycling and what is needed to make garment recycling a commercial reality. Mechanical recycling can also use materials from outside the ...
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VF promotes Nina Flood to president, global packs for Eastpak, Jansport and Kipling
Source: VF Corp Nina Flood VF Corp. has appointed Nina Flood as president, global packs for Eastpak, JanSport and Kipling. She has most recently served as president of Eastpak after a long career at VF brands Nautica and Kipling. Flood joined VF Corp. in 2003 after leaving ...
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ArticleHelen of Troy to bolster presence in outdoor segment with acquisition of Osprey
Helen of Troy, the El Paso, Texas-based, publicly traded company that owns a variety of brands in the Beauty, Health&Home and Housewares segments, including Hydro Flask and Oxo, has announced that one of its subsidiaries has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Osprey Packs, the backpack manufacturer founded in ...
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News briefsDeuter donates 10 percent of Green Friday sales to CSR projects
Instead of encouraging people to consume more during the current Black Friday/Cyber Week shopping craze, German backpack specialist Deuter will donate 10 percent of the sales generated in the brand’s online store from Nov. 27-28, 2021. The money will go to the “Walk the Trail” project in Argentina, a biodiversity ...
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News briefsSOMWR organizes panel discussion on sustainability at PWA Windsurf WC in France
During the last SOMWR 10 x Marignane PWA Grand Slam Windsurf Worldcup, German apparel brand SOMWR (the apparel branch of the Starboard SUP brand) has organized a panel discussion, bringing eleven speakers from the water sports industry and ecological movements on stage. The participants included Maximilian Reimers from Fridays for ...
