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News briefsOutdoor Retailer Online opens July 21
Outdoor Retailer ’s new online event, Outdoor Retailer Online , begins with three days of live programming from July 21-23, 2020. The outdoor community can register for free at www.outdoorretaileronline.com to gain access to all education and events, both live and on-demand sessions. Speakers will lead conversations on ...
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Exped USA hires Tracy Collins as sales director
The American subsidiary of the Swiss outdoor adventure equipment brand Exped has hired Tracy Collins as sales director. Effective July 1, Collins will join the growing team at the brand’s U.S. office in Tacoma, Washington. For the past five years, Collins has worked as a senior category merchandise ...
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Grassroots Outdoor Alliance ConnectHub open for spring 21 planning
Grassroots Outdoor Alliance is opening its ConnectHub to U.S. specialty independent retailers looking to engage with vendor brands for spring 2021 planning and buying. A shared-resource solution designed to simplify a chaotic remote buying season, the Grassroots ConnectHub has attracted more than 100 essential vendor brands to date, ...
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Isbjörn launches American webshop with artificial intelligence
Isbjörn of Sweden , the Swedish brand for sustainable outdoor kidswear, has opened its webshop in the U.S. and Canada. It features Isbjorn’s AI chatbot named Bernard , who has managed to reduce the brand’s European web returns by more than 50 percent since October 2019. Bernard will guide American ...
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Tecnica supports U.S. footwear industry employees affected by Covid-19
The U.S. division of the Italian brand Tecnica has partnered up with the Two Ten Footwear Foundation , an organization that provides emergency financial assistance to footwear employees in crisis in the U.S. For every pair of Tecnica’s technical trail boots and shoes sold in the U.S. from June ...
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Primus enters the sharing economy in the U.S.
The Swedish outdoor equipment brand Primus has partnered with the U.S. consumer goods rental platform The Shed to provide outdoor enthusiasts with the chance to rent camp cooking equipment in the Denver, Colorado, and Richmond, Virginia, metropolitan areas. The rental service enables users to rent Primus cooking equipment ...
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Rebranded Thule Tepui rooftop tents available in the U.S.
Thule has begun selling its Tepui rooftop tents in the USA. In late 2018, Thule acquired the Tepui brand and integrated the products into its own portfolio under the ” Thule Tepui ” brand name. The tents previously offered by Tepui were now re-introduced under the new brand, ...
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Primus and Brunton relaunch U.S. websites
Primus and Brunton, brands of Fenix Outdoor International based in Zug, Switzerland, have relaunched their websites in the USA. The digital agency VentureWeb, based in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada, was commissioned with the redesign. VentureWeb has worked in the past with brands such as Shimano, Santa Cruz and Sugoi. The ...
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ArticleThe North Face, Patagonia amongst brands to support U.S. Public Lands Defense Fund
In the U.S., outdoor brands Velocio , Patagonia , and The North Face are supporting The Conservation Alliance ’s effort to preserve and defend the integrity of the American public lands system in 2020. Thanks to the support of these companies, The Conservation Alliance, founded in 1989 to ...
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News briefsThe Big Gear Show postpones inaugural event to 2021
The very first event of The Big Gear Show ( BGS ), a new U.S. outdoor industry trade show with an emphasis on paddling, cycling, climbing, and camping gear, originally planned for July 22-25 in Salt Lake City, has been postponed due to the ongoing Covid-19 public health crisis ...
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Petzl America orders employees to work from home
Petzl America announced last Friday that all employees in the USA who have the opportunity to do so will work from home from Monday, March 16, until further notice. Employees at the company’s distribution center will continue to process orders locally for shipment to customers in the USA and ...
