All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 10, Issue 15-16 – Page 2

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    La Cumbre will be the new distributor of La Sportiva...

    2017-08-08T00:00:00Z

    La Cumbre will be the new distributor of La Sportiva in Chile

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    Creating a new position, Peak Performance has hired Miklos von...

    2017-08-08T00:00:00Z

    Creating a new position, Peak Performance has hired Miklos von Pronay as urban sales representative for Central Europe. His job will be to expand the brand's sales in the fashion sector. Von Pronay comes from Tiger of Sweden, where he covered the German-speaking countries. He previously worked for Closed as ...

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    DuPont unveils its new Intexar technology for connected garments

    2017-08-08T00:00:00Z

    DuPont's Advanced Materials division showcased its newest smart clothing technology at the latest Outdoor Retailer (OR) Summer Market, which took place in Salt Lake City on July 26-29. The company unveiled a new technology called Intexar, which is said to enable an easy transformation of regular fabrics into connected garments.DuPont ...

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    Wolverine Worldwide will concentrate more on Merrell, Sperry and other...

    2017-08-08T00:00:00Z

    Wolverine Worldwide will concentrate more on Merrell, Sperry and other brands following the sale of Sebago to BasicNet, the Italian licensing company that owns also brands such as Briko, Kappa, K-Way and Superga. The transaction was valued at $14.25 million. Wolverine probably felt that Sebago was cannibalizing in some ways ...

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    Columbia to ramp up marketing and online investments

    2017-08-08T00:00:00Z

    Columbia Sportswear has embarked on a project to increase brand awareness and sales growth across its wholesale and retail business, with a focus on digital sales and infrastructure. This comes after an assessment of the outdoor group's operating model, which has already led to a substantial management reshuffle last month.Project ...

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    Two other top managers are leaving Columbia Sportswear. The chief...

    2017-08-08T00:00:00Z

    Two other top managers are leaving Columbia Sportswear. The chief executive of Prana, Scott Kerslake, will quit the job on Aug. 18 to join another company in an adjacent sector. He has led Prana since 2009, building it up to reach a turnover of $100 million by 2014, when it ...

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    Chris Matthews has resigned as chief executive of Go Outdoors,...

    2017-08-08T00:00:00Z

    Chris Matthews has resigned as chief executive of Go Outdoors, after four years in the post. He has been replaced by Claire Webb, the former chief financial officer of the British outdoor retail chain, which was taken over by JD Sports Fashion at the beginning of this year. Webb joined ...

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    Mark DeYoung has left as chief executive of Vista Outdoor....

    2017-08-08T00:00:00Z

    Mark DeYoung has left as chief executive of Vista Outdoor. He had run the company since it was spun off from Orbital ATK in early 2015, after serving as president and chief executive of the parent company for the previous five years. Michael Callahan, Vista Outdoor's lead independent director and ...

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    Helinox changes European distribution

    2017-08-08T00:00:00Z

    Helinox, a South Korean supplier of light-weight camping furniture, has started building a team to handle its own European sales from the start of this month, from an office in Paris and a warehouse in Rotterdam.The company is most famous in the outdoor industry for its Helinox Chair One, but ...

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    Travis Campbell, president of Smartwool and first vice chairman of...

    2017-08-08T00:00:00Z

    Travis Campbell, president of Smartwool and first vice chairman of the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA), has been elected chairman of the American lobbying group. He is taking the place of Gordon Seabury, who stepped down after the expiration of his two-year mandate in the post.

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    TNF’s European business thrives

    2017-08-08T00:00:00Z

    VF Corporation slightly raised its guidance for the full year after sizeable gains for its largest outdoor and sports brands in the second quarter. They were driven by own retail sales and international markets, with particularly buoyant demand for The North Face in Europe.The seasonally small quarter marked another shift ...

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    Plutosport, a Dutch online sports retailer, wants to build up...

    2017-08-08T00:00:00Z

    Plutosport, a Dutch online sports retailer, wants to build up its assortment of outdoor products, as it continues to diversify from its original focus on football products. Sportswear has become the biggest category for the retailer, which already covers a broad range of sports, from team sports to running and ...

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    Rocky Brands follows an upward trend

    2017-08-08T00:00:00Z

    After posting a strong first quarter that marked its return to profitability, Rocky Brands is staying on an upward trend, posting a net income of $1.5 million for the second quarter of the year, compared with a loss of $1.8 million for the year-ago period. The company said the profit ...

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    Susan Viscon, senior vice president of merchandising and private brands...

    2017-08-08T00:00:00Z

    Susan Viscon, senior vice president of merchandising and private brands at REI, will deliver a keynote presentation at this year's European Outdoor Summit, which will be held in the Italian city of Treviso on Oct. 4-5. A networking evening with wine tasting and a buffet will take place in Castello ...

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    Dickies and Prana have joined HeiQ's list of brand partners...

    2017-08-08T00:00:00Z

    Dickies and Prana have joined HeiQ's list of brand partners that use its technical textile finishing products. Dickies presented its new Cooling Tees empowered with HeiQ Smart Temp to retailers at this year's Outdoor Retailer (OR) Summer Market trade show, which took place in Salt Lake City on July 26-29. ...

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    Vista Outdoor will be a sponsor of the Boy Scouts...

    2017-08-08T00:00:00Z

    Vista Outdoor will be a sponsor of the Boy Scouts of America

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    Bologna Fiere will host a brand-new trade show dedicated to...

    2017-08-08T00:00:00Z

    Bologna Fiere will host a brand-new trade show dedicated to the outdoor industry and enthusiasts. The first edition of Outdoor Expo will take place in Bologna, Italy on March 2-4, 2018. The show targets professionals, such as industry members and the media, as well as the public, and will benefit ...

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    Black Diamond has expanded its engineering team from six to...

    2017-08-08T00:00:00Z

    Black Diamond has expanded its engineering team from six to ten persons, and it has added two outdoor industry specialists to its apparel development team. The four extra engineering staff are Greg Woolston, previously in product design at Skullcandy, who joined the lighting team. Tom Santoro is to focus on ...

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    Carsten von Birckhahn, brand manager and a member of the...

    2017-08-08T00:00:00Z

    Carsten von Birckhahn, brand manager and a member of the executive board at Edelrid, died on July 15 in a paragliding accident in Val di Mello in the Italian Alps. Aged 49, Von Birckhahn was a driving force behind numerous innovations over his ten-year tenure at the climbing specialist company. ...

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    Vaude has launched a new footwear collection using Reverdia's Biosuccinium,...

    2017-08-08T00:00:00Z

    Vaude has launched a new footwear collection using Reverdia's Biosuccinium, the brand of sustainable bio-succinic acid products. Vaude said that Reverdia's Biosuccinium is contained in the bio-based thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) that is used for the production of its new Skarvan shoe range, part of its summer 2018 collection. Vaude uses TPU ...