All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 10, Issue 22-23
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Oberalp pulls out of the Ispo show
Repeating what it had done at the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen last June, the Italian Oberalp group has confirmed its decision to stop exhibiting the ranges of its Salewa and Dynafit brands at the Ispo Munich show, investing instead in a big international sales meeting. Like Amer Sports, which is ...
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Marmot Mountain has opened a shop-in-shop at an Intersport store...
Marmot Mountain has opened a shop-in-shop at an Intersport store near its European head office in Erlangen, Germany
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Quechua will internationalize virtual testing of tents
Testing the different tent models in the store may be a problem due to space constraints. This is why virtual reality (VR) appears to be particularly useful for the sale of this kind of product. Thanks to a headset developed by Valtech, Decathlon is now giving customers the possibility to ...
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Haglöfs has opened new showrooms in Neuss, Germany and Salzburg,...
Haglöfs has opened new showrooms in Neuss, Germany and Salzburg, Austria
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Teijin Frontier has unveiled a new version of its Solotex...
Teijin Frontier has unveiled a new version of its Solotex polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT) fiber, called Solotex Thermo, which is said to offer excellent insulation properties and thermal retention. The fiber absorbs near infrared sunlight and converts it to heat through carbon-based inorganic particles that are mixed into the fiber's monocular ...
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Snowleader, a French online retailer of snow sports products, has...
Snowleader, a French online retailer of snow sports products, has added Spain to the country list of its online boutiques, with the launch of a new “.es” e-commerce site. The announcement was made by Thomas Rouault, the co-founder and chief executive of Snowleader, on the occasion of the first conference ...
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Tasci, the owner of Montura, has opened the first Tirolean...
Tasci, the owner of Montura, has opened the first Tirolean Alpstation store in Innsbruck
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Lolë is testing its first European pop-up store in the...
Lolë is testing its first European pop-up store in the Labege shopping center of Toulouse and in a couple of other medium-sized French cities, Reims and Pau
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Wanted: EOG’s new secretary general
Inviting applications from suitable candidates, the European Outdoor Group (EOG) has formally started the recruitment process for a new secretary general to replace Mark Held, the British executive who has held the post since 2005. He already announced at the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen in June that he had decided ...
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Eoca welcomes new members
Ten more companies and brands have joined the European Conservation Association (Eoca). Here is the list: - Pinguin, one of the oldest Czech producers of camping and other outdoor equipment; - Ultralight Outdoor Gear, a British distributor of outdoor products; - 333 Media, a Dutch media agency that is a ...
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UTMB International, the organizer of the famous Ultra Trail du...
UTMB International, the organizer of the famous Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc, has signed a contract with a Chinese firm, Xingzhi Exploration Company, for the organization of the first UTMB race in another country. The new Chinese UTMB will be called Gaoligong By UTMB and will be held from March ...
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Moncler posts double-digit sales growth
Moncler posted consolidated revenues of €736.8 million for the first nine months of 2017, representing a 15 percent increase from the first nine months of 2016 at current exchange rates, or a 16 percent increase at constant exchange rates. All regions posted double-digit growth with the exception of Italy, where ...
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Hoka One One has developed a three-part video series on...
Hoka One One has developed a three-part video series on “Women who fly” on its shoes, after setting their problems aside
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Mountain Warehouse heads for the Dutch and Czech markets
Mountain Warehouse is preparing to move into two more countries, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic, after the company continued to expand with a sales rise of 19.3 percent to £91.6 million (€102.4m-$122.2m) in the six months ended on Aug. 27. The British outdoor retailer's international sales jumped by 50 ...
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Craft invests in footwear and team sports
The New Wave Group suffered a 6 percent sales decline to 616.8 million Swedish kronor (€62,4m-$74.4m) for the three months until September in its sports and leisure division, which involves a dozen brands including Craft and Cutter Buck and partnership with Speedo in the Scandinavian markets. The decline ...
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Ortovox and Petzl are going to cooperate for the organization...
Ortovox and Petzl are going to cooperate for the organization of the Safety Nights. The short and free night-time courses will be offered at 14 locations throughout the alpine regions where people tend to engage in ski touring between the middle of January and the end of February. The goal ...
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Patagonia has signed a contract to open a new store...
Patagonia has signed a contract to open a new store of 3,300 square feet at 51 King Street, in the downtown area of Manchester. Covering two floors, it will be brand's eighth store in Europe and the only one in the U.K. following the shutdown in 2014 of a store ...
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Columbia Sportswear has obtained a temporary restraining order from a...
Columbia Sportswear has obtained a temporary restraining order from a district judge to prevent Seirus Innovative Accessories from initiating an examination by the U.S. Patent Trademark Office of its own Omni Heat design patent. The court had already dismissed Seirus' challenges against the patent's validity without prejudice. The jury in ...
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Moncler has decided to eliminate its two top-of-the-range collections, which...
Moncler has decided to eliminate its two top-of-the-range collections, which it has been presenting at fashion shows. The two lines, Gamme Rouge and Gamme Bleu, were designed by Giambattista Valli and Thom Browne, who are going to stop working for Moncler to concentrate on on their own fashion collections.
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Leki has informed its German clients that it will place...
Leki has informed its German clients that it will place its customer service at their disposal on all the five Saturdays of December and on Saturday Jan. 13 and Jan. 20
