All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 10, Issue 22-23 – Page 2

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    Lorenzo Delladio, chief executive and new full owner of La...

    2017-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Lorenzo Delladio, chief executive and new full owner of La Sportiva, has failed in his attempts to create an innovative and sustainable “Outdoor Paradise” around the Passo Rolle, a mountain pass that links the valley where his company is based with the flashy ski resort of San Martino di Castrozza. ...

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    When Stephen Keck undertakes his next challenge, he will be...

    2017-11-28T00:00:00Z

    When Stephen Keck undertakes his next challenge, he will be kitted out in gear from Devold of Norway, the Scandinavian outdoor clothing firm. The extreme mountaineer from Tyrol is tackling the 8,163-meter-high summit of the Manaslu mountain in Nepal as part of a film documentary with another renowned climber, Hans ...

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    Performance Days will be moving from the MTC exhibition center...

    2017-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Performance Days will be moving from the MTC exhibition center in Munich, its current venue, to the city's Messe München from November 2018. Performance Days made its debut in May 2008 as a roadshow with stops in Aschheim in Germany, Verona and Stockholm. The biannual trade show later found a ...

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    Hi-Tec will provide footwear for the celebrities participating in the...

    2017-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Hi-Tec will provide footwear for the celebrities participating in the 2017 edition of “I'm a Celebrity … Get me out of Here,” the Australian reality TV show. This year marks the tenth year that the outdoor brand has provided the participants in the show with footwear to brave the Australian ...

  • Short stops

    Live to Play Sports is the new Canadian distributor...

    2017-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Live to Play Sports is the new Canadian distributor of Five Ten for bike and climbing products

  • Article

    Canada Goose pulls off stellar results

    2017-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Canada Goose raised its guidance following a strong performance in both the direct-to-consumer (DTC) and wholesale channels for its second fiscal quarter ended Sept. 30. Shares in the company jumped by 14.1 percent after the release of the results, which topped Wall Street's expectations by a significant margin.Sales climbed by ...

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    Canada Goose has named Rick Wood as chief commercial officer,...

    2017-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Canada Goose has named Rick Wood as chief commercial officer, responsible for wholesale as well as retail operations. He joins the company with many years of experience with VF Corp. in various divisions until October 2014, when he formed his own consultancy in Montreal. In the previous three years, he ...

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    Salomon has put out a limited-edition collection, called Fondation Salomon....

    2017-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Salomon has put out a limited-edition collection, called Fondation Salomon. All the proceeds will go to the brand's foundation, which has helped more than 300 mountain professionals who have suffered an accident or an illness and their families, in cooperation with various French institutions.

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    Canada Goose's new flagship in London was hit by burglars...

    2017-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Canada Goose's new flagship in London was hit by burglars on Nov. 14, just days after its opening. According to reports, a ten-people gang used scooters to smash into the store's glass door. The thieves threatened a night security guard with a hammer and then managed to run away with ...

  • Short stops

    Buff has opened its first store in Granada

    2017-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Buff has opened its first store in Granada

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    Ellis Brigham launches a new store concept

    2017-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Ellis Brigham Mountain Sports, the British outdoor retail chain, has launched a new outdoor retailing concept with a first store in Liverpool, called Outsiders Store. It sells less technical and more utilitarian and lifestyle-oriented products from brands such as The North Face, Fjällräven, Danner, Patagonia and New Balance as well ...

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    Vista will divest its eyewear brands

    2017-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Vista Outdoor's new chief executive, Chris Metz, announced plans to sell its three brands of sports eyewear – Bollé, Cébé and Serengeti – as part of a review of its brand portfolio that is about to be completed, while the company released a pretty bad set of figures for the ...

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    Deckers Brands, the parent company of Teva and Hoka One...

    2017-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Deckers Brands, the parent company of Teva and Hoka One One, announced that it will make room for two new independent directors, replacing two who are retiring from its board. Marcato Capital Management, the activist investor that has been criticizing the company's management, asking to sell all the group's brands ...

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    Rocky Brands has sold Creative Recreation to a private equity...

    2017-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Rocky Brands has sold Creative Recreation to a private equity firm, the Global Investment Group, at undisclosed conditions. Rocky had bought this brand of casual shoes in 2013 for $11 million in an effort to diversify beyond the outdoor, work and military boot businesses. It has now decided to concentrate ...

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    Weaker sales of the Haglöfs brand were identified as the...

    2017-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Weaker sales of the Haglöfs brand were identified as the cause for a decline of 7.3 percent to 6,976 million yen (€52.9m-$61.5m) for the Other Business unit of the Asics group during the first nine months of this year. Without currency exchange, the sales decline still amounted to 7.1 percent but ...

  • Short stops

    Snow + Rock has a new store in England's Bluewater...

    2017-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Snow + Rock has a new store in England's Bluewater shopping center, the largest one in the U.K. with a retail floor area of 13,000 square feet

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    Strong growth for the former Black Diamond

    2017-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Clarus Corp, the holding company previously registered as Black Diamond Equipment, saw sales in the third quarter jump by 16.2 percent to $45.8 million, boosted by the climbing category and the acquisition of Sierra Bullets on Aug. 21, which added $3.5 million to the quarterly turnover. Excluding the acquisition, revenues ...

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    Gregory performs better than High Sierra

    2017-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Samsonite International reported a 19.6 percent increase in total sales to $915.6 million for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, including growth of 18.7 percent in local currencies, but this was mostly due to acquisitions. On an organic basis, excluding Tumi and the eBags business, which were taken over in ...

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    Better margins for Peak Performance

    2017-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Peak Performance improved its operating margin by three percentage points to 20.8 percent during the first quarter ended Sept. 30, as compared to the same period a year ago, according to its parent company IC Group, thanks mainly to higher average selling prices and higher gross margins.The brand's sales were flat ...

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    Better results for Crocs

    2017-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Although Crocs' revenues for the third quarter were off by 1.1 percent from the year-ago quarter, down to $243.3 million, they were above the top end of the company's revenue guidance, exceeding analysts' expectations. Income from operations improved to $2.7 million, as compared to last year's loss of $1.2 million.The ...