All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 11, Issue 15-16
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Organizers of the Outdoor Trade Show (OTS) in the U.K....
Organizers of the Outdoor Trade Show (OTS) in the U.K. said that 950 trade visitors attended its latest edition, held over three days at EventCity in Manchester. This was quite a special edition for the OTS, which had been held for the previous 12 years at Stoneleigh Park. The move ...
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Heimplanet is launching on Kickstarter a new series of travel-focused...
Heimplanet is launching on Kickstarter a new series of travel-focused bags, called the Transit Line. The new product line is meant to address the needs of today's fluid customer, who constantly switches between the world of travel, work and play. The bags are designed to make the transitions between these ...
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Schöffel has opened an office in Hanoi, Vietnam, in order...
Schöffel has opened an office in Hanoi, Vietnam, in order to strengthen its relations with production partners in Southeast Asia. Until now, Schöffel's employees were traveling to see them in Vietnam and other countries for a constant exchange of information. The majority of Schöffel's products are made in Vietnam. Through ...
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New September outdoor show in Friedrichshafen
Messe Friedrichshafen, which has been organizing the European OutDoor show owned by the European Outdoor Group (EOG) for the past 25 years, yesterday unveiled a new format and a new timing for a trade show that will be mainly targeting retailers operating in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Vendors, their agents ...
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Garmin’s fitness segment sees sales rocket
Garmin's fitness segment had a stellar second quarter, with a 24 percent increase from the year-ago quarter to $225.1 million In contrast, sales in Garmin's so-called outdoor segment improved by 4 percent to $201.6 million with all product categories contributing to the growth. The gross margin in this segment declined ...
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Light My Fire will start selling its products in the...
Light My Fire will start selling its products in the U.S. directly from next Jan. 1, after working for 12 years with a distributor, Industrial Revolution
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The North Face has opened a special pop-up store in...
The North Face has opened a special pop-up store in the Italian Alps, located at an altitude of 2,200 meters, that can only be reached with a two-hour hike. It features eight unique pieces of jackets and backpacks from TNF's “Pinnacle Archives” that have been worn by athletes sponsored by ...
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Thomas Lange, who started Keen Europe together with Richard Litzel...
Thomas Lange, who started Keen Europe together with Richard Litzel and two other managers 13 years ago, is leaving the company in mid-October to become the new general manager of GEB, a German voluntary group of shoe retailers specializing in higher-end footwear. The members include big names like Prange and ...
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Moncler posts double-digit sales and profit increase
Moncler posted consolidated revenues of €493.5 million in the first half of 2018, up by 21 percent at current exchange rates as compared to the first half of last year. On a currency-neutral basis, Moncler's growth reached 27 percent. The turnover was lifted by the group's sales in Asia, which ...
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VF rejigs its growing, purpose-led outdoor division
The investments made by The North Face in the women's outdoor market have started to pay off, as sales of women's performance products were among the drivers of an 8 percent sales hike for the outdoor brand in the three months to the end of June, the first quarter in ...
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As a first step in its divestiture plan, Vista Outdoor...
As a first step in its divestiture plan, Vista Outdoor has sold its Bollé, Cébé and Serengeti brands of sunglasses to Antelope Brands Bidco, an entity affiliated with an American private equity fund, A M Capital Partners, which recently opened a branch in London. The transaction was closed for $158 ...
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Kayland is supporting Millemonti, a project for the discovery of...
Kayland is supporting Millemonti, a project for the discovery of hidden and atypical natural places, both in Italy and abroad, focusing on the beauty, history, local culture and gastronomy of these places. Kayland, headquartered in Italy's Northeast, will provide the group of outdoor enthusiasts behind the project with its shoes, ...
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The program developed for the next European Outdoor Summit (EOS)...
The program developed for the next European Outdoor Summit (EOS) is getting more detailed. In addition to Magnus Welander of the Thule Group and Liselotte Engstam for the European Commission, other high-caliber speakers will take the floor in Malmö, Sweden, on Sept. 18 and 19 including Markus Rech, chief executive ...
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Hoka One One, Sanuk and Teva, three divisions of Deckers...
Hoka One One, Sanuk and Teva, three divisions of Deckers Brands, have entered into a partnership with Camber Outdoors, an organization that works to promote corporate diversity and women's leadership in the outdoor sector. As part of the agreement, the three brands will develop internal programs that seek to put ...
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Moody's has raised the corporate rating of Wolverine Worldwide from...
Moody's has raised the corporate rating of Wolverine Worldwide from Ba2 to Ba1
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Columbia Sportswear outperforms
Columbia Sportswear raised its guidance for the full year after a second quarter that was stronger than anticipated, with a sales jump of 21 percent to $481.6 million and the outdoor group's first profit in eleven years for this seasonally small quarter. Widely spread across regional markets, the sales increase ...
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Scarpa is sponsoring Colin Haley, the rock climber and mountaineer...
Scarpa is sponsoring Colin Haley, the rock climber and mountaineer who has recently set a new speed record for climbing the massive Cassin Ridge on Denali, in Alaska, in eight hours and seven minutes. He had attempted the record in 2010, 2011 and 2012, and finally made it on June ...
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Pegasus, a Chinese shoe manufacturer with a factory in Guangzhou,...
Pegasus, a Chinese shoe manufacturer with a factory in Guangzhou, says it is looking for new customers as it will no longer do business as of September with a client that accounted for 87% of its business in the past year
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CEO change at Odlo
Knut Are Høgberg has been appointed to take over as chief executive at Odlo, the Swiss outdoor brand, after nearly three years as chief operating officer and deputy CEO. He has formally taken over this month from Christophe Bézu, who has driven far-reaching adjustments in the Swiss outdoor brand's distribution ...
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Former Geox CEO will run Scarpa
Diego Bolzonello, a manager who built Geox into one of the world's biggest brands of casual footwear, has agreed to be the new chief executive of Calzaturificio Scarpa, working alongside its president, Sandro Parisotto, who previously shared the functions of president and CEO. Bolzonello will be the first CEO hired ...
