All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 11, Issue 20-21
View all stories from this issue.
-
News briefs
Mountain Warehouse will no longer run standalone stores under the...
Mountain Warehouse will no longer run standalone stores under the Zakti brand, which was launched four years ago to expand into the athleisure market. It confirmed a report from Retail Week that four Zakti stores would be converted to Mountain Warehouse. But in the meantime, the British outdoor retailer has ...
-
News briefs
Preparation for next year's OutDoor by Ispo trade show are...
Preparation for next year's OutDoor by Ispo trade show are going well. By the opening of the European Outdoor Summit last month, where Ispo was again one of the main sponsors, Messe München had already reached 30 percent of its goal in terms of space to be booked, although it ...
-
Article
Interesting new shareholders for Shackleton
Shackleton, the British brand of rugged outdoor apparel named after the famous Irish polar explorer, has secured an undisclosed investment sum from five prominent investors as it seeks to continue its steady growth. The influx of new investors includes John Smith, a former chief operating officer of Burberry; Nic Couchman, ...
-
News briefs
Timberland has opened a temporary space in the heart of...
Timberland has opened a temporary space in the heart of Milan, in Piazza XXV Aprile 9, exclusively designed for women, under the artistic direction of Saturnino Celani. The event, which will run until Oct. 21, is part of a Timberland Studio project and follows similar events in London, Amsterdam and ...
-
News briefs
Polygiene has hired Rebecka Harvyl as its new marketing manager....
Polygiene has hired Rebecka Harvyl as its new marketing manager. Prior to joining Polygiene, Harvyl served as a project manager and marketing coordinator at Hemmakväll, also in Sweden. Meanwhile, Bobby Howell has been hired as Polygiene's commercial director of North America, covering the West Coast region. He will work alongside ...
-
Article
Hydro Flask records gains
Lower sales outside the U.S. didn't prevent the Housewares segment of Helen of Troy from posting a 19.4 percent sales increase to $137.5 million in the company's second quarter, ended on Aug. 31. The segment includes OXO and Hydro Flask, and without breaking down figures, the company said that a ...
-
News briefs
Ispo and Jack Wolfskin are running a survey to find...
Ispo and Jack Wolfskin are running a survey to find out to what extent outdoor equipment should be digital, and specifically what the outdoor customers want and need. The questionnaire, which can be completed until Oct. 21, focuses on the technical and digital resources that respondents use outdoors, how they ...
-
Article
SIGG is growing fast
Sigg Switzerland Bottles is reaping the fruits of strong investments in new personnel as well as in marketing, made by a new set of managers with the backing of the company s new Chinese owners over the past two years. Without giving any specific figures, Adrian Meili, the new chief ...
-
News briefs
Hestra has opened a new factory in Hai Phong, Vietnam....
Hestra has opened a new factory in Hai Phong, Vietnam. The factory will complement the manufacturing units already operated by the Swedish sports glove manufacturer in Hungary and China. The new Vietnamese factory is meant to respond to a high volume of orders. The company has invested 32 million Swedish ...
-
Article
Timberland trails The North Face
The North Face performed relatively well in VF's second quarter, ended Sept. 9, rising by 5 percent in dollars and by 7 percent in local currencies, aided by double-digit growth in its direct-to-consumer (DTC) business in all regions. In the first quarter, TNF's sales had gone up by only 5 ...
-
News briefs
The first mono-brand store of La Sportiva outside Europe opened...
The first mono-brand store of La Sportiva outside Europe opened at the end of September in a shopping center in Mexico City, called Paseo de Las Palmas. It is being operated by Alta Vertical, the Mexican distributor of the Italian brand. The move follows an increase in the company's turnover ...
-
News briefs
The European Network for Outdoor Sports (ENOS) has signed a...
The European Network for Outdoor Sports (ENOS) has signed a partnership agreement with the Europarc Federation, the representative body of Europe's protected areas, which is dedicated to preserve the continent's natural spaces, their sustainable development and their biodiversity. ENOS, which represents national public authorities in the area of outdoor sports ...
-
News briefs
La Sportiva was a partner in the first edition of...
La Sportiva was a partner in the first edition of “Festival dello Sport,” a new event to celebrate sport and its values, co-organized by La Gazzetta dello Sport, Italy's sports daily newspaper, and the Trentino region, under the auspices of the Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) and the Italian Paralympic Committee. ...
-
News briefs
The most recent edition of the Kendal Outdoor Retail Show...
The most recent edition of the Kendal Outdoor Retail Show (KORS), which took place in Kendal, in England's Lake District, in July of this year, was the last. The organizers of the show have announced that starting in 2019, KORS will merge with the Outdoor Trade Show (OTS) in Manchester. ...
-
News briefs
Lifestraw, the Dutch-based manufacturer of water filters and purifiers, has...
Lifestraw, the Dutch-based manufacturer of water filters and purifiers, has announced that it will be joining the Conservation Alliance in the U.S., while releasing a special edition of its LifeStraw Go bottle, called “Big Adventure, Small Footprint.” The special-edition bottle includes a filter in its built-in straw, like other LifeStraw's ...
-
News briefs
Oy Sultrade, one of the major distributors of sports products...
Oy Sultrade, one of the major distributors of sports products in Finland and the Baltic countries, has a new chief executive, Sari Rosin, replacing Risto Salo, the former CEO of Halti, who is leaving the company. Rosin, 46, will remain CEO of Oy Transmeri Ab, one of the subsidiaries of ...
-
News briefs
Tina Rolén, former marketing director at Haglöfs, has joined VF...
Tina Rolén, former marketing director at Haglöfs, has joined VF Corp. to take the marketing lead at Vans in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Rolén has spent many years in the sports, outdoor and fashion industry, working with brands from Nike and Adidas to Mini Rodini and Haglöfs. ...
-
News briefs
VF Corp. denies speculation that tax reasons may have led...
VF Corp. denies speculation that tax reasons may have led it to relocate some customer service functions from Stabio in Switzerland to Nottingham in the U.K. last year. Citing business optimization reasons, VF points out that it also decided last year to move Timberland's apparel design center from London to ...
-
Short stops
Vasque Footwear has promoted a long-serving veteran of the company,...
Vasque Footwear has promoted a long-serving veteran of the company, Allison Gettings, to vice president and general manager of Red Wing Shoes
-
Short stops
Woolrich, a company in which Goldwin retains a minority stake,...
Woolrich, a company in which Goldwin retains a minority stake, has opened its second Japanese store in Aoyama, after a recent opening in Sapporo
