All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 11, Issue 20-21 – Page 2
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Italian outdoor companies join forces
The whole thing sounds like the history of the OutDoor show, which was created 25 years ago in Friedrichshafen because some important outdoor companies felt that they were not adequately represented at the more generic Ispo sports show in Munich. These companies decided at the annual meeting of the European ...
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News briefs
A grant from the It's Great Out There Coalition is...
A grant from the It's Great Out There Coalition is helping more than 400 students from a school in eastern England explore the outdoors on water. The students, including 128 who had never been on water before, have been canoeing in boats that were bought using the grant. The project ...
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News briefs
Oysho, one of the retail chains of the Spanish Inditex...
Oysho, one of the retail chains of the Spanish Inditex group, is releasing a line of tech-ware for mountaineering. This “capsule collection” includes water-repellant trousers and jackets, fleece tops, thermal leggings, rain-protection gear, a scarf, boots, poles, a backpack and fast-drying socks. Several items feature Primaloft insulation. The most expensive ...
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News briefs
Louis Nielsen, a Danish optical retail chain that is a...
Louis Nielsen, a Danish optical retail chain that is a leader in the market for affordable eyewear, has launched , a charity project in Tanzania with Lego Wear, the Danish brand for outdoor apparel for children. As of last month, Kabooki, the clothing licensee for the Lego Wear brand, and ...
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Royal Robbins is reportedly going to close its distribution center...
Royal Robbins is reportedly going to close its distribution center in Modesto, California, following the recent sale of the company to Fenix Outdoor, which has its own warehouse for the U.S. market in Colorado
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Timberland celebrates nature in New York
For a week in October, Timberland hosted three days of events across New York City, designed to allow New Yorkers to celebrate nature and the autumn season. On Oct. 16, the brand opened a pop-up store in Flatiron South Plaza, across from Madison Square Park, where visitors could embrace Timberland's ...
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News briefs
Woolrich and Griffin Studio have teamed up on a capsule...
Woolrich and Griffin Studio have teamed up on a capsule collection revisiting two classic Woolrich jackets - the Atlantic Parka and Atlantic Smock. The two reversible jackets feature one side combining Woolrich's Buffalo Check and Griffin's signature orange lining, while the other side is black or photo-print camo. The two ...
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News briefs
The Intersocks Group has secured a Canadian distributor for its...
The Intersocks Group has secured a Canadian distributor for its Salomon line of socks. Founded in Montreal in 1988, In-Sport Fashions will begin distributing Salomon socks in time for the spring 2019 season. The collection includes socks for alpine skiing, Nordic skiing, trail running and other outdoor activities.
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SportScheck builds retail and events platform
SportScheck is moving ahead with a strategy to transform its business into a retailing and events platform, which is leading to intensified partnerships with a few brands in sports and other industries.As part of its consumer-focused strategy, the German sports retailer has invested in extensive adjustments of the layout and ...
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Mammut builds up its digital platform
Mammut Sports Group has embarked on a far-reaching project to build up its digitization, both in strategic and operational terms, which is leading to the launch of digital services for outdoor participants as well as products with built-in chips to directly exchange contents with the users.The project was outlined at ...
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Foursource connects brands and manufacturers
Various sports and outdoor brands including CEP, Jack Wolfskin, Kjus, Odlo, Schöffel and Vaude are among the 350+ apparel brands and retailers that have hooked up so far to Foursource, an open internet sourcing platform launched in May 2017 to help product managers find the most suitable manufacturers and to ...
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News briefs
Newell Brands is expected to complete the sale of Pure...
Newell Brands is expected to complete the sale of Pure Fishing within a month, said Angling International a few days ago, without mentioning the final candidate to the acquisition. Meanwhile, Newell announced its intention to retire about $1 billion in debt by using the proceeds of its most recent divestitures, ...
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Deso, a new brand “made in the U.S.”
Like Shackleton in the U.K., Deso hopes to benefit from the fact that all its garments are made in the U.S., using expert seamstresses in the San Francisco area. Like with Arc'teryx and Canada Goose in Canada, local production is said to guarantee a high level of quality for high-performance ...
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News briefs
The once booming Korean outdoor market continued to decline to...
The once booming Korean outdoor market continued to decline to an estimated $4.5 billion in 2017 from $6 billion in the previous year, according to local experts, and it's expected to be flat this year. It's still relatively big, considering that NPD has estimated that the total Korean sporting goods ...
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News briefs
Urban outdoor and rugged outdoor play a big role in...
Urban outdoor and rugged outdoor play a big role in the revised version of Schuster, the famous sports store in downtown Munich, which reopened its doors a few days ago after two years of redecoration and its enlargement from 4,000 to 5,000 square. Run by Rainer Angstl, Schuster is an ...
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Two new managers at Bergzeit’s helm
Maximilian Hofbauer, a well-known personality in the German sports and outdoor sector, is leaving as chief executive of Bergzeit, the German-based online retailer of outdoor products controlled by members of the Oberrauch family in northern Italy, who own Sportler and the Oberalp Group. He will be replaced by two general ...
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News briefs
Starboard, the Bangkok-based watersports company specializing in paddle, surf, windsurf...
Starboard, the Bangkok-based watersports company specializing in paddle, surf, windsurf and kiteboards, and Royal DSM have announced a collaboration to transform discarded fishing nets from waste into high-end surfboard components. Royal DSM is a global company active in nutrition, health and sustainable living headquartered in the Netherlands. The two companies ...
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News briefs
VF Corp. is making available to consumers the sourcing maps...
VF Corp. is making available to consumers the sourcing maps for ten of its brands' most iconic products. The sourcing maps, which can be viewed on VF's sustainability website, are meant to ensure transparency about every step in the production of VF's apparel and footwear. The interactive maps show the ...
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News briefs
VF Corp. is making available to consumers the “sourcing maps”...
VF Corp. is making available to consumers the “sourcing maps” for ten of its brands' most iconic products. The sourcing maps, which can be viewed on VF's sustainability website, are meant to ensure transparency about every step in the production of VF's apparel and footwear. The interactive maps show the ...
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News briefs
Sports retailers are being given preferential rates for attending the...
Sports retailers are being given preferential rates for attending the Ispo Munich show next Feb. 3-6, supplementing various services that are already available to this important target group. Exhibitors are already being given free tickets for their key retail customers. The others will have to pay only €19 for a ...
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