All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 11, Issue 20-21 – Page 4

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    Spin Capital adds Pyua to its portfolio

    2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Spin Capital, the investment company that last year took over ABS Protection, a major supplier of anti-avalanche airbags, has acquired a controlling interest of 90 percent in Pyua, the German brand of sustainable outdoor and ski clothing.Further acquisitions in the sports sector are not excluded, says Spin Capital, a Munich-based ...

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    VF benefits from acquisitions

    2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

    VF Corporation reported a 15 percent sales increase to $3,907.4 million in its continuing operations for the third quarter ended Sept. 29, with a 16 percent increase in constant currencies. On an adjusted basis, excluding the acquisition of Williamson Dickie, Icebreaker and Altra, which contributed sales of $324 million during ...

  • News briefs

    Altra, the American brand of running shoes recently acquired by...

    2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Altra, the American brand of running shoes recently acquired by VF Corp., has signed a sponsorship deal with a 40-year-old distance runner, Kara Goucher, who was formerly sponsored by Skechers. Goucher competed for the U.S. in the Beijing and London Olympics in 2008 and 2012. She was the silver medalist ...

  • News briefs

    Isbjörn of Sweden, which makes outdoor clothing and accessories for...

    2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Isbjörn of Sweden, which makes outdoor clothing and accessories for children, has appointed the two-year-old Sonny Reed to represent its range of products for kids as brand ambassador in the U.K. Sonny Reed is the son of Oli Reed, who runs a blog called The Outdoor Dad. As the brand's ...

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    Yeti wants to go public, expanding abroad

    2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

    The U.S.-based company, which specializes in the production and distribution of coolers and drinking equipment, filed for an initial public offering on Oct. 17. It will seek to bring in 20 million shares priced in the range of $19 to $21, according to an updated filing with the U.S. Securities ...

  • News briefs

    Invicta, the Italian backpack specialist, is reportedly about to be...

    2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Invicta, the Italian backpack specialist, is reportedly about to be sold to Green Arrow Capital, the investment firm chaired by Luisa Todini. According to reports in L'Economia, the economy supplement of Corriere della Sera, Green Arrow is ready to acquire a 55 percent stake in Seven, the holding company that ...

  • News briefs

    There is still no word about the position of Amer...

    2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

    There is still no word about the position of Amer Sports' board of directors on the proposed all-cash bid for the group by Anta Sports Products and FountainVest Partners (see our previous issue). Amer reported on Sept. 17 that one of its major shareholders, the AXA insurance group, reduced its ...

  • News briefs

    Brian Small, who is now 62 years old, is retiring...

    2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Brian Small, who is now 62 years old, is retiring as chief financial officer of JD Sports Fashion on Oct. 31 after 15 years with the company, which has made many important acquisitions lately, including those of Go Outdoors in the U.K. and The Finish Line in the U.S. Under ...

  • News briefs

    Timberland's Yellow Boot model has turned 45. In order to...

    2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Timberland's Yellow Boot model has turned 45. In order to celebrate the anniversary, the U.S. brand, which is part of the VF Corp. group, is staging numerous events all over the world. In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, it is offering customers to tattoo their new boots by local tattoo artists. ...

  • News briefs

    Ortovox has issued a recall for its 3+ avalanche transceivers....

    2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Ortovox has issued a recall for its 3+ avalanche transceivers. Safety Academy, a non-profit trade association, has discovered an apparent glitch in version 2.1 of the transceivers' software that can cause the devices to stop transmitting, and so potentially interrupt rescue searches. Ortovox cautions that there have been no known ...

  • News briefs

    Ispo started to accept applications for the 2019 Ispo Awards...

    2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Ispo started to accept applications for the 2019 Ispo Awards on Oct. 1, establishing Dec. 7 as the deadline for receiving them. In the previous contest, the deadline had been set much later, on Jan. 10, leaving little time for the jury to make its selections.

  • Short stops

    The Echo Retail Awards for 2018 have named Ellis Brigham...

    2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

    The Echo Retail Awards for 2018 have named Ellis Brigham the Best National Retailer in Liverpool

  • News briefs

    La Sportiva has been awarded the 2018 OMI prize, which...

    2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

    La Sportiva has been awarded the 2018 OMI prize, which is given every two years in Italy to the best corporate monograph. OMI is the acronym of the Italian Observatory for the Study and Conservation of Institutional Corporate Monographs. Institutional monographs are documents, typically books, which tell the story of ...

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    Merrell has launched on its YouTube channel a 16-minute video...

    2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Merrell has launched on its YouTube channel a 16-minute video documentary featuring Jason Antin and Mike Chambers, endurance athletes and ambassadors of the brand, and their journey to complete Greenland's Arctic Circle Trail by foot in the fastest known time, in March of this year. The film, entitled “In Due ...

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    The Conzzeta Group reported a 12.4 percent increase to 183.2...

    2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

    The Conzzeta Group reported a 12.4 percent increase to 183.2 million Swiss francs (€160.4m-$184.0m) in the first nine months of this year for its sporting goods segment, which consists essentially of the Mammut Sports Group. A spokesman declined to comment on the effect that the recent depreciation of the Swiss ...