All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 11, Issue 22-23 – Page 3
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Markus Hefter, who has been in charge of Ispo Munich...
Markus Hefter, who has been in charge of Ispo Munich for the past ten years, has become personally responsible also for the new OutDoor by Ispo fair as exhibition group director. He had already served as outdoor project director for Ispo between January 2006 and October 2008. Hefter reports to ...
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Markus Huber has passed away...
Markus Huber, the kind and witty German journalist who helped us to launch The Outdoor Industry Compass ten years ago, died on Nov. 8 at a hospital in Nuremberg after a long and serious illness. He was only 47 years old. A memorial service will be held for him on ...
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W.L. Gore won three Gear of the Year Awards from...
W.L. Gore won three Gear of the Year Awards from the Runner's World magazine. The three products are its Gore-Tex Invisible Fit Footwear and its Gore R7 Gore-Tex ShakeDry hooded jacket and stretch jacket. Earlier this year, the Gore C7 Gore-Tex ShakeDry stretch jacket had already received a similar award ...
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The non-profit Fair Wear Foundation (FWF) attests that the Oberalp...
The non-profit Fair Wear Foundation (FWF) attests that the Oberalp Group, parent company of the Salewa, Dynafit and Wild Country outdoor brands, carefully considers its choice of suppliers and systematically monitors their working conditions. In September, the FWF awarded “Leader” status to the South Tyrolean company. This status is conferred ...
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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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Pentland Brands has appointed Katrina Nurse as the company's new...
Pentland Brands has appointed Katrina Nurse as the company's new chief finance officer. She is replacing Sam Gilburd, who took a career break in 2017, after ten years with the group, and Mandy Venters, who had been serving as interim CFO since March of last year. Nurse is coming off ...
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Timberland has appointed Christopher Raeburn, the British fashion designer, to...
Timberland has appointed Christopher Raeburn, the British fashion designer, to be its first global artistic director. He will be splitting his time between his own Christopher Raeburn brand, based in London, and Timberland's offices in New Hampshire, Switzerland and Hong Kong. Known for his green philosophy and use of recycled ...
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Ingrid Fonteiner has been appointed by Ortlieb to the newly...
Ingrid Fonteiner has been appointed by Ortlieb to the newly created position of head of its development department
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Decathlon entered yet another new country, Cambodia, with a store...
Decathlon entered yet another new country, Cambodia, with a store in Phnom Penh this past August. It plans to move for the first time into Egypt next January and Chile in April with stores in Cairo and Santiago. The Cairo store will be supplied from Morocco and the Santiago unit ...
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It’s Great Out There announces details of its collaboration with HorizonSports.tv
The It's Great Out There Coalition has announced the creation of a dedicated #itsgreatoutthere channel in collaboration with HorizonSports.tv, with content designed to inspire more people to get active in the outdoors. The coalition said that it has also agreed with HorizonSports.tv a special subscription offer. By following the instructions ...
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Eoca announces winning projects
The European Outdoor Conservation Association (Eoca) has unveiled the two projects which emerged as the winners from the members' vote, which closed on Nov. 9. The two winning projects are: Obsolete Facilities, France, nominated by Marmot; and Mending Paths and Protecting Arctic-Alpine Habitat on Carn Liath, Scotland, nominated by Montane. ...
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Mountain Khaki has announced that it will start using a...
Mountain Khaki has announced that it will start using a new insulation material, called SeaWool Insulation, as well as a new SeaWool Yarn in a limited number of products in its autumn 2019 range, with a view to expand their use in 2020. SeaWool Insulation, made in a bluesign system ...
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Ortovox has announced the launch of its own wool standard,...
Ortovox has announced the launch of its own wool standard, called the Ortovox Wool Promise (OWP). The outdoor clothing brand said the OWP is the result of two years of preparation, in which the company held talks with wool farmers, suppliers and producers. The OWP is based on the global ...
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VF Corp. has announced that Steve Rendle, the company's chairman,...
VF Corp. has announced that Steve Rendle, the company's chairman, president and chief executive, has been recognized by Corporate Responsibility (CR) Magazine as a Responsible CEO of the Year, in the public company category. Rendle was one of six chief executives honored by the magazine at the awards gala that ...
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Outdoor Research has hired Andy Burke as head of commercial...
Outdoor Research has hired Andy Burke as head of commercial sales and Dan Petersen as senior manager of corporate and group sales. Both are seasoned executives, and their appointment follows the departure late last year of Dave Mahoney, who was Outdoor Research's vice president of sales. For the past eight ...
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A good first Outdoor & Mountain Industry Summit
Outdoor Sports Valley (OSV), a French trade association that brings together companies in the outdoor and winter sports industries, organized the first edition of a new Outdoor & Mountain Industry Summit in Lyon on Oct. 19. The convention was deemed a success, as nearly 400 professionals in the mountain, outdoor ...
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Cherokee, the American licensing firm whose brands include the eponymous...
Cherokee, the American licensing firm whose brands include the eponymous Cherokee, Tony Hawk and Hi-Tec, has filed a registration statement to offer unspecified units of stock, warrants, debt securities and preferred stock and to sell some 2.8 million shares valued at $1.7 million. Short of cash, the firm hopes to ...
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Mizu, the American brand of reusable bottles, has hired two...
Mizu, the American brand of reusable bottles, has hired two new executives while it is introducing a new water filtration and purification category. Craig Smith, who has been most recently the European sales and marketing manager of Dragon, will serve as European sales and marketing manager of Mizu Europe. Scott ...
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James Curleigh, the former head of Salomon North America and...
James Curleigh, the former head of Salomon North America and Keen, has left Levi Strauss & Co. to be the chief executive of Gibson Brands, a well-known maker of guitars that just emerged from bankruptcy proceedings
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Winter starts off favorably for Amer
The acquisition of Peak Performance and robust sales of winter sports equipment have driven another sales rise for the Amer Sports group in the third quarter,.The Finnish company has set in motion the sale of its cycling business, but has declined last week to provide any updates on a potential ...
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