All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 11, Issue 3-4 – Page 2
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Julbo, the French eyewear company, won this year's French Outdoor...
Julbo, the French eyewear company, won this year's French Outdoor Award at the Ispo Munich show for its frameless Skydome ski goggles with an oversized panoramic lens. It weighs only 135 grams and is equipped with a reactive photochromic lens technology that adjusts automatically to the surrounding light conditions. The ...
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Columbia Sportswear soars in Europe
Columbia Sportswear raised its sales by 19 percent in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) to $83.5 million for the fourth quarter of 2017, up by 14 percent in constant currencies. It was the strongest regional increase in a better-than-expected quarter for the U.S. outdoor company, which ended the ...
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Marmot consolidates with Coleman in Europe
In a new restructuring move, after the recent divestiture on Jarden Corporation's former winter sports equipment business, Newell Brands is exploring strategic options for Rawlings, the American team sports brand inherited from Jarden in 2016 along with any other sports and outdoor brands. It is also merging the European operations ...
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Coleman and Marmot perform well
Newell Brands reported strong growth for Coleman, Marmot Mountain, Contigo and its own Team Sports segment in the fourth quarter of 2017. Slightly offset by declines in the Fishing segment, they helped lift ”core sales” at its Play division by 5.4 percent during the period. Adding assets that are due ...
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Icebreaker exposes its supply chain
Icebreaker has decided to bare all about its supply chain in a global Transparency Report that details its relationship with growers, its environmental and human resource policies as well as the composition of its garments, among many other details.The report indicates that about 85 percent of the materials going into ...
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Komperdell says it is introducing a new trail running category...
Komperdell says it is introducing a new trail running category into its collection of trekking and walking poles that is more lightweight and stiffer
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Canada Goose flies high
Canada Goose has reported a revenue increase of 27.2 percent on an annualized basis for the third quarter ended Dec. 31, 2017, with revenues reaching 265.8 million Canadian dollars (€171.6m-$2105m) in the quarter. Adjusted net income of C$64.6 million (€41.8m-$51.2m) compares to an adjusted net income of C$44.9 million in the ...
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Chiruca received a special label for companies that calculate, reduce...
Chiruca received a special label for companies that calculate, reduce and compensate for their carbon footprint. The label is issued by the Spanish ministry of agriculture, food and environment. Chiruca is aiming to reduce its carbon footprint, compensating 50 percent of it through the plantation of a forest of 16 hectares ...
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Super Retail Group is set to buy Macpac
Super Retail Group, a leading Australian sports retailer, has agreed to fully acquire Macpac for $144 New Zealand dollars (€85.8m-$105.8m), as a means to build up its business in the outdoor market across Australia and New Zealand with a four-pronged approach.Owned at a majority by Champ Ventures, Macpac is a ...
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Dune, a British shoe retail chain, has joined Nike and...
Dune, a British shoe retail chain, has joined Nike and Steiner Outdoor to donate overstocked shoes and boots to Goods For Good for refugee camps in Kurdistan and the Ukraine, and families in the Philippines. Goods For Good is a U.K.-based charity that sends goods donated by businesses and individuals ...
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Columbia will boost European marketing
The Columbia Sportswear group's European business could benefit from a sizeable increase in marketing spend in the next years, after a sharp uptick in its European sales and profit margin in 2017.The group decided last year to reorganize its business, which should make more resources available for marketing, and make ...
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Camp Base, a fast-growing Spanish outdoor retailer, has taken over...
Camp Base, a fast-growing Spanish outdoor retailer, has taken over Intemperie, an important, 700-square-meter outdoor and running store in Barcelona. According to CMD Sport, Camp Base recorded a 70 percent sales increase to €2.17 million in 2017, thanks in part to the acquisition of other stores with the backing of ...
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Josef “Sepp“ Wagner, former chief executive of Hanwag, passed away...
Josef “Sepp“ Wagner, former chief executive of Hanwag, passed away at the age of 96 on Jan. 26. Wagner joined the company in 1936 when it was controlled by his uncle, Hans Wagner, whose name was the inspiration for the name “Han-Wag.” After he returned to Vierkirchen from captivity in ...
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REI gave its Root Award for innovation in sustainability to...
REI gave its Root Award for innovation in sustainability to the Mythos Eco climbing shoe of La Sportiva
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Lower attendance but a good Ispo, going digital
In spite of a drop in the number of visitors, this year's edition of Ispo Munich show got good marks, thanks in part to a good snow season, a new layout of the trade show and exciting new initiatives like the new Ispo Digitize area in Hall A4 with an ...
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W.L. Gore has set aside a budged in the high...
W.L. Gore has set aside a budged in the high double digits to back up the launch of its new Gore-Tex Infinium range of comfort and protection solutions « beyond waterproof » over the next four years, starting with the next autumn/winter season. It has hired for this purpose an international advertising ...
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Arc'teryx performs well in China
China has become the second-largest market for Arc'teryx, after a buoyant year that saw the outdoor brand's global sales move up to about €340 million, amounting to a strong double-digit sales increase in constant currencies.Arc'teryx has contributed much of the increase of the Amer Sports group's outdoor apparel division. As ...
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Pascal Jacquemoud will take the place of Fabrice Arbey at...
Pascal Jacquemoud will take the place of Fabrice Arbey at the head of Schöffel's French subsidiary, according to sport-guide.com. Jacquemoud has been with the company for ten years.
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Peter Fabrin, former chief executive at Haglöfs, has been appointed...
Peter Fabrin, former chief executive at Haglöfs, has been appointed in the same function at Piste Group, a Danish holding company for several Nordic brands of ski holiday organizations and other tourist services. Fabrin became chief executive at Haglöfs in November 2014 and it was announced last September that he ...
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Mark Flanagan has been appointed in the new position of...
Mark Flanagan has been appointed in the new position of European commercial director for Helinox, the South Korean brand of outdoor equipment. Flanagan previously worked for companies such as Reebok, Berghaus and Columbia. His latest functions included international general manager at GoLite, and apparel and accessories director at Hi-Tec Sports. ...
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