All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 12, Issue 13-14 – Page 4
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Goitasport, which is already a strong partner of the Scott...
Goitasport, which is already a strong partner of the Scott Sports Group in Spain, is taking over the distribution of Dolomite, Lizard and Bach in the country. Scott recently acquired Dolomite and Bach, and took over the international distribution of Lizard. The Barcelona-based company is already handling the distribution in ...
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The Conservation Alliance has announced the recipients of the Outstanding...
The Conservation Alliance has announced the recipients of the Outstanding Partnership Awards for 2019, which are Osprey Packs, Keen Footwear, Northwest Rafting and Peak Design. The Outstanding Partnership Awards recognize companies who provide meaningful support to the Alliance grantees working to protect wild places throughout North America. This year's winners ...
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All Weather Sports (AWS), the parent company of Dita and...
All Weather Sports (AWS), the parent company of Dita and Nomad, has appointed Roelof de Leeuw as its new chief executive. Most recently, de Leeuw acted as managing director at Bosgroup brands such as Gant, Footwear Maruti and O'Neill footwear. He previously held management and director level positions at Simmer ...
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Yarns may be created out of bread waste. Akram Zamani,...
Yarns may be created out of bread waste. Akram Zamani, a senior lecturer at the University of Boras in Sweden, is exploring the possibility of growing fungi on bread waste in bioreactors and using it, in two different processes, to create yarns and produce nonwoven textiles. The fungal fibers that ...
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Big Agnes has appointed Mark Flanagan as sales director for...
Big Agnes has appointed Mark Flanagan as sales director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa to support existing distributors and build new relationships. The American company will continue work with Tigers Global Logistics in the Netherlands to ensure product fulfillment. Flanagan knows the brand because he previously worked for ...
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Attendance was up again at this year's Outdoor Trade Show...
Attendance was up again at this year's Outdoor Trade Show (OTS), held on July 9-11 in the British city of Manchester. According to the organizers, the show logged 990 unique visitors over its three days, for a year-on-year increase of four percent. Significantly, the number of retail buyers and owners ...
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Adidas Outdoor harnesses the internet for sales and relevance
Like its big parent company, Adidas Outdoor is taking many initiatives in the area of digitalization and sustainability, both of which were a focus at the recent OutDoor by Ispo show and the subsequent Ispo Digitize fair in Munich. The recent introduction by this business unit of the Adidas Group ...
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Adidas and Nike are in the top five of the...
Adidas and Nike are in the top five of the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI)'s leaderboard for 2018, at the fourth and fifth place, respectively. The BCI is the Geneva-based body that campaigns for increased production and consumption of “more sustainable cotton.” Fifteen companies featured on its 2018 leaderboard, a table ...
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Marmot is adding more sizing options throughout its garments as...
Marmot is adding more sizing options throughout its garments as part of its commitment to inclusivity. Its standard sizing system, currently of XS-L in women's and S-XXL in men's, will be complemented with Plus Sized garments, including women's tops up to 3x and bottoms up to 18w-22w. In addition, the ...
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Mountain Equipment collected about two tons of used down together...
Mountain Equipment collected about two tons of used down together with the JDAV, the youth of the German Alpine Club, DAV, from March to June. From the two tons of collected down, about 70 percent will be reused. About 20 percent of the recycled down will be used for the ...
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Many of the 550 brands that were represented at Ispo...
Many of the 550 brands that were represented at Ispo Shanghai on July 5-7 expressed strong satisfaction. A young fashion-tech brand, Airinum, participated in the show for the first time in an original partnership with a German brand, Arys, and the Swedish ingredient brand that they are using, Polygiene. The ...
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Archroma is introducing Lurapret N5396 & N5392 liq, a new...
Archroma is introducing Lurapret N5396 & N5392 liq, a new water-based VOC polyurethane (PU) polymer coating. The innovation was presented at the recent ITMA exhibition in Barcelona. With the growing demand for more sustainable technologies, the coatings that are used in the textile industry to achieve features such as waterproofness, ...
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The Polish outdoor market is worth €250 million
At this year's OutDoor by Ispo trade show, the Polish Outdoor Group set up the first official Polish Outdoor Village. Various Polish outdoor brands, including Comodo, Fjord Nansen, Lesovik, Milo, Pajak and Stampol-F, presented their latest product innovations in this section of the show, which was evidently inspired by the ...
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Patagonia will close its Japanese stores on July 21, the...
Patagonia will close its Japanese stores on July 21, the day of the election of the members of the House of Councillors, to encourage both its employees and customers to vote. The House of Councillors is the upper house of the bicameral National Diet of Japan. The move will affect ...
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Black Diamond is a title sponsor of the 2019 Cirque...
Black Diamond is a title sponsor of the 2019 Cirque Series. The three-year-old series is holding six mountain-running races at ski lodges in North America. This year's locations are Brighton, Alta, and Snowbird in Utah, Alyeska in Alaska, Arapahoe Basin in Colorado, and Sun Valley in Idaho. Runners may compete ...
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HeiQ has been awarded the 2019 Swiss Environmental Award for...
HeiQ has been awarded the 2019 Swiss Environmental Award for its Clean Tech dyeing process. The technology is said to reduce a textile mill's water consumption by 30 percent and to allow for 30 to 50 percent faster dyeing time for polyester fabrics, which represent around half of the world's ...
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Original Buff has opened a 16-square-meter pop-up store at the...
Original Buff has opened a 16-square-meter pop-up store at the Munich airport, terminal 2, which will be in place until Oct. 31
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Messe Friedrichshafen reported on a successful 14th edition of the...
Messe Friedrichshafen reported on a successful 14th edition of the Asia Outdoor trade show in Nanjing, China, on June 27-30. Spread over indoor and outdoor spaces totaling 48,000 square meters, some 312 brands presented their products and services to about 16,700 visitors from China itself, Turkey, Ukraine, Korea, Hong Kong ...
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