All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 12, Issue 17-18 – Page 3
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Ecco has hosted a summer camp in Tonder, in southern...
Ecco has hosted a summer camp in Tonder, in southern Denmark, for children with heart disease. The footwear and tannery brand, which has donated to the Danish Heart Foundation through walkathons for nearly 20 years, extended the partnership to a summer camp last year. The four-day camp was an opportunity ...
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Camelbak's new director of softgoods and sport is Mike Valvano,...
Camelbak's new director of softgoods and sport is Mike Valvano, who will be based out of the hydration specialist's headquarters in Petaluma, California. Valvano, who ran his own brand management agency, Graphite, will oversee product management and strategy in domestic and international markets. Graphite helped active lifestyle brands such as ...
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Columbia Sportswear has purchased three buildings from Electro Scientific Industries...
Columbia Sportswear has purchased three buildings from Electro Scientific Industries (ESI), a firm specialized in laser applications. All lie within a quarter-mile of Columbia's current headquarters in Washington County, Oregon, and will expand it. The additional 200,000 square feet of space are costing about $33 million. The first building should ...
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Norway’s new Zero°C brand uses Gore-Tex for urbanwear
Founded by two veterans of Viking Outdoor Footwear, ZDC Footwear is the first start-up to have been granted a license by Gore-Tex to use its technology to insert thin laminates in its footwear products, where fashion is supposed to meet function for the benefit of urban dwellers in Scandinavia, the ...
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Goldwin is opening its second brand store
Goldwin, which has mainly been offering highly technical skiwear outside Japan, is starting to offer a wider collection – with some functional lifestyle clothing and outdoor and athletic apparel for running, hiking and climbing – through retailers in the U.S., Europe and Asia during the current autumn season. Compression garments ...
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Lorpen, the Spanish brand of technical socks, will be introducing...
Lorpen, the Spanish brand of technical socks, will be introducing the Selective Layering System in its spring/summer 2020 collection. Through R&D carried out at its headquarters in the small town of Etxalar, at the foot of the Pyrenees Mountains, Lorpen has developed a way to vary the number of fabric ...
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Conquista Montanhismo, the Brazilian climbing and outdoor clothing brand, has...
Conquista Montanhismo, the Brazilian climbing and outdoor clothing brand, has launched a collection that features Polygiene's anti-odor treatment
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Mammut, the Swiss-based outdoor brand owned by the Conzzeta Group,...
Mammut, the Swiss-based outdoor brand owned by the Conzzeta Group, has established a partnership with Bruce Goodlad and Mike Austin, the co-owners of Avalanche Geeks, a British company that teaches courses in avalanche safety in Scotland and the Alps. Goodlad has been serving as a mountain guide – on skis ...
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Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, the developer of spider-silk-based fiber, has completed...
Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, the developer of spider-silk-based fiber, has completed the construction of its new biotech research laboratory suite in Vietnam, within the firm's new spider silk production facility in the Quang Nam province
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YKK is to begin production of its environmentally-friendly Natulon zipper...
YKK is to begin production of its environmentally-friendly Natulon zipper in the U.S. Natulon, which is part of YKK U.S.' collection of sustainable trims, will be manufactured in Macon, Georgia, to cut the environmental impact from sourcing overseas and reduce lead times. The Natulon zipper is made from recycled PET ...
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Canada Goose began seeking Intuit designers for a special collection...
Canada Goose began seeking Intuit designers for a special collection in January of this year, and Project Atigi has now been extended and expanded. The Canadian outdoor brand is planning to commission 20 native designers from the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Nunatsiavut, Nunavut and Nunavik – all four regions of the ...
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Buff, the Catalan headwear company, has been certified by the...
Buff, the Catalan headwear company, has been certified by the Spanish association Forética as complying with SGE 21, the European standard for corporate social responsibility. To qualify, Buff underwent an audit by SGS, an international certification firm that operates on Forética's behalf and is present in about 120 countries. To ...
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The Lenzing Group's fibers have been certified for full biodegradability...
The Lenzing Group's fibers have been certified for full biodegradability in fresh water by Organic Waste Systems (OWS), the independent research laboratory. The new and existing international certifications conducted by OWS, and issued by TÜV Austria, verify that Lenzing Viscose fibers, Lenzing Modal fibers and Lenzing Lyocell fibers are biodegradable ...
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An outdoor industry veteran, Steve Fowler, has become the general...
An outdoor industry veteran, Steve Fowler, has become the general manager of HDWool, a British supplier of wool sourced from British farmers. He takes the place of Genady Fedotov, who has become a self-employed wool trader, the original business of H.Dawson, parent company of HDWool. Fowler's appointment follows a recent ...
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Bear Paw, the warm-lined comfort brand from Sacramento California, has...
Bear Paw, the warm-lined comfort brand from Sacramento California, has launched a vegan summer collection for men and women, mainly consisting of bio type sandals. They are made in Spain with cork footbeds and Piñatex pineapple fiber or textile uppers, glued with latex. The collection has been approved by PETA, ...
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Clarus boasts strong potential for BD and other brands
Clarus Corporation is seeking to maximize the synergies between Black Diamond and the other brands in its portfolio. BD has just announced that it will take on the distribution in Europe of SKINourishment's skincare brand, ClimbOn, benefitting from its large sales network in the region. BD showed the line at ...
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Indorama Ventures, the global chemical producer based in Bangkok, will...
Indorama Ventures, the global chemical producer based in Bangkok, will be investing $1.5 billion in recycling. The company's main activity is the production of PET resin, used as raw material to make items such as plastic bottles, tires, fibers and filaments. As reported by just-style, the company is planning to ...
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Johnson Outdoors has hired Larry Baab as group vice president...
Johnson Outdoors has hired Larry Baab as group vice president of its camping and watercraft divisions. He will be overseeing the camping brands Eureka and Jetboil and the watercraft brands Old Town, Ocean Kayak and Carlisle, with operations in Binghamton, New York; Manchester, New Hampshire; and Old Town, Maine. He ...
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B Lab, a non-profit organization headquartered in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, has...
B Lab, a non-profit organization headquartered in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, has conferred “B Corp” certification – for transparency, sustainability and corporate responsibility – on Kathmandu. The company is purportedly one of the largest brands of outdoor apparel and gear to have met the criteria (Patagonia is another one) and the first ...
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Macpac performs better than BCF at Australia’s Super Group
BCF, one of the outdoor retailing banners of the Australian-based Super Retail Group, raised its revenues by 3 percent to 514.6 million Australian dollars (€318.4m-$350.0m) in the financial year ended on June 29. Sales grew by 6 percent online and by 3.2 percent on a comparable store basis at brick-and-mortar. ...
