All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 12, Issue 19-20 – Page 2
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In the interests of sustainable development, Chiruca, the Spanish outdoor...
In the interests of sustainable development, Chiruca, the Spanish outdoor footwear brand owned by Calzados Fal, has made some changes to the manufacturing and packaging of its boots. First, it has replaced its old alcohol-based treatment for water and oil repellence with a new water-based treatment that contains nanoparticles. These ...
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Patagonia is one of the winners of a U.N. Champions...
Patagonia is one of the winners of a U.N. Champions of the Earth award. The outdoor clothing company has been recognized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) with the flagship environmental honor in the entrepreneurial vision category. Patagonia won for its “dynamic mix of policies that has put sustainability ...
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Patagonia wants to be “carbon positive”
Patagonia wants to be better than just carbon neutral. Its real aim is to become “carbon positive,” as it said in a blog post dated Sept. 18, meaning that it aims to take more carbon out of the atmosphere than it puts in, even when the company grows. “Carbon neutral” ...
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Clean Kanteen has committed to reducing its company-wide carbon emissions...
Clean Kanteen has committed to reducing its company-wide carbon emissions by joining Climate Neutral's certification program. The independent certification program will verify that the producer of stainless-steel bottles has achieved net-zero carbon emissions with a combination of reductions and offsets. In mid-2020, the bottle maker may begin featuring the Climate ...
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New campsites in Russia
The Russian authorities are aiming to establish several clusters of camping sites across the country to develop the outdoor sector. Up to 21 new campsites will be created in Crimea alone in the coming few years, according to Vadim Volchenko, the region's Minister of Tourism.All the projects are due to ...
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For this year's “Socktober” campaign, Smartwool has established a partnership...
For this year's “Socktober” campaign, Smartwool has established a partnership with Friends of the Lake District for its “Fell Care Days” campaign. “Fell” refers to the moors of the U.K.'s Lake District, a World Heritage Site, and “Fell Care Days” is an annual event there in which volunteers pick up ...
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Patagonia opened a pop-up café at the Broadway Market, in...
Patagonia opened a pop-up café at the Broadway Market, in the Hackney area of central London, on Sept. 27 that has been hosting training courses for activism on the issue of climate change. Running until Oct. 17, the company's so-called Patagonia Action Works Café offered visitors a chance to “learn ...
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Buff has opened its first permanent brick-and-mortar store in downtown...
Buff has opened its first permanent brick-and-mortar store in downtown Barcelona. It is located in the Illa Diagonal shopping mall, where the Catalonian brand of head- and neckwear has been running a pop-up store every winter for the past 12 years. The brand's only other permanent points of sale locally ...
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Canada Goose is launching Branta, a new capsule collection for...
Canada Goose is launching Branta, a new capsule collection for autumn/winter 2019, comprised of six limited-edition parkas for men and women that are based on the artwork of Diane Burko. This season's theme is Glacial Shifts, inspired by Burko's work, who used art to document the disappearance of glaciers through ...
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Öko-Test criticizes the T-shirts of some brands
H&M and Jack Wolfskin have received the top grade in a recent study published by Öko-Test, a German magazine, for its outdoor T-shirts made of recycled plastic. The tested T-shirt from Pyua was rated “good,” while those from Fjällräven, Houdini, Norrøna, Patagonia and Vaude were rated worst.The recycled plastic of ...
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Fjällräven is one of the latest brands to have signed...
Fjällräven is one of the latest brands to have signed the United Nations (UN) Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action, an initiative under the auspices of U.N. Climate Change that brings fashion stakeholders toward the goals of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement. The Swedish outdoor brand said in a ...
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Ferrino has unveiled the Happiness project. The brand will be...
Ferrino has unveiled the Happiness project. The brand will be supporting Giuseppe Bertuccio D'Angelo's world tour to discover the secret of happiness. D'Angelo, 29, from Milan, will go to all six continents to interview as many people as he can about the concept. Each interview will ask 10 questions on ...
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The EOS goes full circle as boundaries are redefined
The outdoor market as a whole is growing more slowly than before, as the latest statistics by NPD and the European Outdoor Group (EOG) have shown. For the players in the market, external growth in other categories is one way of coping with the situation, as indicated by Kathmandu's acquisition ...
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Hydro Flask boosts Helen of Troy’s results
The houseware segment, which includes Hydro Flask, was the engine of growth in the latest quarter for Helen of Troy, which owns this brand of drinkware among other properties. Sales in this division for the second fiscal quarter ended on Aug. 31 rocketed by 22.1 percent to $167.8 million.The management ...
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Hydro Flask has hired Dena Blevins as its new creative...
Hydro Flask has hired Dena Blevins as its new creative director. Blevins most recently served at Starbucks Coffee as creative, global promotion and brand director. During her 10-year tenure there, she helped guide the strategic direction and global execution of the company's seasonal in-store promotions and brand. In her new ...
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Pete Gerber, founder of Gerber Legendary Blades, died at home...
Pete Gerber, founder of Gerber Legendary Blades, died at home on Sept. 29. He was 90. In 1939, three things happened: Gerber and his father sent a gift of handmade cutlery to the clients of their advertising firm; the cutlery was quickly picked up by the mail-order retailer Abercrombie & ...
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Blacks, the British outdoor retailer owned by JD Sports Fashion,...
Blacks, the British outdoor retailer owned by JD Sports Fashion, is offering a discount of 15 percent on all in-store purchases to customers who drop off clothing or footwear for donation to The British Heart Foundation. Donations collected at Blacks' stores will be distributed to the foundation's 750 stores in ...
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Spiders have led to Biosteel, too
Spinnova, the Finnish textile fiber start-up that is partnering with Bergans of Norway (see the previous article in this issue) is not the only company that, in developing its innovative textile spinning process, has been inspired by the natural way in which spiders extrude their web.A German company founded in ...
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Schoeller Textil has introduced a new line of biodegradable fabrics,...
Schoeller Textil has introduced a new line of biodegradable fabrics, called Proearth, as part of its joint venture with Formosa Taffeta, Schoeller FTC. The bluesign-approved collection uses a biodegradable polyester technology that will allow the material to degrade faster than other offers on the market, the company claims. First presented ...
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Patagonia has opened a new store in Berlin, its second...
Patagonia has opened a new store in Berlin, its second one in Germany after the one in Munich, and the ninth one in Europe
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