All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 12, Issue 9-10
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Trekkinn at the summit of Tradeinn’s web positioning
According to Alexa.com, the online metrics company run by Amazon, Trekkinn has the best online positioning worldwide of any of Tradeinn's various websites in terms of customer traffic. The Tradeinn group, based in Spain, operates 15 e-commerce platforms, all of whose names borrow a syllable or two from a different ...
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News briefs
The outdoor products segment of Vista Outdoor saw a sales...
The outdoor products segment of Vista Outdoor saw a sales decline of 14 percent to $990 million for the financial year ended on March 31, but the drop was limited to 7 percent excluding the divested eyewear business. The segment's gross profit fell by 15 percent to $248 million. In ...
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Like the new OutDoor by Ispo trade show, the new...
Like the new OutDoor by Ispo trade show, the new Outdoor Friedrichshafen fair due to take place on Sept. 17-19 will feature a number of seminars. The focus will be on recommendations for retailers. In contrast with a previous plan, the fair will not address consumers. The management is not ...
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Wolverine invests more outside the U.S.
After its agreement with Xtep International for the distribution of Saucony as well as Merrell in China, Wolverine Worldwide has taken a further important step in its international development with the acquisition of Saucony's former Italian distributor, Sportlab. The group has allocated extra investments of $40 million this year for ...
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New investors for Polygiene
Håkan Lagerberg, chief executive of Swedencare, has become the biggest investor in Polygiene, the Swedish odor control company, with a stake of 7 percent. He and two other smaller investors have acquired shares in the company, which is still aiming for annual growth of between 20 and 30 percent in ...
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Short stops
Italy's Trezeta has launched a new, redesigned internet portal with...
Italy's Trezeta has launched a new, redesigned internet portal with a web store
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Houdini launches a Regenerative Lifestyle Initiative
Houdini has announced a new initiative to help reduce the use of material resources and safeguard nature, following the alarming report by the United Nations which estimates that 1,000,000 species are threatened with extinction. The Regenerative Lifestyle Initiative aims to modify lifestyles and reduce their impact on planet earth. The ...
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News briefs
Tentsile has reached the halfway point of its international project...
Tentsile has reached the halfway point of its international project to plant one million trees by 2021, to support global reforestation. The company, best known for its elevated and portable Tree Tents, launched the #BecomeOneOfTheMillion campaign in 2017, and has now planted 500,132 trees in projects located across Zambia, India, ...
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Haglöfs is improving
Japanese companies like investing in the outdoor sector, but the results have not been consistently brilliant. Haglöfs has been struggling somewhat since it was taken over by Asics Corporation in 2010, and Asics reported that Haglöfs' losses grew slightly to ¥260 million (€2.1m-$2.4m) in 2018, resulting in an ongoing negative ...
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Helly Hansen reports strong growth
Canadian Tire Corporation (CTC) is already starting to get a return on the huge investment it made to complete the acquisition of Helly Hansen last July, although the synergies will only start to filter through toward the end of this year, according to Paul Stoneham, the chief executive of the ...
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News briefs
Gore-Tex recently opened a pop-up store at a German shoe...
Gore-Tex recently opened a pop-up store at a German shoe retail store called Schuh Reindl. The pop-up store, covering 40 square meters, is located in Rosenheim. It's the company's first pop-up store in Germany. There, consumers can test sneakers, casual shoes, trekking shoes and running shoes made with Gore-Tex fabrics. ...
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Johnson Outdoors’ fishing segment recovers
After an 11 percent decline in the first quarter, Johnson Outdoors' sales of fishing equipment bounced back in the second fiscal quarter ended March 29, lifting the company's overall sales to $177.7 million – a 7 percent increase from the same quarter in 2018. The management said the increase reflected ...
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News briefs
La Sportiva is opening a store in Trento, the first...
La Sportiva is opening a store in Trento, the first for the outdoor brand in the Alpine town of Italy's Trentino-Alto Adige region. The new 70-square-meter store is located in Via Mazzini 5, a central shopping area. The other stores of the brand are located in Pozza di Fassa, Ziano ...
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Skylotec, the leading German producer of fall protection and safety...
Skylotec, the leading German producer of fall protection and safety systems for sports, industry and tactical operations, announced that Marco Neutard has been appointed chief digital officer of the company. He worked for McKinsey for several years and most recently as an independent management consultant. Prior to that, the business ...
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Hydro Flask is expanding further internationally. Komax will represent the...
Hydro Flask is expanding further internationally. Komax will represent the brand in Chile and Peru, and Distcol will sell it in Colombia. In Asia-Pacific, the Primer Group is widening its territory to include Hong Kong.
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Hoka One One grows strongly in Europe
Hoka One One continues to run fast. Deckers Brands, which bought Hoka in 2013, reported a 33 percent increase to $67.1 million for the brand's sales in the fourth quarter of its fiscal year, ended on March 31, driven by international sales. Its sales outside the U.S. went up by ...
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Samsonite International has re-appointed Fabio Rugarli as president of Europe,...
Samsonite International has re-appointed Fabio Rugarli as president of Europe, taking the place of Arne Borrey from May 6. Rugarli, who has been working for Samsonite for more than 27 years, already held that role between 2009 and 2016.
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Mountain Safety Research (MSR), the specialist in high-performance outdoor equipment,...
Mountain Safety Research (MSR), the specialist in high-performance outdoor equipment, has released its 2019 Manufacturing Social Responsibility Report. Among the highlights in the report, MSR has launched a fuel canister recycling program at its Seattle headquarters, offering the greater Seattle community a location where backpacking fuel canisters of ...
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The Ternua Group enters the fashion sector
After six months of negotiations, the Ternua Group, the producer of sports and outdoor apparel headquartered in Spain's Basque country, has announced its acquisition of Loreak, a premium Spanish fashion brand previously known as Loreak Mendian. Like Ternua, it is based in the Gipuzkoa region of Spain, and like Ternua, ...
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The UTMB family will be enriched with a new trail...
The UTMB family will be enriched with a new trail running event that will take place in Val d'Aran, in the Spanish Pyrenees, as from next year. The Val d'Aran by UTMB will operate as a partnership between UTMB International and InAran Sports, with the collaboration of Conselh Generau d'Aran. ...
