All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 13, Issue 17-18 – Page 4
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News briefsEcco wins German Design Award for two products
Ecco has won the German Design Council ’s annual German Design Award in the “Excellent Product Design” category for its Biom 2.0 trail shoe and its Exowrap all-terrain sandal. The overall competition for the awards consisted of more than 5,400 projects from 63 countries. The Biom ...
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News briefsIntersport International has a new chairman
(SGI) Held online in a virtual format, the annual general assembly of Intersport International Corp. (IIC) elected today a Canadian industry veteran, Rick White , as its new chairman. White, who is known for his operational efficiency, takes the place of Jussi Mikkola from Finland, who retired ...
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Frasteya and Lafreto are merging
Frasteya and Lafreto have announced they are merging, with immediate effect. The new joint company that results from the merger of the two French physical players, specializing in outdoor and board sports, is called 113Outdoor . As reported by sport-guide.com , Frasteya will be the majority shareholder while ...
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Group CEO of Calida Group is stepping down
Reiner Pichler , group chief executive of the Calida Group since April 2016, which includes the Lafuma Group with the outdoor brands Millet and Lafuma , is stepping down to take on new tasks that will give him more flexibility and no longer require a full-time presence, ...
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NGOs team up as Fashion Conveners
Fashion Conveners is the name of a new global coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that have teamed up to “accelerate collective action through connected partnership for all actors within the apparel and accessories value chain, building greater social, economic and environmental prosperity.” The partner organizations include: Apparel Impact Institute ...
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Asolo will have new distributors for Switzerland, U.K. and Ireland
Asolo has appointed Contact Production as its new distributor for Switzerland, starting with the spring/summer 2021 collection. Meanwhile, Asolo and Proagencies agreed to terminate their four-year deal for the U.K. and Ireland, effective June 30. Starting July 1, distribution for the U.K. and Ireland has ...
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Arc’teryx teams up with Canadian university on non-toxic repellent
New research conducted at the University of British Columbia (UBC)’s Okanagan Campus, in partnership with Arc’teryx , has resulted in the development of a non-toxic replacement for conventional water-repellent chemicals. The study was recently published in the scientific journal Nature Sustainability . Fabric finishes typically use perfluoro compounds (PFCs) ...
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Management changes at Mammut
The chief creative officer of Mammut , Adrian Margelist , is leaving the Swiss mountain sports and outdoor brand after more than three years. Mammut’s chief executive, Oliver Pabst , created a small sensation in early 2017 with the appointment of Margelist as creative head, as Margelist was known ...
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ArticleGerman bicycle and e-bike industry defies the Corona crisis
In its latest “sentiment barometer” for the first half of 2020, the German Bicycle Industry Association ( Zweirad-Industrie-Verband e.V.; ZIV ) comes to the conclusion that bicycles and e-bikes have been the winners of the coronavirus crisis in Germany, while many other industries have suffered as a result ...
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Snow Peak opens U.S. headquarters in Portland
Snow Peak , an outdoor gear and apparel company originally from Japan and sold all over Asia, in the U.S. and the UK, reported that it has opened its U.S. headquarters and a retail flagship store at 404 NW 23 rd Ave. in Portland, Oregon. The brand, founded ...
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Fjällräven sued by Colorado landlord
Several sources have reported that Fjällräven ’s landlord in Boulder, Colorado, has sued the outdoor company for not paying rent for its store at 1048 Pearl Street since April. The landlord, Ten Eleven Pearl LLC , claims that Fjällräven owes $88,760 in base rent and $38,261 in additional charges. The ...
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News briefsSecond annual SUP Cleanup in Germany Sept. 5-6
According to Boardsport Source , the outfitter SUPscout and the paddle board e-tailer Starboard SUP are coordinating a nationwide effort to clean up the lakes, rivers and beaches of Germany this weekend, Sept. 5-6. The second annual SUP Cleanup provides a list of meeting points for ...
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ArticleTimberland announces ambitious sustainability goals
Timberland has not only announced that it wants to plant 50 million trees around the world over the next 5 years, but also to create a net positive impact on the environment by 2030. The latter, most ambitious goal includes that the VF Corp. -owned brand wants all of ...
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Rumpl signs UK distributor
Rumpl, a U.S. manufacturer of technical blankets, has signed a distribution agreement with Unify Brand Partnerships, a distributor in the UK that represents a number of important sports and outdoor brands including Teva, Reef, Cotopaxi, Moonboot, Hoka One One, Under Armour Golf and Kask. Wylie Robinson, CEO and founder of ...
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ArticleIcebreaker plans to be plastic free by 2023
While Icebreaker of New Zealand celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, the brand, which has been part of VF Corp. since early 2018, has published its third annual Transparency Report as a result of a complete audit of its supply chain. From its very beginning, ...
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News briefsUSA: Outdoor companies support Time to Vote
Patagonia reported that more than 700 companies have joined “ Time to Vote ” this year, a business-led and nonpartisan, US-American coalition founded by Levi Strauss Co., Patagonia and PayPal ahead of the 2018 midterm elections that aims to increase voter participation. Several ...
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News briefsPresident of Deckers Performance Lifestyle Group joins Cotopaxi’s board
Cotopaxi , the rapidly growing humanitarian-focused outdoor brand founded in 2014 with $3 million in seed funding, has added industry veteran Wendy Yang to its board. Yang is the president of Deckers Brands ’ performance lifestyle group, leading the growth of Hoka One One , Teva ...
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ArticleLloyds Fonds acquires 2.4% of Polygiene AB
As we reported earlier , the Swedish fabric technology brand Polygiene , which was founded in 2006 as a spin-off of the Swedish chemical company Perstorp , was among the winners in the Covid-19 pandemic thanks to its new antiviral treatment, ViralOff® , which was launched in April. This success ...
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Scarpa’s Heinz Mariacher wins the Paul Press award
Scarpa ’s manager Heinz Mariacher has been awarded the Paul Preuss Award 2020 , which honors outstanding climbers. The prize is named after Paul Preuss , the father of free climbing. The honor was handed out by Reinhold Messner , the legendary Italian mountaineer and explorer, and Georg Bachler ...
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Arc’teryx opens new brand store in Calgary
Arc’teryx opened its first North American brand store in 2020 in Calgary’s largest retail center, the Chinook Centre , on Aug. 29. The new 130 square-meter store is the brand’s third store in the Canadian province of Alberta, and the second one in the city of Calgary. The design incorporates ...
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