All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 13, Issue 5-6 – Page 4
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News briefsP.A.C. builds “Green Factory” in Southern Germany
After extending its current business by a new logistics hall in 2018, P.A.C. , a manufacturer of headwear and socks, founded in 2012 in southern Germany, is now adding another 6,000 sqm of production and logistics space and 1,100 sqm of office space for up to 200 employees. The family-owned ...
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Klättermusen partners with U.S. software developer
Klättermusen , a Swedish outdoor brand best known for its efforts in sustainable apparel, reports that it has signed a long-term contract for a software called Centric SMB , a cloud-based product lifecycle management solution designed for small and medium-sized businesses. Sara Hult , global production manager at Klättermusen, said ...
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Ispo Academy offers 14 new free webinars
While the Covid-19 pandemic is forcing us to distance ourselves socially, the Ispo Academy is offering 50 different free webinars, including 14 brand new ones, on topics ranging from digitalization and retail to textile trends and the sports market in China on its website . With the Ispo ...
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ArticleNo pressure for the sale of Mammut
As previously reported, the Conzzeta Group plans to divest its Outdoor division, which essentially consists of the Mammut Sports Group . Addressing financial analysts, the Swiss group’s management pointed out, however, that it is under no pressure to sell it at just any price because of the current economic ...
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News briefsNew chairman of the board for Montane
Only two weeks after it was acquired by Inverleith , a Scottish based consumer brand investor, the British outdoor clothing brand Montane has appointed Andy Towne as chairman of its refreshed board of directors. Towne is an industry veteran with 25 years of experience in the sports and ...
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Holubar opens first flagship store in New York
Holubar Mountaineering opened its first mono-brand flagship store in New York City that is also home to the brand’s executive offices and an in-house showroom. The brand said it plans to open five new stores in the next two years in North America and Europe each. Holubar started ...
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News briefsVoluntary product recall: Vaude Cushion Frog
Vaude announces the voluntary product recall of the Cushion Frog (Cushion Frog art.no. 11861, sold with the Shuttle Premium art.no. 11778). The company determined that products sold between February 2015 and March 2020 contain a material that has elevated levels of pollutants (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, PAH). The ...
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ArticleHeiQ and Polygiene help defeat coronavirus
HeiQ draws attention to the fact that its Viroblock NPJ03 , an antiviral and antimicrobial textile treatment, has been tested effective against coronavirus in face-mask testing, reducing virus infectivity by more than 99.99 percent. The treatment could therefore prevent textiles from becoming a host surface for the propagation of ...
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Columbia closes North American and European stores
In addition to the closure of its brick-and-mortar stores in North America through Friday, March 27 (see our article here ), Columbia Sportswear has now also closed, until further notice, all European retail stores owned and operated by the brand. Beyond the closures, Columbia has taken further steps to ...
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Canada Goose CEO foregoes his pay
Besides closing all Canada Goose stores in North America and Europe until at least March 31 and the production facilities in Canada for at least two weeks, the company’s chief executive, Dani Reiss said that he will forego his salary for at least the next three months. ...
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Vibram suspends production in Italy, resumes it in China
Vibram has decided to temporarily suspend production at its factory in Albizzate near Milan, Italy, for at least one week to allow all employees to stay safely at home. The Vibram stores in Milan, Boston and Montebelluna (Northern Italy) are also closed. In Asia, production and the headquarters in ...
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Lockdown doesn’t necessarily help e-tailers
The shutdown of sporting goods stores because of the coronavirus epidemic is not automatically benefiting the pure online players. While Amazon says it is recruiting 5,000 more workers in the U.S. to face a surge in online orders, Tradeinn , the biggest Spanish online store for sporting goods, has ...
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Oros supports Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund
Oros Apparel , an outdoor brand from Portland, Oregon, is committing $5,000 to support the Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the World Health Organization in the fight to develop a vaccine to combat Covid-19. The founders of the brand, Michael Markesbery and Rithvik Venna , announced that ...
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Merrell closes U.S. stores
Effective tomorrow, Merrell will close all U.S. stores to limit the spread of Covid-19. The closure is planned until Friday, March 27, but the decision will be re-evaluated and adjusted to the situation as well as local and federal regulations. Merrell also announced that the store staff will continue ...
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ArticleHow the industry is affected by (and dealing with) the Coronavirus
We have already given you some information about the coronavirus situation on the websites of SGI Europe and the Compass in the past weeks, but of course there are new developments every day and hour. The explosion of the coronavirus pandemic, which now has Europe completely under control, ...
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ArticleIt’s Great Out There Coalition announces first 2020 grants
The It’s Great Out There Coalition , an international non-profit association launched in 2017 by the European Outdoor Group ( EOG ) and supported by some of the biggest outdoor companies and associations in Europe, has announced details of the first projects that will benefit from its grants program ...
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Black Diamond closes EU headquarters due to Covid-19
In view of the Covid-19 situation, Black Diamond has closed its EU headquarters in Tyrol, Austria, and will operate the company through home working until the end of March. The Black Diamond store in Innsbruck is closed until further notice, the webstore and the D2C customer service are still ...
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YKK signs Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action
The YKK Corporation has signed the Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action . The Fashion for Global Climate Action initiated calls on the fashion industry to recognize the industry’s contribution to climate change and its responsibility to achieve climate neutrality. YKK joins the more than 100 existing signatories ...
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Petzl America orders employees to work from home
Petzl America announced last Friday that all employees in the USA who have the opportunity to do so will work from home from Monday, March 16, until further notice. Employees at the company’s distribution center will continue to process orders locally for shipment to customers in the USA and ...
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Sport 2000 Order Show 3 in Mainhausen canceled due to Covid-19
Sport 2000 Germany has canceled the Order Show 3 for the winter hardware sector planned for March 22-24 due to the current spread of Covid-19. The municipality of Mainhausen near Frankfurt am Main, where the purchasing association’s headquarters are located, has also canceled all planned events, regardless of the ...
