All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 15, Issue 10 – Page 11

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    ​Primus offers new tools for coffee and cooking with new Feed Zone collection

    6 October 2022

    Primus, the Swedish cooking accessories brand, is equipping cyclists (and outdoorers) with everything they need to cook high-quality meals with its new Feed Zone collection. Highlights include a compact stove, a coffee and tea press, and a double-walled steel mug. The entire Feed Zone system stores in a roll-top bag ...

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    Rebecca Heard promoted evo's first CMO

    5 October 2022

    Source: evo evo’s new CMO, Rebecca Heard evo, the Seattle-based outdoor retail and adventure brand, announces that Rebecca Heard, VP of brand, marketing, and e-commerce, has been promoted to the company’s leadership team as its first chief marketing officer. In her new role, Heard will oversee evo’s ...

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    Helen of Troy sales get boost from Osprey Packs

    5 October 2022

    Bolstered by a $47.4 million sales contribution from Osprey Packs, second quarter revenues in Helen of Troy’s Home & Outdoor segment rose 11.8 percent to $240.6 million from $215.2 million. The unit’s organic sales declined $19.3 million in the period ended Aug. 31, driven by shifts in consumer spending patterns ...

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    Regatta to open second dual-brand store

    5 October 2022

    Regatta will be opening a dual-brand store in Logroño, Spain, on Oct. 7, thanks to a deal with owner of the local Ferrer Sports store, according to CMDsport. A first dual-brand store opened two years ago in Salamanca through a deal with the local owner of an Enforma Deportes store. ...

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    Ternua opens “Brand House”

    5 October 2022

    Ternua Group has opened a 110-square-meter “Brand House” in Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, to display to the public representative products from its various lines. In addition, says CEO Jokin Umerez, “we’d like it to be a place we can show with pride to collaborators, visitors and professional customers from elsewhere in ...

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    REI to close its stores permanently and forever on Black Friday

    5 October 2022

    U.S. outdoor specialty retailer REI Co-op has announced that its Opt Outside movement for all employees will be permanent. On this Black Friday and every other Black Friday in the future, the co-op will forgo profits and sales at all stores and instead pay its more than 16,000 employees to ...

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    Adventure tourism doing record business in Spain

    5 October 2022

    Spain’s adventure tourism sector is expected by the end of this year to exceed €26 billion in revenues, according to CMDsport, whose report draws on the forecasts of Yumping.com, themselves grounded in national economic figures. The projection for 2022 revenues would exceed the total for the pre-lockdown year of 2019 ...

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    Cake expands operations in Italy

    5 October 2022

    Source: Cake Cake bikes in Milan, Italy Cake, the Swedish manufacturer of premium lightweight electric motorcycles, announced that it is expanding its presence in Italy, making the fashion capital of Milan its local base. A local sales team is already in place, and the Cake pop-up store ...

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    PrimaLoft® Insulation Rise used by around 50 brands worldwide

    5 October 2022

    PrimaLoft’s alternative to natural down, PrimaLoft® Insulation Rise, which was first introduced in 2020, has quickly become one of the fastest-growing products in the company’s portfolio. It offers increased thermal performance, style and versatility, according to the company. PrimaLoft Rise’s construction allows the insulation to meet a variety of weights ...

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    EOCA supports COP15 business statement on mandatory assessment and disclosure

    5 October 2022

    In its role as a supporter of the global coalition Business for Nature (BfN), the European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA) has published a call to action to its members of all sizes and geographies to sign up for the COP15 business statement on mandatory assessment and disclosure. BfN is organizing ...

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    SAC annual meeting 2022 to be held in Singapore

    5 October 2022

    With an interesting roster of keynote speakers and topics, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), owner of the Higg Index platform, is inviting members and non-members to its 2022 annual meeting that will take place in Singapore on Nov. 1 and 2. Themed around ”Collective Action on Common Ground,” the event ...

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    Textile Exchange releases Preferred Fiber and Materials market report

    5 October 2022

    Textile Exchange has released its annual Preferred Fiber and Materials market report, pulling together data on the production volumes and availability of different fibers and raw materials, as well as sharing insights on emerging fiber trends. The initiative sees global fiber production increasing to a record 113 ...

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    Myclimate splits business units in Germany, Switzerland and Austria

    5 October 2022

    The Switzerland-based company Myclimate has restructured its organization. The restructuring includes a subdivision of the initiative into the business units Switzerland, Germany and Austria. The three new country units are headed by CEO Stephen Neff, as well as the cross-national areas of carbon offset projects, innovation and digitalization, and administration. ...

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    Klean Kanteen co-owners to receive 2022 Trailblazer Award

    5 October 2022

    Jeff Cresswell and Michelle Kalberer, co-owners of Klean Kanteen, a family- and employee-owned B Corp, were honored with the 2022 Trailblazer Award for their dedicated work in sustainability. Presented on behalf of sustainability consulting firm Verdical Group at a gala event in downtown Los Angeles in early September, the awards ...

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    ​Sea To Summit hires GM for EMEA

    5 October 2022

    SGB reports that Australia-based adventure gear brand Sea to Summit has hired David Ledouble as general manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Ledouble, an outdoor industry veteran, most recently worked at Helen of Troy as managing director for HydroFlask EMEA and senior director for OXO. Prior to that, ...

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    Yamaha launches first e-bikes under own name on European market

    5 October 2022

    For a long time, pedelec pioneer Yamaha had maintained a low profile when it came to e-bikes to be sold in the Western world. It took (too) long to develop drive units and the associated service specifically tailored to the European market. Now, however, things are suddenly happening at a ...

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    New PBG production facility in Lithuania on schedule

    4 October 2022

    After the grand opening of German Kalkhoff Werke GmbH’s plant in September (production of Kalkhoff and Focus e-bikes already started in March), there were questions as to whether Kalkhoff’s Dutch parent company, Pon Bike Group (PBG), would be able to open its third European production facility in Lithuania in 2024 ...

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    Outdoor recreation has mostly gained ground since Covid

    4 October 2022

    According to the Outdoor Foundation’s Outdoor Participation Trends Report for 2022, the number of people entering or returning to outdoor recreation has risen by 26 percent since March 2020, when lockdowns and other pandemic measures went into effect in much of the world. This is the highest increase the foundation ...

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    The Partnership Index survey collects data for purchasing practice metric

    4 October 2022

    In its annual ”temperature check” of the industry, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition collaborates with The Industry We Want for its Partnership Index survey and metric. The industry check-up is happening for the second time and starts with the global, industry-wide Partnership Index™ survey powered by the Better Buying Institute. The ...

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    Texaid partners with Ridestore for the retailer’s Renewed program

    4 October 2022

    Swedish retailer Ridestore has signed the Swiss circular services company Texaid as its new service partner. Texaid is sorting, cleaning, impregnating, repairing, relabeling, repackaging, reselling and recycling used merchandise that are part of the newly established Ridestore Renewed secondhand project. Texaid is also a founding member of the European Arm ...