All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 4, Issue 11-12 – Page 3
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Fenix Moves Into Finnish Retail And Acquires More Distributors
The Fenix Outdoor group, which owns the Swedish Naturkompaniet retail chain of outdoor stores along with Fjällräven and several other brands, has extended its retail presence to Finland, where it fully acquired the Partioaitta chain last month.Partioaitta is the largest specialist outdoor retail chain in Finland, with 11 stores around ...
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News briefs
KKR, the big American investment company, has acquired a controlling...
KKR, the big American investment company, has acquired a controlling interest in Academy Sports + Outdoors, a chain of 131 outdoor and general sporting goods stores in the southern part of the U.S. The chain’s sales grew last year by an estimated 12.5 percent to $2.7 billion, making it the ...
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Deckers Outdoor Corporation has signed an agreement to acquire Sanuk,...
Deckers Outdoor Corporation has signed an agreement to acquire Sanuk, an American brand of beach sandals and other lifestyle shoes whose sales are expected to double this year from $43 million in 2010, generating Ebitda of $15 million. Deckers will pay $120 million in cash, plus an earn-out provision of ...
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Deckers Outdoor Corporation has signed an agreement to acquire Sanuk,...
Deckers Outdoor Corporation has signed an agreement to acquire Sanuk, an American brand of beach sandals and other lifestyle shoes whose sales are expected to double this year from $43 million in 2010, generating Ebitda of $15 million. Deckers will pay $120 million in cash, plus an earn-out provision of ...
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Some 500 Patagonia employees have joined a movement in Chile...
Some 500 Patagonia employees have joined a movement in Chile to protest new dam projects in the south of the country that are endangering valuable natural parks there. Apparently, the Chilean government allowed a multinational company to build five dams in Patagonia (the region, not the brand). The Patagonia staff ...
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Dynafit will donate more than €5,500 (to be precise: €5,542.38)...
Dynafit will donate more than €5,500 (to be precise: €5,542.38) to the protection of the endangered species of the snow leopard, the animal that this subsidiary of Salewa features in its logo. The money came from the second edition of an event in seven countries called Snow Leopard Day, which ...
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Mammut Sports Group is investing some €22.5 million in building...
Mammut Sports Group is investing some €22.5 million in building a new warehouse in a small town, Wolfertschwenden, close to its current German office in Memmingen, Bavaria, which has become too small. The new logistics center, to be opened by the end of 2012, will have a gross surface of ...
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Hi-Tec has won the 2011 award for “Best Fitness Buy”...
Hi-Tec has won the 2011 award for “Best Fitness Buy” from Health magazine for its “V-Lite Infinity Hpi” trail-running shoe.
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Lowa Posts Record Sales For 2010
Partially due to good weather conditions in some key markets, Lowa was all the way up in 2010. Both the company, Lowa Sportschuhe, and the brand alone managed to have a record year. Total sales increased from €107 million in 2009 to €132 million. The figures include those of the ...
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News briefs
Since 2009, Keen has organized “Envirotrek,” an event to collect...
Since 2009, Keen has organized “Envirotrek,” an event to collect waste in the wilderness. In summer 2010, 200 people did their utmost to collect 300 kilos of waste in touristic areas in France, Belgium and Austria. The initiative was not only about soda cans and any type of packaging, but ...
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Columbia’s “Peak 2 Peak” jacket has been picked as the...
Columbia’s “Peak 2 Peak” jacket has been picked as the “Gear of the Year” by the editors of Outside magazine.
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News briefs
Invista has made three internal promotions. After more than 15...
Invista has made three internal promotions. After more than 15 years with the company in South America, the U.S. and Europe, Denise Sakuma is made global and North American brand communication director. She was previously segment director for legwear, a position in which she is going to be replaced by ...
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