All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 4, Issue 13
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Infighting In New Zealand
Jan Cameron, the founder of Kathmandu, an outdoor company in New Zealand, has reportedly bought a stake worth 20 million Australian dollars (€14.9m-$21.1m) in Macpac Outdoors, a rival from the same country. Cameron sold Kathmandu for about A$275 million (€204.9m-$289.9m) in 2006 to a group of private equity firms that ...
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Salewa has inaugurated two new single-brand stores in the Italian...
Salewa has inaugurated two new single-brand stores in the Italian cities of Bergamo and Aosta.
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Tecnica Group Sells Think Pink
Responding to a takeover offer, Tecnica Group has sold its Think Pink brand of apparel to Man Socks Italia, a 20-year-old Italian knitwear manufacturer that makes socks, underwear and other items, partly under license with brands such as Fila and Australian. Run separately through a subsidiary, GB International, Think Pink ...
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Haglöfs has founded a subsidiary in South Korea that is...
Haglöfs has founded a subsidiary in South Korea that is headed by Brian Jung, a former W.L. Gore executive in the same country.
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Peak Performance Expands In Poland And Spain
Peak Performance, the Swedish outdoor and winter sports apparel brand, picked ProAm Sport, a company in the Mega Sport group in Barcelona, to distribute its products in Spain and Andorra from the start of June. This company already markets brands from Rossignol to Dynastar, Lange, Haglöfs and FitFlop, among others. ...
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The European Union Regulates Online Retailing
The European Parliament has adopted rules on online retailing that afford more protection for consumers and add constraints for retailers. However, its new Consumer Rights Directive does not include the tougher demands that had been put forward by German parliamentarians – that online retailers should have the facilities to deliver ...
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New Layout For Gregory’S European Distribution
As reported earlier, Gregory is restructuring its entire distribution network in Europe, following last year’s merger with Black Diamond. The backpack brand remains separate from Black Diamond, though both brands have merged their European headquarters in Reinach, Switzerland. After stopping a distribution deal with Invia, which continues to sell Mountain ...
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Frank Saeger, country manager in the German-speaking countries for Erke...
Frank Saeger, country manager in the German-speaking countries for Erke from China, has also been appointed country manager in Germany for Trespass.
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Unfair Competition? Columbia Tries To Make Gore Sweat
Columbia Sportswear, along with OutDry Technologies, the Italian developer of breathable membranes that it acquired last year, have appealed to the anti-trust authorities of the European Commission (EC) to check whether the practices of W.L. Gore Associates are in line with the European Union’s competition laws. The plaintiffs ...
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The revamped store of The North Face in Chamonix, France,...
The revamped store of The North Face in Chamonix, France, is the first one in Europe to feature the shop design that has been already applied in the brand’s U.S. store.
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Canada Goose says that it has won a trial in...
Canada Goose says that it has won a trial in a Chinese court against local counterfeiters. After 2,000 pieces of coats of the brand were confiscated, the court ruled that the chief of the fake operations would be sentenced to 10 months in prison and a fine of slightly under ...
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Salewa Joins Bluesign And Presents Sustainability Projects
The Italian company has finally agreed to sign a contract with Bluesign, the Swiss standard for social and ecological responsibility. This news comes along with Salewa’s announcement that it will present a detailed report on the group’s corporate social responsibility and performance in terms of sustainability at the OutDoor show. ...
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Big Growth For Regatta
After rising by 52 percent in 2010, the sales invoiced by the Regatta Group have increased by 35 percent across Europe so far this year, thanks in part to the generous margins that this British company grants to retailers on its value-priced Regatta and Dare2B ranges of apparel. Company officials ...
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Big Growth For Toray
Toray Industries’ consolidated sales grew by 13.2 percent to 1,539.7 billion yen (€13,269.8m-$18,999.7m) in the financial year ended March 31. The big Japanese group generated net income of ¥57.9 billion (€499.0m-$714.5m) for the 12-month period, against a loss of ¥14.1 billion the year before. The operating margin improved to 6.5 ...
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Mctrek Has Been On Track During The First Six Months
Yeah! AG, the operator of the Sine and the discount-driven McTrek stores in Germany, reports positive results for the first six months of the current year. Sales increased by 23 percent in that period. That came after an increase of 45.2 percent over the whole 2010 financial year, when turnover ...
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Mountain Spirit of Bolzano has been named “Best Outdoor Shop”...
Mountain Spirit of Bolzano has been named “Best Outdoor Shop” in Italy in a contest organized by Outdoor Magazine. The votes came from about 100 companies in the outdoor sector and other operators. Its prizes include the limited-edition skis developed by Atomic for The North Face and 50 copies of ...
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Mammut Invests In Avalanche Bags
Mammut Sports Group has acquired 100 percent of the shares of Snowpulse, a Swiss company that develops airbag technologies for avalanche rescues. Mammut already presented backpacks using the Snowpulse technology at the last Ispo. The management of Snowpulse continues to be led by its two founders and co-owners, Yan Berchten ...
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Stubai, the Austrian brand of mountaineering equipment, has launched its...
Stubai, the Austrian brand of mountaineering equipment, has launched its own web-based TV program on YouTube.
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Asia Outdoor Expects Record Attendance In Nanjing
Asia Outdoor, the trade show being held in Nanjing, China, for the sixth time, reports an increase of exhibitors by 20 percent to 420 brands compared with the previous year. New exhibitors are, among others, Sympatex, Bluesign, Osprey, Scarpa, Eagle Creek and Toray. According to Knut Jaeger, the show’s organizer, ...
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The latest outdoor store to have been opened in Arco...
The latest outdoor store to have been opened in Arco di Trento, the Italian town with the highest density of outdoor shops, has a special unique selling proposition: It features only Italian brands. Called Art Rock, it offers clothing by Bailo, footwear by Zamberlan and technical backpacks by Marsupio. The ...
