All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 4, Issue 15
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Magellan, the specialist in outdoor navigation, restructured its sales team...
Magellan , the specialist in outdoor navigation, restructured its sales team at the start of the summer season. Christian Lukas has been appointed new sales manager for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Before starting at Magellan, Lukas handled the retail business at various companies including Mio, Palm, Tiscali and ...
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The North Face will be the new title sponsor of...
The North Face will be the new title sponsor of the Freeski Open of New Zealand, being held Sept. 1 to 18. Völkl , the former (and founding) title sponsor, will still be the event's presenting sponsor. This year's event, the seventh annual Freeski Open, includes slopestyle, halfpipe ...
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German Intersport posts the first decline of outdoor sales in years
Intersport Germany did not manage to escape from unfavorable weather conditions in the first six months of the current year either. Compared with other categories, however, the decline of outdoor sales was moderate: Snow sports fell by a massive 32 percent after winter was disrupted very early in January. ...
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Schwan-Stabilo: Ortovox is set to remain an independent company
Sebastian Schwanhäußer , managing director of Schwan-Stabilo , the new owner of Ortovox , the German mountaineering brand, went into details about the plans for his new baby. It has been clear since 2006 when the group acquired Deuter that its outdoor division is set to expand through further ...
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Paul Petzl is the outdoor celebrity of the year
The OutDoor Industry Awards ceremony has been held at the OutDoor trade show in Friedrichshafen yesterday. P aul Petzl , president of Petzl , the French company of mountaineering and safety equipment, has been awarded with the award “OutDoor celebrity of the year”. Petzl, whose distribution network covers 51 ...
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Musto, the brand of sailing equipment, is a new customer...
Musto , the brand of sailing equipment, is a new customer of OutDry , the Italian membrane company bought last year by Columbia Sportswear
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A new brand called Grüezi-Bag is presenting its first collection...
A new brand called Grüezi-Bag is presenting its first collection of down sleeping bags at this year's OutDoor trade fair. The owner and founder of the brand, Markus Wiesböck , has worked in the outdoor sector for 10 years. Wiesböck manages a sporting goods and outdoor store ...
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EOG has better outdoor market data
The European outdoor market grew in 2010 by more than 6 percent to an estimated €9,677 million after taxes at retail, according to the initial data collected from a far-reaching survey conducted by the European Outdoor Group among suppliers, distributors and retailers, covering 19 countries and providing details about ...
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Vaude has been nominated for this year's German sustainability award...
Vaude has been nominated for this year's German sustainability award among the top three small and medium-sized enterprises in the category “Germany s most sustainable strategies for the future.”
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Brax, the German apparel brand specializing in pants, is moving...
Brax , the German apparel brand specializing in pants, is moving into the outdoor market with Brax Active , a functional range that will be launched next year in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Benelux countries. The privately owned company, which reached a turnover in the range of €250 million ...
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Seeland International, a Danish company specializing in hunting apparel and...
Seeland International , a Danish company specializing in hunting apparel and footwear, is exploring the outdoor market with its two brands: Seeland for rubber boots and Härkila for other outdoor footwear, using technical membranes. The company has more than 30 sales representatives all around Europe, dealing with about ...
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Levi Strauss & Company has named Paul Zadoff to be...
Levi Strauss Company has named Paul Zadoff to be its new senior vice president for wholesale commercial operations. He comes from Patagonia , where he was vice president for global sales. Before that, he was in charge of global footwear product creation at Li Ning , ...
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Outdoor-Profis grows through new members; worried about order calendar
Outdoor-Profis , the group of specialty retailers within Sport 2000 Germany with 105 members, has been able to increase its sales in the first half of 2011 by 30 percent compared with the same period in the previous year. This sales figure is understood to come mainly from new ...
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Starting with summer 2013, Columbia Sportswear will take care of...
Starting with summer 2013, Columbia Sportswear will take care of its own distribution in Norway for the Columbia and Sorel brands. The current distributor, Portland Norge, will continue to distribute the group's sister brands, Mountain Hardwear and Montrail, in that Nordic country.
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German Sport 2000 posts contrasted sales for the first six months
The outdoor range of products of Sport 2000 grew in the first half of 2011 by 5.7 percent in comparison with the same period in the previous year, despite the very strong increase in the previous business year with 17 percent growth. While outdoor shoes experienced an increase of ...
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The German section of Sport 2000 has created the new...
The German section of Sport 2000 has created the new position of a brand manager in charge of its own outdoor label, High Colorado. Effective July 4, Maik Spieker joined the group's headquarters to optimize consistent marketing strategies and to develop new ones. Over the past decade, the 37-year-old worked ...
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Petzl America is recalling 375,000 lanyards worldwide because of a...
Petzl America is recalling 375,000 lanyards worldwide because of a missing safety stitch on the attachment loop, which could cause the lanyard to unhook from the climbing harness and cause the user to fall. One climber in France has already fallen. The brand names are the Scorpio and ...
