All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 4, Issue 17-18 – Page 3
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Singing Rock, the Czech brand of climbing gear, has announced...
Singing Rock, the Czech brand of climbing gear, has announced a recall of its Crux, Nara and Nemo harnesses, although its U.S. distributor, Liberty Mountain, has already launched recovery efforts and fewer than 95 of these harnesses are still in the hands of consumers
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Carhartt has announced a licensing deal with the Black Diamond...
Carhartt has announced a licensing deal with the Black Diamond Group for a line of 30 styles of industrial footwear. Black Diamond Group, which specializes in protective footwear, has nothing to do with Black Diamond Equipment, the expansive outdoor group that we all know about.
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Norbert Olbertz, who founded the American Sport Chalet chain of...
Norbert Olbertz, who founded the American Sport Chalet chain of outdoor and snow sports stores in 1959, died of natural causes on July 15 at the age of 86. Trained as a pastry chef, he moved from Germany to Canada and then to the U.S. He set up the first ...
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Roody Rasmussen, who has been the president of Petzl America...
Roody Rasmussen, who has been the president of Petzl America for the last 12 years, has announced that he will step down from that position at the end of this year. He will be succeeded by Nazz Kurth, currently the sales director for Petzl America, the manufacturer of headlamps and ...
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Amer pushes e-commerce, own retail
Amer Sports plans to increase sales from e-commerce and corporate single-brand stores to 10 percent of the group's net sales. The group has already started pilot e-commerce operations in France for Salomon and Suunto, and now plans to launch new online shops in other parts of Europe and North America. ...
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The Grassroots Outdoor Alliance, a group of independent North American...
The Grassroots Outdoor Alliance, a group of independent North American retailers, and Keen, the American outdoor shoe company, have joined forces to raise money for the American Red Cross, to support Spring Storms disaster relief efforts after the devastating storms that hit the South and Midwest in the last weeks
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Fjällräven will introduce waxing stations in specialist outdoor stores all...
Fjällräven will introduce waxing stations in specialist outdoor stores all over Europe starting in spring 2012. In Sweden, 25 retailers are already participating. Fjällräven is showing retailers how to use the waxing station and leaves it to the retailers to decide whether they want to charge their customers for the ...
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Timberland has struck a licensing agreement for children's clothing with...
Timberland has struck a licensing agreement for children's clothing with Parigi Group for the U.S. and its territories. Children Worldwide Fashion will continue to design, source and market Timberland kids' apparel for Europe, Asia and Canada.
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Friedrichshafen’s numbers are up again
It was probably one of Messe Friedrichshafen's targets to organize an OutDoor show that was better than the weather outside the halls. The makers managed to achieve this goal even though that was not difficult to do. During the show, the weather was horrible – except for Saturday which was ...
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Tecnica has decided to again sponsor the second edition of...
Tecnica has decided to again sponsor the second edition of the Tour des Géants starting and finishing in Courmayeur next Sept. 11-18, in view of its big success. Described as the world's longest endurance ultra-trail race, it will circle the Italian region of Valle d'Aosta over 330 kilometers, with 24,000 ...
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VF is optimistic after a good quarter
VF Corporation, the owner of The North Face and many other outdoor, sports and fashion brands, has upgraded its guidance for sales and profits for the full year, after all of its units continued to blaze ahead in the second quarter and it managed to limit the impact of rising ...
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Major South African retailer goes public
Holdsport, a company formerly known as Moresport that runs 33 Sportmans Warehouse and 18 Outdoor Warehouse stores in South Africa, went public on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. The transaction gave the company a valuation of about 1.33 billion rand (€136.3m-$196.4m), resulting in a small capital gain for its major shareholder, ...
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The Adventure Sports Fair, the biggest outdoor show in Latin...
The Adventure Sports Fair, the biggest outdoor show in Latin America, is not going to target only consumers. Scheduled to take place in São Paulo next Aug. 11-14, it will host for the second time a B2B event, called Outdoor Business. One year ago, 310 buyers held a total of ...
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Tatonka has been certified with the international standard SA8000 for...
Tatonka has been certified with the international standard SA8000 for its production site Mountech Company Ltd. in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. The international certified standard confirms that the company is adhering to working and social standards in accordance to the ILO and U.N. conventions. The certificate is valid ...
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Patagonia is opening its 2,500-square-foot store in London's Covent Garden...
Patagonia is opening its 2,500-square-foot store in London's Covent Garden district in cooperation with Outside, a retailer that also operates the Patagonia store in the Peak District of Hathersage
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More than 150 exhibitors will participate in the Outdoor Retailer...
More than 150 exhibitors will participate in the Outdoor Retailer Open Air Demo on Aug. 3, the opening day of the show, to give retailers a chance to test their new products. That's a 50 percent increase from one year ago. The Outdoor Retailer Summer Market in Salt Lake City, ...
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Some 45,000 people took part in the latest edition of...
Some 45,000 people took part in the latest edition of the Vibram Natural Games, which took place June 23-26 in the region of Millau, in southern France, making it the largest international outdoor sports festival of the kind after four years, the last three sponsored by Vibram. Challenging outdoor activities ...
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The North Face has awarded $125,000 to 52 projects selected...
The North Face has awarded $125,000 to 52 projects selected by the Explore Fund, which was set up by the company last year as part of its drive to support outdoor activities among young people
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Hi-Tec Sports made a $10,000 donation to Portland's Friend of...
Hi-Tec Sports made a $10,000 donation to Portland's Friend of Trees upon the opening of its North American head office in the city
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