All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 4, Issue 25-26 – Page 2
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Deuter celebrated the construction of its new headquarters in November....
Deuter celebrated the construction of its new headquarters in November. The company's parent company, Schwan Stabilo, is investing some €15 million in the project, which will comprise 3,300 square meters of office space and 7,000 square meters for the warehouse. The new building will use renewable energy resources is set ...
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Dani Reiss, chief executive and president of Canada Goose,...
Dani Reiss, chief executive and president of Canada Goose, has been named Canada's Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 by Ernst & Young
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Leading outdoor retailers call for more transparency
(part 2 from the recent European Outdoor Forum held in Annecy)Another much-awaited part of the European Outdoor Forum was a retail panel bringing together four leading outdoor retailers from Europe, China and Canada. They discussed ways to stimulate the industry while protecting it from price battles and all sorts of ...
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Ibex Outdoor Clothing will start buying merino wool from a...
Ibex Outdoor Clothing will start buying merino wool from a sheep ranch in Montana that is family owned and operated, thus filling all the stages of its apparel supply chain. Ibex will be able to make its autumn 2012 collection of Shak Lite clothes from all American sources, from farm ...
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Brunton Europe, like Fjällräven a part of the Swedish Fenix...
Brunton Europe, like Fjällräven a part of the Swedish Fenix Outdoor group, has picked Erik Wiren to run the accessories brand's purchasing, sales and customer service. The 33-year-old has worked for the last two years on the retail arm of Fenix, running Fjällräven's factory outlet and one of the Naturkompaniet ...
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The Maier Sports and Gonso brands will be run from...
The Maier Sports and Gonso brands will be run from the start of next year by a new managing director: Sascha Kautschitsch, an executive from the fashion business, will take over the helm of Maier Sports, the German snow, outdoor and bicycle apparel company that owns both brands. Kautschitsch is ...
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Calcados Paredes, the Spanish brand of outdoor shoes, has launched...
Calcados Paredes, the Spanish brand of outdoor shoes, has launched a unique limited edition of retro-inspired shoes in association with DYC 8, a Spanish brand of whiskey. They will all be selling at a price of €70 on Paredes' online shop and a few stores on Madrid's calle Fuencarral. Both ...
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Bradshaw Taylor gets a pan-European deal for Sherpa of Nepal
Bradshaw Taylor, the British outdoor distribution company, has obtained a deal to sell the Sherpa Adventure Gear apparel brand nearly Europe-wide. The Nepalese brand will be displayed at Ispo early next year and deliveries to European outdoor retailers will start in the second half of the year.Italy and Austria were ...
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Boyd Rogers, a vice president at VF Corporation, president of...
Boyd Rogers, a vice president at VF Corporation, president of the supply chain and member of VF's operating committee, has announced that he will be retiring effective Dec. 31, ending his 40 years of service to the company. He started out at VF Corp. in 1971 at Blue Bell. He ...
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Blacks may need yet more financing
Citing weakening marketing conditions, Blacks Leisure Group predicted that its results will be below expectations and that it will thus need additional funding to execute its strategic plans, notably by strengthening its capital structure among other options. The announcement sent the value of its shares on the London Stock Exchange ...
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Ryan Gellert has been promoted to be brand president of...
Ryan Gellert has been promoted to be brand president of Black Diamond, effective Jan. 2. He succeeds Peter Metcalf, who continues to be chief executive and president of the holding, Black Diamond Inc., which also has run the Gregory backpack brand since last year's merger of the two companies. Gellert ...
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Kimberlee Viera has been named financial director of Icebreaker's U.S....
Kimberlee Viera has been named financial director of Icebreaker's U.S. operations
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Bailo merges with Vist
The two Italian companies are merging into a new group, due to be called Officine Italiane, that will allow them to offer a complete range of snow and outdoor sports products and to generate synergies at various levels, including product development and international distribution.The goal is to reach combined consolidated ...
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Outdoor is badly hit at Johnson Outdoors
Hit by a sharp decline in its outdoor sales because of lower orders from the U.S. military, Johnson Outdoors just about stabilized its sales for the last quarter of its fiscal year, through the end of September. The American group ended the three months with total revenues of $77.4 million, ...
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Salewa has been awarded the “economy prize” of its native...
Salewa has been awarded the “economy prize” of its native state of South Tyrol, Italy, in the category “investment” for its new headquarters based in Bolzano
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The German government has created a national award for the...
The German government has created a national award for the protection of nature (“Deutscher Naturschutzpreis”). Under the helm of the German federal office in charge of the environment, all the first awards went to projects and organizations dedicated to the rescue and/or development of regional forests, plus a lifetime award ...
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Carinthia, the traditional Austrian sleeping bag brand, will show at...
Carinthia, the traditional Austrian sleeping bag brand, will show at Ispo with its own booth for the first time
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Bamboo Bottle Company has enlisted the help of Athena Marketing...
Bamboo Bottle Company has enlisted the help of Athena Marketing International to help it grow globally. Bamboo Bottle Co. makes the Flip-Top and Original reusable bottles and hopes to expose them to a wide audience. Athena Marketing is a marketing, business development and consulting firm with an international network of ...
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Ron Hill will be assuming the role of vice president...
Ron Hill will be assuming the role of vice president for merchandising at Keen, leaving his slot as vice president for global merchandising at Nike. His first job was selling shoes at Nordstrom at age 15; he ended up being a regional merchandiser for the company.
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EOCA, the European Outdoor Conservation Association, has launched a new...
EOCA, the European Outdoor Conservation Association, has launched a new section on its website (outdoorconservation.eu). The section is dedicated to products which might encourage people to experience the outdoors. This gear section informs potential new consumers on what they need for a great day outside.
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