All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 5, Issue 20
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Last month's Outdoor Trade Show at Stoneleigh Park, which is...
Last month's Outdoor Trade Show at Stoneleigh Park, which is regarded as the major B2B trade fair for the outdoor sector in the U.K., reported a total of 1,294 daily visits, spread over the three days of the event. This compares with a total of 1,427 visits reported by the ...
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Primaloft, the specialty manufacturer of insulation material, which is well...
Primaloft, the specialty manufacturer of insulation material, which is well introduced in the outdoor industry as a premium supplier, is more and more expanding in the fashion sectors. New customers are, for example, Bench, Adidas Originals, Manderley or the kidswear of Mini-A-Ture. Primaloft has already been supplying big names in ...
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India has introduced national standards for organic textiles. The...
India has introduced national standards for organic textiles. The new Indian Standards for Organic Textiles (ISOT) cover the lifecycle of the cotton fiber from crops to clothing. The ISOT will be introduced in the National Standards for Organic Production, which includes norms of organic production and processing of agriculture ...
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Transa sets a retail momentum in the heart of Zurich
In late September, Transa, the big Swiss specialty outdoor retailer, opened its largest store in the country by far, just a few meters away from the central railway station of the country's biggest city, with which it is directly connected. The shop has a selling surface of around 3,000 square ...
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A new spate of rumors indicates that Tecnica Group is...
A new spate of rumors indicates that Tecnica Group is discussing the possible sale of its majority stake in Lowa to help refinance the Italian company, hit by a drop in orders for winter products. The rumor has circulated before, but this time it is accompanied by speculation about a ...
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Salomon is opening its first store in Montreal. It is...
Salomon is opening its first store in Montreal. It is adjacent to an older store by Arc'teryx, which has been renovated for the occasion.
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Jim Trombly and Martin Flora, two former executives of Massif...
Jim Trombly and Martin Flora, two former executives of Massif Mountain Gear, a company in Boulder, Colorado, have joined Sierra Designs as product director and creative director, respectively
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Norrøna has launched its first line of garments entirely made...
Norrøna has launched its first line of garments entirely made from recycled bottles. They are made with Polartec's Wind Pro fleece, which is in fact made with Repreve yarns of Unifi, which in turn makes polyester and nylon fibers made out of recycle bottles.
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OR may stay where it is if the locals make an effort
Like the next Outdoor Retailer Winter Market, the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market will run from Wednesday to Saturday rather than from Thursday to Sunday to let the participants enjoy part of the weekend. While the Winter Market will run from Jan. 23 to Jan. 26, the Summer Market will start ...
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Lafuma puts down its rifle while talking to E-Land
The Lafuma Group has been putting out some important information about its future lately. As reported in the last issue, Lafuma has opened up discussions with E-Land on a potential takeover of the French group by that large South Korean conglomerate. According to the French press, E-Land indicated that it ...
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Working through its European distributor and licensee, WP Lavori in...
Working through its European distributor and licensee, WP Lavori in Corso, Woolrich has opened a store in the downtown shopping area of Lille. It is now the only French store of the brand, which is much more popular in Italy. WP had opened a Woolrich store in Paris several years ...
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First graduate course in sporting goods management kicks off
Born as an initiative by the Outdoor Sports Valley (OSV), an interesting new Master of Science course in sports and outdoor industry management, or SOIM for short, began a few days ago at the School of Management of Lyon (EMLyon). Described as the first such master's degree program specializing in ...
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The North Face has opened a corporate store in downtown...
The North Face has opened a corporate store in downtown Lyon, on a sales surface of 240 square meters. It is located in the large Part Dieu shopping center, where Jack Wolfskin also has one of its four corporate stores in France. TNF's new store opening came shortly after a ...
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Petri Raatikainen, the Finnish executive who formerly headed Columbia Sportswear...
Petri Raatikainen, the Finnish executive who formerly headed Columbia Sportswear in the Nordics, has set up his own distribution company to launch the Super Natural brand in the region. Raatikainen, who left Columbia earlier this year, has obtained the rights for this sports and outdoor apparel brand in the Nordics ...
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LaCrosse's chief executive, Joseph Schneider, and the company's chief financial...
LaCrosse's chief executive, Joseph Schneider, and the company's chief financial officer, David Carlson, have resigned from the company on their own terms. They had both occupied their positions for more than a decade. The announcement comes nearly three months after the Portland-based manufacturer of boots for the outdoor, work and ...
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At its tenth edition, the Nuremberg-based canoe and kayak show,...
At its tenth edition, the Nuremberg-based canoe and kayak show, now named PADDLEexpo, hosted 173 brands and companies from 26 countries between Sept. 18 and 20. The number of exhibitors increased by one percent, and 86 percent of them came from outside Germany, led by the U.S. with a share ...
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Nordic study finds openings in buoyant markets
The outdoor market in the Nordic European countries jointly yielded retail sales of about €1.4 billion last year, amounting to about twice the level of spending per capita attained in the German market, it emerged from the Nordic outdoor study compiled by EDM Publications, the publisher of The Compass. The ...
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Led by brands such as Clarks and Timberland, the global...
Led by brands such as Clarks and Timberland, the global market for branded casual footwear grew in 2011 by 12.2 percent in terms of dollars, according to an exclusive annual survey by one of our sister publications, Shoe Intelligence. Thus, it performed a little less well than the rugged outdoor ...
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Hestra, one of Scandinavia's top brands of winter gloves, is...
Hestra, one of Scandinavia's top brands of winter gloves, is investing in the summer sporting goods market. The company has been making cycling gloves for the past few seasons and results have been good. According to Sportfack, the focus of Hestra's summer collection will comprise sports such as golf, horseback ...
