All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 5, Issue 21-22
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Online retailers can share stocks with suppliers
The message on more flexible and productive relationships between suppliers and retailers was echoed by Philippe Wargnier, a French entrepreneur who worked previously for Go Sport. He was the founder of Spartoo, a pure French online retailer specializing in footwear, and he later set up Evioo, a hybrid “click-and-mortar” eyewear ...
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Lafuma presents stable revenues
For the financial year ended on Sept. 30, the Lafuma Group reports a slight sales decline of 0.3 percent to €248.7 million. This is partially due to the development in the fourth quarter when turnover dropped by 6.6 percent to €77.6 million compared with the previous year's period. The fourth ...
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Heimplanet, the small marketer of inflatable tents, won the golden...
Heimplanet, the small marketer of inflatable tents, won the golden Design Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany 2012 in the product design category yesterday. The jury granted the award to the tent “The Cave,” which was a winner of the Ispo Brandnew awards two years ago. The company is ...
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Salewa has opened its flagship store in Milan in the...
Salewa has opened its flagship store in Milan in the presence of two of its sponsored athletes, the extravagant Glen Plake, the free ski mountaineering legend from California, and Daniele Nardi, an Italian mountaineer who plans to attempt the winter ascent of the Nanga Parbat in Pakistan in December. The ...
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Representatives from the sports districts of Montebelluna in Italy and...
Representatives from the sports districts of Montebelluna in Italy and Portland in the U.S. gathered at a round table at Montebelluna's city hall on Oct. 18. Organized by Associazione Calzaturieri Museo dello Scarpone and IPA, a body grouping local municipalities and professional associations, with the contribution of Assosport, the meeting ...
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Disappointing quarter at Deckers Outdoor
Deckers Outdoor Corporation, the U.S.-based marketer of Teva, Ugg, Sanuk and other brands, did not see a successful third quarter. Net sales were slashed from $414.4 million last year to $376.4 million in the latest period, ended Sept. 30, while the gross margin went down from 49.0 percent to 42.3 ...
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Crocs has reported revenues for the third quarter up by...
Crocs has reported revenues for the third quarter up by 7.5 percent to $295.6 million. The American footwear manufacturer, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, recorded net income of $45.1 million, up from $30.2 million in the same quarter of 2011. Wholesale revenues increased by 1.5 percent to ...
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The core Russian outdoor market is small, but promising
As the inventories left over from last year's warm winter are weighing on the European outdoor market, many companies are all the more eagerly watching out for openings in emerging markets. At almost opposite ends of the climatic spectrum, Brazil and Russia were both described as complicated markets with significant ...
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Patagonia invests in coating technology
Patagonia has taken a 15 percent equity stake in AeonClad Coatings, a nanotechnology specialist, with whom it will develop water-repellent down garments. Patagonia first entered into a partnership with the firm, a portfolio company of Emergent Technologies, in 2010, when the two companies established an R D laboratory in Austin, ...
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Haglöfs moves quickly into Chinese department stores
The Beijing Yuechengjunda trading company, the distributor of Haglöfs in China, opened five new points of sale in department stores for the brand in October. These shops are also the first ones in Chinese department stores for Haglöfs at all. They are located in five different cities in northeastern and ...
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McTrek, the price-driven German outdoor retailing chain, has opened its...
McTrek, the price-driven German outdoor retailing chain, has opened its largest store so far in the town of Weiterstadt south of Frankfurt. On more than 1,000 square meters, McTrek's new store offers 700 styles of outdoor footwear, 250 tents and 150 sleeping bags. The full range store carries, among many ...
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Sustainability takes center stage at forum
Joint action on sustainability has been moving rapidly forward since the matter was discussed at last year's European Outdoor Forum and in the context of other events in Europe and the U.S., driven by organizations such as the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), which was introduced to the executives in Annecy ...
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Schmid calls on outdoor industry to work together
Rolf Schmid, chief executive of the Mammut Sports Group, urged other executives in the outdoor industry to take part more intensely in joint efforts to build a steady European market. He warned that suppliers could no longer “flood the market and hope that each of us will become a market ...
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VF’s sports, outdoor brands weather the storms, globally
VF Corporation reported this week that its gross margin reached a record of 46.7 percent of sales in the third quarter, largely as a result of the group's continued shift in the product mix toward higher-margin businesses. Total revenues grew by 14 percent to $3,148 million in the quarter, but ...
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Toread, China's leading local outdoor brand, has just released its...
Toread, China's leading local outdoor brand, has just released its financial report for the first three quarters in 2012. Turnover during that period was 624 million yuan renminbi (€76.4m-$99.2m), 45.3 percent higher than last year. Sales increased by 25.4 percent to RMB 244 million (€29.9m-$38.8m) in the third quarter ...
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Big drop for Wolverine in Europe
Merrell and other brands of Wolverine Worldwide had a tough ride in the European market during the third quarter ended Sept. 8. The group's sales in the Europe, Middle East Africa (EMEA) region fell by about 20 percent during the period compared with a year ago, due to ...
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Multi-sport retailers push for better relations with suppliers
At a panel discussion moderated by The Compass at the European Outdoor Forum earlier this month, three prominent sports retailers called for European outdoor companies to build up their brands more strongly and to form more productive relationships with their retail partners. They said they were searching for ways to ...
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Canada Goose reports that it has won a case before...
Canada Goose reports that it has won a case before a Stockholm court against five Swedes accused of brand rights infringements, fraud and violation of customs directives. Two of the accused have been jailed and given fines of altogether 701,000 Swedish kronor (€80,770-$104,800). Apparently, the five crooks brought thousands of ...
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Salewa has been supporting disadvantaged children through an organization called...
Salewa has been supporting disadvantaged children through an organization called SOS Children's Villages International since the beginning of this year. It has now given 17 children from the SOS holiday camp in Caldonazzo the opportunity to spend two great outdoor days at the company's headquarters in Bolzano. They had the ...
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Vaude has won the “Focus Open” award put out by...
Vaude has won the “Focus Open” award put out by the Design Center in Stuttgart for two products: The golden awards went to the jacket “Aletsch” and to “Bulin,” alpine backpack.
