All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 5, Issue 9 – Page 2
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James Curleigh has resigned as president and chief executive of...
James Curleigh has resigned as president and chief executive of Keen Footwear to become executive vice president of Levi Strauss & Co. and president of the Levi's brand. Rory Fuerst, founder of Keen, has taken on the CEO function and launched a search for a new president. He has also ...
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Sportler, the Italian sporting goods retail chain owned by the...
Sportler, the Italian sporting goods retail chain owned by the Oberrauch family, has opened a new, innovative store across from its renovated store in downtown Brunico. Spread over 785 square meters on five floors, the new store is the company's seventh Alpinhaus, specializing in outdoor and winter sports products. It ...
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Millet will sponsor for the next three years the Catalonian...
Millet will sponsor for the next three years the Catalonian federation that organizes the Spanish region's ski mountaineering championship
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Camelbak’s new owner sells one of its companies
Compass Diversified Holdings (CODI), which bought Camelbak Products last August, has sold its majority stake in Halo Holding Corporation, a leading supplier of promotional products that it acquired five years ago, for a total enterprise value of $76.5 million. Because of the debt related to Halo, the transaction will not ...
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Black Diamond enjoys strong increases
In announcing its group's good results for the first quarter, the management indicated that it was close to an acquisition, but declined to divulge any details, pending due diligence proceedings. The group is also making preparations with key retail clients for its first apparel line.Sales grew by 19 percent to ...
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Globetrotter, the big German specialty outdoor retailer, is looking into...
Globetrotter, the big German specialty outdoor retailer, is looking into alternatives to traditional retailing and investing in new projects, notably in tourism: While it has been operating mega stores with a selling surface of several thousand square meters in seven big cities around Germany, it is now trying smaller surfaces ...
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Outdoor is one of Garmin’s best segments
Garmin recorded a 16 percent increase in the revenues of its outdoor segment to $77 million in the first quarter, thanks in part to continued good performance for the company's expanding range of golf products. Dog tracking and training systems contributed to the growth, too.An even higher 26 percent increase ...
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Garmin is new title sponsor of Prorace Berlin, a race...
Garmin is new title sponsor of Prorace Berlin, a race for cycling professionals that will take place in that city on June 12. Meanwhile, the specialty company for mobile navigating solutions has announced that in early May, it cracked the historical mark of 100 million sold items. While it took ...
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Pentland Brands, the parent company of Berghaus, Ellesse, Speedo and...
Pentland Brands, the parent company of Berghaus, Ellesse, Speedo and other brands, has been recognized as one of the best places to work in the U.K., ranking higher than any other sports company in the country. It took the 16th spot on the list established annually by the Great Place ...
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Right in time to benefit from an exceptional exposure during...
Right in time to benefit from an exceptional exposure during the Olympic Games in London, Marmot Mountain has opened its flagship store in the British capital, in the direct vicinity of the Olympic venues. Located in the large new Westfield Stratford City shopping mall, the corporate store features the whole ...
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Since mid-May, Stasia Raines has been the director of marketing...
Since mid-May, Stasia Raines has been the director of marketing and communications for the Outdoor Foundation, leading the American group's marketing and communications strategy and expanding its community. She has worked for Eagle Creek travel gear, where she was public relations manager, and more recently was an independent communications professional ...
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Combistyle has become the new distributor for Mons Royale in...
Combistyle has become the new distributor for Mons Royale in Sweden and has already received orders from retailers like Addnature, Alpingaraget, Åre Skidsport and Hägglunds. Located on Lake Wanaka in New Zealand, Mons Royale produces underwear and first-layer garments in merino wool.
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While the barefoot running trend is continuing to spread, Merrell...
While the barefoot running trend is continuing to spread, Merrell is preparing the large-scale launch of a vastly expanded barefoot running footwear range, including hiking products. The American brand has already contributed to the enthusiasm for light, fast and flexible running footwear with its own Merrell Barefoot range, which sold more ...
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CMD reports the opening in Barcelona of the first store...
CMD reports the opening in Barcelona of the first store exclusively dedicated to female mountaineers. Called Annapurna and run by two outdoor sports enthusiasts, Esther Ariete and Marga Nadal, it is located at Calle Rosselló 48. It has only 80 square meters of net sales space, but it plans to ...
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The Outdoor Industry Association of the U.S. has hired Kirk...
The Outdoor Industry Association of the U.S. has hired Kirk Bailey, an attorney with more than 14 years of senior-level experience in governmental affairs, to run a new lobbying office of the organization in Washington, D.C. He will also oversee three OIA employees in charge of governmental affairs at the ...
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The U.K.'s Outdoor Industries Association has appointed Terry Stephenson to...
The U.K.'s Outdoor Industries Association has appointed Terry Stephenson to be its new marketing and communications manager. He was formerly with Visit County Durham, a destination marketing company, and has also held marketing jobs at Berghaus and Adidas.
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Oliver Lang has been appointed vice president in charge of...
Oliver Lang has been appointed vice president in charge of product of The North Face in the Europe, the Middle East and Africa region (EMEA), taking the place of René Skytte. The 42-year old Lang has 23 years of experience in the industry. Among other positions, he worked for Karstadt ...
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Original Buff banks on apparel for growth
The Spanish company, famous for its colorful bandanas, will show a wider range of clothing at the OutDoor fair in Friedrichshafen in July, after presenting its first winter apparel line at Ispo in Munich last February.The potential is big, considering that distributors and retailers have adopted Original Buff's 4-year-old apparel ...
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Montane, the U.K. brand of high-end apparel, has collected some...
Montane, the U.K. brand of high-end apparel, has collected some £15,000 (€18,760-$23,500) to be donated to the Mountain Rescue England & Wales (MREW) for its excellent work. In a U.K. showroom, the effort, which took two years of fundraising, was celebrated in early May. MREW is basically carried by volunteers. ...
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Vaude has made another step toward making a dream come...
Vaude has made another step toward making a dream come true: to become Europe's most eco-friendly company in the industry. Vaude says that its headquarters near Lake Constance – including the production facilities that it runs there – are now fully “climate-neutral.” This means that the company has reduced its ...
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