All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 6, Issue 14-15
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Remembering the past at OutDoor
(Already published in Asia Outdoor issue). The celebration of the 20th anniversary of the OutDoor show added to the positive mood at the fair, strengthening the feeling that an increasingly solid international outdoor community has been formed around the event over the years. All of them speaking in English ...
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Lafuma plans major refinancing
While reporting a double-digit decline in its sales for the nine months ended June 30, Groupe Lafuma said last week that it is in an active phase of negotiations with its bankers about a comprehensive refinancing program that will involve a significant equity increase.The French group's revenues for the nine-month ...
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Sanfo is happy with sales growth, but less with profits
In 2012, Sanfo, China's leading outdoor specialty retailer, lifted its sales by around 25 percent to RMB285 million (€35.1m-46.5m). Heng Zhang, the group's chief executive, said that sales remained flat on a same-store basis. Most of the increases came from additional doors, but, most importantly, from a thriving business of ...
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News briefs
Jack Wolfskin kicked off a gradual launch of a new...
Jack Wolfskin kicked off a gradual launch of a new corporate identity at the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen. The German company says its revised brand logo has a fresh, impressive, contemporary and clear design. The brand presentation is intended to be more concise and cohesive than in the past, when ...
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Timezone, the German streetwear label, is teaming up with Salewa...
Timezone, the German streetwear label, is teaming up with Salewa and Maloja, to market fashionable, but also functional pants for climbing and cycling, respectively. The products, which are scheduled to hit the shops in spring 2014, take advantage of the partnering companies' know-how on fitting and other functional requirements as ...
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Fjällräven will open its first flagship store in New York...
Fjällräven will open its first flagship store in New York City in the autumn but has not given a precise date. The store will be located in the SoHo district and will have a selling surface of 400 square meters. While the range will be dominated by the Swedish outdoor ...
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Houdini will launch its first sustainability report in September this...
Houdini will launch its first sustainability report in September this year. Taking into account the whole production of the Swedish outerwear brand from May 1, 2012 to April 30, 2013, recycled fiber accounted for 57.7 percent and Bluesign-certified material for 62.3 percent. Materials that were neither recycled fiber or Bluesign-certified accounted ...
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The North Face and Vans make up for sluggish Timberland
The Outdoor and Action Sports division at VF Corporation lifted its sales by 6 percent to $1.1 billion for the quarter ended June 29, driven by The North Face and Vans as in many previous quarters, while Timberland was in decline. The unit saw its sales rise across the U.S. as well ...
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Rewoolution expands its international sales network
(Already published in Asia Outdoor issue). Rewoolution, the Italian brand of premium outdoor apparel made of merino wool, will be selling its products in SportScheck stores in Germany from autumn/winter 2013, adding to some 250 points of sale that already carry its Italian-made products around Europe after only three ...
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Jack Wolfskin is partnering with Heightsport to expand in South...
Jack Wolfskin is partnering with Heightsport to expand in South America. The sales partnership covers Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile. The first South American Jack Wolfskin store opened on July 13 on Lake Villarrica in Pucón, Chile. Pucón is a small town with just under 20,000 inhabitants but is ...
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SmartWool has transferred its European headquarters from the U.K. to...
SmartWool has transferred its European headquarters from the U.K. to the office of VF Corporation (VFC) Europe in Lugano, Switzerland. Chris Hahn, who has headed SmartWool Europe for almost five years and has spent nine years with SmartWool in total, has relocated to Lugano. Some other executives have left the ...
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As every year during the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen, Primus,...
As every year during the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen, Primus, the Swedish brand of stoves and accessories belonging to the Fenix group, honored its ‘distributor of the year.' The award for 2012 was handed over to the brand's British distributor, Rosker. The company has distributed Primus in the U.K. for ...
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Rossignol plans outdoor diversification under new ownership
The 106-year-old French ski company, which had previously made a diversification into golf as a counter-seasonal activity, said also in a public statement that it plans to use Altor Equity Partners' successful experience in the apparel sector for the deployment of its own apparel offering, which was managed for a ...
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News briefs
NRS, a manufacturer and distributor of inflatable watercraft and paddling...
NRS, a manufacturer and distributor of inflatable watercraft and paddling gear, is taking over WRSI, which has developed and patented a range of medium-priced whitewater helmets, in combination with John Hopkins University. WRSI is said to have set a new industry standard for impact and anti-rotational safety. NRS will sell ...
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Sports Direct seeks a stronger role in outdoor
Sports Direct International (SDI), the big British sporting goods retailer that lost out a fight for control of the Blacks and Millets outdoor retail chains to JD Sports Fashion a couple of years ago, has acquired a majority stake in Yeomans. This British chain of 70 outdoor stores sells tents ...
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The outdoor industry is developing differently
(Already published in Asia Outdoor issue). Figureheads of the industry agreed at a discussion held at the OutDoor fair in Friedrichshafen earlier this month that the market has changed beyond recognition since the show was launched two decades ago. Among other factors that transformed the business, they pointed to the ...
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Deckers loses Teva sales
Teva's sales declined by 8.4 percent to $31.2 million in the second quarter, and Ugg's sales decreased by 6.9 percent to $100.4 million, and Sanuk went up by 7.5 percent to $30.1 million. Together, the three brands had a 2.5 percent drop in second-quarter revenues to $170.1 million. The parent ...
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Columbia predicts a lower Ebit for the year
Columbia Sportswear reduced its net losses by 10 percent to $7.08 million in the second quarter, as compared to the same period a year ago, although its sales went down by 3 percent to $280.5 million, with one percentage point due to negative currency effects. The gross margin improved to ...
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Northland China looks into Lowa and outlines new strategies
B.C. Sports Group, the Chinese licensee of the Austrian outdoor brand Northland, is looking into future growth. Its general manager, Steve Huang, told The Compass at the Asia Outdoor show in Nanjing that he is set to bring the company to the stock exchange. The required information was submitted last September, ...
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Short stops
Décathlon has opened its first distribution center in Germany (more...
Décathlon has opened its first distribution center in Germany (more on this in our sister publication SGI Europe)
