All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 6, Issue 16
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The outdoor scene heats up in India
Columbia Sportswear has announced an agreement with Chogori India Retail to be its exclusive distributor in India, effective immediately. The announcement comes at a time when other outdoor brands are becoming more active in a largely untapped market that seems to hold great promise for the future.Founded in 2000 by ...
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Market growth is softening in Korea
Depending on the definition, South Korea remains the world's second-largest market for outdoor products after the U.S. It is still much larger than the Chinese outdoor market, but its growth is slowing down after rising by more than 30 percent in each of the last three years.According to an authoritative ...
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A good Outdoor Retailer Summer Market
The Outdoor Retailer trade show in Salt Lake City ended on a positive note, according to the organizers and many key exhibitors whom we met there. There was a general sentiment that the outdoor market is growing or stabilizing, thanks to innovative products and more active lifestyles. Procurement costs have ...
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Outdoor outperforms at Garmin, too
Garmin reported a 6 percent increase in revenues for its Outdoor segment to $106.9 million in the second quarter, ended June 30. The growth was led by products for golf, dog tracking and training. The Fitness segment grew by 3 percent to $84.2 million on the back of new cycling ...
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Schöffel and Lowa have now opened their first joint store...
Schöffel and Lowa have now opened their first joint store in Switzerland. The dual-branded shop is located in the outdoor arena of Flims, occupying the premises of a store that used to be run by a local retailer, Rudolf Sport. The new banner is operated by a recently founded company, Rudolf ...
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In reporting its results for its first financial quarter, ended...
In reporting its results for its first financial quarter, ended on June 30, Asics Corporation said that its “Other Business” segment, which includes Haglöfs, suffered an operating loss of ¥176 million (€1.37m-$1.82m) versus a profit of 25 million in the period a year ago. Divisional sales went up by 17.5 percent ...
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Teva, a division of Deckers Outdoor Corp., has hired Lorie...
Teva, a division of Deckers Outdoor Corp., has hired Lorie Pointer as senior product line manager for its water category of men's, women's and kid's footwear. She will report to Juerg Geser, senior director of global product/merchandising. With more than 15 years of experience in the footwear industry, Pointer will ...
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Industry conventions focus on retailing
More and more companies and individuals are signing up for the European Outdoor Summit (EOS) due to be held in Stockholm next Oct. 16-18, leaving only 53 tickets left. Meanwhile, the European Outdoor Group and the Scandinavian Outdoor Group, which are organizing the event, have completed the program of the ...
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Grifone makes it into China through the internet
The Spanish brand of outdoor apparel is about to enter the Chinese market through a very specific business approach: Grifone has partnered with Shanghai Yihaoying E-Commerce, which specializes in online retailing on behalf of outdoor brands. Yihaoying already runs exclusive or authorized internet shops for The North Face, Osprey, Mobi ...
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Growing up by cooling down in China
(Analysis by Markus Huber, who is handling the outdoor section of a report on the Chinese sporting goods market that we plan to put out in 2014) - After a few roaring years of massive double-digit growth, it is becoming clear that the Chinese outdoor market needs to be cleaned ...
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Tutwo is building China's largest outdoor store in Zhenzhou
Tutwo, a big Chinese retailer and wholesaler based in Xiamen, intends to open the largest specialty outdoor store in China in Zhenzhou, the capital of the Henan province, by the end of this year. The planned selling surface is a stunning 10,000 square meters. Zhenzhou is placed in the wealthier ...
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Lizard, the Italian brand of sports sandals run by Luca...
Lizard, the Italian brand of sports sandals run by Luca Pedrotti, has appointed a new distributor for the U.K., Anatom. Besides its own Anatom brand of waterproof shoes “designed in Scotland,” the company is already a distributor of Dynafit and Bogs shoes as well as Teko sports socks. It also ...
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Black Diamond has lower margins on higher sales
Echoeing an observation made a few weeks ago by Blake Krueger, chief executive of Wolverine Worldwide, in commenting on its latest financial results, Peter Metcalf, president and chief executive of Black Diamond Inc. said that retailers are ordering conservatively, pushing more of the inventory risk over to the manufacturers and ...
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Beijing Jiarunhang Business Trade has taken on the distribution of...
Beijing Jiarunhang Business Trade has taken on the distribution of Mico in the Chinese market. Mico is an Italian brand of functional sports underwear, socks and accessories that showed at Asia Outdoor in Nanjing for the first time in July. The company shared a booth with the other brands that ...
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NKD, which has been licensing the Wild Roses brand of...
NKD, which has been licensing the Wild Roses brand of women's outdoor apparel from its Swiss owners, has presented a business plan to get over its own financial problems. In collaboration with a consulting firm, Ziems, its parent company, Daun, has developed a cost reduction program with the banks and ...
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Jennifer Mull has been elected as the new chair of...
Jennifer Mull has been elected as the new chair of the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) of the U.S., taking the place of Will Manzer, chief executive of Eastern Mountain Sports, following the end of his two-year term. Mull is chief executive and president of Backwoods Inc., a manufacturer and retailer ...
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Confirming rumors that have been around since the last OutDoor...
Confirming rumors that have been around since the last OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen, Sea to Summit, the Australian brand of equipment and accessories, has announced that its Zhong Shan-based subsidiary will take on the Chinese distribution of Camelbak effective from Nov. 1. Sea to Summit is already Camelbak's distributor for ...
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Tony Wong, area sales manager for Asia at Sympatex Technologies,...
Tony Wong, area sales manager for Asia at Sympatex Technologies, told this publication at the recent Asia Outdoor show in Nanjing that this German supplier of waterproof and breathable laminates recently sealed some supply deals with various outdoor-oriented brands in the region. Starting with the upcoming winter season, Sympatex will ...
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In yet another effort to strengthen its collection with more...
In yet another effort to strengthen its collection with more functionality and technology, Kailas, the big Chinese outdoor brand, has teamed up with Polygiene, the Swedish supplier of anti-odor technology. The new partnership was announced at the last Asia Outdoor show in Nanjing, China, by Christian von Uthmann, chief executive ...
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Patagonia has announced a partnership with an organization called Nature...
Patagonia has announced a partnership with an organization called Nature Conservancy and the Argentinian federation of ranchers, named Ovis XXI. The outdoor brand has agreed to buy wool from farmers in Argentina for use in its range of functional underwear. The sheep graze on some 1.6 million square kilometers, about ...
