All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 6, Issue 25-26 – Page 3
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Mike Edwards has been appointed managing director of Burton McCall,...
Mike Edwards has been appointed managing director of Burton McCall, the big U.K. distributor of outdoor products owned by the Bollin Group. He is taking the place of Steve Davey, who is leaving the company after nine years to run a bicycle distributor, Extra UK. Edwards has been most recently ...
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Johnson Outdoors has appointed Christopher Martens to a new position...
Johnson Outdoors has appointed Christopher Martens to a new position as business director for its camping unit, responsible for brand management, product management, marketing, R&D, quality control and customer service for Johnsons' Eureka!, Silva, and Jetboil brands. Besides acting as chief executive of Respect Your Universe, Martens served in numerous ...
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Greenpeace releases follow-up report on PFCs in outdoor apparel
The Greenpeace organization in Germany published last Dec. 12 a highly publicized “Detox Report” on the findings of a new investigation into the presence of perfluorinated and polyfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) and other hazardous chemicals, such as nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs) and phthalates, in outdoor clothing. The report indicated that some of ...
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Schöffel is launching a line of ski and outdoor apparel...
Schöffel is launching a line of ski and outdoor apparel for children aged 8 to 14 for the autumn/winter 2014/15 season. Reportedly, the German company has been suffering flat sales, in spite of a big advertising campaign in the past year, but the orders that it has collected for the ...
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PrimaLoft announces its hybrid insulation
At least 20 brands have adopted PrimaLoft's new Performance Down Blend Insulation for use in their autumn/winter 2014/15 collections. Announcing this new hybrid insulation product ahead of the Ispo Munich show, where it will also present its new corporate image (see the next article in this issue), PrimaLoft stresses that ...
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The Lafuma Group has announced that Calida Holding has carried...
The Lafuma Group has announced that Calida Holding has carried out its planned acquisition of 2.5 million new shares in the company at a price of €14 per share, for a total investment of €35 million. It thus holds now 50.65 percent of Lafuma's equity and voting shares. Felix Sulzberger, ...
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Messe München has publicly announced its plans to start a...
Messe München has publicly announced its plans to start a summer trade show in China in 2015, in response to demands by participants from the sporting goods industry in its ten-year-old Ispo Beijing show and in last June's Ispo Academy in Shanghai, where almost 250 industry representatives were on hand ...
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Wigwam, the American brand of socks, has promoted Natalie Stangl...
Wigwam, the American brand of socks, has promoted Natalie Stangl to the position of brand marketing manager. She will report to Jim Einhauser, executive vice president of marketing and sales. Stangl has been traveling all over the U.S. and abroad as field marketing manager over the last four years. She ...
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GSI Outdoors, the American producer of outdoor tableware and cookware,...
GSI Outdoors, the American producer of outdoor tableware and cookware, is expanding into Poland and Italy after signing up with two new distributors. Künzi, based in Bresso, near Milan, will take care of GSI on the Italian market, where it already represents some 40 brands, mostly in the field of ...
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Widening its base of debt investors to Central Europe, Amer...
Widening its base of debt investors to Central Europe, Amer Sports has signed a “Schuldschein” worth a total of around €70 million. For Amer, this typically German certificate of indebtedness is made up of a bundle of loans in euros and U.S. dollars with a maturity of five years that ...
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Amer Sports has extended the number of employees benefitting from...
Amer Sports has extended the number of employees benefitting from its Performance Share Plan from about 80 to 200 for the 2013-15 period. The amount of net rewards to be paid on the basis of the plan has been raised from a maximum total of 1.2 million shares to 1.4 ...
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Thorlo is terminating its distribution agreement for the U.K. with...
Thorlo is terminating its distribution agreement for the U.K. with Equip Outdoor Technologies and setting up its own network of sales reps in the country. The American company will work with WTDSL to provide logistical and customer service support. The new set-up has been organized by David Udberg, who is ...
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Fjällräven is opening its first concept store in Norway, after...
Fjällräven is opening its first concept store in Norway, after securing what is being touted as Scandinavia's best shopping location. The 310-square-meter store will be situated on Karl Johans Gate in Oslo, Norway's most famous shopping street, in close proximity to the concept stores of Haglöfs, Norrøna and Helly Hansen. ...
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Ortholite has appointed Denny Cowger as chief administrative officer and...
Ortholite has appointed Denny Cowger as chief administrative officer and general counsel. He will be focusing on the development and implementation of the strategic plans of this U.S.-based provider of comfort insoles, monitoring its management team and advising the company on global legal issues. Most recently, Cowger served as a ...
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Julbo has added another professional climber, David Allfrey, to...
Julbo has added another professional climber, David Allfrey, to its team of sponsored athletes in the U.S.
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First Ascent will add Komperdell, the Austrian producer of ski...
First Ascent will add Komperdell, the Austrian producer of ski and Nordic walking poles, to the brands that it represents in the U.K. The British agency and distributor suffered big losses in the past year due to the termination of contracts with Black Diamond and Cascade Designs.
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JD buys Activinstinct
JD Sports Fashion has acquired a majority stake at an undisclosed price in Activinstinct, a hybrid British retailer of outdoor and other sporting goods products whose sales have been growing rapidly, reaching an annual level of £24 million (€28.7m-$39.2m) in the past financial year, ended in August. The company has ...
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After its acquisition of Costa, the American producer of sports...
After its acquisition of Costa, the American producer of sports sunglasses, Essilor International, the world's largest supplier of ophthalmic lenses, has announced the takeover of Suntech Optics of Canada. Through a subsidiary called Bugaboos, the latter sells Ryders Eyewear, a line of performance sunglasses for mountain bike enthusiasts (more on ...
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POW of Seattle has acquired Holden Outerwear, another American company...
POW of Seattle has acquired Holden Outerwear, another American company that was founded by a professional snowboarder, Mike LeBlanc, and a designer, Scott Zergebel, to bring street fashion to a mountain environment. POW is the parent company of POW Gloves and Spacecraft Collective, a brand that stands for very artistic ...
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Columbia Sportswear has filed a lawsuit against Seirus Innovative Accessories...
Columbia Sportswear has filed a lawsuit against Seirus Innovative Accessories for infringement on its patent for its insulating Omni Heat reflective material. In the lawsuit it filed in Seattle at the beginning of December, Columbia accused Utah-based Seirus of selling gloves with a heat-reflecting material and bearing a wavy ornamental ...
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