All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 7, Issue 11-12 – Page 3
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Pentland Brands has appointed Richard Newcombe brand president for Lacoste...
Pentland Brands has appointed Richard Newcombe brand president for Lacoste Footwear. He takes the place of Andy Simister, who left the company last October and is now working for Wolverine Worldwide (see the article in this issue). Newcombe has been in the footwear industry for 27 years. He joined Pentland ...
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Schwabel Corporation has appointed Mark Thomas as marketing manager for...
Schwabel Corporation has appointed Mark Thomas as marketing manager for its Thermacell mosquito repellent division
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Schöffel, the German marketer of outdoor and snow sports apparel,...
Schöffel, the German marketer of outdoor and snow sports apparel, has appointed a couple of new managers in the sales and product development departments. Effective July 1, Bernd Dietrich will switch from Vaude to Schöffel and will assume the new role of international sales manager, reporting to the brand manager, Christophe ...
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Anders Blomster will be the new marketing manager at Lundhags....
Anders Blomster will be the new marketing manager at Lundhags. In August, he will replace the current marketing manager, Sara Wänseth. Blomster has served as marketing manager at Naturkompaniet, the Swedish outdoor retail chain, and at an internet store, Outnorth.
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Antti Jääskeläinen, Amer Sports' chief development officer and senior vice...
Antti Jääskeläinen, Amer Sports' chief development officer and senior vice president for the group's supply chain and global operations, will leave the group and its executive board in mid-August. He has been with the company since 2009, but he has accepted a new position outside Amer Sports.
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Ispo is inviting all exhibitors, visitors and Ispo Card holders...
Ispo is inviting all exhibitors, visitors and Ispo Card holders to post their ideas and comments on how they would like to improve the services offered by the Ispo Card, sharing them with others on the Ispo Open Innovation platform. The most active participants will be rewarded with trips including ...
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Alex Kutches, who has spent the last eight years or...
Alex Kutches, who has spent the last eight years or so in leading positions at Outdoor Research, has become vice president of sales and marketing for Mystery Ranch, an American supplier of very technical and practical backpacks for Special Forces, ski patrollers, fire brigades and other mission-oriented clients. One of ...
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The OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen, where we shall again post...
The OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen, where we shall again post a daily newsletter, is fine-tuning for its next session on July 10-13. The number of watersports companies has grown to a dozen. The open-air Feel Good Lounge outside the West Entrance, sponsored by Gore-Tex, will be much larger than last ...
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Wolverine brings in executives from Adidas and Pentland
Wolverine Worldwide has announced three important new executive appointments including that of James D. Zwiers as president of its International Group, which it created three years ago to accelerate its global growth. While Zwiers is a company insider, the two other new executives come from important foreign groups.Zwiers has held ...
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Performance Days, the textile exhibition for the activewear and workwear...
Performance Days, the textile exhibition for the activewear and workwear sectors, attracted 977 “expert visitors” at its 12th session in Munich on May 13-14, up from 688 a year ago. They came from 25 countries and visited the stands of 108 companies from 17 countries, 25.6 percent more than a ...
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Fros International is going to stop acting as Berghaus' distributor...
Fros International is going to stop acting as Berghaus' distributor in the Benelux countries at the end of the year, as the outdoor brand is going to sell directly in the country, starting with orders for the spring/summer 2015 collection. Angela Dugdale, European sales manager of Berghaus, will add full ...
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Article
Samsonite acquires Gregory
We have already reported on the development of another American brand of backpacks, High Sierra, under the ownership of Samsonite International. The international luggage giant, which has been based and publicly quoted in Hong Kong since 2010, has now signed a definitive agreement to purchase Gregory Mountain Products, a more ...
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Reda Rewoolution, the Italian merino wool knitter, has involved about...
Reda Rewoolution, the Italian merino wool knitter, has involved about 100 selected European dealers since April 1 in a similar recycling operation. Using a highly visible display and promotional flyers, it has invited customers to take any old synthetic sweater to the store in exchange for a 20 percent discount ...
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Jack Wolfskin has announced that 75 percent of its apparel...
Jack Wolfskin has announced that 75 percent of its apparel collection will be made without the use of perfluorinated or polyfluorinated compounds (PFCs) as from the summer 2015 collection, three years ahead of schedule. In 2013, the company made a commitment, under the motto “Going the extra mile,” to completely ...
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Patagonia has expanded its partnership with 7thonline to cover its...
Patagonia has expanded its partnership with 7thonline to cover its e-commerce and physical retail operations, in addition to wholesale planning and forecasting. The goal is to gain complete visibility into global demand across all retail channels and geographic regions in order to develop better product ranges and greater inventory productivity ...
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Martin Kössler, the 42-year-old former export manager of Haglöfs who...
Martin Kössler, the 42-year-old former export manager of Haglöfs who recently resigned as secretary general of the Scandinavian Outdoor Group, has become chairman of the board at Bergans of Norway. He replaces the 82-year-old Per Nessjøen, who is retiring. Two more new directors continue to sit on the board of ...
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Polartec has announced the 39 products that have won this...
Polartec has announced the 39 products that have won this year's Apex Awards. They were submitted by several companies including 66°North, Arc'teryx, Descente, Eider, Giro, Grifone, Houdini, Kjus, Lululemon, Millet, Montane, Mountain Force, Norrøna, Patagonia, Ping, Rab, Reebok, Sugoi, Ternua and Vaude, among others. The complete list and the related ...
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Tom Jungell, who has been with Footbalance since 2011,...
Tom Jungell, who has been with Footbalance since 2011, is leaving as its chief executive to move on to new challenges. Klaus Rauhansalo, who is said to have a long career and extensive experience with large corporations and small start-ups, has been designated as interim CEO of the Finnish company, ...
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We incorrectly published a projected 2014 turnover of 200 million...
We incorrectly published a projected 2014 turnover of 200 million U.S. dollars for Icebreaker in the last issue. These were actually New Zealand dollars, equivalent to about US$170 million and €125 million. A spokesman for the company said that about 40 percent of that will come from Europe and 40 ...
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2XU has appointed Scott Taylor to be its first president...
2XU has appointed Scott Taylor to be its first president for the U.S. The move comes after L Capital Asia, an investment vehicle controlled by LVMH, sealed the acquisition of a 40 percent stake in the Australian performance sports and compression apparel brand last December. Taylor comes to 2XU with ...
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