All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 7, Issue 15-16
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Wolverine streamlines
Wolverine Worldwide has decided to streamline its operations, terminating its footwear license with Patagonia after delivery of the autumn/winter 2014/15 collection and closing down about 140 under-performing stores in the next 18 months. About 75 percent of the stores, which have seen a slowdown in mall traffic, belong to the ...
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A newly-created “Tech Zone” at the Outdoor Retailer Show in...
A newly-created “Tech Zone” at the Outdoor Retailer Show in Salt Lake City, Utah on Aug. 6-9 will display smartphone accessories from more than a dozen companies. The new area, located in the center of the Technology Pavilion Tent 3, in booth PV3143, will provide outdoor retailers with new product ...
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Ternua will work together with Lorpen
The Lasa family, majority shareholder in the IASA Group, which manages two Spanish brands, Ternua and Astore, has acquired a majority stake in Lorpen, the Spanish brand of technical socks. Lorpen faced financial problems during 2013, leading to a request for voluntary bankruptcy protection for Industrias Savidai, the company that ...
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Kodiak is relocating its manufacturing operations to a site...
Kodiak is relocating its manufacturing operations to a site in Cambridge, Ontario, and says it remains committed to making shoes in Canada
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Primus, the Swedish stove specialist, has outlined its plans until...
Primus, the Swedish stove specialist, has outlined its plans until 2020 with regard to production, development, product assortment and sales. The plan includes a new logo, which was launched this January, a new product assortment, sub-divided into several segments (expedition, trekking and campfire) as well as a new website, which ...
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Stefan Krause is the new head of product at Ortovox,...
Stefan Krause is the new head of product at Ortovox, the German brand of outdoor equipment and apparel. Effective June 1, he replaced Christoph Kirsch who left the company to pursue other job opportunities. Krause was previously in charge of quality management. He switched from Vaude, where he ran the ...
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Röjk, a new member of the Scandinavian Outdoor Group (SOG)...
Röjk, a new member of the Scandinavian Outdoor Group (SOG) since the beginning of this year, won the overall SOG award for its jacket “PrimaLoft zippen hood.” The winner in the hardware category was Bergans of Norway with their “Trollhetta” backpack, with a volume of 75 liters. In the apparel ...
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The OutDoor show honors Polartec’s founder
Aaron Feuerstein, the former owner of Malden Mills and the man behind Polartec, has been elected OutDoor Celebrity of the Year for 2014. The 88 year-old grandson of Malden Mills' founder was credited for changing the clothing that people wear for outdoor activities. Feuerstein joined Malden Mills as a junior ...
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Footbalance has launched tailored and molded flip-flops in Israel and...
Footbalance has launched tailored and molded flip-flops in Israel and Finland, and began selling the product this spring/summer season. The Finish company is currently evaluating the development of sales in these markets to prepare to introduce it to other markets in the future.
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The OutDoor fair progresses
The 21st edition of the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen went relatively well. The overall atmosphere was upbeat, the business climate was generally positive and the total number of daily visits went up by 2.1 percent to 21,912 as compared to last year, in spite of the uncertain economic climate and ...
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Hi-Tec is launching a walking-footwear range made in Europe on...
Hi-Tec is launching a walking-footwear range made in Europe on the back of its sponsorship of the Vierdaagse, an annual four-day walking event with about 45,000 registered participants that took place last week in Nijmegen, in the south of the Netherlands. The deal has inflated Hi-Tec's sell-in in the Netherlands, ...
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The second summer edition of the Russian outdoor show...
The second summer edition of the Russian outdoor show is to take place in Sokolniki, Moscow, for four days from July 21, with at least 22 exhibitors including Adidas Outdoor
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Timberland reaches environmental targets early
In 2007, as part of its overall sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) commitment, Timberland set a number of performance targets related to its four CSR pillars, which are Factories, Climate, Product and Service. The goal was to achieve these targets by the year 2015 but the company has just ...
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Downlite, the Ohio-based down and feather processor and supplier of...
Downlite, the Ohio-based down and feather processor and supplier of performance fills, is the first company to earn the Responsible Down Standard (RDS) certificate in China, which is the largest down supplier in the world. RDS was developed by The North Face in partnership with Control Union, a global certification ...
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Double-digit sales hike for TNF
The North Face enjoyed a sales hike of 11 percent for the second quarter of its financial year, until 28 June. The rise was driven by an improvement of 37 percent in its own retail sales, against a low single-digit increase in the brand's wholesale business. Sales are on track ...
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Haglöfs has seen its turnover increase at a double-digit rate...
Haglöfs has seen its turnover increase at a double-digit rate so far this year and reorders have been up by 35 percent, with ample increases in both footwear and clothing. The rise is attributed to the improved situation in some markets and the brand's expansion into Asia in the last ...
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Mammut parts ways with Sports Direct
Mammut Sports Group has decided to no longer supply Sports Direct International (SDI), the huge British sports retailer with stores across Europe. Rolf Schmid, Mammut's chief executive, said that the decision had been taken “for strategic reasons,” and it would help to maintain its quality standards to the benefit of ...
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The Schawbel Corporation, the parent of Thermacell Heated Insoles, has...
The Schawbel Corporation, the parent of Thermacell Heated Insoles, has announced the formation of a new business entity, Schawbel Technologies, following the sale of the Thermacell Mosquito Repellent business to Kinderhook Industries, a private equity firm based in New York. Schawbel Technologies includes the product development and research areas of ...
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Houdini is further developing its own retail concept. The Swedish...
Houdini is further developing its own retail concept. The Swedish brand already owns and manages three mono-brand stores in Sweden and will be opening an additional one in Gothenburg in September. The company intends to open corporate or franchised stores in its foreign focus markets: Germany, Norway and Japan. Houdini ...
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Columbia Sportswear introduced its line of “Performance Fishing Gear” (PFG)...
Columbia Sportswear introduced its line of “Performance Fishing Gear” (PFG) at the OutDoor show. According to the company, the range of apparel and footwear has been successful in the Americas for a while and is set to hit the European market by spring 2015. Franco Fogliato, the new senior vice ...
