All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 7, Issue 17-18 – Page 3
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Johnson Outdoors has appointed Patricia G. Penman to the position...
Johnson Outdoors has appointed Patricia G. Penman to the position of vice president of global marketing services and communication. She will be a member of the executive team reporting directly to Helen Johnson-Leipold, chairperson and chief executive of the company. Penman has spent more than 30 years in the packaged ...
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The fifth annual Outdoor Inspiration Awards will introduce new categories...
The fifth annual Outdoor Inspiration Awards will introduce new categories at the 2014 Outsiders Ball, which will be held during Outdoor Retailer Summer Market, on Aug. 5. The Outdoor Inspiration Awards, presented by Adidas Outdoor, recognize individuals, groups, and companies who are breaking new ground in encouraging others to participate ...
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Black Diamond Equipment has announced the completion of its sale...
Black Diamond Equipment has announced the completion of its sale of Gregory Mountain Products to Samsonite for $84.1 million. The company has used $26.7 million out of the net proceeds of $68.4 million to pay off its credit facility. It took about six months to complete the negotiations after the ...
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Pacsafe has announced that this year's project through the newly-launched...
Pacsafe has announced that this year's project through the newly-launched Pacsafe Turtle Fund will support the Latin American Sea Turtles (Last) initiative in Costa Rica, in conjunction with EOCA (European Outdoor Conservation Association), a non-profit organization which raises funds from the outdoor industry for nature conservation projects worldwide. Pacsafe, which ...
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Footbalance, the Finnish brand for molded insoles and computer-aided analysis...
Footbalance, the Finnish brand for molded insoles and computer-aided analysis tools, has just started to sell in the Chinese market through a local distributor. The deal was signed with Mile Technology last October. At Ispo Beijing in February Footbalance set up an agreement with Tutwo, the Chinese outdoor retail chain ...
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AMG is encouraging its staff in Scotland to walk more...
AMG is encouraging its staff in Scotland to walk more frequently, in line with the Britain on Foot campaign led by the Outdoor Industries Association and with the Cycle to Work and Walking at Work initiatives of the U.K. Department of Health. AMG has asked its employees to sign a ...
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More resources for apparel and footwear at Amer Sports
Amer Sports, the multi-brand Finnish sports company, said it was starting the second part of its restructuring measures to ease the turnaround of its ball-sports business. It wants to put more resources behind strategic categories such as apparel and footwear as well as own retail sales, which should support the ...
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Armin Weber has been appointed marketing manager of Amer Sports...
Armin Weber has been appointed marketing manager of Amer Sports for Central Europe, concentrating on digital marketing for the various brands of the group. He has taken the place of Stephan Hagenbusch, who recently became European marketing manager of Black Diamond. Weber had previously handled similar functions at Quiksilver Europe.
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Amer Sports' Winter Sports Operations have received the Austrian Phoenix...
Amer Sports' Winter Sports Operations have received the Austrian Phoenix 2014 waste management award for their production site in Altenmarkt, Austria. The Austrian Water and Waste Management Association (ÖWAV) presented the annual award for the 13th time to companies that are particularly innovative in the area of environmental protection and ...
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A Swedish distributor, Granitbiten, has added Chaco and Clifbar to...
A Swedish distributor, Granitbiten, has added Chaco and Clifbar to its portfolio. Chaco is the brand of sandals taken over by Wolverine Worldwide a few years ago. Clifbar, a U.S. company that markets energy bars and energy gels, uses IC Enterprises as its master distributor in Sweden, and Granitbiten will ...
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Fewer visitors at Asia Outdoor and questions about Ispo Shanghai
There was little change to the number of exhibitors at the ninth edition of the Asia Outdoor trade show, held in Nanjing on July 26-29, although they occupied fewer halls. The number of participating firms was up slightly to 613 from 610 a year ago, as the organizers managed to ...
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Point 65 buys Boblbee
Point 65, a Swedish kayak company, has expanded its product line by acquiring Boblbee, a company known for its backpacks with hard cases. The founder of Point 65, Richard Öhman, said that the deal is the company's first step in transitioning to become a global outdoor brand.All of Boblbee's operations ...
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The Calida Group, which has acquired a 59.6 percent controlling...
The Calida Group, which has acquired a 59.6 percent controlling interest in the Lafuma Group, has hired ThorstenWalter as sales manager of the French company for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He previously worked for two Swiss companies, Toko and Wenger. He acted as brand manager of Toko, continuing after its ...
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Ulf Michels, 35, has replaced Christoph Bösl as European marketing...
Ulf Michels, 35, has replaced Christoph Bösl as European marketing manager of Five Ten. Before joining the Adidas subsidiary, Michels worked for a Munich-based production company and was responsible among other things for the European Outdoor Film Tour.
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Deckers grows by 24.3%
Deckers Outdoor Corporation, which recently changed its fiscal year-end to March, has raised its outlook for sales and earnings in the current financial year after reporting a 24.3 percent boost in total revenues to $211.5 million for its first quarter ended on June 30. All its main brands contributed to ...
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Big recovery for the global outdoor shoe market in 2013
The global market for outdoor shoes recovered in 2013 from the 2.4 percent drop suffered in 2012, rising by an estimated 9.2 percent in terms of dollars to $4.27 billion at the wholesale level, according to an annual study by The Outdoor Industry Compass in combination with Sporting Goods Intelligence.Some ...
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Go Pro's sales jumped by 38.1 percent to $244.6 million...
Go Pro's sales jumped by 38.1 percent to $244.6 million for the second quarter, with growing demand for its latest products as well as a rise in contents, which are themselves driving extra sales. Go Pro, a Californian company selling small cameras that people strap to themselves to record their ...
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Garmin's sales in the Outdoor segment fell by 0.7 percent...
Garmin's sales in the Outdoor segment fell by 0.7 percent to $106.1 million in the second quarter ended June 28, instead of a previously projected 10-15 percent increase, due to a difficult start for its first action sports camera, the Virb, due to the competition from GoPro. The decline ...
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