All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 7, Issue 19-20
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The last seven Ultimo Outdoor stores operating in Norway will...
The last seven Ultimo Outdoor stores operating in Norway will be closing their doors soon. This means that 32 stores belonging to the Norwegian sports retail chain will have been closed and their 110 employees will have lost their jobs since the beginning of 2013. The 32 stores generated a ...
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In October, Haglöfs' product manager for hardware, Håkan Nyström, will...
In October, Haglöfs' product manager for hardware, Håkan Nyström, will be stepping down, triggering new management changes after the recent departure of the company's chief executive, Nicolas Warchalowski. Viktor Wramdemark, the current director of footwear, will take over Nyström's position and will thus be also responsible for hardware. For ...
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Founder leaves Five Ten
Five Ten, the specialist climbing and cycling footwear brand, is turning a page after its founder, Charles Cole, left the company in July, about three years after selling it to the Adidas Group. Since then he had been acting as president. The U.S. company is now led by Wally Barker, ...
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Keen has hired Michael Minter as its first in-house vice...
Keen has hired Michael Minter as its first in-house vice president of creative. Minter was most recently global creative director/global director of marketing at Sanuk. He brings years of experience from the outdoor, action sports, surf and footwear industries. At Sanuk, he led the design and development process as global ...
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For the first time, Jack Wolfskin will be represented in...
For the first time, Jack Wolfskin will be represented in the important Norwegian market, starting with the spring/summer 2015 season. The German brand has not focused seriously on the Norwegian market in the past, but has now partnered with a local agent, Jawo AS. The company, which has ...
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Prana eyes more foreign and own retail sales
Growing international distribution should be one of the pillars of the Prana brand's development under the ownership of the Columbia Sportswear group, which bought this progressive American outdoor and yoga apparel brand in April (see details of the transaction in The Compass, Vol. 7 n° 7-8). Outlining the benefits of ...
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Ottervanger quits Etnies for Icebreaker
Peter Ottervanger, a Dutch expert in retailing, is leaving as vice president and general manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Sole Technology, parent company of Etnies and other skate and snowboard brands, to take on a similar role at Icebreaker, the fast-growing brand of merino wool garments ...
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More funding for Eoca and its projects
The European Outdoor Conservation Association (Eoca) raised more funds than ever before at the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen in July. It collected nearly €31,000 during the four-day event for its environmental conservation projects. The amount was about double what it raised at previous editions of the trade show and enough ...
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Houdini Sportswear will open an eco-sustainable store in Gothenburg in...
Houdini Sportswear will open an eco-sustainable store in Gothenburg in September. The Swedish company claims it will be Sweden's greenest store. This will be made possible through the collaboration with Vasakronan, a major real estate firm managing 192 properties in the country with a total area of around 2,600,000 square ...
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Ex Officio starts European distribution
The European brand manager appointed by Ex Officio last year has started to spread the outdoor apparel brand owned by Jarden Corp. Marcus Ehlig is backed up by the European infrastructure of the Marmot brand owned by the same group but selling directly to retailers, instead of leaning on Marmot's ...
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Gramicci widens scope with licensing deal
Gramicci, a U.S. company specializing in climbing, yoga and organic clothing, is eager to expand into new foreign markets in the coming years following a three-year apparel licensing agreement signed in July with the Hampshire Group, which should enable it to lean on a more efficient sourcing platform. Paul Buxbaum ...
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Technology, urban outdoor garments and water sports novelties created much...
Technology, urban outdoor garments and water sports novelties created much of the buzz at Outdoor Retailer's summer show earlier this month. The number of attendees remained roughly stable at about 27,000 but the number of exhibitors expanded from nearly 1,300 last year to 1,595 for the latest edition, 329 of ...
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Court halts Deuter’s current practice of selective distribution
The popular German brand of backpacks has lost its case, at least for now, against a retailer who was not willing to sign the supplier's revised general terms and a special declaration with binding guidelines for selective distribution. Judicial authorities and other sources declined to disclose to us the name ...
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Missing Link regroups and cuts costs
The Norwegian Missing Link Group (MLG) has been through some turbulent years recently, as we have reported in the past, with declining sales and continual changes in leadership. Its sales fell last year to NOK 51 million Norwegian kroner (€6.3m-$8.2m) from NOK 60 million in 2012. However, according to an ...
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Confluence in multiple takeover talks
Confluence Outdoor, an American group that owns eight paddle sports brands, is holding talks with about eight companies to wrap up at least one acquisition by the end of the year. We have learnt this about four months after the company was acquired by J.H. Whitney Capital Partners and added ...
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Primaloft is launching a completely redesigned website, at www.primaloft.com, as...
Primaloft is launching a completely redesigned website, at www.primaloft.com, as part of a change in branding the company announced in January this year. Along with new brand visuals, the website features multiple platforms dedicated to educating the consumer about all aspects of the company. The “Performance Guide” includes, among other ...
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GSI Outdoors, the U.S. company specializing in outdoor cookware, has...
GSI Outdoors, the U.S. company specializing in outdoor cookware, has made several adjustments to its European distribution in the last months. It sealed an agreement with Venta Sport in Germany, starting from the beginning of 2015 and replacing a partnership with Relags, a big trading company. Venta Sport, which already ...
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Patagonia launches a new “Vote the Environment” campaign
Patagonia has launched a crowd-sourced campaign asking artists across the U.S. to create a collection of designs expressing why they believe the environment is the key issue in the upcoming mid-term election and inspire people to vote, especially young people. According to a study by Harvard University, only 23 percent ...
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Camelbak hires Edi Kaiser
Camelbak went through 80 different applications before choosing Edi Kaiser as its new European sales manager. A former sales marketing director for Spyder Active Sports, he worked until the end of May as general manager for Germany and Austria at Skins, the Australian supplier of compression garments. Kaiser ...
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Vasque to build European platform
Vasque, the outdoor footwear brand of the Red Wing Shoes group, is moving ahead with plans to return to Western Europe after an absence of about three years. The company pulled out due to product issues that have since been resolved. It wants to set up a full-fledged European platform, ...
