All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 7, Issue 3-4
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Weak results for Jarden
Jarden Corporation's Outdoor Solutions segment (JOS) had flat sales of $617.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2013, although they went up by 1.7 percent on an organic basis, excluding the impact of foreign exchange rates, acquisitions and disposals. Cold weather in many parts of the U.S. cut the fishing ...
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Ispo jury selects “Products of the Year”
In addition to 51 “Gold Winners,” five products were chosen as “Product of the Year” at the recent Ispo Munich fair by an international jury of 48 experts from three continents. They evaluated no less than 418 product entries, 11 percent more than in 2013.The applications came from 27 countries. ...
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Growing Toread invests more in travel services
Toread, China's leading supplier of outdoor sports products, has made an interesting diversification into the adventure travel business. After becoming the biggest shareholder in Asiatravel.com, one of the most important online travel operators in Southeast Asia, last August, last month it acquired 55.67 percent of the shares in Lyve.cn, which ...
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News briefs
The OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen will shift from Thursday-Sunday to...
The OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen will shift from Thursday-Sunday to a Wednesday-Saturday schedule, starting in 2015, reflecting the growing professionalism of the industry and in tune with similar changes at other trade shows. While it will still start on Thursday, July 10, this year, it will start on Wednesday, July ...
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Peak Performance, founding member of the Scandinavian Outdoor Group, SOG,...
Peak Performance, founding member of the Scandinavian Outdoor Group, SOG, is back as a new member from this year together with Cintamani, a brand of outdoor apparel from Iceland; Exel from Finland; Ulvang, a wool brand from Norway and Röjk from Sweden. The SOG now has a total of 39 ...
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Primaloft, which is growing faster than when it was part...
Primaloft, which is growing faster than when it was part of Albany International, has various new projects in the pipeline for fibers that will retain body heat and harness the heat from the sun. The company has also taken over its agents in Russia and Scandinavia, and it is launching ...
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Lorpen, the high-performance sock maker from Spain, faced financial problems...
Lorpen, the high-performance sock maker from Spain, faced financial problems during 2013, but is currently in discussions with a potential investor and the deal should be finalized in the next few months. As it turns out, the company recorded last year 10 percent growth in sales in the U.S. and ...
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Wolverine grows more slowly than expected
Sales increased by only 0.6 percent on a pro-forma comparable basis for Wolverine Worldwide in the fourth quarter ended last Dec. 28, due in particular to the impact of the early and protracted cold weather in the U.S., which led many consumers to buy boots as of last September. Merrell ...
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The Red Fox group started its retail expansion outside Russia...
The Red Fox group started its retail expansion outside Russia and the other CIS countries with the opening last week of a corporate mono-brand store in the Swiss mountain resort of Pontresina. Another one is scheduled for May at Lyons, Colorado. A Red Fox store that was going to be ...
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As we have previously reported, the European Federation of the...
As we have previously reported, the European Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry, Fesi, has become very active in its lobbying efforts in Brussels. A few days ago, it held a couple of important meetings with key personalities of the European Commission and the European Parliament that should lead to ...
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The European Outdoor Group estimates at this stage that the...
The European Outdoor Group estimates at this stage that the European outdoor industry's total wholesale value increased by between 0.5 to 3 percent in 2013 as compared to the previous year. According to the market research report that it published last October, the industry recorded a wholesale value of €4.9 ...
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Nikwax Waterproofing is entering the world of supplying PFC-free water-repellent...
Nikwax Waterproofing is entering the world of supplying PFC-free water-repellent technology to manufacturers of outdoor clothing. The company, until now best known for its waterproofing aftercare products, is launching two new garment component products. The Nikwax Hydrophobic Down, built into Rab Down garments, is more resistant to wet conditions than ...
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Salewa's German office is no longer responsible for the distribution...
Salewa's German office is no longer responsible for the distribution of Briko in the country. Two former Uvex managers, Oliver Heimbach and Kristian Otsa, are now taking care of the Italian brand (more in Sporting Goods Intelligence Europe).
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Hoka One One, which is now a division of Deckers...
Hoka One One, which is now a division of Deckers Outdoor Corp., has added a middle-distance runner, Mike Rutt, to its team of elite athletes. He was part of a team that broke an existing world record a few days ago in a 4 x 800-meter relay between New Jersey ...
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Trespass has hired Rick de Meijer, who was previously working...
Trespass has hired Rick de Meijer, who was previously working for Timberland and Columbia, as sales agent and manager for the Dutch market
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The Fenix Outdoor group cultivates its founder’s legacy
A few weeks after his death at the end of last year, Åke Nordin was vividly remembered at the stand of the Fenix Outdoor group at Ispo, as a founder whose sharp business approach and hard-headed personality helped to develop the European outdoor industry. As previously reported, Nordin died after ...
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Jarden Corp. sold its minority stake in the Rossignol Group...
Jarden Corp. sold its minority stake in the Rossignol Group for $50 million in the fourth quarter of 2013, but the size of its equity has not been disclosed
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Compressport will be the exclusive supplier of compression products to...
Compressport will be the exclusive supplier of compression products to the International Skyrunning Federation, sponsoring all its extreme trail-running events across the world between May and October this year. Athletes from 50 countries are expected to participate in the races, which will take place in Italy, Switzerland, Spain, France and ...
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The Lafuma Group has reported the successful completion of an...
The Lafuma Group has reported the successful completion of an equity increase of €10 million, but the company had not yet published the new structure of the capital as of today. In a preliminary report, the group has indicated that its sales inched up by 2.8 percent in the quarter ...
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Didriksons, the Swedish company specialized in rainwear and outdoor...
Didriksons, the Swedish company specialized in rainwear and outdoor garments that has its own sales subsidiary in the U.K., signed a sales cooperation with Cotswold Outdoor and Blacks, two British outdoor retail chains
