All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 7, Issue 3-4 – Page 3
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In April, Salewa will open a flagship store in Munich...
In April, Salewa will open a flagship store in Munich on a selling surface of about 400 square meters. The outlet named “Salewa World” follows the shop concept at Salewa's headquarters in Bolzano, Italy, and highlights the entire collections of the Salewa core brand and its sister label, Dynafit. The ...
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Norrøna, the Norwegian outdoor brand, has appointed Christian Marsch to...
Norrøna, the Norwegian outdoor brand, has appointed Christian Marsch to the newly created position of sales manager for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands. The passionate 34-year-old freerider, cyclist and climber previously worked as key account manager for Canon. Jochen Hoffmann remains as account manager for Central and Northern Germany. ...
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Globetrotter re-invents itself - and buys another German retailer
Globetrotter Ausrüstung, the Hamburg-based specialty retailer, has confirmed substantial job cuts, notably in its warehouse, shortly after it became known that the Swedish Fenix Outdoor group would buy a 20 percent stake in the German outdoor specialty chain. At least 100 employees have been affected by the decision, and further ...
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JD Sports Fashion has taken over yet another British...
JD Sports Fashion has taken over yet another British outdoor retailer, Ultimate Outdoor, which operates three stores under its own name in Northern England and Wales, plus a Planet Fear store in Keswick. Based in Lancaster, it has been running in its present form since 1999, but its roots reportedly ...
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Cascade announces two major promotions
Cascade Designs has promoted Drew Keegan from director of Stoves & Cookware to vice president of product development and marketing services, a new position within the American company. He will oversee both functions for all the eight outdoor brands of the group, running a team of five managers responsible for ...
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Salewa has announced a new cooperation with BMW. Starting in...
Salewa has announced a new cooperation with BMW. Starting in Sept. 2014, BMW will provide transport in a new version of its Concept Active Tourer vehicle to a program of mountain events sponsored by Salewa. The partnership is intended to combine driving pleasure with the fascination of mountain sports. The ...
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Oboz, the six-year-old American brand of outdoor shoes from Bozeman,...
Oboz, the six-year-old American brand of outdoor shoes from Bozeman, Montana, is entering the Japanese market for the autumn/winter 2014/15 season through a distribution agreement with Itochu Corporation. The big Japanese trading company had been distributing another brand of outdoor footwear, Keen, for nine years. It is still the distributor ...
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Raidlight, the French trail-running specialist, has established new partnership agreements...
Raidlight, the French trail-running specialist, has established new partnership agreements with the SkyRunning Irazu in Costa Rica, the Ultra Trail Raidlight Beachcomber in Mauritius, and the Oman Desert Marathon. The 43 km Skyrunning Costa Rica, which will take place this year on March 29, is the main trail running competition ...
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Golden Gate Capital has agreed to sell Eddie Bauer, the...
Golden Gate Capital has agreed to sell Eddie Bauer, the well-known American outdoor and fashion retailer, for $564 million in cash and 4.7 million shares in the chain's new owner, Jos. A. Bank, a men's apparel retailer that has 570 stores in the U.S. The acquisition price is a multiple of ...
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The EOG opens up to retailers as Rolf Schmid takes the helm again
At its annual meeting just before the Ispo Munich show last month, the European Outdoor Group elected Rolf Schmid as its president for the next two years and decided to expand the membership and to allow retailers to join the organization.Schmid, the president of the Mammut Sports Group, was one ...
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As reported in the aftermath of the Asia Outdoor trade...
As reported in the aftermath of the Asia Outdoor trade show held in Nanjing at the end of July 2013, Kailas, one of the big players among the Chinese outdoor brands, is bullish about the development of a second brand called Udjat. This one doesn't address mountaineers and more ambitious ...
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After it came under the control of Bollin Group last...
After it came under the control of Bollin Group last July and appointed Mark Billing as the new managing director, Trekmates, the British brand of outdoor and adventure travel accessories and vclothing, signed a cooperation agreement with Go System, the British brand of portable gas appliances, for the distribution and ...
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After nearly six years as sales manager at Zamberlan, the...
After nearly six years as sales manager at Zamberlan, the Italian manufacturer of high-end outdoor footwear, Fabio Miotto has moved to another shoe company, Aku, where he now serves as export manager. Miotto, who previously spent six years at Tecnica, has collected much experience in exporting shoes from Italy, and ...
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After introducing its selective distribution concept in Germany last year,...
After introducing its selective distribution concept in Germany last year, Mammut separated from about 200-300 retailers in the course of 2013, representing about 20-25 percent of its sales. The selective distribution concept will now also be implemented in Switzerland and Austria, followed by the rest of the world, in the ...
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The North Face has announced the completion, after nearly two...
The North Face has announced the completion, after nearly two years in development, of its Responsible Down Standard (RDS), a tool that will provide a global standard through which any organization should be able to evaluate and certify the brand's full down supply chain. The announcement was made at a ...
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Two lifestyle brands, Napapijri and Calamar, are adopting Gore-Tex membranes...
Two lifestyle brands, Napapijri and Calamar, are adopting Gore-Tex membranes for their autumn/winter 2014/15 collections
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GoPro, the big American supplier of action video cameras,...
GoPro, the big American supplier of action video cameras, has filed a confidential request for an initial public offering and opened a European head office in Munich (more in SGI Europe)
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Vibram is acting as title sponsor of three trail-running races...
Vibram is acting as title sponsor of three trail-running races in Hong Kong, New Zealand and Italy between March and May. One of the events is Maremontana, which will take place along the Ligurian sea cost and across the neighboring mountains on March 23. The resort of Loano will be ...
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VF sees outdoor sales accelerating
The management of VF Corporation predicts that The North Face will grow by around 12 percent this year and Timberland by about 10 percent, compared with increases of 7 percent and 5 percent, respectively, in 2013. The acceleration became evident in the fourth quarter of last year, when the two ...
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Sales and profits accelerate at Amer
Amer Sports raised its sales by 6 percent to €657.4 million in the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, but they grew by 12 percent on a currency-neutral basis, confirming its focus on the development of the softgoods category with increases of 25 percent in footwear and 21 percent in apparel. ...
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