All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 7, Issue 5-6 – Page 3
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Amplatz, a ski and outdoor store in the Italian alpine...
Amplatz, a ski and outdoor store in the Italian alpine resort of Canazei, has been given a prize by the Italian Outdoor Group
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Aliens Bergsport & Arbeitssicherheit, German distributor of Singing Rock, has...
Aliens Bergsport & Arbeitssicherheit, German distributor of Singing Rock, has taken on the distribution of Kong, the Italian brand of climbing equipment. Kong was previously distributed by Bergzeug. The latter's founder and managing director, Peter Gruber has left the company to work for the new Germany subsidiary of Petzl, taking ...
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Alex Nicolai has left as the sports chief at Ecco,...
Alex Nicolai has left as the sports chief at Ecco, the large Danish footwear group, to take the place of Heinz Feuerecker, one of the top managers at Lowa
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Aigle has launched a new version of its website which...
Aigle has launched a new version of its website which provides visitors with intuitive access to e-commerce functions. The website is managed by The Other Store and is already operational in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. In partnership with SoCloz, customers can also book products online to try them on ...
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Jos. A Bank Clothiers is not going to go ahead...
Jos. A Bank Clothiers is not going to go ahead with its proposed $825 million acquisition of Eddie Bauer, as the American menswear retail chain has agreed to be acquired instead by a competitor, The Men's Warehouse. As a result, Eddie Bauer's parent company, Everest Holdings, will get a break-up ...
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Improve Business Scandinavia has become the new general agent for...
Improve Business Scandinavia has become the new general agent for Treksta, the Korean brand of outdoor shoes. Improve is run by Mats Bengtsson, who was formerly the managing director for Viking Footwear in Sweden. Improve has hired two new experienced employees, Peter Patrickson, a former sales reepresentative for Viking, and ...
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AMG is open for new ventures after management buyout
AMG Group, the Scottish company that owns the Vango brand of camping products as well as the Force Ten and Lichfield brands of family camping products, is eager to obtain new distribution contracts and is interested in possible acquisitions following its management buyout, announced a few days ago. In particular, ...
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American military drawdown affects Rocky Brands, too
Rocky Brands saw its sales increase by 7.1 percent to $244.9 million in 2013, with a strong performance in Rocky and Georgia Boots work footwear because of the cold and snowy conditions in many parts of the U.S. at the end of the year. The American company also experienced strong ...
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Adidas Outdoor has signed a sponsorship agreement with Hayley Ashburn,...
Adidas Outdoor has signed a sponsorship agreement with Hayley Ashburn, a 25-year world slacklining champion. She set the record for the highest highline by a woman in Yosemite Valley, where slacklining started back in the 1970s. Last month, she was part of the first team to have successfully walked a ...
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To better define sales and marketing activities, Swix Sports has...
To better define sales and marketing activities, Swix Sports has reorganized its company into two separate internal organizations – Sport and Outdoor. Though retailers and consumers will not be able to tell any difference, all Swix and Toko activities now fall under the Sport organization, while the brands Lundhags and ...
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Camelbak’s parent seeks new acquisitions
Compass Diversified Holdings (CODI) said it will continue to actively pursue acquisitions of other companies. The public company has controlling interests in Camelbak Products, Ergobaby and Liberty Safe, and it spun off a minority stake in Fox Factory to the stock exchange last year, earning net proceeds of $142.4 million ...
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JD Sports has acquired Ultimate Outdoors, a retail with three...
JD Sports has acquired Ultimate Outdoors, a retail with three stores in the north of England and Wales under its own name and another under the Planet Fear banner in Keswick. In addition to JD and other properties in the sports and fashion sectors, the British retailer controlled by Pentland ...
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Gordon Baird takes the reins of Inov-8
A 54-year-old industry veteran, Gordon Baird, became the new chief executive of Inov-8, the fast-growing brand of trail running shoes, on March 18. He was most recently the CEO of Americana, the British parent of the Bench brand, which is coming under the ownership of another equity fund (more on ...
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On March 7, Mogens Arens, the owner of Oase Outdoors,...
On March 7, Mogens Arens, the owner of Oase Outdoors, the Danish maker of camping equipment and marketer of the brands Outwell, Robens and Easy Camp, passed away after a long illness. Arens was 74. He founded Oase Outdoors and ran the company between 1984 and 2004 when he handed ...
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The 6th International Workshop on Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances...
The 6th International Workshop on Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances (PFAS) will take place in Idstein, Germany, on June 15-18. Speakers at the four-day conference will include Christoph Schulte from the German Federal Environment Agency, who will discuss exposure, and Christopher Lau of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, who will ...
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Calida Holding of Switzerland has ended up with 59.92 percent...
Calida Holding of Switzerland has ended up with 59.92 percent of the shares in the Lafuma Group, up from 53.07 percent as of last Dec. 31, after a series of refinancing measures that have cut down its debt drastically and boosted equity to $56.88 million. A positive operating cash flow ...
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Ines Dangl, the 33-year-old former sales manager of Canada Goose...
Ines Dangl, the 33-year-old former sales manager of Canada Goose for Germany, has become German commercial director of Arc'teryx. With her appointment, Reiner Kopf, the former German agent of Arc'teryx who recently became Central European manager for the brand, has completed the establishment of its new German management team.
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Buff has opened its first store ever, operating on 22...
Buff has opened its first store ever, operating on 22 square meters in the El Prat airport of Barcelona
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The year 2013 was very good for Norrøna. The Norwegian...
The year 2013 was very good for Norrøna. The Norwegian company grew by nearly 30 percent, with sales amounting to about 360 million Norwegian kroner (€43.5m-$59.4m). In an interview published by Sportsbransjen, Norrøna's chief executive, Jørgen Jørgensen, explained that the company's strong growth comes after many years of clear distribution ...
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Keen supplied 200 pairs of boots, shoes and socks...
Keen supplied 200 pairs of boots, shoes and socks for the victims of the floods in the Somerset region of the U.K.
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