All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 7, Issue 9+10
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MSR, which stands for Mountain Safety Research, has reported that...
MSR, which stands for Mountain Safety Research, has reported that one of its sponsored athletes, Eric Larsen, reached the geographic North Pole on May 6 together with a partner, Ryan Waters, after completing a 53-day expedition without any human support. It was the first team to have accomplished the unaided ...
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Salewa officially launched a new and more modern logo at...
Salewa officially launched a new and more modern logo at a special event at Wolfgangsee in Austria last Sunday. While keeping the image of the eagle as its distinctive symbol, the new logo is more minimalist, in tune with the times. It had been registered already in December 2012, but ...
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Keen has a new president
Steve Meineke has agreed to act as president of Keen Footwear, starting on June 1. He comes from Accell Group, the big Dutch-based bicycle manufacturing group, where he led its North American subsidiary for the past two years. He previously acted as president of Raleigh America, now a property of ...
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Julbo USA is a Key Sponsor of the U.S. Skyrunner...
Julbo USA is a Key Sponsor of the U.S. Skyrunner Series, a new running series in the U.S. that kicked off on May 16 with the Cruel Jewel 56-km race in Georgia. Julbo will support all participants in this new series, including members of its own Julbo endurance running team. ...
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Peak Performance improves margins
IC Companys reports a 4 percent increase in the revenues of its Premium Outdoor segment, represented by Peak Performance, in the third quarter of its financial year, ended on March 31. The revenues grew at a wholesale level of 8.3 percent as compared to the corresponding period of 2013, largely ...
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Schoeller Textil, with the Hohenstein Institute and other partners, is...
Schoeller Textil, with the Hohenstein Institute and other partners, is ready for a six-month space journey leaving the planet Earth on May 28 as part of the Spacetex research program. It will explore the interaction between the human body, clothing and climate in weightless conditions in order to optimize the ...
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Outdoor is here to stay
At a press conference in Prague at the end of the Czech press tour organized by Messe Friedrichshafen, Rolf Schmid, president of the European Outdoor Group, confirmed his belief that outdoor will remain a megatrend in the longer term, considering the fact that the market grew in Europe by 4 ...
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The Great Place to Work Institute (GPTW) has named Pentland...
The Great Place to Work Institute (GPTW) has named Pentland Brands this year as one of the top ten “Best Workplaces” in the U.K in the “Best Large Company” category. The parent company of Berghaus and Brasher, which is also the controlling shareholder of JD Sports Fashion, ranked higher than ...
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Gore-Tex hikes with Surround into the outdoor
The European office of W.L. Gore Associates in Germany presented its program for the application of its “Gore-Tex Surround” technology to outdoor footwear at a meeting with key retailers and the trade press earlier this month. The Surround concept is not completely new as it has already been ...
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The Hohenstein Institute is organizing a free webinar on June...
The Hohenstein Institute is organizing a free webinar on June 23 to show how product tests for skin compatibility can open up a specialized market. The German institute can certify that a company's products are “skin-friendly” or “non-allergenic” through the tests that it conducts to find out whether they contain ...
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A German producer of ophthalmic frames and sunglasses, Menrad, has...
A German producer of ophthalmic frames and sunglasses, Menrad, has signed an agreement for the distribution in Europe of Revo sunglasses with B. Robinson Optical of New York, the brand's exclusive licensee for eyewear, covering all sales channels including specialty outdoor. The line was previously sold in Europe by Luxottica ...
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Vibram USA, the producer of FiveFingers running shoes, has moved...
Vibram USA, the producer of FiveFingers running shoes, has moved to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that it overstated the shoes' health benefits. The company has offered to pay a total of $3.75 million to people who bought the shoes and said it would stop making claims in its commercials ...
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In the first week of May, The North Face took...
In the first week of May, The North Face took the nine winners of an online competition organized with Intersport on a five-day mountain adventure in the Swiss Alps, involving them in snowshoe hiking, a via ferrata trip and abselling on and around the Jungfraujoch. The five participants came from ...
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Marmot Mountain moved its European headquarters to Schwaig, a German...
Marmot Mountain moved its European headquarters to Schwaig, a German town near Nuremberg, on April 1, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the company. The former office was located in another north Bavarian village. The new head office sits on a 2,400-square-meter site and has a net surface of 1,790 ...
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More on Timberland in Europe
We have already reported about the 12 percent increase enjoyed by Timberland in the first quarter of this year as part of an article on VF Corporation's results for the period. As reported, sales went up by a high single digit in Europe for Timberland during the quarter. They continued ...
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FGO’s election reflects the internationalization of the market
BSI, the federation of German sporting goods manufacturers, held its annual general meeting in Nuremberg on May 9. The agenda included the regular election of board members for the association itself and for its specialty committees. The most interesting part of the process was probably the election for the presidency ...
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Downlite and Nikwax have teamed up to introduce fluorocarbon-free Nikwax...
Downlite and Nikwax have teamed up to introduce fluorocarbon-free Nikwax Hydrophobic Down (NHD) to outdoor apparel and sleeping bag manufacturers. Under this arrangement, Downlite will market and sell NHD-treated down to Nikwax-approved outerwear and sleeping bag brands. Downlite will apply the NHD treatment to its down in the cleaning process ...
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Sports Direct improves results
In a preliminary report, Sports Direct International has announced that its sales went up by 10.3 percent in the nine weeks ended March 30, reaching £360 million (€438.85m-$610.70m), while the group's gross profit rose at a higher rate of 11.5 percent to £147.0 million (€179.19m-$249.37m), delivering a gross margin of ...
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Jarden performs differently in the U.S. and Europe
Sales declined by 1.6 percent to $684.1 million in the Outdoor Solutions division of Jarden Corp., which comprises some 20 different sports and outdoor brands including the likes of K2, Marker, Völkl and Marmot. Because of a very cold winter, U.S. retailers readily bought the remaining winter products in Jarden's ...
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The IT department of the Hohenstein Institute held a presentation...
The IT department of the Hohenstein Institute held a presentation ceremony on April 28 at Schloss Hohenstein in Bönnigheim to celebrate its recent IT Excellence Benchmark (ITEB) award, which was announced in February at the Hamburg IT Strategy Days. The recognition is given by the Technical University of Munich (TU) ...
