All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 8, Issue 11
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Summit Sports, a predominantly online retailer from Michigan specializing in...
Summit Sports, a predominantly online retailer from Michigan specializing in winter sports, outdoor, water and action sports products, has been purchased by Digital Fuel Capital, a U.S. private equity group focused on online business investments. Established as a store in Michigan, Summit Sports was one of the earliest online specialists, ...
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Patagonia's Taiwanese suppliers can no longer require migrant workers hired...
Patagonia s Taiwanese suppliers can no longer require migrant workers hired on or after June 1, to pay broker fees to secure a job. Suppliers can either pay the fees themselves or hire workers directly. The outdoor company has also mandated that suppliers repay currently employed workers, who were hired ...
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Outdoor Retailer (OR) and the Outdoor Foundation are joining hands...
Outdoor Retailer (OR) and the Outdoor Foundation are joining hands to launch an industry-wide campaign that aims to raise outdoor participation among U.S. youngsters. The campaign is to invest in grassroots community programs involving local retailers. It will be supported by donations from attendees at OR. When registering for the ...
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Mountain Warehouse to intensify foreign openings
Buoyed by the growth of the U.K. cycling business, Mountain Warehouse reports that its sales jumped by 20 percent to £109.9 million (€150.5m-$170.6m) for the full year up to the end of February. The British outdoor, cycling and running retailer, which sells mostly private label products, enjoyed increases of 9 ...
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Hydro Flask has hired Mike Wallenfels as vice-president of worldwide...
Hydro Flask has hired Mike Wallenfels as vice-president of worldwide sales. Wallenfels previously served as president of Mountain Hardwear and Montrail, where he guided product expansion and rapid development in new foreign markets. In 2009, he stepped away from Mountain Hardwear and Montrail as well as the chair of the ...
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Scott gets European license for Outdoor Research
Outdoor Research (OR) has issued a European license to Scott Sports, starting from the beginning of this month, which will enable the U.S. outdoor company's European team to focus on sales and marketing. The move comes about three months after Youngone, the Korean company that bought a majority stake in ...
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Online retailers join EOG
Several online retailers have joined the European Outdoor Group (EOG), among five new members who increased the retail membership to 13 companies. The association only started accepting retail members last October. Among the online retail members is Internetstores, the company behind Campz, Addnature and Fahrrad.de. Another is Bergfreunde.de, the German ...
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The DyStar Group of Singapore is joining forces with DyeCoo...
The DyStar Group of Singapore is joining forces with DyeCoo Textile Systems of the Netherlands in the development of waterless dyeing systems. DyStar has devised technology that substitutes carbon dioxide for water and chemicals in the dyeing process. DyeCoo uses recycled gas instead of water to permeate textiles with dyes. ...
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Proged, a Spanish distributor that works with Keen and many...
Proged, a Spanish distributor that works with Keen and many other sports brands, has acquired the rights to Tuckland, an 80-year-old Spanish brand of work and outdoor boots. It s starting with a small collection of hiking and trekking shoes for the autumn/winter 2015/16 season. A state-owned company, Nafinco, had ...
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Snow Factory is the new distributor for Icebreaker in Spain...
Snow Factory is the new distributor for Icebreaker in Spain and Portugal, starting with its spring/summer 2016 collections. Snow Factory is already the Spanish distributor of La Sportiva and other sports brands.
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Paul Leonard, former sourcing and product development manager at Eastern...
Paul Leonard, former sourcing and product development manager at Eastern Mountain Sports (EMS), the U.S. outdoor retailer, has been hired by Johnson Outdoors Gear as product manager for its Eureka camping brand. Leonard, who spent more than ten years at EMS, is to drive the Eureka brand's entire product development. ...
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Osprey Packs has invested in its marketing department with two...
Osprey Packs has invested in its marketing department with two appointments: Rob BonDurant has become director of marketing at the U.S. backpack company, while Kurt Metternick has taken up the new position of web manager. BonDurant joins from Harman International, where he was director of global marketing, and he previously ...
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The organic cotton market rebounds
After three consecutive years of decline, the production of organic cotton grew by 10 percent from 2012/13 to 2013/14, according to the Organic Cotton Market Report, the annual study compiled by Textile Exchange. The latest report was released on June 3. The turnaround could be attributed to increased market demand ...
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Timberland has reported on its corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance...
Timberland has reported on its corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance for the first quarter of 2015. Of the 350 active factories working for the brand at the end of the quarter, 31 percent were rated “accepted,” a percentage slightly lower than in 2014. In footwear production, the global average use ...
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Hydro Flask will start construction this summer on a new...
Hydro Flask will start construction this summer on a new and bigger, 12,000-square-feet head office in Bend, Oregon
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Eoca pledges to six conservation projects
European Outdoor Conservation Association (Eoca) has announced the six projects that will receive a total of nearly €180,000, following a vote that was held this spring to select projects. During March, the association held its annual spring public vote, open to both its members and thousands of outdoor enthusiasts. In ...
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IC Group, the Danish company that owns Peak Performance, has...
IC Group, the Danish company that owns Peak Performance, has signed an agreement for the sale of its head office in Copenhagen and it plans to relocate to a much smaller property in or around the Danish capital during the first half of 2016
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Wolverine Worldwide has a new chief financial officer. Michael D....
Wolverine Worldwide has a new chief financial officer. Michael D. Stornant, a 49-year-old executive who has been with the group for 19 years, assumes the role of senior vice president, CFO and treasurer, with effect from June 12. He served most recently as vice president of corporate finance, after handling ...
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Greenpeace has resumed its Detox Campaign, clearly targeting the snow...
Greenpeace has resumed its Detox Campaign, clearly targeting the snow and outdoor sector. It has sent its people on an expedition to seven mountains around the world to collect water and snow samples and test them for traces of PFCs. The organization has been calling on outdoor performance brands to ...
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Management buys French outdoor retailer
It was confirmed last month that two French investment companies supported a management buy-out of Chullanka, a group of three French outdoor, mountain sports and cycling stores previously owned by Decathlon. The leading French sports retailer said earlier this year that it was selling interests in Chullanka and other retail ...
