All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 8, Issue 11 – Page 3
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Blaise Agresti is joining Petzl at the start of August...
Blaise Agresti is joining Petzl at the start of August to become global commercial director at the beginning of next year. Currently stationed in the Pyrenees, Agresti is a mountain guide with a diploma from the French military school of Saint-Cyr. Among other assignments for the Gendarmerie Nationale, he has been ...
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A.S. Adventure snaps up Snow + Rock
The A.S. Adventure Group, Europe's largest outdoor retail company, is expanding its reach with the acquisition of the Snow & Rock Group, a retailer with 46 stores specializing in outdoor and winter sports as well as running and cycling products, across the U.K. and Ireland. A.S. Adventure, which was itself ...
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Sherpa Adventure Gear has obtained exclusive retail space at Globetrotter...
Sherpa Adventure Gear has obtained exclusive retail space at Globetrotter in Munich, Berlin and Cologne. The Nepalese brand's sales manager for continental Europe, Wolfgang Jahn, said in a press release that consumer interest and demand have been most encouraging so far. Special displays for the partnership with Globetrotter were developed ...
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Columbia Sportswear has adjusted its team for sourcing, supply chain...
Columbia Sportswear has adjusted its team for sourcing, supply chain and finance. Lisa Kulok, who has served as vice president of global marketplace planning and customer operations since October 2009, has been promoted to senior vice president of global supply chain operations. Steve Woodside, who joined the company in August ...
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Adidas Outdoor has signed on as title sponsor of the...
Adidas Outdoor has signed on as title sponsor of the WE-cycle program, a non-profit bike sharing initiative to reduce carbon emissions and traffic congestion in Aspen, Colorado. Adidas Outdoor will be visible on 100 bikes at 16 stations in town. In addition, We-cycle employees will wear Adidas Outdoor footwear and ...
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Gear Coop and Adidas Outdoor are preparing “United for Nepal,”...
Gear Coop and Adidas Outdoor are preparing “United for Nepal,” an event to be held at Gear Coop in Cosa Mesa on June 25, with proceeds from ticket sales going directly toward earthquake relief efforts. The two companies are hoping to attract outdoor enthusiasts with the participation of the climber ...
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The Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) is actively supporting the renewal...
The Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) is actively supporting the renewal of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), which was passed by the U.S. Senate last month and is nearing a vote in the House of Representatives that is predicted to be tight. TPA would clear the way for faster negotiations on the ...
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By the end of June, Michael Kamm will act as...
By the end of June, Michael Kamm will act as the only managing director of Sympatex Holding and its Sympatex Technologies and Plouquet subsidiaries. Jürgen Steffensen, joint managing director since 2010, will leave the group by mutual consent to pursue new managerial tasks elsewhere. He has been acting as chief ...
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Sea to Summit, the Australian brand of outdoor accessories, is...
Sea to Summit, the Australian brand of outdoor accessories, is teaming up with the Mountain Boot Company (MBC) for distribution in the U.K., starting in July with the orders for next spring. MBC is a leading outdoor distributor in the U.K., with brands such as Scarpa, Deuter and Grivel. Ireland ...
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Deckers grows strongly abroad
On a currency-neutral basis, international sales rose by 26.6 percent during the financial year ended March 31 for the parent company of Ugg, Teva, Sanuk and Hoka One One, and they were up by 38.3 percent in the fourth quarter. Translated into dollars, the growth was still pretty strong, showing ...
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Paolo Manuzzi, a 46-year-old manager who has been with Vibram...
Paolo Manuzzi, a 46-year-old manager who has been with Vibram since 1993, has been promoted to the new position of global general manager. He started off as manager of the Italian supplier of high-tech shoe soles for Italy and Spain. He later opened Vibram's offices in the U.S. in 1999 ...
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Michael Austermühle, 46, has been appointed country manager of Patagonia...
Michael Austermühle, 46, has been appointed country manager of Patagonia for Germany and Austria, replacing Norbert Sandner who has been made European alpine and climbing manager. Austermühle was most recently the German country manager of The North Face, a company with which he worked for the past seven years. Prior ...
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Chaco has signed on as a sponsor of the 2015...
Chaco has signed on as a sponsor of the 2015 Outdoor Nation Campus Challenge, a national initiative in the U.S. connecting college students and their communities to the outdoors. The Challenge, which kicks off in September, will engage 59 universities and is expected to get around 60,000 young people involved ...
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June 16 is the closing date of the OutDoor Industry...
June 16 is the closing date of the OutDoor Industry Awards, which will be assigned during the OutDoor show taking place in Friedrichshafen on July 15-18
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