All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 8, Issue 14-15 – Page 2
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Light my Fire, the Swedish company specializing in utensils for...
Light my Fire, the Swedish company specializing in utensils for outdoor meals, has changed its name to Light my Fire of Sweden. This is meant to reinforce the brand's appeal as a Scandinavian brand. Its products are designed in Sweden and most of them are manufactured there, such as the ...
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Peli, the U.S. speciality company for lighting solutions and robust...
Peli, the U.S. speciality company for lighting solutions and robust plastic cases for outdoor purposes, has hired Andy Comerford as consumer sales manager for its ProGear range of consumer products in the region of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. After serving various consumer goods companies, mainly in the U.K. ...
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Craghoppers, the U.K. company for travel gear, presented quite an...
Craghoppers, the U.K. company for travel gear, presented quite an interesting innovation at the OutDoor show that is designed to increase the safety of the traveller's data saved in the passport, on credit cards and so on. Many of those documents are equipped with a RFID chip (radio frequency identification). ...
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Columbia posts record sales and raises full-year outlook
Columbia Sportswear reported a sales increase of 17 percent to $380.2 million in the second quarter. On an organic basis, excluding the acquisition of Prana and foreign currency impacts, the turnover went up by 11 percent in the quarter, which is the company's smallest one in terms of revenues, historically ...
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Mammut is now offering digital interactive climbs to some of...
Mammut is now offering digital interactive climbs to some of the most famous mountain routes of the world. Thanks to #project360, viewers can follow alpinists and experience a 360° view of these mountains with a simple smartphone or tablet of the latest generation, or an up-to-date browser. Starting at the ...
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A new climbing festival is due to take place in...
A new climbing festival is due to take place in Paris on Jan. 8-10, 2016
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Erwin van Dop, formerly in charge of Salomon and then...
Erwin van Dop, formerly in charge of Salomon and then Columbia in the Netherlands, has switched to Hi-Tec to become managing director for the Dutch footwear brand in the Benelux countries, along with Germany and Austria. He takes over from Peter Korver, who left earlier this year to become managing director ...
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Osprey’s founder is Celebrity of the Year
Mike Pfotenhauer, the remarkably talented and relentless designer behind Osprey Packs, was named Outdoor Celebrity of the Year 2015 at the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen last month. Beginning with a single sewing machine in 1974, he built up one of the most influential brands of backpacks and continues to design ...
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Outdoor Research has a new marketing manager, Erika Canfield, who...
Outdoor Research has a new marketing manager, Erika Canfield, who worked in the last ten years for Pacific Market International (PMI), the parent company of Stanley and Aladdin
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Icebreaker has launched the “Icebreaker Challenge,” an international digital campaign...
Icebreaker has launched the “Icebreaker Challenge,” an international digital campaign covering 40 countries. It calls on retailers and consumers to select the sport that is the most fun, publishing a video on Icebreaker's website before Aug. 31 and asking for “likes” on social networks. The winner will get a free ...
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Camelbak Products and Osprey Packs settled a patent infringement dispute...
Camelbak Products and Osprey Packs settled a patent infringement dispute immediately after the announcement of Camelbak's takeover by Vista Outdoor (see the article in this issue). The dispute goes back to last February, when Camelbak sued Osprey in a federal California court, charging that Osprey had violated its patent on ...
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Helsport came out as the overall winner of the Scandinavian...
Helsport came out as the overall winner of the Scandinavian Outdoor Award. An international jury also picked Klättermusen as the winner of the award in the apparel category, Viking in footwear and Bergans of Norway in equipment. The French Outdoor Award went to Cimalp for clothing and to Luxov for ...
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A Korean group buys Wild Roses
Gregor Furrer & Partners has sold the global rights to the Wild Roses brand of women's outdoor products at an undisclosed price to its Korean licensee, Fashion Group Hyungji, which has been marketing it successfully through a network of 120 mono-brand stores in its domestic market, offering a full line ...
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Original Buff has signed up Chris (Omprakash) Sharma, the well-known...
Original Buff has signed up Chris (Omprakash) Sharma, the well-known American climber from California, as an ambassador for the Spanish company's neckwear and its new expanded range of headwear. The 34-year-old Sharma, who is also sponsored by Prana, Petzl and other brands, spends a large part of the year in ...
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Vista Outdoor buys a SUP brand and Camelbak
Moving very quickly with its intended strategy to expand in the outdoor and recreation sector, Vista Outdoor announced the takeover of Jimmy Styks, a small marketer of stand-up paddle (SUP) boards and related accessories, and - just a few days later - of Camelbak Products, the leading supplier of hydration ...
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Primus, the brand of stoves and related equipment owned by...
Primus, the brand of stoves and related equipment owned by Fenix Outdoor, has picked Gerald Palm as its distributor of the year. The 46-year-old has been with the Swedish brand for two years, covering the German market. Palm received the prize from Lars-Ola Brolinso, chief executive of Primus.
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Sanuk, the footwear brand owned by Deckers Brands, has signed...
Sanuk, the footwear brand owned by Deckers Brands, has signed Lauren Hill as an ambassador. She is a professional surfer, writer and activist from Florida, who has been interacting with the ocean since she was a child. An environmental and social science major at Stetson University, she already serves as ...
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Ultimate Direction, the company in Boulder, Colorado that popularized the...
Ultimate Direction, the company in Boulder, Colorado that popularized the “hydration vest,” is growing its presence in Europe through the appointment of three leading distributors: ABC Distribution for Italy, Snow Factory for Spain and Andorra, and Plein Nord Distribution for France. It had a different distributor for the Spanish market ...
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Revo partners with Bono
Revo, the American brand of sunglasses, is launching a program aimed at collecting $10 million to improve access to eye screening and vision correction for more than five million people in disadvantaged communities around the world. For every pair purchased by consumers, it will donate $10 to the Brien Holden ...
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Mammut opened a small store in June in the Bikinihaus,...
Mammut opened a small store in June in the Bikinihaus, a curiously shaped shopping mall in Berlin
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