All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 8, Issue 18-19
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New reports on outdoor participation in the U.S.
The Outdoor Foundation has just released 11 individual reports on participation in outdoor activities in the U.S. The Foundation is providing greater insight into participation in adventure racing, mountain biking, paddle sports, trail running, climbing, stand-up paddling, sport climbing, road cycling, hiking, bird watching and backpacking. These reports are supposed ...
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Timberland has recently marked the planting of two million trees...
Timberland has recently marked the planting of two million trees in the Horqin Desert, in Northern China, a new milestone in its ongoing program to tackle desertification in Inner Mongolia. The initiative was launched in 2001 after one employee suggested that Timberland play a role in reforesting the Horqin Desert, ...
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JD makes some progress in outdoor retailing
Led by the Blacks and Millets chains of outdoor specialty stores in the U.K., the Outdoor Retail segment of JD Sports Fashion booked an encouraging 10.9 percent sales increase to £68.3 million (€93.6m- $105.8m) for the first half of the group s financial year, ended on Aug. 1. The segment ...
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Matt J. Reintjes has left Vista Outdoor, where he was...
Matt J. Reintjes has left Vista Outdoor, where he was running the outdoor products division, to become the first professional chief executive of Yeti Coolers, effective Aug. 31. Roy Seiders, who founded the American company with his brother Ryan nine years ago, will remain Yeti's chairman, concentrating on strategy and ...
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Lipke to leave Globetrotter
While the Fenix Outdoor International group continued to rearrange its retail activities, Thomas Lipke relinquished his function of chief operating officer at Frilufts Retail Europe, the company owned by Fenix that encompasses Globetrotter Ausrüstung in Germany along with Naturkompaniet in Sweden and Partioaitta in Finland. Fenix said that Lipke would ...
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Intersport enters Ukraine
Ukraine has become the 45th country in which Intersport will be represented, following a license agreement signed with Epicentr K, a retail group with annual sales of close to €2 billion that operates 65 large-scale hypermarkets and do-it-yourself markets in the country. It is the clear market leader in the ...
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The North Face (TNF) has entered into a four-year license...
The North Face (TNF) has entered into a four-year license deal with Intelligent Fabric Technologies to use ProTX2 in its outdoor apparel, footwear and equipment products. Under the terms of the agreement, TNF will exclusively use ProTX2 in all its products that integrate antimicrobial technologies. The deal also provides for ...
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Sanfo enjoys strong sales growth, but profits suffer
The large Chinese specialty outdoor chain booked a strong increase in turnover in 2014 and reached total sales of 360 million yuan renminbi (€50.6m-$56.4m) compared with RMB300 million in the previous year. In 2014, the retailer had 36 stores in 12 cities with new outlets in Suzhou and Wuxi as ...
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Gore to explore more ecological water-repellent solutions
W.L. Gore Associates has announced plans to invest more than $15 million in research over the next five years to explore alternative water-repellent treatments, often referred to as DWR. Gore's initiative is in response to the ongoing debate regarding the environmental threat represented by perfluorinated chemical compounds (PFCs), ...
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Pep Guardiola has signed a personal endorsement deal with Gore-Tex...
Pep Guardiola has signed a personal endorsement deal with Gore-Tex as brand ambassador. The Spanish football coach, who is currently the trainer of FC Bayern München, will represent the Gore-Tex brand and Gore branded apparel and footwear globally for the next four years. During this period, Guardiola will also be ...
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Crocs has promoted Terence Reilly from vice president of global...
Crocs has promoted Terence Reilly from vice president of global marketing to senior vice president and chief marketing officer
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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 second quarter of 2015. Of the 320 active factories working for the brand at the end of the quarter, 36 percent were rated “accepted,” as compared to 31 percent in the first quarter. With regard to leather sourcing, ...
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Migros, the large Swiss retail cooperative, intends to open eight...
Migros, the large Swiss retail cooperative, intends to open eight more Outdoor by SportXX stores within its SportXX general sports stores by the end of the year. The strategy of installing specialty outdoor shop-in-shops was tested at a shopping mall outside Zurich in March 2014, and then at two other ...
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Sportarena to close specialty outdoor stores
Sportarena, the specialist sports entity of Galeria Kaufhof, is closing down two of its outdoor stores trading as Wanderzeit, due to the sluggishness of the German outdoor market. The company said that the Wanderzeit store in Hamburg is scheduled to close at the end of this year and another store ...
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Two more years in Salt Lake City for OR
While refraining to take a decision for the longer term, organizers of the Outdoor Retailer (OR) trade show have opted to prolong their agreement with Salt Lake City to hold their winter and summer fairs in the city until at least 2018. Emerald Expositions, which organizes the U.S. outdoor fair, ...
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The closure of various polluting viscose fiber plants in China...
The closure of various polluting viscose fiber plants in China helped to raise viscose fiber prices and contributed to lift the demand for Lenzing's wood-based Modal and Tencel fibers in the first half of this year. Combined with positive currency effects and a better product mix, this led the Austrian ...
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ZDHC updates its roadmap on hazardous chemicals in the textile industry
The Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC) group has released an update of its Joint Roadmap on the elimination or substitution of hazardous chemicals in products and their manufacture, and related efforts. The recent update covers the transition of the roadmap from seven workstreams into four focus areas which now ...
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Ispo Munich, which has made no major changes to its...
Ispo Munich, which has made no major changes to its basic layout in six years, is re-distributing the exhibition space in 11 of its 16 halls for the next Jan. 24-27 edition, creating better synergies between some segments and improving walking distances. The Action Sports segment will move to Halls ...
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Thule Group has inaugurated an expanded global testing center in...
Thule Group has inaugurated an expanded global testing center in Hillerstorp, Sweden. The new lab features a doubling of space - from 600 to 1,200 square meters - and additional tools that enable the testing of all products in Thule's expanding product portfolio, thanks to an additional investment of SEK20 ...
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The share capital of IC Group, parent company of Peak...
The share capital of IC Group, parent company of Peak Performance, has been raised by 0.3 percent to 170,562,470 Danish kroner (€22.9m-$26.1m) through the exercise of warrants under two different programs that priced the new shares at DKK 136.00 and DKK 166.80, respectively. IC Group has derived gross proceeds of ...
