All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 8, Issue 20-21
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Norrøna wins a retail prize
Norrøna came home from the 2015 Norwegian Retail Conference with the Retailer of the Year award. While it may seem strange that a vendor wins a prize aimed at retailers, it was Norrøna Retail that got it because of the company s own retail operations. The Retailer of the Year ...
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Mammut will outsource rope production
Facing sluggish sales in some of its largest markets and tough pressure on margins due to adverse exchange rate changes, Mammut Sports Group has decided to close the rope production unit at its head office in Seon, Switzerland. It will be transferred from the start of September 2016 to an ...
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Wolverine Worldwide, which is scheduled to report its third-quarter results...
Wolverine Worldwide, which is scheduled to report its third-quarter results on Oct. 20, told the Goldman Sachs Retail Conference last month that foreign currencies will continue to impact its profitability through the first quarter of 2016. Product costs are affecting gross margins, but they are slightly mitigated by lower commodity ...
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Lowa has opened an in-store shop in Summit Hut's new...
Lowa has opened an in-store shop in Summit Hut's new store in Tucson, Arizona, at 5251 E. Speedway. The collaboration is not new as Lowa has been working with Summit Hut for 19 years. Lowa's corner space features six panels of branded graphics and product display shelves. There is also ...
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The Vietnamese government has issue new regulations that specify the...
The Vietnamese government has issue new regulations that specify the maximum amounts of formaldehyde and Azo dyes that can be used in textile products manufactured, imported and traded in the country. The regulations are scheduled to be enforced from February 2016. They make reference to updated international test standards. They ...
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Millet has opened its first free-standing store in Paris on...
Millet has opened its first free-standing store in Paris on the avenue des Ternes, near an Aigle store, taking the place of a former Lafuma shop. Millet will also set up between 10 and 12 concessions in the department stores of El Corte Inglés in Spain and ten in those ...
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Vaude says it is one of the three finalists in...
Vaude says it is one of the three finalists in the race for election as “Germany's Most Sustainable Brand” in one of eight categories at the German Sustainability Congress in Dusseldorf. The award will be announced on Nov. 27.
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The North Face plans to inaugurate its first store in...
The North Face plans to inaugurate its first store in Portugal on Oct. 17 in the presence of João (José Silva Abranches) Garcia, the first Portuguese mountaineer to have reached the summit of Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen in 1999. A year later, after reaching the top of Annapurna, he ...
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Salming expands into running
Salming Sports plans to open a third Salming Run Lab in Switzerland in March, as the Swedish brand continues to diversify and to build on its particular approach to running shoes. Salming has long been known as a leading brand of equipment for floorball but a few years ago it ...
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The European Outdoor Group has reached its goal to have...
The European Outdoor Group has reached its goal to have at least 300 delegates in attendance at this year's European Outdoor Summit in Sheffield, which will be starting with a networking dinner tomorrow night. More than 310 speakers and members of the public had registered for the event by the ...
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Jim van Dine will no longer run Hoka One One,...
Jim van Dine will no longer run Hoka One One, the fast-growing brand of trail running shoes. It seems that his departure is connected with plans of the new owner of the brand, Deckers Corp., to consolidate its operations, based in the San Francisco Bay area, into its own head ...
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Zeal Optics has developed a new polarized and photochromic lens,...
Zeal Optics has developed a new polarized and photochromic lens, the Automatic, building on its technological heritage in goggles
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Mountain Hardwear has designed and launched a fashion and lifestyle-oriented...
Mountain Hardwear has designed and launched a fashion and lifestyle-oriented range of six styles of outerwear for men and women for the present autumn/winter season in collaboration with Cole Haan, the street footwear brand sold by Nike to Apax Partners at the beginning of 2013. Called ZeroGravity like Cole Haan's ...
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The North Face (TNF) has launched what it describes as...
The North Face (TNF) has launched what it describes as its first-ever global brand campaign, with the slogan “Never Stop.” It builds on a campaign that previously ran in the U.S. market and has adopted the same pay-off. Focused on the concept of pushing boundaries, the campaign features activities from ...
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Patagonia has created a line of sustainable denim jeans for...
Patagonia has created a line of sustainable denim jeans for its autumn/winter 2015 collection. Sustainability is an issue in denim production as this typically involves the use of dangerous chemicals to grow conventional cotton and the creation of millions of gallons of wastewater in the dyeing process. In order to ...
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Luxov opens up new routes in digital climbing
Climbing walls are joining the digitally-connected sports movement that has been building up in other sports such as running and cycling. Volx Climbing, a French supplier of climbing wall holds, has developed an interesting system to trace the preferred or available routes on the wall through a touch-screen panel, marking ...
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The North Face organized a night of running and climbing...
The North Face organized a night of running and climbing along the Verdon Canyon of France on Sept. 12. About 100 outdoor enthusiasts were invited to join 11 athletes sponsored by TNF in the event, accompanied by a music group. Called The North Face Night Ray Outdoor Fest, the event ...
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Climb Tools will distribute Prana on the Spanish market, starting...
Climb Tools will distribute Prana on the Spanish market, starting with the spring 2016 season. The company had represented the brand for about ten years up to 2010. Climb Tools is also the distributor of Five Ten and Gregory Mountain in Spain.
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Sympatex has introduced a further development of its Sympatex Climate...
Sympatex has introduced a further development of its Sympatex Climate Technology that allows the production of laminated waterproof and windproof knitted legs, taped with just one seam to the heel
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Cimalp sells quick-dry garments over the internet
Cimalp, which has developed a patented quick-dry polypropylene fabric coupled with Coolmax for its T-shirts and jackets, was the other company that got the French Outdoor Award at Camp de Base, the collective French exhibition at the OutDoor trade show in Friedrichshafen in July. Cimalp claims that its fabric, which ...
