All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 8, Issue 24-25 – Page 2
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Columbia Sportswear is making a significant expansion into the performance...
Columbia Sportswear is making a significant expansion into the performance underwear category through an exclusive global licensing agreement with Delta Galil Industries. Under the contract, the Israeli firm, which is already Columbia's global licensee for socks, will produce a range of Columbia branded products including men's and women's underwear as ...
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Columbia Sportswear says it has reinforced its partnership with the...
Columbia Sportswear says it has reinforced its partnership with the Ultra-Trail du Mont Blanc (UTMB) as the Columbia brand has become the event's presenting partner. The intensified partnership comes as the event, which includes five races, is formally changing its name from Ultra-Trail du Mont Blanc to its abbreviated version, ...
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Working in collaboration with two other organizations, Eurosima and Sporaltec,...
Working in collaboration with two other organizations, Eurosima and Sporaltec, Outdoor Sports Valley has sponsored and published the first research study on ceramics-lined garments, comparing their effect during exercise to placebo garments. The purpose was to determine whether ceramics-lined apparel modifies skin temperature, improving the feeling of comfort, and whether ...
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Liz Robbins, co-founder of Royal Robbins and its former head...
Liz Robbins, co-founder of Royal Robbins and its former head of design, is coming back to the company as an adviser. She will work closely with Michael Millenacker, who himself returned to Royal Robbins as its chief executive in September. Liz and Royal Robbins are famous Sierra Nevada climbers. In ...
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Liz Robbins, a co-founder of Royal Robbins and its former...
Liz Robbins, a co-founder of Royal Robbins and its former head of design, is coming back to the company as an adviser, working closely with its newly appointed chief executive, Michael Millenacker
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Polartec has decided to close its factory in Lawrence, Massachusetts,...
Polartec has decided to close its factory in Lawrence, Massachusetts, moving its operations to its other plants in Hudson, New Hampshire and Cleveland, Tennessee. The latter was acquired by Polartec in September from United Knitting. The Lawrence factory had been rebuilt by Malden Mills 20 years ago, after being ...
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Patagonia is launching what it claims to be the world's...
Patagonia is launching what it claims to be the world's first neoprene-free wetsuits line, made with a plant-based material named Yulex, for autumn 2016. The company first worked with Yulex in 2012 and unveiled the material to the market in the autumn of 2013 but next year the offering with ...
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China’s Sanfo lands successfully on the stock exchange - at last
Beijing Sanfo Outdoor Products, which claims to be China's largest specialty retail group in the outdoor sector, had a good start at the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on Dec. 9. The retailer ended up raising about 160 million yuan renminbi (€22.6m-$24.7m) from its long-awaited initial public offering, issuing 17 million new shares ...
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White Sierra says it has hired Haiqin “Jenny Chen,” who...
White Sierra says it has hired Haiqin “Jenny Chen,” who has spent 10 years as a designer for Nike, to head up its product creation team. The American brand is also investing in veteran talent at its development office in Shanghai. Its staff includes employees who have worked with Nike, ...
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Frank Saeger is no longer in charge of sales in...
Frank Saeger is no longer in charge of sales in Germany, Austria and Northern Italy for Sealskinz. His functions will be taken over by Mike Storey, international sales director of the British supplier of sport socks company. The decision is said to be related to a recent investment in the ...
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Change of CEO at expanding Cotswold
Greg Nieuwenhuys, chief executive at Bever, the leading Dutch outdoor retailer, is starting from Jan. 4 as chief executive at Outdoor & Cycle Concepts, which formally brings together Cotswold Outdoor, Snow & Rock, Cycle Surgery and Runners Need, as described above. These British retailers and Bever are all part of ...
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Orage has opened its first flagship store in Montreal, Canada....
Orage has opened its first flagship store in Montreal, Canada. The new 1,000-square-foot space is called Le Chalet and is supposed to visually reflect modern mountain culture, with crisp whites, warm woods, soaring ceilings and natural light spilling in through large windows. The new retail space has been conceived as ...
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Ternua's export drive is on budget
The Ternua Group raised its sales in Europe and Asia by 15 percent this year. Without disclosing the precise turnover figures, the international sales manager of the Spanish-based group responsible for the two regions, Michel Gogniat, says they were in line with an objective to boost total revenues from €27 ...
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Deckers Brands' French subsidiary has taken over full ownership of...
Deckers Brands' French subsidiary has taken over full ownership of Hoka Europe
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Jarden merges into Newell Brands
Newell Rubbermaid, the parent company of many consumer brands including Rubbermaid, Parker and Waterman, will acquire Jarden Corporation at about $60 a share, including $21 in cash and the balance in shares, and take over its debt of $5.2 billion. The purchase price is 25 percent higher than Jarden's share ...
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Outdoor brands from Patagonia to Rab, Marmot, Petzl and many...
Outdoor brands from Patagonia to Rab, Marmot, Petzl and many more benefited from the strong attendance at this year's edition of the Kendal Mountain Festival, which increased by 5 percent to about 14,000 people last month, in spite of rainy weather in the Lake District. The overall sponsor for the ...
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Hi-Tec has launched a brand-new website that uses Demandware software...
Hi-Tec has launched a brand-new website that uses Demandware software for e-commerce. It will be gradually rolled out globally in the next months. It will also help promote the brand with inspirational stories and blogs. The URL has been changed to www.hi-tec.co.uk
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Eagle Creek, the brand of travel equipment owned by VF...
Eagle Creek, the brand of travel equipment owned by VF Corporation, hired Lisa Buco as marketing director from the middle of December. She is to manage all aspects of marketing and to supervise seasonal key account business plans and business development. Buco was previously head of digital marketing at Condé ...
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Bondholders of Sympatex Holding have rejected a proposal to...
Bondholders of Sympatex Holding have rejected a proposal to get their bonds redeemed ahead of their maturity for 101 percent of their value, and this should make it more difficult for shareholders to sell parts of the group to interested parties. Only creditors representing 21.6 percent of the €13 million ...
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The board of directors at Cabela's said it had started...
The board of directors at Cabela's said it had started exploring a range of strategic alternatives for the U.S. fishing, hunting and outdoor retailer, to drive value for its shareholders. After some investor rumblings in the last few weeks, Cabela's chief executive, Thomas Millner, said in a statement that the ...
