All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 8, Issue 3-4 – Page 2
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Cascade Designs will open a new manufacturing and distribution center...
Cascade Designs will open a new manufacturing and distribution center in Reno, Nevada later this year to assist growth at lower costs, the company said. The facility will handle all distribution for the company's brands, which include SealLine, MSR, Platypus, Therm-a-Rest, and others. The company has offered around 100 employees ...
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Strong showing for VF's outdoor brands
All the three major brands in the Outdoor & Action Sports segment of VF Corp. had double-digit growth in local currencies during the fourth quarter of 2014. The biggest one, The North Face, enjoyed a 12 percent increase, driven by a jump of 30 percent in its direct-to-consumer (DTC) business.In ...
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Skogstad, the Norwegian outdoor brand, has opened its ninth store...
Skogstad, the Norwegian outdoor brand, has opened its ninth store in its home country. The new concept store, located in the town of Lillehammer, is 200 square meters wide. It replaces an earlier store that was operated in cooperation with one of the local retail chains in town. The company's ...
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La Sportiva is launching the first high mountain boot with...
La Sportiva is launching the first high mountain boot with the Boa lacing system, developed in cooperation with an Italian climber, Simone Moro. At Ispo Munich, the company presented a new collection of skis, clothing, footwear and accessories for winter sports, with a special focus on ski mountaineering.
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Go Outdoors goes big into fishing tackle
In contrast with the U.S., it is unusual to see outdoor retailers offering rods and other fishing tackle equipment in their stores, except in the Nordic countries and in Décathlon stores. Another exception is Go Outdoors, one of the biggest outdoor retail chains in the U.K., which sells fishing tackle ...
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Thule Group has inaugurated a big new distribution center in...
Thule Group has inaugurated a big new distribution center in Poland to service customers in Central and Eastern Europe as well as Russia and Scandinavia. The new center, which has involved investments of 65 million Swedish kronor (€6.9m-$7.8m) is located at Huta, in western Poland, where the group has operated ...
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Bergans, the Norwegian outdoor company, is searching for a chief...
Bergans, the Norwegian outdoor company, is searching for a chief executive as Ragnar Jensen is preparing to retire. This was confirmed by ads placed in Scandinavian trade publications. The 71-year-old Jensen has been in charge since 1981 but he previously worked for Ally, a brand of canoes and kayaks taken over by ...
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Jarden will benefit from lower oil prices
Jarden Corp. sees the recent drop in oil prices as giving it a tailwind in the second half of this year because many of the group's products, including its household items, are made with oil derivatives and it typically takes six to nine months for lower commodity costs to affect ...
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Efta investigates Norway’s ban on PFOA
On June 1, 2014, Norway became the first country in the world to impose a national ban on the manufacture and importation of consumables and textiles containing perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA. Now, the Efta Surveillance Authority (ESA), a regulatory committee within the European Free Trade Association (Efta), believes the ban ...
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Julbo, the French eyewear company, was given several awards at...
Julbo, the French eyewear company, was given several awards at Ispo for the Aerospace goggles and their ventilation system. It allows the wearer to slide the lens forward, about one centimeter away from the gasket, to prevent or remove any condensation during ascents. It was a Gold Winner of this ...
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Arc'teryx has named Stéphane Tenailleau to the newly-created role of...
Arc'teryx has named Stéphane Tenailleau to the newly-created role of senior manager, EMEA consumer and channel marketing. Tenailleau, 42, will be leading an eight-member team based in Garching, north of Munich. The French national has a strong background across the fashion, sport and apparel industries. Most recently, he worked on ...
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Wigwam, the U.S. specialty socks brand, has appointed a distributor...
Wigwam, the U.S. specialty socks brand, has appointed a distributor for the Polish market, Portal Gorski, which also distributes the British brands Rab and Kozi Kidz, the marketer of specialty outdoor and snow apparel for children. Wigwam has been distributed in Europe, since last year, by Hej International, a U.K.-based ...
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GoPro cameras were apparently a popular gift in the holiday...
GoPro cameras were apparently a popular gift in the holiday season. The company's sales jumped by 75.3 percent to $634 million for the last quarter of 2014. Some 5.2 million capture devices were shipped that year, which was an increase of 35 percent. The group's turnover for 2014 jumped by ...
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Cocona has announced the appointment of Edouard Liffran to the...
Cocona has announced the appointment of Edouard Liffran to the new position of European general manager for 37.5, the performance fiber previously marketed under the Cocona brand name, which is experiencing growing demand in Europe. Liffran will continue to be based in France. He has more than 20 years of ...
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Shoes and clothing keep Amer growing
Amer Sports' continued expansion in footwear and apparel helped the group to book a 7.3 percent increase in revenues to €705.3 million in the last three months of the year, with growth of 6.0 percent in local currencies. The gross margin improved by one full percentage point to 43.0 percent ...
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Amer Sports Europe has appointed Armin Fuchs to the new...
Amer Sports Europe has appointed Armin Fuchs to the new position of vice president of sales, coordinating all the various sales organizations in Europe. The 44-year-old had already been promoted in 2012 from the position of German country manager to general manager for the Central Zone, covering Germany and nine ...
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The sporting goods retailers affiliated with Intersport International Corp. (IIC)...
The sporting goods retailers affiliated with Intersport International Corp. (IIC) raised their sales by around 2 percent to a total value of around €10.5 billion in 2014, with an increase of 3 percent in local currencies. Double-digit increases in football, running and fitness more than offset flat sales of outdoor ...
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Johnson Outdoors affected by late orders
Sales of outdoor and diving products at Johnson Outdoors dropped significantly in the first quarter until Jan. 2, but the company attributed most of the decline to a shift in orders as retailers adjusted their inventory management. The first quarter of Johnson's fiscal year is seasonally slow for the company, ...
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A.S. Adventure will expand after takeover, also in France
Lion Capital has agreed to sell its majority share in the A.S. Adventure Group to PAI, a French-based private equity firm. The buyer is supposed to support continued store openings for the leading European outdoor retailer in its current markets, with perhaps more rapid expansion in France.The Belgian-based retail group, ...
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Sherpa Adventure Gear, the Nepalese brand, came out as one...
Sherpa Adventure Gear, the Nepalese brand, came out as one of the numerous winners of the Ispo Gold Award for an ultralight, hand-knitted wool sweater with Primaloft Silver insulation. The unusual combination will be available for only €280 at a retail, benefiting the local community in Nepal, but the company ...
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