All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 8, Issue 5-6
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Rewoolution is set for a revolution
Successori Reda, the Italian manufacturer of higher-end fabrics and marketer of the Rewoolution brand of functional sports apparel in merino wool and other products, was able to present impressive figures at Ispo Munich. The company's total sales went up in 2014 by 15 percent and reached a total of €80 ...
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Vertical Sports will stop representing Thorlo on the Spanish market...
Vertical Sports will stop representing Thorlo on the Spanish market from April 30, after 12 years of collaboration
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Houdini is launching Houdini Travel, a tour operator for sustainable...
Houdini is launching Houdini Travel, a tour operator for sustainable travel, in cooperation with Pure Ski Touring and Carl Lundberg, a certified mountain guide. Houdini Travel will be starting with two ski trips to Tarfala and Abisko, in northern Sweden. Environmentally-friendly criteria are based on the choice of closer destinations ...
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Sport Partner reports that Irene Keur, marketing manager at Garmin...
Sport Partner reports that Irene Keur, marketing manager at Garmin Nederland for the last four years, has left the company ahead of her formal departure at the start of April to to join Acer, and she will be temporarily replaced by Martin Snel
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Red Wing Shoes and Vasque footwear will be the presenting...
Red Wing Shoes and Vasque footwear will be the presenting sponsor of Metanoia, the award-winning film about Jeff Lowe and his life as a climber. The U.S. premiere of the film was at the Boulder International Film Festival, on March 7. Lowe is an inspirational figure for both his sporting ...
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Lowa and Schöffel have opened their first joint store in...
Lowa and Schöffel have opened their first joint store in Austria. It is located in Innsbruck and managed by Schöffel's Austrian subsidiary, which is based in the city. With this opening, the two brands have now a total of 23 common stores in Germany, Austria and Italy.
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Sport Partner reports that Vibram Five Fingers is one of...
Sport Partner reports that Vibram Five Fingers is one of the companies that will take part in an event to promote barefoot walking and running, to be held on April 26 in the Dudok Arena in Hilversum, the Netherlands
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The North Face has launched “Power In Me,” its multi-channel...
The North Face has launched “Power In Me,” its multi-channel campaign for spring/summer 2015, all over Europe. The campaign is based on three short films - “Untouched Ground,” “Always Moving,” and “From Five To Nine” - featuring the alpinist David Goettler, the ultra trail runner Lizzy Hawker, and the London-based ...
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Light My Fire is entering the Spanish market through a...
Light My Fire is entering the Spanish market through a distributor, Esportiva Aksa
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Fjällräven drives higher sales at Fenix
Robust sales for the Fjällräven brand enabled the Fenix Outdoor International group to deliver ample sales and profit gains last year, in spite of the warm weather in the last quarter. It marked the end of a year in which the Swedish group acquired another dimension, ending up with a ...
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Gregory’s purchase helps Samsonite to diversify
Last July's acquisition of Gregory Mountain Products from Black Diamond and its earlier takeover of High Sierra helped Samsonite to record a 25.1 percent currency-neutral increase in the revenues of its casual product category last year. In terms of dollars, the segment grew by 22.4 percent to $252.1 million. Gregory ...
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Decline in outdoor sales at Fiskars
Focusing on the Gerber brand, sales of outdoor products declined by 8 percent to €114.2 million at Fiskars last year, despite a rise of 3 percent in the last quarter. Sales in constant currencies were down by 2 percent in the quarter and by 7 percent in constant currencies. The ...
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Primaloft has promoted Victoria Lee to manager of creative services,...
Primaloft has promoted Victoria Lee to manager of creative services, with immediate effect. Lee joined the company in 2006 and most recently served as brand and promotions associate. In her expanded role, she will assume a wider range of responsibilities in global creative and branding. She will also serve as ...
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Vista Outdoor, the sporting goods and outdoor company recently spun...
Vista Outdoor, the sporting goods and outdoor company recently spun off from Alliant Techsystems (ATK), has appointed a vice president of marketing, Brett Merrell, and a vice president of investor relations, Michael Pici. They report to Mark DeYoung, chairman and chief executive of Vista Outdoor. Merrell has been placed in ...
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Columbia rejigs top management
Columbia Sportswear has announced a reorganization of its top management, describing it as a move to drive continued profitable growth. The group expects the company's sales to expand at double-digit rates for apparel in constant currencies this year, compared with $1.7 billion in 2014, while footwear sales are predicted to ...
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Cocona has filed a request for a declaratory U.S. court...
Cocona has filed a request for a declaratory U.S. court judgment that its patented 37.5 technology does not infringe on two U.S. patents held by a producer of bed sheets and sleepwear, Sheex. The latter had filed two lawsuits in a federal U.S. court against Cocona last Nov. 12, alleging ...
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Sport Partner reports that Regatta is closing its subsidiary in...
Sport Partner reports that Regatta is closing its subsidiary in the Netherlands and that distribution of the Regatta and Dare2B brands is to be handled from the start of May by Corvus Sports. This is a new agency formed by Erik Kray, who has been the Dutch country manager for ...
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Petzl is launching the first edition of “J'Irai Grimper Chez...
Petzl is launching the first edition of “J'Irai Grimper Chez Vous,” a new rock climbing, itinerant experience where the athletes of the Petzl team will meet with participants in a series of climbing activities, which will also include deep water soloing, for the first time in France. The initiative will ...
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Patagonia has promoted Bruce Old to the position of vice...
Patagonia has promoted Bruce Old to the position of vice president of global wholesale. His mission will be to elevate the company's presence in all specialty retail channels, continuing to build up a global customer service team. Old has spent more than 20 years with Patagonia, working in retail, wholesale ...
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British government to support outdoor recreation
The Outdoor Industries Association (OIA) of the U.K. held a successful annual meeting and convention earlier this week in the middle of the Lake District. Helen Grant, the U.K. minister for sport and tourism, who was born in the region, agreed to attend the meeting but could not make any ...
