All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 9, Issue 11-12
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Newell will shed properties, do more marketing
Newell Brands indicated earlier this week a tentative plan to divest operations that are currently generating annual revenues of between $250 million and $300 million in the next two to three years. The statement added fuel to speculation that the group may be considering the disposal of Marmot Mountain and ...
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Successori Reda, the Italian wool mill, has signed a new...
Successori Reda, the Italian wool mill, has signed a new five-year contract with the New Zealand Merino Company (NZM), worth a total of $45 million. The Italian textile company says it's the longest contract of this kind for NZM. It is intended to counter the price swings of the open ...
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Nester Hosiery has promoted Kelly Nester to the position of...
Nester Hosiery has promoted Kelly Nester to the position of chief executive officer, with immediate effect. Kelly Nester joined the company in 1996 and has been president since 2008. Marty Nester, the company founder and current chief executive, will continue to chair the company's board of directors. Nester Hosiery, based ...
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Strong growth for Lowa
The Lowa brand of outdoor shoes raised its non-consolidated sales by 14.5 percent in 2015, rising to a level of €145.5 million for the year from the previously reported 2014 level of €127 million. The German-based company says all the product segments contributed to the growth, led by children's and ...
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Rolf Schmid is leaving Mammut Sports Group
Rolf Schmid is leaving Mammut Sports Group, the Swiss outdoor company that he has transformed in the last two decades. Conzzeta, the Swiss group that controls Mammut, said that the departure had been agreed “by mutual consent” but the decision was met with some consternation in the European outdoor industry, ...
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Zoomyn, a French start-up that has launched a line of...
Zoomyn, a French start-up that has launched a line of functional trail running apparel, is one of the five companies chosen by Outdoor Sports Valley this year for its incubator program. Fifteen applied. The program involves free legal advice, free coaching by industry experts, an interest-free loan of up to ...
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Fjällräven has opened a store in Portland, Oregon, as part...
Fjällräven has opened a store in Portland, Oregon, as part of the rapid development of its own retail business in North America. With this latest opening, Fjällräven has built up a network of 15 stores across the country in the last three years, which has strongly contributed to the brand's ...
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Textile Exchange and the European Outdoor Group will present the...
Textile Exchange and the European Outdoor Group will present the new Responsible Wool Standard (RWS) to the outdoor industry on July 14, during the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen. Like the Responsible Down Standard (RDS), the RWS is intended to provide a global benchmark for animal welfare and land management practices ...
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New Eurochief for Merrell
Rob Griffiths, 51, has been appointed by Wolverine Worldwide as the new general manager of Merrell for Europe, the Middle East Africa (EMEA). After working for Stylo Instep, Ellesse, Umbro, Bench and Esprit, Griffiths joined Wolverine at the end of 2013 as vice president and general manager of its Lifestyle ...
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We hear that Zalando is requiring suppliers not to engage...
We hear that Zalando is requiring suppliers not to engage in mulesing of sheep to reduce wrinkles in their skin. The big European e-commerce operator is also banning real fur and the use of feathers from live animals or from foie gras geese.
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Selk’bag looks for distributors
Selk'bag, a Chilean brand of wearable sleeping bags, is holding talks with potential distribution partners around Southern and Eastern Europe after the opening of its European office in Zaragoza in September. Sport Partners, which has established the brand in Europe in the last three years, continues to distribute Selk'bag in ...
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Ternua goes direct in France
The Ternua Group is taking over the distribution of its Ternua and Lorpen product lines in France, its biggest market in Europe after the German-speaking countries, starting with orders for the spring/summer 2017 season. Michel Gogniat, the Spanish company's sales director for Europe and Asia, will directly supervise the network ...
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New management and record sales for Deckers
Deckers Brands announced that Dave Powers would succeed Angel Martinez as chief executive of the American group following Martinez' retirement, effective May 31, after a long career. Martinez was a co-founder of Keen. Martinez acted as CEO of Rockport, chief marketing officer of Reebok and CEO of Keen before he ...
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Ecco decided to initiate a gradual generational handover of responsibilities...
Ecco decided to initiate a gradual generational handover of responsibilities in the executive board at its supervisory board meeting and its annual meeting last month. After being in charge of the big Danish group for almost 12 years, Dieter Kasprzak is handing over its day-to-day management to Steen Borgholm, and ...
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Mountain Hardwear has signed a multi-year deal to sponsor the...
Mountain Hardwear has signed a multi-year deal to sponsor the Posicobloc Masters, a three-day climbing event in Park City, Utah
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Daniel Vilà, product manager at Trekkinn, the Spanish online sales...
Daniel Vilà, product manager at Trekkinn, the Spanish online sales platform for outdoor products, has told CMD Sport that its turnover soared by 90 percent last year. Trekkinn is integrated into Tradeinn, which sells a broader range of sporting goods and reportedly achieved sales of more than €50 million last ...
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Mountain Warehouse continues to expand
Mountain Warehouse is preparing to open 40 new stores after a sales increase of 28.7 percent to £141.4 million (€179.1m-$201.6m) in 2015, which produced a 36 percent rise in pre-tax profits to £16.2 million (€20.5m-$23.1m). The British outdoor retailer, which predominantly sells private label products, saw its comparable store sales ...
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SportScheck, Germany's largest sporting goods retailer, is inviting end consumers...
SportScheck, Germany's largest sporting goods retailer, is inviting end consumers to four hiking events this summer and autumn. More than 1,000 hikers participated at the events held in Oberstdorf, Bavaria, and in Bad Schandau, Saxony, last year. This summer, an additional hiking event will be organized in Molveno, situated in ...
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Peak Performance clean-up reduces sales
IC Group, the Danish parent company of Peak Performance, has downgraded its projections for sales and earnings for the full year to the end of June, due to a sudden deterioration in sales at its own stores and the accelerated clean-up of the wholesale business at Peak Performance. The IC ...
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The Lafuma group has set up a Chinese sales office...
The Lafuma group has set up a Chinese sales office for its Millet brand in Nanjing
