All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 9, Issue 15-16
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A positive OutDoor
The OutDoor fair in Friedrichshafen closed on a positive note on Saturday. The leading European outdoor trade show started out with a slight uptick in attendance on Wednesday. By the end of the show, the total attendance had risen to a total of 21,507 daily visits, up slightly from 21,464 ...
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Plenty of innovation at the OutDoor show
Aside from a growing “urban outdoor” lifestyle trend, innovation was singled out as a key driver of growth in a market that is not expanding as fast as before, at the press conference that kicked off the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen last week. Stefan Glowacz, the chief executive of Red ...
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News briefs
In its third high-profile hire in recent months, Keen has...
In its third high-profile hire in recent months, Keen has appointed Tyler LaMotte to the new position of global vice president of brand marketing. Prior to Keen, LaMotte served as Apple's senior marketer, in charge of worldwide product marketing. He also worked at Patagonia as global business unit director for ...
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Greenpeace takes issue with PFCs in the stores
Greenpeace says it found concentrations of “hazardous” poly-fluorinated chemicals (PFCs) in the air of a few European outdoor stores that were 20 to 60 times higher than concentrations found in the organization's office and storage space in Hamburg, and up to 1,000 times higher than in urban outdoor air. Samples ...
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Gore-Tex supports growth at Montane
Montane has obtained more shelf space with several key accounts in the last weeks as it launched a range of winter products with Gore-Tex membranes. The partnership is supporting a sustained sales increase for the British outdoor brand, which reached an annual average of about 20 percent in the last ...
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Opinel goes to the U.S.
Opinel, the French family-owned producer of an iconic pocket knife exhibited at New York's Museum of Modern Arts, has set up a one-man sales office for the U.S. market in Chicago, and it will exhibit for the first time at the Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake City next month. ...
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Scandinavian hammock and knives get prizes
In our last issue, we highlighted the strong development of camping hammocks in the U.S., which is apparently coming now also to Europe. Amok Equipment (sic), a young Norwegian brand of camping hammocks, won the overall Scandinavian Outdoor Group (SOG) Award 2016 for its particularly versatile Draumr 3.0 hammock. Without ...
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Lifesaver, a new supplier of water filtering systems
A British producer of “ultrafiltration” bottles and filters, called Lifesaver, exhibited at the OutDoor show for the first time last week to find distributors and retailers in the outdoor sector. It is entering the sector with new products for the camping and hiking markets a few months after the brand, ...
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Support for wool standard at outdoor fair
Textile Exchange obtained support in the European outdoor industry as it launched the Responsible Wool Standard (RWS) at the OutDoor fair, predicting that products using the standard could already be in the market by the second half of next year. The RWS was developed by the Textile Exchange with extensive ...
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Reima expands internationally
Reima, the Finnish brand of children's outdoor apparel, is planning to launch its product range in the U.S., working through selected retailers, with deliveries starting in August 2017. The company is about to sign a distribution agreement with a local distributor and will be exhibiting for the first time at ...
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News briefs
ExOfficio is starting to use Marmot Mountain's existing sales network...
ExOfficio is starting to use Marmot Mountain's existing sales network to sell its products to specialty sporting goods and outdoor retailers in Germany, Austria, the U.K., the Benelux, France, Switzerland and Italy from spring/summer 2017. ExOfficio was previously sold mainly to selected clients in those countries like Globetrotter and Larca ...
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Short stops
Eva Mullins has replaced Lennart Ekberg as sustainability manager of...
Eva Mullins has replaced Lennart Ekberg as sustainability manager of Haglöfs
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Weather slows down the European market
Affected by unfavorable winter weather, the European outdoor market raised its wholesale turnover by 1.4 percent to about €5.3 billion last year, based on the latest market research by the European Outdoor Group (EOG). The association's State of Trade report found that the increase amounted to 2.1 percent in value ...
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Ruffwear, the Oregon-based supplier of outdoor performance gear for dogs,...
Ruffwear, the Oregon-based supplier of outdoor performance gear for dogs, has signed AF distribution for its sales in Costa Rica, effective from the beginning of this year. Bomber, a local distributor from Argentina, is also on board from the beginning of this year. During the first half of this year, ...
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Hi-Tec Sports has denied a report in OCC Outdoor that...
Hi-Tec Sports has denied a report in OCC Outdoor that a deal was struck for the Dutch-based footwear company's acquisition by Cherokee, a U.S. clothing and licensing group. Hi-Tec belongs to its founder, Frank van Wezel, after he took the company private again in 2000. Hi-Tec's chief executive and Frank ...
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Dachstein has launched a new transactional website. It is connected...
Dachstein has launched a new transactional website. It is connected with its registered retail partners, who will get full profit margins if the order is placed by a customer in their neighborhood, unless they don't have the item in their inventories. In that case, the order is directly handled by ...
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Vaude makes Detox commitment
Vaude has been moving toward its target of making its entire apparel range without poly-fluorinated chemicals (PFCs) faster than expected and decided to become part of Greenpeace's Detox campaign, aiming to phase out the use and release of toxic chemicals in its entire supply chain by 2020. Rotauf, an apparel ...
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Edelrid, the leading German supplier of climbing gear, will stop...
Edelrid, the leading German supplier of climbing gear, will stop distributing the well-known Diamir line of touring ski bindings that are made and marketed by Fritschi, the Swiss specialty manufacturer of ski bindings, after the next winter season. Fritschi decided to go directly onto the Swiss market in order to ...
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Due to the indoor climbing trend in Germany and other...
Due to the indoor climbing trend in Germany and other European markets as well as in the U.S., where it is called vertical fitness, the share of sales generated by boulder halls is steadily increasing. Red Chili, the German brand of climbing products, already gets 20 percent of its sales ...
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Fjällräven plans to take its “Fjällräven Classic” long-distance trekking event,...
Fjällräven plans to take its “Fjällräven Classic” long-distance trekking event, which currently takes place in northern Sweden, to Hong Kong and Colorado in the autumn of 2017. Currently about 2,200 people from up to 35 countries take part in the event, which is organized once a year in August.
