All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 9, Issue 17-18 – Page 3
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The latest edition of the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market attracted...
The latest edition of the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market attracted about 29,000 visitors, up from 27,000 last year. Held on Aug. 3 to 6 in Salt Lake City, it hosted a total of 1,636 exhibitors, more or less on a par with the same session last year. The NPD Group ...
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The Outdoor Industries Association (OIA) of the U.K. has taken...
The Outdoor Industries Association (OIA) of the U.K. has taken a minority stake in the Outdoor Trade Show (OTS), which has moved its 2017 dates to July 11 and 12. Companies in the sector will be encouraged to become members of the OIA in order to benefit from special discounts. ...
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Liz McLellan has been appointed marketing manager of Sterling Rope,...
Liz McLellan has been appointed marketing manager of Sterling Rope, building upon the relaunch of the American brand in 2015. She worked previously with Emery Waterhouse and The Via Group, an advertising agency where she had Greenpeace and Samsung among her clients.
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Frédéric Seymarc has been appointed as French country manager of...
Frédéric Seymarc has been appointed as French country manager of Ternua, the Spanish outdoor brand, which has taken over the distribution of its products in the country, starting in October. Seymarc worked for Decathlon until 1992. After spending some time in Australia, he came back to France to work for ...
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Igloo has appointed Onestop Internet to develop and executive a...
Igloo has appointed Onestop Internet to develop and executive a new cross-channel digital commerce strategy
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JD Sports is apparently circling Go Outdoors
JD Sports Fashion, the owner of Blacks, Millets and several other sports retail formats in the U.K. and other European countries, declined to comment on British reports that it was eyeing a takeover of Go Outdoors. The British outdoor retailer with about 60 large-scale stores announced earlier this year that ...
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On launches trail running shoes, apparel
On, a fast-growing Swiss-based brand of running shoes, launched its first line of trail running shoes in June, delivering it to about 1,500 doors and starting at the higher end of this growing market.On has also launched its first line of functional running clothing. Consisting of only eight “essential” items ...
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Another poor quarter for Black Diamond
Black Diamond saw profits and margins dive further in the second quarter, as the company faced foreign exchange challenges and higher manufacturing costs. The American maker of climbing gear and apparel posted revenues from continuing operations down by 3.0 percent over the year-ago quarter to $29.1 million. Excluding the impact ...
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Hohenstein has announced the appointment of John Frazier as senior...
Hohenstein has announced the appointment of John Frazier as senior technical director of Hohenstein Institute America. In this role, he will support apparel and footwear clients across North America in the implementation of green chemistry, textile and materials research. Prior to joining Hohenstein, he was senior director of chemistry at ...
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Wolverine Worldwide has announced the appointment of Mike Jeppesen, the...
Wolverine Worldwide has announced the appointment of Mike Jeppesen, the current president of its Global Operations Group, to an expanded role as president of the Wolverine Heritage Group, which includes the Wolverine, Harley-Davidson, Bates, and HyTest brands. He takes over from Ted Gedra, who has recently retired after 30 years ...
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Patagonia has announced that its Nano Puff styles will now...
Patagonia has announced that its Nano Puff styles will now use PrimaLoft Gold Insulation Eco, an eco-friendly synthetic insulation made with 55 percent recycled content. PrimaLoft presented Gold Insulation Eco at the recent OutDoor exhibition in Friedrichshafen in mid-July. PrimaLoft Gold Insulation Eco will be featured exclusively in the Nano ...
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Timberland, a brand of VF Corp., has announced a program...
Timberland, a brand of VF Corp., has announced a program to restore and create green spaces in five U.S. cities by 2020. Each year for the next five years, the brand will choose a different city with a Timberland store, beginning with New York City, and will match its retail ...
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Working together with the Best Friends Animal Society, Ruffwear managed...
Working together with the Best Friends Animal Society, Ruffwear managed to get 15 dogs adopted by participants in the Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake City earlier this month, covering the related air travel fees. Since May 2015, the American supplier of pet items has found new homes for 50 ...
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Birkenstock, which is enjoying a boom in the American shoe...
Birkenstock, which is enjoying a boom in the American shoe market, has notified Amazon that it will stop supplying it from next January. It has also asked its authorized dealers not to offer Birkenstock shoes on its marketplace. According to CNBC, Birkenstock has found it impossible to supervise the distribution ...
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Amer Sports ups investments
The Amer Sports group has predicted a small decline for this year in the sales of its winter sports equipment, comprising the Atomic and Salomon brands, after the unfavorable previous winters and a 3 percent drop in orders for the coming season. But this comes after a sales hike in ...
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Stephan Siegrist, the Swiss Mammut Pro Team professional alpinist, has...
Stephan Siegrist, the Swiss Mammut Pro Team professional alpinist, has set a world record by walking the world's highest highline at 5,700 meters above sea level. The highline where the athlete achieved the new record is 20-meter long and stretches between two rock towers on Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania. No one ...
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Alchemy Equipment, the New Zealand-based brand of urban outdoor performance...
Alchemy Equipment, the New Zealand-based brand of urban outdoor performance apparel, has teamed up with Partners Growth in Canada for distribution in the U.S. and Canadian markets. The group said it started exploring the North American market at the Outdoor Retailer winter fair last year and walked away with nine ...
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Weak quarter for Timberland affects VF sales guidance
The outdoor and action sports business at VF Corp brought in mixed results for the second quarter ended July 2, combining sales increases for The North Face and Vans, and a decline for Timberland, caused by the Americas and Asia-Pacific.The group said it was broadly on track but the Timberland ...
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Frédéric Hufkens, chairman and chief executive of A.S. Adventure, and...
Frédéric Hufkens, chairman and chief executive of A.S. Adventure, and Anders Selling, a Swedish management consultant specializing in the automotive industry, will join the roster of keynote speakers at the European Outdoor Summit (EOS) due to be run in Barcelona on Sept. 29-30. Selling, who is also president of the ...
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Patagonia has adopted a new wool sourcing standard, saying that...
Patagonia has adopted a new wool sourcing standard, saying that it amounts to the world's most stringent criteria for animal welfare and responsible land management. The Patagonia Wool Standard was developed in response to concerns over animal welfare, which led Patagonia to quit buying wool from one of its suppliers ...
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