All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 9, Issue 3-4
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Tomtom reports that sales of its sports products soared by...
Tomtom reports that sales of its sports products soared by 40 percent to €69 million last year, with the shipment of more than 600,000 GPS sports watches. This compensated for slightly lower sales in personal navigation devices, although Tomtom said it performed better than the market and gained share in ...
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Invista has introduced a new line of Thermolite infrared yarns...
Invista has introduced a new line of Thermolite infrared yarns that absorb near-infrared (NIR) rays to raise the temperature of the garment. Their hollow fibers insulate the garment and minimize heat loss. Drying times are reduced.
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Outdoor Sports Valley launches new start-up incubator
Outdoor Sports Valley (OSV) is launching an incubator dedicated to specifically help entrepreneurs in the outdoor sports industry, a first in Europe according to the association. The Annecy Base Camp, managed directly by OSV, will be located in the Glaisins business park, an area that overlooks the basin of Lake ...
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Helly Hansen and Nikwax have sealed a partnership to improve...
Helly Hansen and Nikwax have sealed a partnership to improve the care given to garments and to extend their performance in an environmentally-friendly way. The partnership focuses on Helly Hansen sports and workwear products that are meant for particularly demanding conditions. The partnership is to start with resort uniforms, as ...
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Haglöfs remakes range and marketing
Haglöfs, the Swedish outdoor brand, has changed its pay-off and altered its offering as part of wider strategic changes started last year. While Haglöfs had been sold for many years as “Outstanding Outdoor Equipment,” the brand has switched its payoff to “Beat the Elements,” which will be launched at retail ...
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Vista Outdoor grows strongly
Vista Outdoor reported a 17 percent sales increase to $593 million for its third quarter, ended Jan. 3, generating net income of $43.2 million against a loss of $11.2 million in the same period a year ago, and thus beating analysts' expectations. The gross margin improved by 1.82 percentage points ...
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Thule Group says the number of shares and votes in...
Thule Group says the number of shares and votes in the company has risen to 1,036,455 following the exercise of warrants
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Mountain Warehouse may go public
Mountain Warehouse, the British outdoor retailer, has reportedly retained Rothschild, the investment bank, to explore a sale of the business and a potential stock market launch. City AM reports that the owners are eyeing a valuation in the range of £200 million (€257.7m-$290.1m) for the company, which has 228 stores ...
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Fenix Outdoor thrives, Globetrotter recovers
Fenix Outdoor International's profit improved slightly despite vastly increased sales last year, as the strong performance of the group's brands and its Swedish retail business was mitigated by the charges affecting its retail division after the acquisition of Globetrotter, the German outdoor retailer. Martin Nordin, chief executive of the formally ...
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Thule expands in outdoor, improves margins
The board of directors of Thule Group has set a new target of 17 percent for the company's operating margin (Ebit) after a year in which it reached a level of 16.0 percent, well above the previously set target of 15 percent. After its strategic repositioning in the outdoor and ...
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Keen expands executive team
Rob Langstaff, who spent the last two years supervising sales in Asia-Pacific and Latin America at Brooks Running, has been appointed vice president of international at Keen, the U.S. manufacturer of outdoor footwear. He is taking over from Morten Israelsen, who moved to England for personal reasons. Langstaff is a ...
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The European outdoor market looks moderately positive
Providing the first indications of the outdoor sector's performance ahead of its 2015 State of Trade report, the European Outdoor Group (EOG) reported last month that 85 percent of the 50 EOG members questioned were able to post an increase in their wholesale revenues in Europe last year. In fact, ...
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The EOG’s membership expands
The European Outdoor Group is recruiting more retailers and is about to sign up the first two or three ingredient brands. Since it opened the membership to them in 2014, the EOG has won over 17 retail members including big players like AS Adventure and Fenix Outdoor, buying groups like ...
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The Textile Exchange released the first draft of the Responsible...
The Textile Exchange released the first draft of the Responsible Wool Standard (RWS) this week, for public stakeholder review by interested parties at responsiblewool.org. This allows the public to provide input for the standard, to make sure that it delivers value to the wool industry. The RWS is intended as ...
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MGM Trezeta has entrusted the distribution in Spain of its...
MGM Trezeta has entrusted the distribution in Spain of its Kayland and Trezeta lines of shoes to Manufacturas Deportivas Viper, starting with the present season
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Lowa is taking on the distribution of Sixtus Sports' products...
Lowa is taking on the distribution of Sixtus Sports' products on an exclusive basis among German and Austrian sporting goods and footwear retailers. The 80-year-old Bavarian firm uses natural alpine herbs for a variety of products for the wellbeing of the body and the feet. A former captain of the ...
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Earlier dates for the OutDoor show
The European OutDoor show will take place in mid-June rather than in mid-July in 2017 and 2018, following a trend toward earlier dates fbor all kinds of apparel and footwear trade shows around the world. Along with its earlier dates, the four-day show will also start on Sunday rather than ...
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Peak Performance sales decline on wholesale cuts
Peak Performance saw its sales decline by 4.1 percent to 562 million Danish kroner (€76.3m-$84.6m) for the six months until the end of last year, due to a clean-up in distribution that reduced its wholesale turnover, as well as weaker demand in Norway and Finland. The sales decline amounted to ...
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Peak Performance invests in upmarket store concept
Peak Performance is preparing to refit all of its own stores in the next two years, as part of a strategic shift for its urban outdoor range. With light grey flooring and original beam patterns on the ceiling, the retail concept matches a more premium appearance for the Swedish brand. ...
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Robust quarter for Columbia despite warm weather
Columbia Sportswear's sales in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) declined by 15 percent to $58.2 million in the three months to the end of last year. Sales contracted by 6 percent in constant currencies, due to a fall of more than 30 percent in sales to distributors. The ...
