All Outdoor Industry Compass articles in Volume 9, Issue 7-8 – Page 4
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Two more suppliers to the industry, W.L. Gore & Associates...
Two more suppliers to the industry, W.L. Gore & Associates and Pertex, have joined the European Outdoor Group. They join Primaloft, the first ingredient brand to have become a member of the EOG last month. The EOG voted at its annual assembly last month to admit such technology brands into ...
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Cascade Designs and Garmont are among the new members of...
Cascade Designs and Garmont are among the new members of the Conservation Alliance in the U.S. Other new entrants are Hicamp, Nunne, Seaview Outfitters, Shift Advantage and Ursack.
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Decathlon has also moved into the Australian market with online...
Decathlon has also moved into the Australian market with online sales, offering products for more than 35 sports. The French retailer says that orders are to be dispatched from a warehouse in Sydney, which will also handle deliveries to New Zealand after a few months. Sylvain Baudens, chief financial officer ...
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Timberland, Impact Farming and Haiti-based Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA) have...
Timberland, Impact Farming and Haiti-based Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA) have launched a new study looking into the possibility of reintroducing cotton as an export crop for Haitian smallholders. Cotton used to be a valuable agricultural export for Haiti but stopped being a viable crop due to decades of natural disasters, ...
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Aku, the Italian brand of hiking and mountaineering footwear, has...
Aku, the Italian brand of hiking and mountaineering footwear, has moved all of its production to company-owned facilities this year, meaning that all Aku shoes are made in Europe starting from this spring's range. The outdoor footwear maker based in Montebelluna previously outsourced about 10 to 15 percent of its ...
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Andy Airey quits George Fisher
After spending 26 years with George Fisher, the iconic outdoor retail store in Keswick, in the English Lake District, its managing director, Andy Airey, has decided to resign at the end of April. Stressing that this was his personal decision, the 55-year-old manager told us that he plans to spend ...
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A new European norm for avalanche airbags is tentatively planned...
A new European norm for avalanche airbags is tentatively planned for release in the autumn
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Black Diamond moves ahead with relocation and cuts
Confirming that the relocation of its European head office from Basel in Switzerland to Innsbruck in Austria should be finalized in May (see The Compass Vol. 9 n° 1-2 of Jan. 21), the management of the Black Diamond group said it should reduce operating costs by $2.2 million on a ...
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Mammut extends its sponsorship agreement with Steph Davis, a rock...
Mammut extends its sponsorship agreement with Steph Davis, a rock climber based in Moab, Utah, to include apparel
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New owner for Tenson after USG bankruptcy
Tenson is poised to expand more rapidly in international markets in the coming years, after the Swedish outdoor brand was acquired at undisclosed terms by Nedvest Capital, a Dutch investment firm.Tenson was previously owned by the Unlimited Sports Group (USG), the leading Dutch sports retailer and wholesaler, which was declared ...
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After its sale to Investcorp in October, Poc has relocated...
After its sale to Investcorp in October, Poc has relocated its North American head office from Salt Lake City to Park City, Utah. The Swedish supplier of ski and cycling helmets, apparel and accessories was previously owned by the Black Diamond group and its North American team was working from ...
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Addnature opens an original hybrid store
Addnature, the Swedish online and offline retailer of outdoor products acquired by the German-based Internetstores group in 2013, on April 1 opened a special type of physical store in central Stockholm, offering products found on its website as well as on that of Bikester, the company's online shop for bicycles.Located ...
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The next edition of Përformance Days, the activewear fabrics show...
The next edition of Përformance Days, the activewear fabrics show taking place in Munich on April 20-21, will focus on recycled fibers and fabrics. Sympatex Technologies will take the opportunity to present laminates whose yarns are made by Italy's Sinterama out of recycled PET bottles. There will several conferences and ...
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Patagonia is launching the Euro Worn Wear Tour, a journey across...
Patagonia is launching the Euro Worn Wear Tour, a journey across five European countries to encourage customers to extend the life of their garments, regardless of the brand. The tour will kick off on April 15 in the U.K. and Germany, simultaneously, and will end in France, Italy and the Netherlands. ...
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Johnson Outdoors has acquired the key assets of Northport Systems,...
Johnson Outdoors has acquired the key assets of Northport Systems, a Canadian digital cartography company. Northport's technologies bring new cartography capabilities to Johnson Outdoors that have potential application in its fishing sonar products. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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Newell Rubbermaid, which agreed last December to acquire Jarden Corp....
Newell Rubbermaid, which agreed last December to acquire Jarden Corp. through a merger, has appointed Russ Torres to the newly-created position of chief transformation officer, starting on April 1. Reporting to Mark Tarchetti, who will become president of Newell Brands after the deal is completed, Torres will be in charge ...
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Thule Americas has appointed a new national accounts and business...
Thule Americas has appointed a new national accounts and business development manager for the region to help develop new channels of business in the outdoor and other sectors. After reviewing hundreds of candidates for the job, the choice has fallen on Brian Bennett, who has worked for Patagonia for 13 ...
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Tasci, the Italian parent company of Montura, is about to...
Tasci, the Italian parent company of Montura, is about to open its 21st multi-brand Alpstation store in the Italian city of Trieste. Excluding those in Munich and Salzburg, all the others are in Italy. There are also three single-brand Montura stores in Italy and one in France, which is run ...
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Vasque will sponsor the 5Point Adventure Film Festival being held...
Vasque will sponsor the 5Point Adventure Film Festival being held on April 21-24 in Carbondale, Colorado
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The 32nd Destinations Nature (“Nature Destinations”) and the 41st Mondial...
The 32nd Destinations Nature (“Nature Destinations”) and the 41st Mondial du Tourisme (“World of Tourism”) trade fairs, which jointly took place on March 17-20 in Paris, saw a 61 percent increase in group visitors comprising corporate clubs and associations, and a 37 percent increase in students and teachers as compared ...
