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Industry managers discuss climate change with youngsters
The emotional pitch made by Greta Thunberg at the United Nations in New York on Sept. 23, begging political leaders to stop climate change, made the front page of the issue of our Outdoor Industry Compass, which came out just before the European Outdoor Summit. The young Swedish girl, ...
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Redefining a faster supply chain
The supply chain has been getting faster and faster. The process that goes from the design and development to the distribution of a product for a particular season has been shortened in the last few years, taking only about 11 months instead of 18 months.Many fashion companies have reacted to ...
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Burton cultivates its values
After the European Outdoor Summit, Burton Snowboards announced that it has become the first snowboarding company to obtain B Corporation certification from the B Lab, showing that it is using its business “as a force for good” around the world.At the EOS in Interlaken, Donna Carpenter – co-founder and co-owner ...
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Boundaries were redefined at the EOS in Interlaken
One of our senior editors, Wolfgang Greiner, introduced an interesting roster of speakers at the European Outdoor Summit (EOS) that took place in the Swiss city of Interlaken last month. As the only European business publication in the sector, we have decided to deliver a special issue of the Compass ...
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Spiders and silkworms have led to Biosteel
A German company founded in Munich in 2008, Amsilk, showed at the European Outdoor Summit (EOS) in Interlaken last month how it has been able to continuously spin a highly sustainable skin-friendly, lightweight fiber that is tough and elastic at the same time, called Biosteel, by copying the process by ...
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Beyond Boundaries
Jamie Andrew's incredible and inspiring story of personal achievement was the icing on the cake at the EOS in Interlaken, capping the convention in a similar way as the speech made by a fantastic former Paralympic champion, David Lega, at the last year's summit in Malmö, Sweden.Andrew captured the sympathy ...
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From More to Better
This was the title of the energizing opening keynote speech delivered at the European Outdoor Summit (EOS) in Interlaken last month by a leading futurist, Anne Skare Nielsen, to explain “why the next 10 years will be amazing.”She suggested looking at the future as “a game” where we can change ...
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Adventure travel is replacing old-style mass tourism
The era of mass tourism in its present form is coming to an end, stated Chris Doyle, who runs the European unit of the Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA), at the European Outdoor Summit (EOS) in Interlaken. Instead, growth in adventure tourism is accelerating worldwide, responding to a growing need ...
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Ingredient brands add purpose to performance
Ingredient brands have enabled vendors to build up trust in their products as a quality label through their functional characteristics. They have helped stimulate sell-through and repeat purchases at full price.Tomas Vucurevic of Braind, a Slovenian expert on the subject who has conducted over 30 projects with ingredient brands, said ...
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More on VF’s Outdoor segment
All in all, VF's Outdoor segment is expected to grow at an average annual level of 7 to 8 percent, representing 41 percent of VF's sales by 2024, compared with 46 percent for the “Active” segment, led by Vans, and 13 percent for the Work segment, led by Dickies.Summing up ...
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Hi-Tec’s parent reduces its losses
Apex Global Brands, the American licensing firm previously called Cherokee Global Brands, reported a net loss from continuing operations of $1,267,000 for the second quarter ended on Aug. 3, down sharply from a loss of $9,053,000 for the year-ago period that stemmed in part from restructuring charges of $5.3 million, ...
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VF unveils new strategic plan and financial outlook
VF Corporation held a meeting on Sept. 25 with investors and analysts in Beaver Creek, Colorado, to provide an update to the company’s strategic growth plan. It used the opportunity to introduce a new corporate logo for the first time in 21 years, accompanied by a telling new tagline: “Purpose ...
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A new deal for Dakine in Europe
The brand's best distributor in Europe, Bucher + Walt of Switzerland, has acquired Dakine Europe, the subsidiary of the American brand based in Annecy. Branching out of its national territory for the first time, it will be responsible for about one-third of Dakine's total turnover, estimated at nearly $100 million ...
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Kathmandu takes over Rip Curl
Nearly doubling in size, Kathmandu Holdings of New Zealand announced a binding agreement for the acquisition of Rip Curl. Contributing to the consolidation of the action sports market, which took a big step in the spring of last year with the merger between Billabong's and Quiksilver's brands into Boardriders, the ...
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Improving Kathmandu sees other synergies with Rip Curl
Investors have responded positively to the news on Oct. 1 of Rip Curl's takeover, raising Kathmandu Holdings' stock market capitalization by 5 percent to more than 830 million New Zealand dollars (€472.3m-$521.1m) after a temporary suspension of trading. Like the much bigger VF Corporation, Kathmandu now has one leg in ...
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Eoca invites the public to vote for conservation projects
The European Outdoor Conservation Association (Eoca) will be granting €180,000 to conservation projects this autumn and, as before, it is calling on everyone to help choose projects to receive the funds.This year, the organization received 70 funding applications, and they were discussed this summer with Eoca's scientific adviser. The process ...
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Patagonia wants to be “carbon positive”
Patagonia wants to be better than just carbon neutral. Its real aim is to become “carbon positive,” as it said in a blog post dated Sept. 18, meaning that it aims to take more carbon out of the atmosphere than it puts in, even when the company grows. “Carbon neutral” ...
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New campsites in Russia
The Russian authorities are aiming to establish several clusters of camping sites across the country to develop the outdoor sector. Up to 21 new campsites will be created in Crimea alone in the coming few years, according to Vadim Volchenko, the region's Minister of Tourism.All the projects are due to ...
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Öko-Test criticizes the T-shirts of some brands
H&M and Jack Wolfskin have received the top grade in a recent study published by Öko-Test, a German magazine, for its outdoor T-shirts made of recycled plastic. The tested T-shirt from Pyua was rated “good,” while those from Fjällräven, Houdini, Norrøna, Patagonia and Vaude were rated worst.The recycled plastic of ...
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The EOS goes full circle as boundaries are redefined
The outdoor market as a whole is growing more slowly than before, as the latest statistics by NPD and the European Outdoor Group (EOG) have shown. For the players in the market, external growth in other categories is one way of coping with the situation, as indicated by Kathmandu's acquisition ...
