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Hydro Flask boosts Helen of Troy’s results
The houseware segment, which includes Hydro Flask, was the engine of growth in the latest quarter for Helen of Troy, which owns this brand of drinkware among other properties. Sales in this division for the second fiscal quarter ended on Aug. 31 rocketed by 22.1 percent to $167.8 million.The management ...
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Spiders have led to Biosteel, too
Spinnova, the Finnish textile fiber start-up that is partnering with Bergans of Norway (see the previous article in this issue) is not the only company that, in developing its innovative textile spinning process, has been inspired by the natural way in which spiders extrude their web.A German company founded in ...
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Bergans tests a spider-like fiber by Spinnova
Bergans of Norway hopes to produce items more sustainably by entering into a production partnership with a new Finnish weaving technology specialist, Spinnova, which has just gone through a refinancing round.Spinnova uses a mechanical process rather than a chemical one to obtain cellulose fibers from wood, straw and waste products, ...
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VF’s investments and growth in Europe will vary from one country to another
VF is forecasting higher sales growth in the GAS (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) area over the next five years than in the other major markets in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. At the global Investor Day held on Sept. 25 in Beaver Creek, Colorado, VF projected a compound ...
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VF wants Timberland to grow again, enlarging its target
Executives of VF Corp. have admitted that Timberland failed to live up to expectations in the last few years, growing at a very slow place, largely due to a slowdown in sales of iconic styles like the Yellow Boot and the rising popularity of athletic-inspired sneakers. VF had projected a ...
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Maloja opens up shop in Vermont
Catering to the local community of outdoor enthusiasts, Maloja, the German brand of functional apparel with cool designs, is opening its first American flagship store in Stowe, Vermont, on Sept. 28. In the U.S., where the company has a subsidiary that handles sales to more than 170 retail stores in ...
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Kastel opens an inter-active store in Oslo
Another former manager of Viking Outdoor Footwear, Andreas Malo Dyb, wanted to do something different, so he launched his own brand of sneakers, called Kastel, eight years ago, working for a while with a temporary showroom in a container. It was more of a relaunch: Kastel was actually born in ...
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Vista Outdoor plans more disposals
REI has just placed its first order for Camelbak products, after excluding the brand from its assortment since March 2018 in reaction to the tragic mass shooting a high school in Parkland, Florida. The big American outdoor retailer said it would resume doing business with Camelbak's parent company, Vista Outdoor, ...
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Exxel gets extra elbow room by moving to Denver
Exxel Outdoors is expanding its headquarters in the outdoor-friendly state of Colorado. The company has spent $6 million to purchase a building of 39,000 square feet in the Interlocken area of Broomfield, just north of the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport and about halfway between Denver and Boulder along their connecting ...
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Patagonia lodges new complaints in the U.S.
Patagonia has filed a lawsuit against Kimberly McHugh, a third-party seller, for selling Patagonia-branded products on Amazon and other platforms without authorization, according to thefashionlaw.com. McHugh, the outdoor clothing maker alleges, falsely claims to be an authorized dealer of Patagonia products on her site, My Little Corner, potentially misleading consumers.Patagonia ...
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CMP and Garmont go a little lifestyle
Both of these Italian brands had a stand in the Players District, a new section of Micam, the world's largest footwear trade show, held in Milan last week, in a bid to enlarge their distribution in the growing lifestyle segment of the outdoor footwear market. A similar trend has been ...
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Companies close their stores on global Climate Strike Day
Haglöfs decided to shut down its stores on the occasion of a global climate strike on Sept. 20 to allow its staff to take part in the movement. The decision affected the four European stores of the Swedish outdoor company, located in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Åre and Oslo. The company has ...
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Globetrotter changes logo but is not out of the woods
As of this month, Globetrotter is sporting a new corporate design to better reflect its connection with the three Scandinavian outdoor retail chains that belong to the Fenix Outdoor group – Naturkompaniet in Sweden, Partioaitta in Finland and Friluftsland in Denmark. A previous earthy red has been replaced by green, ...
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JD’s Go Outdoors chain suffers from logistic problems, too
Sales declined slightly to £204.1 million (€229.7m-$254.3m) in the outdoor stores of JD Sports Fashion during the first half of the group's financial year, ended on Aug. 3, leading to a pre-tax loss of £45.2 million (€50.9m-$56.3m) in the segment, which includes Blacks Outdoor, Millets, Go Outdoors, Tiso and other ...
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Norway’s new Zero°C brand uses Gore-Tex for urbanwear
Founded by two veterans of Viking Outdoor Footwear, ZDC Footwear is the first start-up to have been granted a license by Gore-Tex to use its technology to insert thin laminates in its footwear products, where fashion is supposed to meet function for the benefit of urban dwellers in Scandinavia, the ...
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Goldwin is opening its second brand store
Goldwin, which has mainly been offering highly technical skiwear outside Japan, is starting to offer a wider collection – with some functional lifestyle clothing and outdoor and athletic apparel for running, hiking and climbing – through retailers in the U.S., Europe and Asia during the current autumn season. Compression garments ...
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Clarus boasts strong potential for BD and other brands
Clarus Corporation is seeking to maximize the synergies between Black Diamond and the other brands in its portfolio. BD has just announced that it will take on the distribution in Europe of SKINourishment's skincare brand, ClimbOn, benefitting from its large sales network in the region. BD showed the line at ...
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Macpac performs better than BCF at Australia’s Super Group
BCF, one of the outdoor retailing banners of the Australian-based Super Retail Group, raised its revenues by 3 percent to 514.6 million Australian dollars (€318.4m-$350.0m) in the financial year ended on June 29. Sales grew by 6 percent online and by 3.2 percent on a comparable store basis at brick-and-mortar. ...
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ATTA members are working with outdoor suppliers more intensely
About 20 suppliers of outdoor equipment, footwear and apparel participated in the Adventure Travel World Summit (ATWS) organized by the Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) in the Swedish city of Gothenburg on Sept. 16-19. With the cooperation of Ispo, ten of them exhibited their products for the first time during ...
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Apex expands Hi-Tec licensing and distribution
Apex Global Brands has reported the signing of several new licensing and distribution contracts for its Hi-Tec brand with partners in Europe, North America and Asia, and more partnerships may follow.The company had previously announced the addition of new licensing deals for its Tony Hawk brand, including an interesting contract ...
