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Deckers narrows loss, sales up by 10%
Deckers Brands, the parent of Ugg and other footwear brands including the rapidly expanding Hoka One One, managed to reduce its net losses significantly in its first fiscal quarter ended June 30, down to $19.3 million, as compared to $30.4 million for the year-ago quarter. Revenues climbed by 10.5 percent ...
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Promising start for the OutDoor by Ispo show
The European Outdoor Group (EOG), which owns the OutDoor brand name with two capital letters, overwhelmingly decided early last year to move its OutDoor show to Munich, after its 25 years of existence on Lake Constance, and its choice has apparently proven correct. The numbers were pretty good, for a ...
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Slower growth for Thule
After a very strong start of the year, the Thule Group said that it grew at a slower pace in the second quarter. In constant currencies, the Swedish-based company's revenues grew by 3.0 percent from the year-ago period to 2,311 million kronor (€219.7m-$247.1m), hampered by currency headwinds. Its operating income ...
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Pentland keeps growing and growing
The stellar performance of JD Sports Fashion, whose revenues grew by 49.2 percent to £4.72 billion (€5.25bn-$5.88bn) in the financial year ended last Feb. 2, helped its controlling shareholder, Pentland Group, to record an overall increase in revenues of 38.9 percent to £5.1 billion (€5.7bn-$6.4bn) for its financial year ended on ...
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The European outdoor market is flat
The latest State of Trade report by the European Outdoor Group (EOG) indicates that the outdoor market declined by 1 percent in value and by 0.5 percent in volume in 2018 in terms of the sell-in to the trade in the 23 European countries covered by its annual study, resulting ...
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Ortlieb starts selective online distribution
Ortlieb, the German company specializing in bicycle panniers and backpacks, started selling online via distribution agreements with pure online retailers in Germany at the beginning of this year.In Austria and Switzerland, the new selective online distribution model will start this autumn. In the U.S., Ortlieb is currently signing contracts with ...
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Deuter expects a rebound
Deuter expects its sales to increase by about 6 percent in its new financial year, which will end on June 30, 2020. As indicated in our last issue, the brand did not perform as well in the year ended on June 30, due in part to a change of distribution ...
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No show on Lake Constance in September
Messe Friedrichshafen has decided not to go ahead with the premiere of Outdoor Friedrichshafen, scheduled to take place on Sept. 17-19, 2019, and to postpone the new format. Outdoor Friedrichshafen had presented a new concept this year, featuring greater involvement of brick-and-mortar retailers and a date set for the end ...
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Berg Outdoor goes out of the market
Portugal's Sonae Group ceased operations for its Berg Outdoor brand last month. Orders already taken for spring/summer 2019 were still delivered as planned, but there will be no further collections. The big Portuguese retail group had examined alternative strategies for the brand, which was created in 2002 as a private ...
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Hydro Flask benefits from new packs
Helen of Troy, the parent company of Hydro Flask, raised its outlook for the current financial year after a strong first quarter ended on May 31. It now expects sales in the range of $1,590 to $1,620 million, which would represent growth of 1.7 percent to 3.6 percent, up from ...
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Many awards at the OutDoor by Ispo show
Vaude won two OutDoor by Ispo Gold Awards in July: one for its new, seamless Lizard 1-2 P Tent and one for its new Meglis Eco 700 SYN sleeping bag. At this year's OutDoor by Ispo show in Munich, the German-based outdoor company also won another award in the category ...
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Nordisk came first in the SOG Awards
At this year's OutDoor by Ispo show in Munich, the Scandinavian Outdoor Group named Nordisk as the overall winner of the traditional SOG Awards for the spring/summer 2020 season for its Midgard 9.2-square-meter tent. The Danish company's modular tent concept has been applied to four different tent sizes – 20 ...
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Adidas Outdoor harnesses the internet for sales and relevance
Like its big parent company, Adidas Outdoor is taking many initiatives in the area of digitalization and sustainability, both of which were a focus at the recent OutDoor by Ispo show and the subsequent Ispo Digitize fair in Munich. The recent introduction by this business unit of the Adidas Group ...
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The Polish outdoor market is worth €250 million
At this year's OutDoor by Ispo trade show, the Polish Outdoor Group set up the first official Polish Outdoor Village. Various Polish outdoor brands, including Comodo, Fjord Nansen, Lesovik, Milo, Pajak and Stampol-F, presented their latest product innovations in this section of the show, which was evidently inspired by the ...
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Icebug insists on sustainability and profitability
“Is this the most sustainable trail running shoe in the world?” Rather than make the claim, Icebug asks the question in a press release to introduce its new Outrun RB9X model, calling on other brands to challenge the company and offering to share its knowledge in the belief that cooperation ...
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Mountain Warehouse posts sales and profit growth
Mountain Warehouse has reported a 13 percent sales increase for the year to Feb. 24, 2019, with sales reaching £255 million (€286.0m-$323.7m). It was the 22nd consecutive year of rising sales, and it was partly due to the opening of new stores. The growth was primary driven by the international ...
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Oberalp grows steadily
Oberalp's sales rose by 5 percent in 2018 to €220 million. About 75 percent of the turnover was generated by its house brands, led by Salewa, whose revenues rose only slightly because of a major clean-up of the brand's distribution in the past three years that helped the company to ...
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Good prospects for the new trade show in Munich
The new OutDoor by Ispo show has received more acceptance from the industry than expected after Messe München won the race for holding the show against Messe Friedrichshafen at a landmark meeting of the European Outdoor Group last year. With its more central geographical location and a major activation program, ...
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Weekendbee.com of Finland stands out through sustainability
There is a growing trend of outdoor industry retailers differentiating themselves through their commitment to sustainability. The Finnish based e-commerce platform weekendbee.com is recent example.Launched in October of 2018, the platform carries products only from outdoor or active lifestyle brands whose mission is to make their products and operations as ...
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New, sustainable e-commerce platform launched in Sweden
The topic of “Sustainability as a Competitive Advantage” will be discussed at a panel organized with the collaboration of the Outdoor Industry Compass on Tuesday July 2 between 11 and 12 AM in the Retail Lounge of the OutDoor by Ispo show. Located in Hall A4, booth 40, the Retail ...
