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SIGG is growing fast
Sigg Switzerland Bottles is reaping the fruits of strong investments in new personnel as well as in marketing, made by a new set of managers with the backing of the company's new Chinese owners over the past two years. Without giving any specific figures, Adrian Meili, the new chief executive ...
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Timberland trails The North Face
The North Face performed relatively well in VF's second quarter, ended Sept. 9, rising by 5 percent in dollars and by 7 percent in local currencies, aided by double-digit growth in its direct-to-consumer (DTC) business in all regions. In the first quarter, TNF's sales had gone up by only 5 ...
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Italian outdoor companies join forces
The whole thing sounds like the history of the OutDoor show, which was created 25 years ago in Friedrichshafen because some important outdoor companies felt that they were not adequately represented at the more generic Ispo sports show in Munich. These companies decided at the annual meeting of the European ...
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Timberland celebrates nature in New York
For a week in October, Timberland hosted three days of events across New York City, designed to allow New Yorkers to celebrate nature and the autumn season. On Oct. 16, the brand opened a pop-up store in Flatiron South Plaza, across from Madison Square Park, where visitors could embrace Timberland's ...
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SportScheck builds retail and events platform
SportScheck is moving ahead with a strategy to transform its business into a retailing and events platform, which is leading to intensified partnerships with a few brands in sports and other industries.As part of its consumer-focused strategy, the German sports retailer has invested in extensive adjustments of the layout and ...
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Mammut builds up its digital platform
Mammut Sports Group has embarked on a far-reaching project to build up its digitization, both in strategic and operational terms, which is leading to the launch of digital services for outdoor participants as well as products with built-in chips to directly exchange contents with the users.The project was outlined at ...
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Foursource connects brands and manufacturers
Various sports and outdoor brands including CEP, Jack Wolfskin, Kjus, Odlo, Schöffel and Vaude are among the 350+ apparel brands and retailers that have hooked up so far to Foursource, an open internet sourcing platform launched in May 2017 to help product managers find the most suitable manufacturers and to ...
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Deso, a new brand “made in the U.S.”
Like Shackleton in the U.K., Deso hopes to benefit from the fact that all its garments are made in the U.S., using expert seamstresses in the San Francisco area. Like with Arc'teryx and Canada Goose in Canada, local production is said to guarantee a high level of quality for high-performance ...
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Two new managers at Bergzeit’s helm
Maximilian Hofbauer, a well-known personality in the German sports and outdoor sector, is leaving as chief executive of Bergzeit, the German-based online retailer of outdoor products controlled by members of the Oberrauch family in northern Italy, who own Sportler and the Oberalp Group. He will be replaced by two general ...
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Strong attendance at the EOS
This year's European Outdoor Summit (EOS), which was held in the Swedish town of Malmö across from Denmark on Sept. 19-20, attracted a total of 305 delegates from 21 countries. The biggest contingent of 86 attendees naturally came from Sweden, which was followed by Germany, the U.K., Switzerland, Italy, the ...
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Kathmandu is all set for international expansion
Kathmandu, the New Zealand outdoor retailer, has sharply improved its profit margin for the full year to the end of July and is projecting more international growth after its acquisition of the Oboz footwear brand earlier this year.Kathmandu's sales jumped by 11.7 percent to 497.4 million New Zealand dollars (€284.2m-$327.6m). ...
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Spin Capital adds Pyua to its portfolio
Spin Capital, the investment company that last year took over ABS Protection, a major supplier of anti-avalanche airbags, has acquired a controlling interest of 90 percent in Pyua, the German brand of sustainable outdoor and ski clothing.Further acquisitions in the sports sector are not excluded, says Spin Capital, a Munich-based ...
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VF benefits from acquisitions
VF Corporation reported a 15 percent sales increase to $3,907.4 million in its continuing operations for the third quarter ended Sept. 29, with a 16 percent increase in constant currencies. On an adjusted basis, excluding the acquisition of Williamson Dickie, Icebreaker and Altra, which contributed sales of $324 million during ...
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Yeti wants to go public, expanding abroad
The U.S.-based company, which specializes in the production and distribution of coolers and drinking equipment, filed for an initial public offering on Oct. 17. It will seek to bring in 20 million shares priced in the range of $19 to $21, according to an updated filing with the U.S. Securities ...
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The UTMB becomes more international
The Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (URMB) is further diversifying its events with the launch of a race in Latin America next year, after earlier expansion into China and Oman. The organizers of the UTMB announced earlier this month that its fourth event would take place in Ushuaia, in Argentina. It will ...
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JD outdoor retail division beats warm weather
Torrid summer weather in the U.K. has affected the outdoor division of the JD Sports Fashion group for the half-year to Aug. 4, but the entity that includes Blacks, Go Outdoors and other outdoor stores has managed to raise its turnover and to generate cash in the first half of ...
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Chinese investors show interest for Amer Sports
Confirming media speculation, Amer Sports announced a week ago that it has received a non-binding preliminary indication of interest from a consortium comprising Anta Sports Products and an Asian private equity firm, FountainVest Partners, in view of acquiring its entire share capital for €40.00 a share in cash. That would ...
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Amer Sports cycling division under strategic review
The cycling division of the Amer Sports group, which includes the Mavic and Enve brands, has been placed under strategic review, the company said last week as part of an update about its transformation and its assets.The Finnish group behind Salomon, Arc'teryx, Atomic, Wilson and many other brands told analysts ...
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Gregory grows by 6.8%
Gregory Mountain Products continues to grow faster than High Sierra, a less technical and more lifestyle-oriented brand of backpacks which, like Gregory, belongs to the Samsonite Group, the world's largest travel luggage company.In its financial report for the six months ended June 30, Samsonite says that Gregory's sales increased by ...
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The outdoor shoe market rose by 5.0% in 2017
The global outdoor footwear market accelerated slightly on the wholesale level in 2017. According to an annual survey conducted by The Outdoor Industry Compass among the major brands, their footwear revenues rose last year by 5.0 percent to $4.9 billion in terms of U.S. dollars. That was a little better ...
