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Buoyant European demand for Columbia
Columbia Sportswear has met robust demand in Europe, the Middle East in Africa (EMEA) in the third quarter, with a regional sales increase of 15 percent in constant currencies.The increase has helped the U.S. outdoor company to report a sales increase of 1 percent to $747.4 million for the quarter. ...
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Two British outdoor trade shows merge
The British outdoor trade show calendar has been reorganized. The Outdoor Trade Show (OTS) will merge with the Reliable Outdoor Kit Show (ROKS) in 2018, building up to a joint show to be held at Event City in Greater Manchester on July 3-5.It will continue to be called OTS. It ...
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Rocky Brands posts a mixed quarter
Following a strong first half that marked its return to profitability, Rocky Brands posted a mixed third quarter, with significantly higher profits but lower wholesale revenues. Total revenues fell by 11.7 percent from the year-ago quarter to $64.7million, with each of the company's brands falling below sales targets, due to ...
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Bogs continues to decline
Weyco Group posted a mixed quarter, as sales of its Bogs brand of boots continued to decline. Bogs' sales went down by 4 percent from the year-ago quarter, reflecting the continued softness in the outdoor and better footwear retail channels in the U.S. The management said the brand's sales were ...
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Leedham leaves Berghaus’ helm
Berghaus has announced that Richard Leedham has decided to step down as president after 22 years with the brand, leaving the business in early 2018, but he has agreed to assist in the next few months in the recruitment of a new brand director.Pentland Brands, which owns Berghaus, credited Leedham ...
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Apparel drives outdoor division at Amer Sports
A rise in underlying sales of outdoor apparel helped Amer Sports to slightly raise the turnover of its outdoor division for the third quarter, while sluggishness in the American wholesale market led to declining sales in ball sports and a flat turnover in fitness products.The turnover of the Finnish group's ...
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Globetrotter is ahead of its turnaround plan
Fenix Outdoor International saw an upswing in its retail business in the third quarter, as Globetrotter's profit margin moved ahead of the plans for its turnaround.The group's outdoor retail operations - Globetrotter in Germany, Naturkompaniet in Sweden and Partioaitta in Finland - jointly raised their sales by 4.6 percent to ...
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New segmentation at Ispo Munich 2018
Undaunted by the recent partial pullout of Amer Sports from the exhibition floor through its Atomic, Salomon and Armada brands, the management of the Ispo show in Munich is boasting a 15 percent increase in demand for space than at the same time a year ago, and it is responding ...
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Newell’s sports unit posts a 12.8% Ebit margin
Newell Brands' Play segment, which includes Marmot Mountain and many other outdoor and sports brands inherited from its recent merger with the former Jarden Corporation, generated net sales of $611 million in the third quarter. They were 2.4 percent higher than in the year-ago period, with growth of 2.3 percent ...
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More support for retailers at OutDoor
Under pressure from the European Outdoor Group (EOG) to improve its act in order to retain the OutDoor fair, Messe Friedrichshafen has announced a “Retail First” initiative for its next edition of the show. Scheduled to take place on June 17-20, 2018, it may be the last one to be ...
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JD group’s outdoor stores turn profitable
With the inclusion of the Go Outdoors stores acquired last year and continued progress at Blacks and Millets, the outdoor segment of the JD Sports Fashion group turned around to report an operating profit for the half-year until July 29.Sales of the JD group's outdoor stores surged to £196.6 million ...
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Thule sets higher profit goals
The Thule Group has raised its financial forecast, setting a long-term goal to generate an underlying operating margin (Ebit) of about 20 percent of sales, up from a previous target of 17 percent. It is still projecting, as before, annual organic growth in sales of around 5 percent.The reason for ...
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Thule develops a new modular retail solution
Thule is offering retail stores a modular solution for easier viewing of the company's products, seeing it as a move to strengthen its presence in the retail stores and to facilitate the customers' choice of the products. It is already in use at Thule's own brand store in Malmö, Sweden.The ...
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New equipment chief at Salomon
Xavier Le Guen has been appointed as Salomon's vice president of winter sports equipment, after the departure of François Fauroux, who is leaving the company to head up Aqua Lung International, the French group specializing in diving gear.Le Guen was previously vice president of Salomon apparel. He was replaced in ...
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Camping under a minimum of four stars
It's Great Out There, as the European Outdoor Group's campaign wants people to know. When it comes to spending the night in the midst of nature, there are, broadly speaking, two types of people that take to the Great Outdoors. There are those who enjoy the wilderness through the sweat ...
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Fenix Outdoor buys Friluftsland
The concentration of European outdoor retailing is continuing apace with the acquisition of Friluftsland, one of the leading Danish outdoor retailers, by the owner of Globetrotter in Germany, Naturkompaniet in Sweden and Partioaitta in Finland. Just a few weeks after the A.S. Adventure Group bought McTrek in Germany, the Fenix Outdoor ...
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Outdoor and sports brands join forces to tackle micro-particles
The German sporting goods industry association (BSI), the Adidas Group, Polartec and Vaude are taking part in a three-year research project funded by the German federal ministry of education and research, to try and reduce micro-particles shed when textiles made with synthetic fibers are washed.Along with micro-particles from many other ...
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Wolverine sells some military assets
Wolverine Worldwide has sold its factory in Big Rapids, Michigan and some other assets related to its business with the U.S. Department of Defense to a smaller firm, the Original Footwear Company. Wolverine says the divestiture will improve the future viability of the Big Rapids facility because small businesses like ...
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Outdoor participation on the rise in the U.S.
Nearly half of the U.S. population participated in an outdoor activity at least once in 2016. According to the latest Outdoor Recreation Participation Report by The Outdoor Foundation, released on Aug. 7, the participation rate was 48.8 percent, up from 48.4 percent in 2015. That means an addition of around ...
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Mammut’s strategic plan is well underway
The Mammut Sports Group suffered an operating loss of 9.9 million Swiss francs (€8.7m-$10.4m) on a sales decline of 6.2 percent to CHF 95.1 million for the first half of this year, due to the increased costs incurred for the implementation of a five-year strategic plan started last year.Conzzeta, the Swiss ...
