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TNF celebrates its 50th anniversary
The North Face is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a new global campaign, the launch of new vintage products and the opening of two special new stores in New York City and San Francisco.Celebrating “50 Years of Madness,” the campaign will showcase athletes sponsored by the brand throughout its history, ...
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Patagonia expands its Fair Trade program for autumn 2016
Patagonia has scaled up its Fair Trade program, in partnership with Fair Trade USA, from one factory and 11 styles in autumn 2014 to six factories and 218 styles in autumn 2016. By autumn 2017, the California-based outdoor brand expects to boost further production of fair trade garments from 218 ...
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Newell would like to sell K2 and Völkl
Newell Brands announced on Oct. 4 that is putting up for sale the winter sporting goods business that it inherited earlier this year from Jarden Corp. through the latter's merger with Newell Rubbermaid. The company subsequently stated, however, that it intends to keep K2 and Völkl Marker Dalbello if it ...
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New owner for Rohan
Rohan, a rather special British chain of outdoor stores, has gone through one more change of ownership. H. Young Holdings has taken it over from the Cann family trust, which had bought it in 2007 along with Colin Fisher. Roger Cann, a 47-year-old member of the family who has been ...
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Vibram progresses on several fronts
Intellectual property protection is one of those fronts. Working together with Mark Monitor, the Italian company says it has led to the shutdown of 198 websites that were selling counterfeit models of its Vibram FiveFingers shoes or shoes with fake Vibram soles. Action is pending against more than 150 other ...
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Prana will hire European staff
Prana is considering the appointment of a European manager next year, as the American outdoor and yoga apparel brand taken over by Columbia Sportswear two years ago is stepping up investments to support its European distribution.The California-based brand started putting more emphasis on its European business in the last year, ...
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Peak Performance grows, driven by retail
Peak Performance saw a further deterioration in operating results for the three months of the fourth quarter to June 30, despite growing revenues, while the brand continued to invest in new stores and completed the clean-up of the wholesale channel and reducing discounts to a maximum of 40 percent. It ...
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Timberland issues an update on its CSR efforts
Timberland recently released an update about its corporate social responsibility (CSR) actions. In the second quarter of this year, 95.5 percent of the leather used by the brand was produced by tanneries with a silver or gold rating. In the same period, 44 percent of the cotton used in its ...
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La Sportiva is climbing higher mountains
Driven by the development of new products and its diversification into new categories, the world's leading producer of climbing shoes continues to grow by leaps and bounds, leading to a reorganization of its production in Northern Italy and of its sales structure. While investing more in R&D and marketing and ...
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Vista Outdoor buys Camp Chef
Vista Outdoor, the U.S. company that has been expanding through the acquisition of Camelbak and other brands, has agreed to pay $74 million to further widen its offering with the purchase of Camp Chef, an American supplier of outdoor cooking gear.The purchase price being paid for the privately-owned company is ...
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New boss for Silva
Tomorrow Richard Jägrud, 44, is starting as the new chief executive of Silva Group AB, the Swedish supplier of compasses and headlamps, taking the place being left vacant by Patrik Elfwing, who announced his resignation in the spring. Jägrud comes from another Swedish outdoor company, Haglöfs Scandinavia, where he acted ...
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Bumper results for Blacks’ and Millets’ owner
JD Sports Fashion, the owner of Blacks, Millets and other chains of outdoor stores in the U.K., delivered bumper results for the 26 weeks to July 30, with a 20 percent hike in sales to £970.6 million (€1,127.2m-$1,259.4m) and profit before tax and one-off items soaring by 66 percent to £77.4 ...
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New boss for Black Diamond
John C. Walbrecht has left as brand president of Mountain Hardwear, the struggling subsidiary of Columbia Sportswear, to become president of Black Diamond, a subsidiary of Black Diamond Equipment. He will assume the new function on Oct. 3, taking the place of Mark Ritchie.Bryan Timm, president of Columbia Sportswear, will ...
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Mike Ashley becomes SDI chief executive
Mike Ashley is tightening his grip on the management of Sports Direct International (SDI), the embattled British sports retailer, taking over as chief executive after the resignation of Dave Forsey last week.Forsey's departure comes after several months of intense pressure on SDI, the owner of Karrimor and Gelert as well ...
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Amer Sports raises organic sales targets
A Salomon running store in the center of Shanghai was used as an example of diversification when the Amer Sports group raised its target for organic growth last month. The Finnish group aims to reach sales of €3.5 billion without acquisitions in 2020, with at least mid-single digit annual organic ...
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Walltopia to build Adventure Hub in Ukraine
Walltopia, the Bulgarian company that designs and manufactures artificial climbing walls, is about to open its first “Walltopia Adventure Hub” entertainment center in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. This futuristic indoor adventure structure will take a space in the Galaxy Family Entertainment Center, located within the Lavina Mall.The hub will ...
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Little growth for outdoor shoes in 2015
The major outdoor brands saw their sales of footwear grow by only 1.2 percent in terms of U.S.dollars in 2015, coming just under €5 billion for the year. They would have risen by more than 10 percent, especially outside the U.S., if currency exchange rates had remained constant.Our annual study ...
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New management structure at Vista
Vista Outdoor has announced a new segmentation of its recently enlarged brand portfolio, appointing new managers to run its different operations. Kelly Grindle, who remains as president of Outdoor Products, will oversee three new market areas: Outdoor Recreation, Sport Protection and Hunting & Shooting Accessories.Outdoor Recreation will comprise Camelbak and ...
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Rocky invests in lifestyles and military
After posting dismal results for the second quarter, Rocky Brands announced that it will reduce its U.S. workforce. It will also redeploy more capital to support its lifestyle brands and to further expand its production facilities in Puerto Rico, partly to take advantage of a triple-digit increase in military footwear ...
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Newell’s Jarden integration on track
During the second quarter, organic sales went up by 0.5 percent in the outdoor solutions segment of Newell Brands, most of which formerly belonged to Jarden Corp. Higher sales at Pure Fishing offset weather-related declines at winter sports brands such as K2, Völkl and Marker.Last year's acquisitions of Jostens by ...
