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Adidas Outdoor switches to Terrex branding
The Adidas Group is switching the branding of its Adidas Outdoor range to Terrex, a new brand concept that has been driving an ample rise in sales for the company in the European outdoor market. The branding is to be applied from 2017 for nearly all of the Adidas brand's ...
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Acquisitions help Vista Outdoor
Vista Outdoor reported a 23 percent sales increase to $630 million in its second quarter ended July 3, boosted by its new acquisitions of Bell, Giro, Jimmy Styks and CamelBak over the past year. The figure includes $134 million from recent acquisitions. On an organic basis prior to those acquisitions, ...
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New CEO for 8848 Altitude
After leaving Craft last spring, Jonas Peterson will now step in as chief executive of another Swedish, company, 8848 Altitude. Peterson has been CEO of both Cross Sportswear and Craft where he received international experience that this supplier of ski, outdoor and bike clothing was looking for.Peterson's task, in addition ...
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Codi buys 5.11 Tactical
After making a big capital gain on its sale of Camelbak to Vista Outdoor, Compass Diversified Holding (Codi) has signed an agreement to acquire 5.11 Tactical for $400 million, at the end of July. The management will retain a stake of 2.5 percent. One of Codi's goals is to expand ...
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A positive OutDoor
The OutDoor fair in Friedrichshafen closed on a positive note on Saturday. The leading European outdoor trade show started out with a slight uptick in attendance on Wednesday.By the end of the show, the total attendance had risen to a total of 21,507 daily visits, up slightly from 21,464 visits ...
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Plenty of innovation at the OutDoor show
Aside from a growing “urban outdoor” lifestyle trend, innovation was singled out as a key driver of growth in a market that is not expanding as fast as before, at the press conference that kicked off the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen last week. Stefan Glowacz, the chief executive of Red ...
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Greenpeace takes issue with PFCs in the stores
Greenpeace says it found concentrations of “hazardous” poly-fluorinated chemicals (PFCs) in the air of a few European outdoor stores that were 20 to 60 times higher than concentrations found in the organization's office and storage space in Hamburg, and up to 1,000 times higher than in urban outdoor air.Samples were ...
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Gore-Tex supports growth at Montane
Montane has obtained more shelf space with several key accounts in the last weeks as it launched a range of winter products with Gore-Tex membranes. The partnership is supporting a sustained sales increase for the British outdoor brand, which reached an annual average of about 20 percent in the last ...
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Opinel goes to the U.S.
Opinel, the French family-owned producer of an iconic pocket knife exhibited at New York's Museum of Modern Arts, has set up a one-man sales office for the U.S. market in Chicago, and it will exhibit for the first time at the Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake City next month. ...
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Scandinavian hammock and knives get prizes
In our last issue, we highlighted the strong development of camping hammocks in the U.S., which is apparently coming now also to Europe. Amok Equipment (sic), a young Norwegian brand of camping hammocks, won the overall Scandinavian Outdoor Group (SOG) Award 2016 for its particularly versatile Draumr 3.0 hammock.Without having ...
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Lifesaver, a new supplier of water filtering systems
A British producer of “ultrafiltration” bottles and filters, called Lifesaver, exhibited at the OutDoor show for the first time last week to find distributors and retailers in the outdoor sector. It is entering the sector with new products for the camping and hiking markets a few months after the brand, ...
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Support for wool standard at outdoor fair
Textile Exchange obtained support in the European outdoor industry as it launched the Responsible Wool Standard (RWS) at the OutDoor fair, predicting that products using the standard could already be in the market by the second half of next year.The RWS was developed by the Textile Exchange with extensive input ...
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Reima expands internationally
Reima, the Finnish brand of children's outdoor apparel, is planning to launch its product range in the U.S., working through selected retailers, with deliveries starting in August 2017. The company is about to sign a distribution agreement with a local distributor and will be exhibiting for the first time at the ...
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Weather slows down the European market
Affected by unfavorable winter weather, the European outdoor market raised its wholesale turnover by 1.4 percent to about €5.3 billion last year, based on the latest market research by the European Outdoor Group (EOG). The association's State of Trade report found that the increase amounted to 2.1 percent in value ...
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Vaude makes Detox commitment
Vaude has been moving toward its target of making its entire apparel range without poly-fluorinated chemicals (PFCs) faster than expected and decided to become part of Greenpeace's Detox campaign, aiming to phase out the use and release of toxic chemicals in its entire supply chain by 2020.Rotauf, an apparel brand ...
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Online sales grab a higher share of the Chinese market
The China Outdoor Association (COA) estimates that the core Chinese outdoor retail market expanded by 5.3 percent to about 18 billion yuan renminbi (€2,418.9m-$2,694.3m) last year, marking a significant slowdown in growth compared with previous years. The core market excludes cheap private labels, the outdoor ranges of sports brands and ...
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In-house shoe production has benefits
Keen Footwear, which remains very committed to sustainability, is focused on boosting its in-house shoe manufacturing and assembly capacity from around 5 percent to 40 percent of its annual volume, which currently stands above seven million pairs per year. The balance will continue to be made by subcontractors in the ...
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Mammut backs more international investments
The Mammut Sports Group is preparing increased investment in its international organization and marketing, as part of a five-year strategic plan backed by Conzzeta, the Swiss company that controls the outdoor brand.While providing few specifics at a presentation in Friedrichshafen, Mammut managers said that they were budgeting over-proportional expansion in ...
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Mr Deuter gets OutDoor Honor Award
The German author Michael Pause distinctly recalls the day when he attended a conference with Bernd Kullmann, and Deuter Sport's then chief executive described the German company as the largest European supplier of backpacks. After the presentation, Pause turned to his friend and asked who was the largest global brand ...
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Asolo goes direct in Germany and the U.K.
The German media have already reported about Asolo's takeover of the distribution of its products in Germany. It took effect last April after the Italian footwear company found an experienced manager, Herbert Buczek, to run the new operation out of the MOC permanent showroom center in Munich.Buckzek, 48, has some ...
