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SpinDye: a new high-end fabric producer arrives on the market
At the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen, a new specialty company for high-end dyeing came to the market with some well-known customers. The company, SpinDye, was founded only two years ago by an interesting combination of Swedish and Taiwanese business people.George Yang, one of the shareholders, has some 40 years of ...
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Icebreaker adjusts European distribution
After adjustments to its European organization that strongly pushed up sales and profits last year, Icebreaker continues to tweak its distribution, with four more changes implemented or coming up in European markets.The rejigging of the European structure started after the arrival of Peter Ottervanger as general manager two years ago, ...
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Outdoor on the rise for Sport 2000 and Intersport in Germany
North Bend, a private brand of Team Sportia, the Swedish retail chain that joined Sport 2000 International together with SGN Sportia of Finland in September last year, will be sold in Germany exclusively by affiliated retailers of Sport 2000.From autumn/winter 2016/17, this functional outdoor apparel brand from Sweden will be ...
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Hydro Flask up 183%
Like some other media, we incorrectly reported in the last issue that Hydro Flask's sales went up by “only” 22 percent in the first quarter of this year. To be precise, the company's new owners, Helen of Troy, said that Hydro Flask's growth in the first quarter was 22 percent ...
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Pentland thrives
The Pentland Group saw its sales advance by 10 percent to £2.4 billion (€2.8m-$3.1m) in 2015, driven by the outstanding performance of JD Sports Fashion, the European retail group in which it owns a 57 percent stake.The Retail Division of the Pentland Group, comprising JD Sports Fashion, raised its turnover ...
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New managers for Merrell and Royer
Rob Griffiths, 51, has been appointed by Wolverine Worldwide as the new general manager of Merrell for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). After working for Stylo Instep, Ellesse, Umbro, Bench and Esprit, Griffiths joined Wolverine at the end of 2013 as vice president and general manager of its ...
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Pabst to take over Mammut leadership
Oliver Pabst, who spent nine years at Willy Bogner as executive board member in charge of sales and marketing, will be taking over from the start of September as chief executive of Mammut Sports Group. The Swiss outdoor company announced in May that Rolf Schmid would be leaving the company ...
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High-growth Yeti is going public
This American supplier of drinkware and coolers has filed an application for listing on the New York Stock Exchange. It has not provided details on its valuation, which is believed to be high like the multiples recently paid for Camelbak and Hydro Flask, but an investment bank, Renaissance Capital, indicates ...
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McTrek trades well on eBay
McTrek, the German online and offline outdoor retailer, is doing well with a new online shop on eBay's marketplace that went into operation in April, according to several reports in the German press. More than 7,000 items have been available so far on eBay's McTrek Shop, generating sales of more ...
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Gore plans to launch a PFC-free DWR outdoor clothing range
W. L. Gore has unveiled plans to launch a range of outdoor clothing using non-PFC-based DWR (Durable Water Repellency) technologies. The technical fabric brand said its new products are aimed to be available at retail in the autumn/winter 2018 season. Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), which are frequently present in water-resistant textiles ...
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Grand Trunk brings camping hammocks to Europe
Camping hammocks have been the fastest-growing category in the U.S. camping equipment market after coolers for the past two years. According to NPD, their sales grew by 36 percent in the 12 months ended in June 2014 and the growth rate accelerated to 57 percent in the subsequent 12-month period, ...
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Hydro Flask grows more slowly, boosts its new European staff
As we have previously reported, Hydro Flask qualified as one of the top 500 growing private companies in the U.S. last year after a 542 percent increase in three years. The American brand of stainless steel beverage and food containers, which uses double-wall insulation technology, was bought by Helen of ...
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Jack Wolfskin launches new premium line in Berlin
With the outdoor sector benefiting from the growing athleisure trend, Jack Wolfskin came out with an extended spring/summer 2016 edition of its new Wolfskin Tech Lab sub-brand at the Premium fashion show, held on June 28-30 in Berlin as part of the Berlin Fashion Week. The company's new premium product ...
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Bergans reinforces international management
Bergans is reinforcing its international management with the appointment of two prominent executives to lead sales and marketing at the Norwegian company, which has been headed up formally since December by Leif Holst-Liæker. Bergans makes about 65 percent of its turnover in Norway, with Sweden and Germany as other large ...
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Helly Hansen cuts back to expand sustainably
Helly Hansen has trimmed its product range, cut back its distribution, rejigged its management and improved its capital structure, to get started on a four-year sustainable expansion strategy led by Paul Stoneham, who became its chief executive in February 2015.The Norwegian group reported operating revenues of 2,567 million Norwegian kroner (€272.3m-$300.9m) ...
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Asia Outdoor had more brands and visitors
The 11th Asia Outdoor Trade Show was attended by 705 exhibiting brands, as compared to 617 in 2015. The event was held at the Nanjing International Expo Center in Nanjing, China from June 30 to July 3. The number of visitors also increased slightly, from 19,002 in 2015 to 19,502 ...
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Outdoor industry managers analyze Brexit’s consequences
While the dust was settling on the startling vote that the British people cast against remaining in the European Union on June 23, with many issues still pending, several decision-makers in the sports and outdoor sector responded to our invitation to outline the effects that it may have on their ...
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Amer Sports releases new CSR report
Amer Sports, the mother company of Salomon, Wilson, Precor, Atomic, Arc'teryx, Suunto, and other sporting goods brands, has released its second annual corporate social responsibility (CSR) report, which sums up the company's initiatives and achievements in 2015. The group published its first CSR report in June 2015. During 2015, Amer ...
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Didriksons adjusts its product segmentation
Didriksons has started to segment its product line more strictly than before, dividing it into two categories – Originals and Sportswear. For the first time, the Swedish outdoor and lifestyle apparel brand presented its spring/summer 2017 Originals collection at the Panorama fashion show held on June 28-30 in Berlin.The collection ...
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Newell will shed properties, do more marketing
Newell Brands indicated earlier this week a tentative plan to divest operations that are currently generating annual revenues of between $250 million and $300 million in the next two to three years. The statement added fuel to speculation that the group may be considering the disposal of Marmot Mountain and ...
