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Cimalp sells quick-dry garments over the internet
Cimalp, which has developed a patented quick-dry polypropylene fabric coupled with Coolmax for its T-shirts and jackets, was the other company that got the French Outdoor Award at Camp de Base, the collective French exhibition at the OutDoor trade show in Friedrichshafen in July. Cimalp claims that its fabric, which ...
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A Korean brand moves into China and Europe
Nepa, the South Korean outdoor brand, has opened a store in the center of Chamonix in order to learn about European consumer demand and to expand outside of its own country. The store is on three floors covering about 400 square meters, in a chalet that was previously the location ...
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Columbia launches new global brand campaign
Columbia Sportswear has unveiled “Tested Tough,” a new long-term global brand platform, which also marks the return to advertising of the company's 91-year-old matriarch and chairman of the board, Gert Boyle. Tested Tough is inspired by Columbia's Pacific Northwest heritage and the original “Tough Mother” campaign, which also features the ...
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Black Diamond sells Poc to Investcorp
Investcorp Group, the big investment company from Bahrain, has reached an agreement with the Black Diamond group to take over Poc, the Swedish brand of snow sports and cycling gear, at a price of $65.0 million, subject to customary price adjustments. This is equivalent to nearly 1.9 times the turnover ...
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Big growth for CMP
CMP is the brand of sports clothing, specializing in ski and outdoor garments, launched in 2010 by Italy's Fratelli Campagnolo to make a clear statement in the market for an affordable and functional apparel line with Italian design. The idea behind the new brand name, which took the place of ...
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EOG campaign claims big impact
The campaign launched by the European Outdoor Group (EOG) to support outdoor participation, #itsgreatoutthere, has achieved much more exposure than anticipated. The organization estimates that it reached more than seven million people and probably 15 to 20 million taking into account the exposure of the initiatives launched by partner brands ...
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Textile Exchange releases new benchmark report
A recent report by Textile Exchange (TE), a global non-profit organization that works to promote sustainable practices in the textile industry, has highlighted the good and bad news about the industry's use of organic cotton and other “preferred materials.” The benchmark report measures the progress of 57 leading textile companies ...
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Eoca asks for online votes for its conservation projects
Eoca for the second year running is holding an annual funding round, which is made possible by the growth in membership and sustaining members, and is inviting outdoor enthusiasts to help it select the projects to be funded. The organization said it will be spending a total of €280,000 this ...
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Dynafit and Salewa move into Asian markets
The Oberalp Group is building up its business in Asia, with licensing and distribution deals signed or in advanced discussions in China, South Korea and Taiwan, and with distinct approaches for the Salewa and Dynafit brands.The Italian group already invested in Japan when it established its own business in September ...
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Edelrid opens North American office
Edelrid, the German supplier of climbing gear, is preparing to open its own North American subsidiary in November, in Bend, Oregon, from where it will supervise sales in the U.S. and Canada. For the last three years, Edelrid's climbing gear for the outdoor market has been distributed in these two ...
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New reports on outdoor participation in the U.S.
The Outdoor Foundation has just released 11 individual reports on participation in outdoor activities in the U.S. The Foundation is providing greater insight into participation in adventure racing, mountain biking, paddle sports, trail running, climbing, stand-up paddling, sport climbing, road cycling, hiking, bird watching and backpacking. These reports are supposed ...
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JD makes some progress in outdoor retailing
Led by the Blacks and Millets chains of outdoor specialty stores in the U.K., the Outdoor Retail segment of JD Sports Fashion booked an encouraging 10.9 percent sales increase to £68.3 million (€93.6m- $105.8m) for the first half of the group's financial year, ended on Aug. 1.The segment delivered a ...
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Lipke to leave Globetrotter
While the Fenix Outdoor International group continued to rearrange its retail activities, Thomas Lipke relinquished his function of chief operating officer at Frilufts Retail Europe, the company owned by Fenix that encompasses Globetrotter Ausrüstung in Germany along with Naturkompaniet in Sweden and Partioaitta in Finland. Fenix said that Lipke would ...
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Intersport enters Ukraine
Ukraine has become the 45th country in which Intersport will be represented, following a license agreement signed with Epicentr K, a retail group with annual sales of close to €2 billion that operates 65 large-scale hypermarkets and do-it-yourself markets in the country. It is the clear market leader in the ...
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Sanfo enjoys strong sales growth, but profits suffer
The large Chinese specialty outdoor chain booked a strong increase in turnover in 2014 and reached total sales of 360 million yuan renminbi (€50.6m-$56.4m) compared with RMB300 million in the previous year. In 2014, the retailer had 36 stores in 12 cities with new outlets in Suzhou and Wuxi as ...
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Gore to explore more ecological water-repellent solutions
W.L. Gore & Associates has announced plans to invest more than $15 million in research over the next five years to explore alternative water-repellent treatments, often referred to as DWR. Gore's initiative is in response to the ongoing debate regarding the environmental threat represented by perfluorinated chemical compounds (PFCs), which ...
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Sportarena to close specialty outdoor stores
Sportarena, the specialist sports entity of Galeria Kaufhof, is closing down two of its outdoor stores trading as Wanderzeit, due to the sluggishness of the German outdoor market. The company said that the Wanderzeit store in Hamburg is scheduled to close at the end of this year and another store ...
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Two more years in Salt Lake City for OR
While refraining to take a decision for the longer term, organizers of the Outdoor Retailer (OR) trade show have opted to prolong their agreement with Salt Lake City to hold their winter and summer fairs in the city until at least 2018.Emerald Expositions, which organizes the U.S. outdoor fair, had ...
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ZDHC updates its roadmap on hazardous chemicals in the textile industry
The Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC) group has released an update of its Joint Roadmap on the elimination or substitution of hazardous chemicals in products and their manufacture, and related efforts. The recent update covers the transition of the roadmap from seven workstreams into four focus areas which now ...
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Kamik’s expansion requires extra capacity
Kamik Footwear wants to expand its production by about 20 percent after an outstanding winter season in North America. The Canadian outdoor footwear company's turnover soared by nearly 40 percent last year, and it was sold out in North America before the end of the winter season.Genfoot, the company that ...
