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Strong showing for VF's outdoor brands
All the three major brands in the Outdoor & Action Sports segment of VF Corp. had double-digit growth in local currencies during the fourth quarter of 2014. The biggest one, The North Face, enjoyed a 12 percent increase, driven by a jump of 30 percent in its direct-to-consumer (DTC) business.In ...
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Go Outdoors goes big into fishing tackle
In contrast with the U.S., it is unusual to see outdoor retailers offering rods and other fishing tackle equipment in their stores, except in the Nordic countries and in Décathlon stores. Another exception is Go Outdoors, one of the biggest outdoor retail chains in the U.K., which sells fishing tackle ...
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Jarden will benefit from lower oil prices
Jarden Corp. sees the recent drop in oil prices as giving it a tailwind in the second half of this year because many of the group's products, including its household items, are made with oil derivatives and it typically takes six to nine months for lower commodity costs to affect ...
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Efta investigates Norway’s ban on PFOA
On June 1, 2014, Norway became the first country in the world to impose a national ban on the manufacture and importation of consumables and textiles containing perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA. Now, the Efta Surveillance Authority (ESA), a regulatory committee within the European Free Trade Association (Efta), believes the ban ...
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Shoes and clothing keep Amer growing
Amer Sports' continued expansion in footwear and apparel helped the group to book a 7.3 percent increase in revenues to €705.3 million in the last three months of the year, with growth of 6.0 percent in local currencies. The gross margin improved by one full percentage point to 43.0 percent ...
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Johnson Outdoors affected by late orders
Sales of outdoor and diving products at Johnson Outdoors dropped significantly in the first quarter until Jan. 2, but the company attributed most of the decline to a shift in orders as retailers adjusted their inventory management. The first quarter of Johnson's fiscal year is seasonally slow for the company, ...
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A.S. Adventure will expand after takeover, also in France
Lion Capital has agreed to sell its majority share in the A.S. Adventure Group to PAI, a French-based private equity firm. The buyer is supposed to support continued store openings for the leading European outdoor retailer in its current markets, with perhaps more rapid expansion in France.The Belgian-based retail group, ...
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Columbia ended 2014 strongly
Columbia Sportswear's sales jumped by 27 percent in the fourth quarter of 2014 to $677.0 million, generating a 57 percent higher operating profit, equal to 12.1 percent of sales, and a 51 percent higher net income of $55.6 million. On an adjusted basis, the operating margin reached 13.0 percent, up ...
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Attendance grows by 2.7% at Ispo Munich
As usual, Messe München put out its Final Report on the last day of the Ispo Munich show, announcing that close to 80,000 industry professionals from more than 100 countries had visited the fair - meaning 80,000 daily passes through the turnstiles. The figure indicated a certain stability as compared ...
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Leadership transition secured at Nomad
Peter Korver has been appointed to the helm of The Nomad Company, the Dutch outdoor brand, which was hit last summer by the death of its owner and managing director, Barry Kooijmans, in the Malaysia Airlines flight shot down over Ukraine.Korver is a well-known personality in the Dutch sports business. ...
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Polartec launches its hybrid wool/synthetic fabric
Wool is as hot as down, and Polartec is going for a hybrid product combined with synthetic fibers to get the best of both worlds, somewhat like Primaloft and Columbia Sportswear a year ago with their natural/synthetic down blends or, a few years earlier, like Toyota with its hybrid gasoline/electrical ...
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Keen will make shoes in Europe
Keen Footwear will offer the first three models of shoes with the “European Made” label for the autumn/winter 2015/16 season, backed by a high-budget marketing program. They are being outsourced to an unnamed Italian company that uses a direct injection process and has a modern manufacturing facility in Romania. The ...
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Klättermusen hires global sales director
John Zopfi has been appointed as global sales director at Klättermusen, the Swedish outdoor brand, from the start of this year. The recruitment could be regarded as part of the brand's strategy to expand its distribution under the ownership of Scope, a private equity firm that bought a majority stake ...
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The debate on down standards heats up
Producers of outdoor clothing are being invited for the first time by two competing organizations to join a series of discussions about the standards that should be applied in the sourcing of duck and goose down.Patagonia, the undisputed pioneer in this domain, will host a lunch debate at the Ispo ...
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Confluence hires a new international director
A 36-year veteran of the international sporting goods industry, Alistair Thorburn, has been appointed managing director of international operations for Confluence Outdoor, effective from Jan. 1. He acted most recently as international president of Pure Fishing, the big fishing tackle subsidiary of Jarden Corp., where he coordinated 19 different subsidiaries. ...
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Good times for public outdoor companies
The good old days are over for the outdoor industry, says Rolf Schmid, president of Mammut and the European Outdoor Group, in a message to his colleagues in preparation for next week's Ispo Munich trade show, where the EOG is organizing many meetings and events. Admitting that the industry is ...
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OR celebrates female leadership and local manufacturing
In a preliminary statement, Emerald Expositions, the new organizer of the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market, reported a total of more than 1,036 exhibiting brands and an estimated 22,000 visitors at last week's edition of the American trade show in Salt Lake City. It mentioned “an air of optimism and excitement” ...
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A clearer picture of the big Chinese market
We finally made it, just in time for the Ispo Beijing trade show that started today. After two years of research and extensive travel to many large and small cities in the country, last week we were able to finalize the most comprehensive report ever published about the Chinese sporting ...
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Kamik makes two important appointments
Kamik has appointed a seasoned European manager, Patrick Chevallier, as its vice president of international sales. The 52-year-old Frenchman will replace Donald Flam, who is expected to retire in about three months' time. The fast-growing Canadian brand, owned by Genfoot, has also promoted Catherine Cook to a new position as ...
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Wolverine reports on sales acceleration
Nine of the 16 brands in Wolverine Worldwide's portfolio delivered double-digit sales increases in the fourth quarter of 2014, led by Chaco, which is adding closed-toe footwear. Sperry Top-Sider recovered in the quarter, posting a high single-digit gain. These and other tidbits were given by the group's management a few ...
