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Lafuma moves into the black
The Swiss Calida group, which has gradually taken over 59.9 percent of the shares in the Lafuma Group, has managed to turn it around after many years of losses, following a major reorganization which is now largely completed. Lafuma reached an operating profit of €1.5 billion for the first six ...
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Berghaus and Brasher have a new brand president
Richard Leedham has been appointed brand president of Berghaus and Brasher, with immediate effect. Leedham has been fulfilling the role on an interim basis since January, following the departure of Richard Cotter for the Snow + Rock retail chain four months earlier, and has now been confirmed in the position ...
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Globetrotter beefs up management, weighs regional pricing
Globetrotter Ausrüstung, the large Hamburg-based outdoor retailer, has appointed five managers to create a wider circle of executives to bring the big German outdoor retail chain and mail-order house to the next level. Besides Thomas Lipke and Andreas Bartmann, managing partners, and Philip von Melle and Angela Rux, managing directors, ...
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Julbo expands in the Middle East and Asia
Julbo, a French sports eyewear company that is investing heavily in trail running, started a partnership to serve several countries in the Arabian Peninsula this past summer with EGMA Optical Supplies, a distributor who has worked with Rodenstock for many years, and it is now targeting the Asian markets. EGMA ...
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Have you already registered for the EOS?
The program of next week's European Outdoor Summit has been finalized, and it can be viewed on the dedicated website of the convention, where delegates can still register to attend it. Organized by the European Outdoor Group in conjunction with the German Sporting Goods Industry Federation (BSI), the EOS will ...
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POW secures $2.5 million for further expansion
POW Inc. has announced $2.5 million in fresh funding from Columbia Pacific Advisors, a Seattle-based investment firm. The new round will enable the company to expand its customer base, enter new markets, and upgrade the supply chain and customer-service operations. Pow said it will also seek new brands to acquire.POW ...
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Timberland eyes 13% growth annually
Timberland laid out a five-year development plan that calls for a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13 percent for the brand, acquired by VF Corp. three years ago, with increases of 12 percent for footwear and 14 percent for apparel. At this rate, Timberland's annual revenues would go up ...
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Founder leaves Five Ten
Five Ten, the specialist climbing and cycling footwear brand, is turning a page after its founder, Charles Cole, left the company in July, about three years after selling it to the Adidas Group. Since then he had been acting as president. The U.S. company is now led by Wally Barker, ...
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Prana eyes more foreign and own retail sales
Growing international distribution should be one of the pillars of the Prana brand's development under the ownership of the Columbia Sportswear group, which bought this progressive American outdoor and yoga apparel brand in April (see details of the transaction in The Compass, Vol. 7 n° 7-8).Outlining the benefits of the ...
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Ottervanger quits Etnies for Icebreaker
Peter Ottervanger, a Dutch expert in retailing, is leaving as vice president and general manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Sole Technology, parent company of Etnies and other skate and snowboard brands, to take on a similar role at Icebreaker, the fast-growing brand of merino wool garments ...
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More funding for Eoca and its projects
The European Outdoor Conservation Association (Eoca) raised more funds than ever before at the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen in July. It collected nearly €31,000 during the four-day event for its environmental conservation projects. The amount was about double what it raised at previous editions of the trade show and enough ...
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Ex Officio starts European distribution
The European brand manager appointed by Ex Officio last year has started to spread the outdoor apparel brand owned by Jarden Corp. Marcus Ehlig is backed up by the European infrastructure of the Marmot brand owned by the same group but selling directly to retailers, instead of leaning on Marmot's ...
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Gramicci widens scope with licensing deal
Gramicci, a U.S. company specializing in climbing, yoga and organic clothing, is eager to expand into new foreign markets in the coming years following a three-year apparel licensing agreement signed in July with the Hampshire Group, which should enable it to lean on a more efficient sourcing platform.Paul Buxbaum is ...
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Court halts Deuter’s current practice of selective distribution
The popular German brand of backpacks has lost its case, at least for now, against a retailer who was not willing to sign the supplier's revised general terms and a special declaration with binding guidelines for selective distribution. Judicial authorities and other sources declined to disclose to us the name of the ...
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Missing Link regroups and cuts costs
The Norwegian Missing Link Group (MLG) has been through some turbulent years recently, as we have reported in the past, with declining sales and continual changes in leadership. Its sales fell last year to NOK 51 million Norwegian kroner (€6.3m-$8.2m) from NOK 60 million in 2012.However, according to an interview conducted ...
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Confluence in multiple takeover talks
Confluence Outdoor, an American group that owns eight paddle sports brands, is holding talks with about eight companies to wrap up at least one acquisition by the end of the year. We have learnt this about four months after the company was acquired by J.H. Whitney Capital Partners and added ...
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Patagonia launches a new “Vote the Environment” campaign
Patagonia has launched a crowd-sourced campaign asking artists across the U.S. to create a collection of designs expressing why they believe the environment is the key issue in the upcoming mid-term election and inspire people to vote, especially young people. According to a study by Harvard University, only 23 percent ...
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Camelbak hires Edi Kaiser
Camelbak went through 80 different applications before choosing Edi Kaiser as its new European sales manager. A former sales & marketing director for Spyder Active Sports, he worked until the end of May as general manager for Germany and Austria at Skins, the Australian supplier of compression garments.Kaiser will take ...
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Vasque to build European platform
Vasque, the outdoor footwear brand of the Red Wing Shoes group, is moving ahead with plans to return to Western Europe after an absence of about three years. The company pulled out due to product issues that have since been resolved. It wants to set up a full-fledged European platform, ...
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Sony veteran becomes Black Diamond chief
Zeena Freeman, the new president appointed to replace Peter Metcalf as president of Black Diamond as of last week, is expected to implement a new omni-channel distribution strategy at Black Diamond, which may also involve the establishment of mono-brand stores. She will eventually also become chief executive of the company ...
