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Fjällräven drives Fenix expansion
Despite rough competition in Scandinavia and unfavorable weather at the end of the year, the Fenix Outdoor Group lifted its turnover by 8 percent to 1,865.7 million Swedish kronor (€210.7m-$293.7m) last year. The improvement was publicized just before the company finalized its already reported acquisition of a stake of 20 ...
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The EOG picks Ravasio for CSR and sustainability
Pamela Ravasio, a 38-year-old Swiss national who speaks many languages and lives in the U.K., has joined the European Outdoor Group to act as corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability manager. Vanessa Knowles, who took care of this important aspect of the EOG's activities on a part-time basis along with ...
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New multi-brand store concept for Deckers Outdoor
Deckers Outdoor Corporation announced this week the opening of its first Brand Showcase store at the company's new headquarters at Goleta, in the Santa Barbara area of California. Measuring more than 8,000 square feet, it features an extensive range of products across all its brands: Ugg Australia, Teva, Sanuk, Tsubo, ...
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Haglöfs chief executive resigns
Nicolas Warchalowski, who has led Haglöfs for the last five years, resigned and left the company earlier this month. The chief executive encouraged the group's global expansion after its takeover by Asics and he said it was time to hand over to another manager for the next phase.The company said ...
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Change of the helm at Décathlon’s parent
Oxylane, the parent company of Décathlon and other minor retail chains, has decided to appoint Michel Aballea, who has been running its operations Décathlon Sports India since 2007, as its new chief executive from the beginning of 2015. He will take the place of Yves Claude, who will steer the ...
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Change of generations at Sportler
Jakob Oberrauch, 25, is the new managing director of Sportler, the big Italian chain of sporting goods stores. Together with his sister Elisabeth, who will act as his deputy, he has taken over the reins from his father Georg, who believes in giving more responsibility to young people. Georg, who ...
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A good convention for the British OIA
The annual conference of the Outdoor Industries Association (OIA) of the U.K. ended on a strong note on March 18, attracting a record of 205 attendees, up from 150 a year ago and only around 20 in previous years. The two-day conference and the related annual general meeting of the ...
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Gore-Tex is the best-known ingredient brand
A study compiled by us about the Italian sporting goods market a few years ago showed that Gore-Tex was by far the biggest brand of outdoor products in the country. Gore-Tex turned out to be now the best-known “ingredient brand” for the textile and outdoor industry in the German-speaking region. ...
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Ispo Beijing: More horsepower in the Year of the Horse
There were no signs of a depressed Chinese outdoor market at at the last edition of the Ispo Beijing show, held in the country's capital on Feb. 19-22, which was again dominated by outdoor-oriented companies. The number of trade visitors was up by 8 percent and reached some 30,000 entries. ...
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BD moves to a functional-centric model in Europe
Olav Nietzer will run the European operations of the Black Diamond Equipment brand from next June 1, acting in the new position of brand and sales director in Europe.He will gradually take over some of the functions of Christian Jaeggi, who set up the brand's European operations in Basel, Switzerland ...
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Eoca asks for public vote on conservation projects
The European Outdoor Conservation Association (Eoca) and its media partners, including The Outdoor Industry Compass, have opened the public vote to decide which conservation projects will be funded this year.There are three categories - alpine, outdoor and nature – on which the public is asked to vote by March 31 ...
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ENOS appoints its heads
The management committee of European Nature & Outdoor Sports Network (ENOS) has set up a 12-member bureau chaired by François Beauchard, the French official who runs, CREPS, the very dynamic public body in the southeastern France that organized the 2011 Nature & Sport Euro'Meet convention in Annecy, France.Beauchard will be ...
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AMG is open for new ventures after management buyout
AMG Group, the Scottish company that owns the Vango brand of camping products as well as the Force Ten and Lichfield brands of family camping products, is eager to obtain new distribution contracts and is interested in possible acquisitions following its management buyout, announced a few days ago. In particular, ...
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American military drawdown affects Rocky Brands, too
Rocky Brands saw its sales increase by 7.1 percent to $244.9 million in 2013, with a strong performance in Rocky and Georgia Boots work footwear because of the cold and snowy conditions in many parts of the U.S. at the end of the year. The American company also experienced strong ...
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Camelbak’s parent seeks new acquisitions
Compass Diversified Holdings (CODI) said it will continue to actively pursue acquisitions of other companies. The public company has controlling interests in Camelbak Products, Ergobaby and Liberty Safe, and it spun off a minority stake in Fox Factory to the stock exchange last year, earning net proceeds of $142.4 million ...
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Gordon Baird takes the reins of Inov-8
A 54-year-old industry veteran, Gordon Baird, became the new chief executive of Inov-8, the fast-growing brand of trail running shoes, on March 18. He was most recently the CEO of Americana, the British parent of the Bench brand, which is coming under the ownership of another equity fund (more on ...
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Weak results for Jarden
Jarden Corporation's Outdoor Solutions segment (JOS) had flat sales of $617.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2013, although they went up by 1.7 percent on an organic basis, excluding the impact of foreign exchange rates, acquisitions and disposals.Cold weather in many parts of the U.S. cut the fishing season ...
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Ispo jury selects “Products of the Year”
In addition to 51 “Gold Winners,” five products were chosen as “Product of the Year” at the recent Ispo Munich fair by an international jury of 48 experts from three continents. They evaluated no less than 418 product entries, 11 percent more than in 2013.The applications came from 27 countries.One ...
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Growing Toread invests more in travel services
Toread, China's leading supplier of outdoor sports products, has made an interesting diversification into the adventure travel business. After becoming the biggest shareholder in Asiatravel.com, one of the most important online travel operators in Southeast Asia, last August, last month it acquired 55.67 percent of the shares in Lyve.cn, which ...
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Wolverine grows more slowly than expected
Sales increased by only 0.6 percent on a pro-forma comparable basis for Wolverine Worldwide in the fourth quarter ended last Dec. 28, due in particular to the impact of the early and protracted cold weather in the U.S., which led many consumers to buy boots as of last September.Merrell was ...
