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Better prospects for outdoor in Europe
An online survey conducted by us among sporting goods brands, manufacturers, distributors, agents and retailers with the blessing of the European Outdoor Group shows that sales of outdoor products have been generally pretty bad at retail in Europe thus far into the current spring/summer season. Nevertheless, the market seems to ...
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Friedrichshafen reshuffles management to become more global
Stefan Reisinger, project manager of Friedrichshafen's OutDoor and Eurobike shows for nearly ten years, will assume a new position at Messe Friedrichshafen effective Dec. 1. In the future, the 39-year-old will be responsible for enhancing the company's efforts at the international level. The new position is described as business unit ...
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Wild Roses goes bankrupt
Wild Roses, the Swiss brand of women-specific outdoor products, has gone into insolvency. The reasons are not quite clear, but it seems that NKD, a big German chain of low-cost apparel stores that took over the license for the brand one year ago, felt that it was not part of ...
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Internetstores buys Addnature
Internetstores, a German-based online retailer of bicycles and outdoor products, has signed an agreement for the acquisition of a Swedish e-tailer, Addnature, for an enterprise value of around 230 million Swedish kronor (€26.5m-$34.5m). Most of the proceeds will be reinvested into the combined company. The takeover is being financed by ...
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NPD sees outdoor up 2% in Europe last year
Providing a few glimpses into its extensive market research on many aspects of the European sporting goods market, which is largely based on consumer panels in eight major countries, NPD says that retail sales of outdoor products in a very broad sense went up by 2 percent in 2012 to ...
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Pentland grows by 14.2% but profits decline
Pentland Group has reported a 14.2 percent increase in total revenues to £1.76 billion (€2.06bn-$2.68bn) in 2012, with growth of 6.3 percent excluding the results of businesses acquired in the course of the year, but the British company's profitability declined.Revenues from direct sales and licensing income went up by 6.8 ...
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VF updates its growth forecast
VF Corporation sees major growth opportunities for some of its brands, especially for The North Face, Vans and Timberland, which belong to its Outdoor & Action Sports Coalition. With sales of $1.9 billion in 2012, TNF had a share of only 8 percent in the global outdoor market, according to ...
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Timberland outlines its CSR performance
Timberland has released data on its corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance in 2012, showcasing the company's ongoing commitment to sustainability through a wide range of actions. According to the report, 39 percent of the materials used in Timberland apparel in 2012 were derived from recycled, organic or renewable sources, up ...
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British OIA enjoys a renaissance
Britain's Outdoor Industries Association (OIA), which has agreed to rename itself OIA UK to avoid any confusion with the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) of the U.S., has become bigger, more active and stopped losing money under the management of Andrew Denton.Like a sort of Santa Claus, Denton accepted the challenge ...
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Brown Shoe sells Avia and Nevados
Brown Shoe Company had bought these two brands and two others, And 1 and Ryka, through the acquisition of American Sports Goods for $145 million in February 2011. Eight months later, it sold And 1, a brand of basketball products, for $55 million. This time it is selling Avia, a ...
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Lafuma reorganizes after a big loss
While reporting big losses and confirming major sales declines for the first half of its financial year, ended on March 31, the Lafuma Group announced a reorganization of its outdoor activities, involving the elimination of 78 jobs and an offer to transfer 46 other jobs from its head office at ...
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The Ispo Academy travels around the world
Mark Held, secretary general of the European Outdoor Group, and Hans Overduin, former buying director of the Dutch Bever Zwerfsport chain of outdoor shops, made well-remarked speeches at the Ispo Academy in Barcelona, a conference organized by Messe München in the Spanish city last month.Held addressed the problem of excessive ...
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Fenix Outdoor grows by 9% in quarter
While its sales in Sweden declined slightly, the Fenix Outdoor Group lifted its overall turnover by 9 percent in the first quarter of this year to 439.3 million Swedish kronor (€51.1m-$66.4m). It also raised its profit for the period sharply, as it continued to expand in eastern European countries and ...
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Lower sales and profits for Peak Performance
Peak Performance, which went through wide-ranging management changes last year, saw its sales drop by 6 percent to 267.5 million Danish kroner (€35.9m-$46.4m) for the three months until the end of March. This is the third quarter in the fiscal year of IC Companys, the Danish company that owns the ...
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Patagonia looks to promote sustainability in other sectors
Yvon Chouinard, founder and major owner of Patagonia, has announced the establishment a new holding company to invest in companies in five critical areas – clothing, food, water, energy and waste – in ways that will share the same ethical approach to the environment and the same mission statement as ...
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New president for LaCrosse
Robert Sasaki, a former finance director of Nike dealing with its business in Asia, has been appointed as the new president of LaCrosse Footwear, with responsibility for its Danner and LaCrosse brands. Sasaki, who has more than 15 years of experience in finance and apparel, had joined the company last ...
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Margins improve strongly at VFC
As predicted in February, VF Corporation's revenues went up by only 2 percent in the first quarter ended March 31, hitting $2,582 million, due to delayed shipments of spring/summer merchandise and to a tough comparison with the strong first quarter of 2002. Sales growth would have been one percentage point ...
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Lower margins and higher sales for Jarden’s Outdoor Solutions
The Outdoor Solutions segment of Jarden Corporation, which includes brands such as Coleman, K2, Marmot and Rawlings, posted a 3.7 percent sales increase to $695 million for the first quarter of this year. On an organic basis, excluding the impact of foreign exchange fluctuations, acquisitions and divestitures, sales went up ...
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The EOG widens its market research program
The European Outdoor Group is expanding its annual market research program, collecting data about a much wider range of sub-categories than before and involving a large number of brands, including retailers that sell outdoor products under their own private labels. In the absence of any standard classification of the various ...
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Sales up and margins down at JD Sports Fashion
JD Sports Fashion, the British sports and fashion retailer that took over the bankrupt Blacks Leisure Group at the beginning of last year, gave some indications of its performance in the financial year ended last Feb. 2. According to preliminary figures, the total revenues of the U.K.-based fashion and sports ...
