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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 ...
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Johnson Outdoors posts double-digit profit growth
Johnson Outdoors reported a 23 percent increase in net income to $8.9 million for its second fiscal quarter ended March 29. Sales increased by 3 percent to $132.1 million as higher sales in Marine Electronics and Outdoor Gear more than offset revenue declines in other business units.The Outdoor Gear segment ...
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Wolverine’s sales double
Wolverine Worldwide reported today a doubling in its quarterly revenues to $645.9 million for the period ended on March 31 thanks to its acquisition last October of Sperry Top-Sider, Saucony, Stride Rite and Keds. On a pro forma basis, assuming that it owned them already at the beginning of 2012, ...
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Lafuma Group suffers a significant sales decline
In the first half of its financial year to March 31, the Lafuma Group's turnover fell to €102.7 million from €132.3 million in the previous year's period, a decline of 15.4 percent. The sales figure still includes €11.7 million generated by operations that were halted or are planned to be divested. Last ...
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Deckers’ income drops but results exceed expectations
Deckers Outdoor Corporation reported a drop in net income to $1.0 million in the first quarter of this year from $7.9 million in the first quarter a year ago due to higher operating costs, but the gross margin was 46.8 percent, up from 46.0 percent a year ago. Both sales ...
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Crocs posts double-digit sales growth
Crocs reported first-quarter revenues of $311.7 million, up 14.7 percent on the first quarter of 2012, or 16.6 percent higher on a constant-currency basis. The record performance was attributed by the company to innovative products, the success of the company's multi-channel strategy and the global reach of its business. The ...
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Jack Wolfskin makes new commitments to sustainability
As part of plans to remove harmful substances from its production processes, Jack Wolfskin has published a detailed roadmap for the complete phase-out of perfluorinated and polyfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in its supply chain by 2020. It is committing itself to full transparency with regard to the chemicals used by its ...
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Higher sales and profits for Camelbak
Camelbak raised its sales by 6.4 percent to $42.8 million in the first quarter of 2013, and its operating earnings jumped by 25.1 percent to $8.9 million, as its gross margin improved by 0.7 percentage points to 45.9 percent.Hydration systems and bottles represented about 88 percent of Camelbak's sales, up ...
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Big jump in in Columbia's earnings
In its first quarter of 2013, Columbia Sportswear managed to increase its total sales by 5 percent compared with the same period of last year, reaching $348.3 million. The impact of foreign currency changes was lower than 1 percent. Net income jumped by 159 percent to $10.1 million, including restructuring ...
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OR becomes more international, with some hitches
Outdoor Retailer has started accepting online registrations for its Summer Market, which will run this year from Wednesday, July 31 through Saturday, Aug. 3, and for its Open Air Demo, taking place on the eve of the show on Tuesday. Discounted “early-bird” registration is being offered through July 8.Officials of ...
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OutDoor looks forward and backwards
The OutDoor Industry Awards will be presented for the eighth time at a ceremony on the first day of the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen, scheduled for July 11-14. Registrations for the award will be accepted until June 6 in the following categories: apparel, helmets, shoes, backpacks, travel luggage, mountain-climbing equipment, ...
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EOCA announces winning projects to receive funding
The public online voting organized by the European Outdoor Conservation Association's (EOCA) for the environmental projects that will receive its funding this year has come to an end, with 57,000 people casting their votes. In total, three projects have been chosen from those presented by various companies in three categories: alpine ...
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Amer on a good track
Supported by soaring demand in emerging markets, the Amer Sports group's sales inched up by 1 percent to €493 million for the first three months of this year, amid cautious buying in Europe and destocking of team sports products in the North American market. The Finnish group's quarterly sales were up ...
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Bask overcomes split to expand again
After three tough years, the Bogdanov brothers have managed to build up their new version of the Bask brand, after their former Bask company was taken over by former investment partners in 2009. The new Bask has decided to focus on the wholesale part of the Russian outdoor market, where ...
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Transa grows by 16.9%
In 2012, Transa Backpacking, Switzerland's leading specialty outdoor chain, managed to boost its total sales by 16.9 percent to 41.8 million Swiss francs (€33.5m-$43.1m) after VAT compared with the previous year. The increase was partly due to the opening last September of the retailer's new flagship store close to Zurich's ...
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Black Diamond posts 10% sales rise, despite colder late winter
Black Diamond Inc. reported total sales of $51.0 million for the first quarter ended March 31, representing a 10 percent increase on the first quarter of 2012. Sales went up by 6.9 percent to $20.1 million in the U.S. and by 11.9 percent to $30.9 million in other parts of ...
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Further upheavals in the Polish market
After the bankruptcy of Euromark earlier this year, the Polish sports and outdoor market has been shaken by the demise of another specialist retailer, Delta Sport, which had up to ten stores and focused on sports equipment. Many Polish companies dealing with ski, bicycle and outdoor brands have been affected ...
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European Outdoor Summit to map out the industry’s future
A study by Kairos Future about the shape of the outdoor industry in 2020 will be one of the meatiest items on the agenda of the first European Outdoor Summit (EOS), scheduled to take place in Stockholm on Oct. 16-18. Organized by the Scandinavian Outdoor Group (SOG), this summit will be the ...
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Mammut sees turnaround in Switzerland, significant growth elsewhere
The Mammut Sports Group raised its sales by 10.3 percent to 232.5 million Swiss francs (€191.1m-$248.7m) in 2012, with an increase of 8.4 percent in local currencies and excluding the effect of acquisitions, according to its parent company, Conzzeta Group. The highest growth rates were recorded in the Asian region ...
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Deckers gets full ownership of Hoka One One
Deckers Outdoor Corporation, which owns a wide range of footwear brands including Teva, Sanuk and Ugg, reports that it has taken over the Hoka One One brand completely. As reported in the Compass last August, it had first acquired a stake of 25 percent in this special French brand of ...
