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Sorel booms, particularly in Europe
As reported in the previous article, after a 68 percent sales increase to $150.3 million, Sorel became the second-largest brand within the Columbia Sportswear group last year, It also contributed a lot to the 24 percent increase in the group's sales in the EMEA region, where sales of all ...
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Black Diamond expects strong double-digit growth
Black Diamond Inc., the marketer of the Black Diamond and Gregory brands, expects an increase in sales of 6 percent to more than $36 million for the fourth quarter of its past fiscal and calendar year. The estimates are preliminary and unaudited. For the whole year, consolidated sales are higher ...
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Kodiak attacks the European market, too
Another Canadian brand of waterproof boots based in the same area of Ontario, Kodiak, is investing on the European market by setting up an office in Switzerland, run by a former European footwear product manager of Columbia, Jean Marc Groell, who took on its distribution for the Swiss and French ...
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Greenpeace asks the industry to become greener
There was much buzz at Ispo about the presence of some managers of Greenpeace at the European Outdoor Group's traditional breakfast at the show. Represented by Martin Besieux and Tony Sadownichik, Greenpeace called for much stronger efforts by the outdoor industry to manufacture ecologically clean products, in line with their ...
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Asics exec will lead Haglöfs’ board
Alistair Cameron, chief executive of Asics Europe, has been appointed chairman of Haglöfs' supervisory board, marking another step in the transition that has enabled the Swedish outdoor group to lean on the infrastructure of the much larger Japanese company while retaining much of its independence.This board was formed in September ...
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Winter, outdoor sales dampen Amer’s results
Amer Sports' sales fell by 5 percent in the fourth quarter to €556.9 million due to a 10 percent decline to €375.0 million in the winter and outdoor business. The division was hit by a shift of deliveries to the third quarter and a slow start to the winter season ...
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Fjällräven picks new chiefs for North America and Europe
Fjällräven has appointed John Christian Walbrecht at the helm of Fjällräven North America, following its acquisition of the share it did not already own in its U.S. subsidiary. Arctic Fox, the company that introduced Fjällräven in the U.S. market two and a half years ago and ran its store in ...
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Vaude has ambitious plans for Korea
Vaude is determined to push its business in South Korea through retailing by its distributor and licensee in the country, Kovea. The latter is a big fish in the world's second-largest outdoor market behind the U.S. as far as camping products such as stoves and furniture are concerned. Kovea has ...
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Wolverine looks at acquisitions
Wolverine World Wide has reiterated its intention to carry out acquisitions. The focus remains on buying new brands, but the group does not rule out a move that could increase its retail activity. There is speculation that Wolverine is interested in Saucony, Sperry Top-Sider and other properties of Collective Brands.The ...
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Salewa acquires Wild Country
One year ago, Salewa Oberalp announced the acquisition of Pomoca, the Swiss manufacturer of mountaineering skins, which is now completely integrated into the group. At a press conference at Ispo, the Italian family-owned company announced its acquisition of Wild Country, a British producer of safety harnesses and other climbing gear.Salewa ...
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Swix Sports puts on Lundhags and walks into outdoor
Swix Sport, the Norwegian sports company that markets the Swix, Ulvang, Bavac and Toko brands, has agreed to acquire Lundhags Skomakarna, the Swedish manufacturer of rugged footwear and other outdoor gear, from the EQT Opportunity Fund. The deal will be effective by mid-February. According to Swix there will be no ...
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Icebreaker expands in the Far East
The specialty brand of apparel made of merino wool has signed an agreement for distributorship in the Japanese market. Goldwin markets its own brand of outdoor apparel under the same name and represents a wide range of Western brands such as The North Face, Helly Hansen, Ellesse, Speedo and Champion. ...
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Quechua eyes stronger own retail, tourism and improved design
Oxylane, the parent company of Décathlon, has opened the first flagship store for Quechua, its big specialty private label for outdoor products, in an important location for outdoor activities. The selling surface of 80 square meters is located on Chamonix' prestigious Avenue de l'Aiguille du Midi. The new door is ...
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Better than expected, the OR show weighs future locations
Combined with the effect of higher raw material prices, unseasonably warm weather throughout most of the U.S. in the past weeks have negatively impacted the outdoor and winter sports market in the country, as they have done in Europe. As already published in our sister business newsletter, SGI Europe, the ...
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Kamik works with Gore-Tex; uses synergies with Aku
Starting with the 2012-13 fall/winter season, Genfoot, the marketer of the Canadian Kamik brand, has decided to use Gore-Tex in parts of its collection of winter boots. Richard Cook, Genfoot's president, told this publication that 5 to 10 percent of Kamik's adult shoes may feature the membrane, while the proportion ...
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Adidas manager becomes boss of Peak Performance
Effective May 1, Henrik Bunge will be the new chief executive of Peak Performance. The 38-year-old currently acts as the managing director of Adidas Group Nordic. Adidas has yet to name a successor to Bunge. The appointment of Bunge at Peak Performance came after the Swedish brand had recruited Tobias ...
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Timberland plans new product introductions
At the recent FFANY footwear show in New York, Timberland announced that for next autumn's collection, all three of its main segments – classic, outdoor performance and casual – would meet the Earthkeeper green standards that the brand started in autumn 2007. It has also added new supplemental categories, warm/cold, ...
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EOG puts out hard figures on the European outdoor market
The European Outdoor Group (EOG) has completed its report on the state of the outdoor business in Europe and its development over the 2008-10 period. The report has been made available exclusively to the companies that took part in a major survey of the market, but some interesting new ...
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Dubarry goes for premium performance outdoor lifestyle
Dubarry, an Irish brand of shoes that diversified into clothing five years ago, has successfully carved out an interesting niche for its outdoor-inspired products by avoiding the specialty retail circuit and targeting instead a segment of the fashion retail circuit that it likes to define as “premium performance outdoor lifestyle.” ...
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Buoyant year sparks sell-off talk at Helly Hansen
Peter Sjølander, chief executive of Helly Hansen, said that the company was about to end another buoyant year, whose results might attract takeover bids as early as next year. However, the Norwegian company insisted that it was not starting an auction and that it would gladly continue to build up ...
