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Outdoor Research puts more effort into product development
Outdoor Research is boosting its product development team with several new designers. Jason Duncan is the new technical sportswear manager, focusing on combining technical performance with stylish designs. He was previously a senior product manager for base layers, mid-layers and softshells, as well as head of buying of external apparel ...
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Norwegian investor on buying spree
Active Brands, the Norwegian holding company that bought Nanok earlier this month, is set to continue its acquisition spree in the coming years: Simen Mørdre, chief executive of the company, said he wanted to build up a group of brands with an annual turnover of between 2 billion and 3 ...
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Branded outdoor footwear on fire
We are going to publish our annual rugged outdoor footwear chart in the next issue of The Compass, reserved only to subscribers. It will show a big increase in the international market for the major brands in this category in 2010, especially outside the U.S. Much of the growth was ...
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Blacks may need more capital
Blacks Leisure, the leading British outdoor retailer, said that it had to increase its debt and that it might try to raise capital again to finance store openings, as its turnover continued to decline sharply in the last months.The company, which runs the Blacks and Millets stores, saw its comparable ...
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Haglöfs moves ahead with Asian expansion
Haglöfs, the Swedish outdoor brand, is preparing to move into the Chinese market as part of a three-year strategy for expansion in Asia starting next year. Inspired by Asics, the Japanese company that bought Haglöfs last year, the plan calls for the Swedish brand to move into three leading Asian ...
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German Intersport posts the first decline of outdoor sales in years
Intersport Germany did not manage to escape from unfavorable weather conditions in the first six months of the current year either. Compared with other categories, however, the decline of outdoor sales was moderate: Snow sports fell by a massive 32 percent after winter was disrupted very early in January. Team ...
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Schwan-Stabilo: Ortovox is set to remain an independent company
Sebastian Schwanhäußer, managing director of Schwan-Stabilo, the new owner of Ortovox, the German mountaineering brand, went into details about the plans for his new baby. It has been clear since 2006 when the group acquired Deuter that its outdoor division is set to expand through further acquisitions. Ortovox fit into ...
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Paul Petzl is the outdoor celebrity of the year
The OutDoor Industry Awards ceremony has been held at the OutDoor trade show in Friedrichshafen yesterday. Paul Petzl, president of Petzl, the French company of mountaineering and safety equipment, has been awarded with the award “OutDoor celebrity of the year”.Petzl, whose distribution network covers 51 countries worldwide, achieved global sales ...
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EOG has better outdoor market data
The European outdoor market grew in 2010 by more than 6 percent to an estimated €9,677 million after taxes at retail, according to the initial data collected from a far-reaching survey conducted by the European Outdoor Group among suppliers, distributors and retailers, covering 19 countries and providing details about 11 ...
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Outdoor-Profis grows through new members; worried about order calendar
Outdoor-Profis, the group of specialty retailers within Sport 2000 Germany with 105 members, has been able to increase its sales in the first half of 2011 by 30 percent compared with the same period in the previous year.This sales figure is understood to come mainly from new members and not ...
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German Sport 2000 posts contrasted sales for the first six months
The outdoor range of products of Sport 2000 grew in the first half of 2011 by 5.7 percent in comparison with the same period in the previous year, despite the very strong increase in the previous business year with 17 percent growth.While outdoor shoes experienced an increase of 8.1 percent ...
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Wildcraft helps to shape Indian outdoor market
The Indian outdoor business is beginning to take shape, as several brands and retailers are starting to achieve recognition among a fast-growing group of outdoor enthusiasts in the country. This emerging market is particularly stimulated by Wildcraft, the only full-fledged Indian outdoor brand, which already has hundreds of retail partners ...
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Salewa hires a tent expert
Pedro Carradinha, a passionate Portuguese mountaineer who has successfully built up his own company, Ortik, in the past few years, has become the product manager of Salewa for tents, taking over from Bernhard Schnaus, who has led its tents and sleeping bags operations for more than 16 years. As a ...
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Uteliv is set to expand quickly in Sweden’s outdoor specialty retail
Uteliv, a Swedish outdoor retailer with two stores, has obtained strong support from leading outdoor brands to expand its network with seven more stores in the next six years. Daniel Ringqvist and Oskar Hjerstedt, the two owners of Uteliv, will rapidly open two more stores with their own resources, and ...
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Investment company takes over Silva
Fiskars Group has agreed to sell all of its shares of Silva Sweden AB to Karnell, a Swedish investment company. Along with the parent company Silva Sweden, the deal also includes the subsidiaries Silva Ltd. in the U.K., Silva Deutschland, Silva France and Silva Far East, based in Hong Kong. ...
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Dynafit moves into the summer business
Starting with summer 2012, Salewa's ski-touring brand Dynafit will offer a summer collection. According to Heiner Oberrauch, the brand's owner, the line targets those customers who enjoy Dynafit in winter and want to take advantage of the brand during their summer activities as well.Dynafit's new approach is focused on alpine ...
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Hi-Tec enjoys more direct and less licensed business
Buoyant sales of outdoor products enabled Hi-Tec to lift its directly invoiced sales by 4.2 percent last year, while its sales through distributors jumped by 7.4 percent. However, the outdoor, sports and golf company moved to cut back its licensed business, particularly in Asia, which reduced the wholesale equivalent sales ...
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Outdoor outpaces broader sports market in Europe
The outdoor market increased by 3 percent on a currency-neutral basis in 2010 to €15.2 billion at retail level in the 36 major European countries, driven by the walking, hiking and camping segments, according to NPD Group. This compares with a rise of about 2 percent for the overall European ...
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Asolo sells Lowe Alpine to the U.K. Equip group
The legendary backpack brand returns to England at last. The new owner is the Equip Outdoor Technologies group, which also markets the brands Rab and Podsacs (high-end crafted backpacks), as well as Integral Designs (tents, bivvies, tarps, shelters and accessories).Equip, a privately held company owned by Matt Gowar, takes over ...
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Active Brands buys Nanok
Active Brands of Norway has made another acquisition as part of its strategy to become a major supplier of outdoor products in the Nordic countries. This time it has taken over Nanok, a specialist Norwegian brands of sleeping bags and tents made in the Far East.Nanok, which will have its ...
