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Merrell And Chaco Get New Direction Globally
The outdoor group at Wolverine World Wide has two new executives to help drive strategic growth for Merrell and Chaco, keeping the good momentum of the group's 2010 going. Seth Cobb is the new vice president and general manager for Merrell, and Chip Coe takes over those positions for Chaco. ...
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Rocky Beats Targets In Fourth Quarter
Rocky Brands beat its own expectations in the fourth quarter of 2010 with an 8.2 percent rise in sales to $66.7 million. The biggest factor was a 14.4 percent increase in wholesale revenues to $52.5 million. Other revenue sources were lower, with retail sales declining to $12.4 million from $12.5 ...
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Vibram Takes U.S. License Back
Vibram took over the distribution of its soles in the U.S. last Jan. 1 from its long-standing licensee for that market, Quabaug. As the biggest rubber producer in the country, that company will continue to manufacture soles for Vibram, and it will continue to be involved in R&D, but Vibram ...
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Black Diamond Plans Apparel Launch
Black Diamond is considering the possible launch in the autumn of 2013 of a line of technical outdoor clothing under its own brand name, to be developed internally. Peter Metcalf, president of the American company, indicated such a line could potentially generate as much revenue as its existing hardware or ...
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U.S. Outdoor Sales Up By 4% In Last Fiscal Year
A strong holiday season in the U.S. boosted sales of outdoor products by 4.0 percent to $10.85 billion for the year ended Jan. 29, according to data compiled by SportScanInfo for the Outdoor Industry Association. Specialty stores did better than the general market with a 7.3 percent increase. In the ...
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Jarden's Outdoor Solutions Grows Strong By 14.4%, Margins Down
A different price mix and higher commodity costs drove the operating margin before amortization (Ebitda) of Jarden Corporation's Outdoor Solutions segment down to 7.9 percent from 9.7 percent in the 4th quarter of 2010, but this was before extraordinary items. As acquisition and integration costs were down to $7.4 million ...
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The Leading Player In Russia Sees A Turnaround
Kant, a big importer that is probably the biggest Russian supplier of outdoor products, finished the financial year ended last September with a slight sales increase of 5 percent, despite an estimated 20 percent decline in the whole Russian outdoor market, thanks to the new development of its retail business. ...
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Mctrek Is On Track With Good Results And New Openings
Yeah! AG, the holding company of the Sine stores and McTrek, the low-budget specialty chain of outdoor stores in Germany, reports a successful year 2010: Total sales soared by 45 percent to €22.4 million. Originally, the chain had planned a sales increase of 27 percent for the same year. The ...
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Salewa Hikes To Northern Europe At Last And Posts Strong Footwear Sales
The Oberalp Group, which markets the Salewa brand, is now serious about northern Europe for its core brand. It has hired, effective Feb. 1, Yves Sarto, who has been with Patagonia Europe for around two decades involved in product and sales management. The 42-year-old will run his business for the ...
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Regatta Dismisses Hawkshead
The Regatta Group has decided to close down its Hawkshead brand of outdoor clothing, which it purchased three years ago, having realized that very substantial investments would have been required to nurture it and to make it grow. No layoffs will be necessary because of the strong growth ...
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Eog Invites The Whole Industry To Provide Data
The European Outdoor Group is putting out one last call for participants in its study of the European outdoor industry. It says that interested companies have their last chance to be involved at Ispo; no one will be allowed to sign up later. Already, 90 percent of the group's members ...
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Wolverine Creates International Division
Wolverine World Wide has created a new stand-alone structure, called Wolverine International Group, to oversee the market development, selling activities and local market execution for all its brands outside of North America. The unit will be run by Bill Brown, a 24-year veteran of the company. He will report directly ...
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Eog Conservation Group Gets A Makeover
The EOG Association for Conservation has changed its name to the European Outdoor Conservation Association after a vote at its recent annual meeting. The organization has refocused on consumers, and wanted a name that was more easily recognizable and better described the group's purpose. The new EOCA has ...
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Columbia Is In A Turnaround Mode In Europe And Elsewhere
In reporting significant growth across all its brands, regions and product categories for the fourth quarter and the 2010 fiscal year last Thursday, Columbia Sportswear seemed to be flying like the Phoenix out of the ashes. Tim Boyle, president and chief executive, said that the overall performance of the group ...
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New Stenata Stores In Bulgaria
Consolidating its position as the largest retailer and wholesaler of outdoor products in Bulgaria, where there are fewer than 30 specialist outdoor retail stores, Stenata opened two stores in November 2010. The second one was totally refurbished and was opened in the country's capital, Sofia. Stenata also opened its ...
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Arc'teryx And Salomon Prove To Be Steamhorses In Amer's Stable
With favorable weather triggering buoyant reorders, European sales of outdoor footwear and apparel continued to drive the recovery of Finland's Amer Sports group in the fourth quarter of last year. Marketed chiefly under the Salomon and Arc'teryx brands, its outdoor footwear and apparel sales have been expanding steadily for several ...
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Wolverine's Outdoor Sales Are Fired By All Brands
Wolverine World Wide's outdoor division booked a 22.3 percent increase in fourth-quarter sales to $134.9 million thanks to double-digit growth for its three brands: Merrell, Patagonia Footwear and Chaco. In the full-year, this business unit increased sales by 12.4 percent to $467.6 million. Merrell, the Wolverine group's second-largest brand ...
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Lacrosse Footwear Sales Rise By 23 Percent In Fourth Quarter
LaCrosse Footwear reported sales of $52.1 million in the fourth quarter, up by 23 percent from $42.5 million a year earlier. Net income rose by 74 percent to $4.0 million from $2.3 million. In the full year, sales were up by 8 percent to $150.5 million and net income was ...
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Vaude Makes Major Shifts In Product Management
Vaude has reorganized its senior staff by merging its three business units - mountain sports, bike, and Packs ?n Bags (daypacks, handbags, shoulder bags etc.) - into one single unit , directed by Peter Sontheimer as of Jan. 1. The executive had been with the brand for the last 17 ...
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Fjällräven Realigns International Sales
The Swedish Fenix Group has appointed Alex Koska to the newly created position of international sales manager of Fjällräven, effective Jan. 1. Until now, international sales were handled by the brand's chief executive, Martin Axelhed. He will hand over responsibilities for certain markets to Koska, who will alslo remain managing ...
