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Salewa’S New Head Office Will Start Operations Next January
The Salewa Group, along with its house brands Dynafit and Silvretta and Oberalp, a sister company that distributes various sports brands on the Italian market, are scheduled to complete next June the transfer of their operations, currently spread over four buildings in Bolzano, to a common new and avant-garde 30,000-square-meter ...
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Primaloft Expands European Management
Jochen Lagemann has started a new career as director of sales and marketing for Europe at Primaloft, the leading supplier of insulation materials, with responsibility also for the Middle East and Russia. The German executive comes from W.L. Gore & Associates where he has been active since 2003, working ...
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Polish Distributor Is Going Massively Into Own Retail
Martes Sport, one of the leading sports distributors in Poland, is rapidly building up a large-scale retail operation. In the last two years it has already opened thirteen stores, all of them owned by the company, and intends to open more in the next two years to build up a ...
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Deuter Grows Fast
The German backpack specialist once again posted impressive sales figures for its latest fiscal year, which ended on June 30. Global turnover grew by 13.3 percent to €51 million. Deuter increased its sales more strongly in the German home market, where it is a clear market leader in branded technical ...
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Polish Suppliers Go For Controlled Retail Space
Polish outdoor suppliers have come up with a form of partnership with retailers that is proliferating at huge speed and reshaping the country’s outdoor business: they are described as semi-franchises, in which retailers take products from a partner supplier on a consignment basis and then fit their store with a ...
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Norrona Changes Distribution Strategy In Norway
Norrøna, the Norwegian outdoor brand, has enjoyed a leap in orders this year after its decision to drastically revise its distribution strategy in Norway – in order to prevent over-exposure and price battles. Last November, Norrøna ended its centralized invoicing agreement with Gresvig, the buying group that makes up ...
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Strong Demand Strains Wolverine’S Supply Chain
Wolverine World Wide is struggling to cope with demand after another significant sales increase in the third quarter and a jump of more than 55 percent in its order backlog. This was due to heightened demand for the group’s brands as well as widespread anxiety among retailers about shortages of ...
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Britain Sees Major Shifts In Retail Landscape
The British outdoor retailing business has seen a spate of financial transactions in the last weeks, underlining the interest of investors in this growing market and paving the way for accelerated expansion of a few market leaders. Perhaps most significantly, speculation is rife about an impending sale of Go ...
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Crocs Looks Overseas For Better Bottom Line
Having made a recovery, Crocs is now looking to increase its profitability, and to do so it is looking outside the U.S. It already makes about 61 percent of its sales from international markets, but plans to expand its network of company-owned locations to more than 400 by the end ...
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Coronel Tapiocca Goes Bankrupt
A court in Madrid has accepted the voluntary bankruptcy petition of Coronel Tapiocca, a leading Spanish chain of travel and outdoor stores that has been severely affected by the economic crisis, probably because it has been emphasizing travel and fashion rather than outdoor sports. The court appointed two receivers at ...
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Georges Salomon Has Passed Away
Funeral services are being held in Annecy this afternoon to honor Georges Salomon, the man who founded the company bearing his name together with his father. Affected for some time by Alzheimer’s disease, he passed away last Tuesday at the age of 85 years. A visionary, he looked constantly ...
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Set For A Change Of Generation , Au Vieux Campeur Moves Into A Shopping Mall
The big French specialty retailer continues to expand in its home market. It just has opened its 9th store in Grenoble on a net selling surface of 1,500 square meters. The expenses for its wood fittings are estimated to have been around €450,000. For the first two weeks operations, ...
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Chinese Brands Set Sail For The West, But Arrival Time Remains Uncertain
A major challenge (or opportunity) for the industry may be the arrival of Chinese outdoor brands on the battlegrounds in North America and Europe in the years to come. Executives of both Messe München and Messe Friedrichshafen say they have been receiving a strongly increasing number of requests from China ...
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Alfa Looks Beyond Norway
Alfa, a leading Norwegian supplier of outdoor and hunting footwear that had never strayed beyond its own country, has just started to explore the French and Danish markets, with a view to further international forays in years to come. Alfa is strongly established in Norway, where it reached sales ...
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Outdoor Community Shocked At Death Of Kurt Albert
With profound sadness, we heard that Kurt Albert passed away on September 28, 2010. The 56-year-old legend became famous in the climbing community in the 1970ies for developing and naming redpoint climbing (Rotpunktklettern) – the specific style of free-climbing, which at that time was only known in the U.S. and ...
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Aku Brings Production Partially Back To Italy
On its way to consolidation with the help of the Cook family, the owners of the Canadian Kamik brand, who made an investment in Aku last year, the Italian boot manufacturer is pulling part of its production in Romania back to its headquarters in Montebelluna. This the first stage ...
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Some Ideas About Promoting Outdoor Activities From The U.S.
The Outdoor Foundation has released an interesting 9-page report, called “Turning Insiders Out,” that provides some ideas on how to get more young people involved in outdoor activities Here are some of the American non-profit organization’s proposals, which are largely based on an online survey: - Creating partnerships ...
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Peak Is Now Ready To Penetrate France
After several years of preparations, Peak Performance established its own business in France, in Sallanches, at the beginning of July. The unit is headed by Nicolas Kiffer, former manager at Plein Nord, which was the Swedish brand’s French agency for seven years. Kiffer remains involved in the management of Plein ...
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Fenix Pushes Tierra Southward
Tierra, the Swedish outdoor apparel brand owned by the Fenix Outdoor Group, is to be relaunched outside Scandinavia in the next few years after the overhaul of its management and a wide extension of its offering in the last months. The brand had been sold in some European countries ...
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Swiss Fair Play Takes Sustainability To The Shops
While sustainability has been mostly a business-to-business issue to this point, the Swiss section of the Fair Play buying group plans a major roll-out of a marketing campaign to make the consumers familiar with the topic. In a first step – for the fall/winter season 2011-12 – the buying group ...
