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Implus Acquires European Distributor
Implus Footcare, a major American supplier of footwear accessories, has acquired its European master distributor, Eurosphere/Anticipation. The move is intended to expand the group’s presence in European outdoor and sporting goods stores, similar to its situation in the U.S. and the U.K., which represent more than 85 percent of its ...
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Tretorn Will Help Puma In The Outdoor Market
Ulf Gustafsson, former chief executive and board director of the Fenix Outdoor group, has been appointed to the helm of Tretorn, a Swedish brand that has been entirely owned by the Puma group for many years. The German company wants to use Tretorn as another platform to move into the ...
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Weak First Quarter At Haglöfs
Apart from the situation with exchange rates, outdoor companies in several European markets have been affected by the long winter, which has delayed sales of spring products. This was the case for Haglöfs, the Swedish company that has just been acquired by Asics. However, Haglöfs’ managers have told ...
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Simond Diversifies Its Product Range Under Declathon’S Shadow
Simond, the French brand of climbing equipment acquired two years ago by Décathlon’s parent company, Oxylane Group, has started to widen its product range with the small-scale launch of climbing footwear and apparel under the Simond brand, sold only in Décathlon stores for the time being. They should be made ...
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Teva And Ugg Make Deckers Happy
Deckers Outdoor Corporation's total revenues jumped by 34 percent to $137.1 million in the second quarter ended June 30. Net income grew by 222 percent to $8.9 million. Gross margins rose by 4.5 percentage points to 44.3 percent with the gain attributed to improved Teva sales, fewer closeouts and a ...
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The North Face Continues To Shine
The North Face increased its global revenues by 12 percent in dollar terms in the second quarter ended June 30, and its orders were up by about 20 percent overall. The weakend euro affected the score, and in fact, while TNF’s sales were up in single digits outside the U.S. ...
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Lafuma Continues To Face Declines
In the first nine months of its fiscal year 2009-10, Lafuma Group faced another decline in sales by 6.1 percent to €163.8 million. The Lafuma core brand dropped by 11.2 percent and reached €63.2 million. Le Chameau, the hunting brand, dropped by 18.2 percent down to €13.1 million while ...
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Columbia Posts Significant Sales Increase
Stronger reorders and robust own retail sales lifted Columbia Sportswear’s revenues by 24 percent to $221.8 million for the second quarter, amounting to a rise of 22 percent in constant currencies. It enjoyed double-digit increases in all product categories, due to more abundant demand as well as a shift in ...
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Pro-x Elements, A New Brand Of Rainwear From Germany
This new brand of rainwear was launched at the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen last week by Matthias Cramer, a 55-year-old German industry veteran. Specifically designed for the global sporting goods and specialty outdoor retail circuit, Pro-X Elements is primarily intended to fill a gap in the German-speaking market caused by ...
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Katadyn Pumps Fresh Water Into Its Money Box
The Katadyn Group, clear global market leader in the business of portable water purification solutions, recorded another year of growth for 2009. Sales went up by 2.7 percent and reached 38.2 million Swiss francs (€28.4m-$36.6m). The operating profit was CHF 6.1 million (€4.5m-$5.9m). The company says that it ...
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Blacks Improves Margins, But Sales Decline
Comparable store sales tumbled by 7.5 percent at Blacks Leisure Group, the leading British outdoor retailer, for the 17 weeks to the end of June. The company pointed to disappointing sales in May, though it performed in line with expectations during other weeks of this period. The drop was probably ...
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The Outdoor Show Was Big – And Hot
The heat was on at the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen that ended on July 18. The number of trade visitors increased by 6 percent to 20,460. Following the procedure introduced by AUMA, the council of German trade fair operators, these figures mean entries per day rather than visitors, but the ...
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Berghaus Moves Into India And The U.S.
After an overhaul of its product offering in the last years to expand in international markets, Berghaus is preparing to move into the U.S. market with its own subsidiary. The British outdoor brand, owned by Pentland Group, is already selling its products directly to a few American accounts, but the ...
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China’S Outdoor Trade Becomes More Chinese
The wholesale and retail turnover of outdoor brands in China posted another record year in 2009, according to the China Outdoor Commerce Alliance (COCA). At the retail level, total sales reached 4,850 million yuan renminbi (€569.1m-$716.5m) compared with RMB 3,650 million (€428.3m-$539.2m) in 2008. At the wholesale level, turnover ...
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Black Diamond Develops Its European Strategy After Merger With Gregory
At the OutDoor show, Christian Jäggi, the head of Black Diamond’s European operations explained to this publication how the European business is going to be set up after the brand merged with Gregory Mountain Products. Black Diamond is looking for a European brand manager for Gregory who will report to ...
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Point6 Gets Its Foot Into Europe
Point6, the young brand of Merino socks, is launching its international business at this OutDoor show, where it showed for the first time. The U.S. company announces that it has just appointed two distributors for the Italian and German markets. These markets are covered by Scarpa SpA and Scarpa Schuhe ...
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The Global Outdoor Shoe Market Rose By 2.1% In 2009
The global outdoor footwear market expanded by an estimated 2.1 percent in terms of U.S. dollars at the wholesale level in 2009, despite the financial crisis, according to an annual survey of major brands by The Outdoor Industry Compass, in cooperation with the publishers of the American and European editions ...
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Good Growth At Wolverine
Wolverine World Wide reported yesterday a 4.8 percent increase in revenues to $258.2 million for the second quarter ended June 19. The growth would have been even higher if a big shipment to an unnamed distributor had not been delayed until the third quarter. The group also had lower close-out ...
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Smartwool Expands Management
The U.S. Merino manufacturer has reacted to its strong global growth by reorganizing its management team. Three new positions were created and filled from within the company to meet international expansion requirements.Chris Hahn, was appointed as general manager international business to coordinate marketing strategy and daily business in Europe and ...
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Bo Hilleberg Is The “Celebrity Of The Year”
The “Outdoor Celebrity Award” was presented yesterday at the OutDoor show for the fifth time and went to Bo Hilleberg. With an established reputation for high-end tents, the Swede started in cooperation with his wife Renate in 1971. In 2003, he walked away from operating business at the Hilleberg company ...
