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Black Diamond Installs Sales Trio For Europe
As of July 2010, the Switzerland-based European operations of Black Diamond have three sales managers to intensify work in Europe. All three appointments come from within the company.David Ledouble has been sales manager for Europe since 2005 and will now focus on southern Europe. Sebastian Weiche, former manager at Scarpa, ...
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Haglöfs Will Expand Beyond Europe
Haglöfs will widen its distribution beyond Europe after its takeover by Asics, which was detailed in our previous issue. In the last years, the Swedish outdoor company has expanded from Scandinavia to a flurry of other European markets, but the company’s managers told us at the OutDoor fair yesterday that ...
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Eog Sees Market Growing, Prices Rising And Eco Standards Being Clarified
While recognizing the need for better market research data, the European Outdoor Group (EOG) estimates that the specialist market for outdoor products grew last year by at least 2 to 3 percent on average in Europe to an approximate level of €6 billion, with many important groups such as Jack ...
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Schöffel Takes The Austrian Business Into Its Own Hands
Schöffel has decided to end its cooperation with its Austrian distributor after more than 30 years. Instead, Schöffel is going to start its own subsidiary. Les Sports, the current distributor led by Klaus Taxer, will remain incharge of the pre-orders for the next summer season 2011.Christophe Weissenberger, the new sales ...
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German Intersport Is Set For Another Outdoor Record…
Yesterday, Klaus Jost, next to Kim Roether one of the two presidents of Intersport Germany, gave some estimates for the evolution of the German outdoor market and its major protagonists for 2010. Once again, he sees the group that he presides out in front with sales of €630 million after ...
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Salewa Studying Possible Acquisitions
The Salewa/Oberalp group is considering the possible acquisition of a brand and the representation of others on the Italian market to help reach a target of €200 million in annual sales by the year 2015. In 2009, the Italian group’s sales increased by 12 percent to €152 million in spite ...
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…And The Same For Sport 2000 And Outdoor-profis
The German section of Sport 2000, too, announces good sales of outdoor products. For the entire group the outdoor category represented 20.8 percent of total sales from July 2009 to June 2010. In the previous year’s period it represented “only” 18.7 percent. The increase was €43 million at retail prices ...
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Vaude Reorganises Its Sales Force And Segments Its Eco-friendly Products
Vaude has reorganized its sales force for both the Vaude and the Edelrid brands in the German-speaking countries. While Jan Lorch remains at the top of the sales management, long-time Vaude manager Hannes Mayer is now in charge of Edelrid’s sales in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, whereas Mark Cole continues ...
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Many New Products And New Product Lines From Cascade Designs
In an interesting diversification move, Cascade Designs announces the upcoming release of a new line of hydration packs, called Platypus Origin, and a new collection of adventure travel gear, called Traveling Light, that includes travel bags, backpacks, waist packs, pillows, fast-dry towels and other products.The American company has decided to ...
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Asics Takes Haglöfs And Hikes Into The Outdoor Business
In a major diversification move that surprised several observers, Asics Corporation announced that it has reached an agreement to buy 100 percent of the shares of Haglöfs Holding, the leading Swedish brand of outdoor products. After multiple discussions with Ratos AB, which has owned Haglöfs since 2001, Asics’ board of ...
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Lowe Alpine Drops Out Of Apparel
Blaming the financial crisis of the past two years, Lowe Alpine International says it has decided to close down its apparel division in Italy, effective on July 1, because of a continued reduction in the bank credit lines that it has obtained in 2009 and 2010. The British company, which ...
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Study Looks At Trail-running In The U.S.
The Outdoor Foundation partnered with Montrail to do a study of trail-running in the U.S., finding that 4.8 million Americans aged 6 and older participated in the sport last year. They made 153.7 million outings for an average of 31. 8 days per person. Among those who are trail-runners, 82.6 ...
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New Upswing For Dale Under A New Shareholder
Dale of Norway, the specialist in high-end pullovers, predicts that it will lift its sales and profits this year for the first time since 2002. The brand saw its sales shrink continuously from nearly 150 million Norwegian kronor to about NOK 80 million (€9.9m-$12.4m) last year, and it consistently reported ...
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Vibram Continues To Grow
The success of the FiveFingers line contributed to a rise of about 7 percent in the turnover of Vibram in 2009, offsetting a small decline in the outdoor sector that was evidently due to the difficult economic situation. It grew to $110 million including $30 million worth of sales by ...
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Chinese Sourcing Costs Are Rising Independently Of The Yuan
The free float of the Chinese yuan/renmimbi is expected to have less of an impact on the cost of sporting goods imported into Europe than local inflation, the rising cost of raw materials and the recent devaluation of the euro. While the gross margins on most sporting goods products are ...
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Patagonia’S Distribution Puts On The Brand’S Shoes
Patagonia confirmed that it was taking the European distribution of its footwear range in its own hands to optimize its sales in specialist outdoor stores. The brand’s footwear business is currently handled by Wolverine Worldwide, but Patagonia Europe indicated that it wanted to deploy more focused resources behind its footwear ...
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Fiskars’ Brands Get A New Grouping
The integration of Silva and Gerber, the two specialist outdoor equipment brands owned by the Fiskars group, is moving ahead with the formal launch of Fiskars Outdoors, a unit regrouping the sales and marketing operations of the two brands. Four years ago, Finland’s Fiskars group acquired Silva, the Swedish ...
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More Financial Information On Black Diamond
Three executives own 39 percent of Black Diamond Equipment, the new public U.S. company coming out of a reverse merger of the former Black Diamond and Gregory Mountain Products under the umbrella of the former Clarus Corporation, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission prior to ...
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Press Jury Picks Best Scandinavian Products Of The Year
A jury of European outdoor journalists, presided by Frank Wacker of the German Outdoor magazine and with the participation of the editor of this publication, came together near Gothenburg in mid-June to select the best Scandinavian products at the request of the Scandinavian Outdoor Group. The overall winner for ...
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And Puts New Benelux Distribution In Place
Ultimate Outdoor, a new Dutch distribution company, was appointed agent for Patagonia in the Netherlands. It takes over from John Zopfi, a Patagonia manager who previously handled the brand’s sales in the Benelux countries and Denmark from his office in Eindhoven, in the south of the Netherlands. After the change ...
