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Peter Blom Adds Another Brand To His Start-ups
Peter Blom, one of the founders of Peak Performance and Cross Sportswear, has launched yet another apparel brand, Snoot. It’s a menswear brand with a leisure-oriented design and the technical features of a functional jacket, with a distinctively high-end positioning in price. Four black jackets under the Snoot brand have ...
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New International Virtual Shop For Outdoor Products From Spain
Addressing customers all over Europe and in the U.S. in seven languages, the new virtual shop carries the domain name www.trekkinn.com. It has been more or less operational for the past five months, but its launch has been announced only now by its operators in Girona, Spain. Competing against ...
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Good Vibrations In The Korean Outdoor Market
The South Korean market is going to be worth at least $2.5 billion this year at retail, according to various local industry officials met during a visit to the country in connection with last week’s Busan International Smart Shoe & Parts Fair (BISS), where many national brands of hiking boot ...
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Tnf Europe Moves To Switzerland
VF International, a unit of VF Corporation headed up by Karl Heinz Salzburger, has announced its intention to move the European head office of The North Face from Pederobba, a little Italian town in the area of Montebelluna, to the group’s European office in Lugano, Switzerland, where Vans, Reef and ...
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Outdoor Executives Are Optimistic For Economic Future
Executives within the outdoor industry remain cautious about the economic situation, according to a survey conducted by the American Outdoor Industry Association and Piper Jaffray Companies. The study, the fourth in 12 months, looked at opinions of executives from member companies of the OIA regarding current economic prospects, a timeline ...
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Mammut Is Quickly Developing Its Franchise Network
This November, Mammut is doubling the number of its franchised stores in Switzerland from two to four (not counting various small points of sale in local climbing halls). On Nov. 11, store No. 3 opened in Lucerne on a selling surface of some 230 square meters. The store is run ...
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Timberland Presents Its New Report On Csr
On 30 pages, Timberland has presented its latest report on corporate social responsibility. The purpose of the report is to make transparent the company’s achievements and future plans in the fields of sustainability, working conditions, global warming and partnerships with non-profit organizations. This is the sixth report since 2001, and ...
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For Columbia The Heat Is On
Columbia has presented its latest effort to gain ground in the field of technical footwear and apparel. Its new technology is called Omni-Heat, which it calls advanced temperature management. Columbia’s innovation is split into three parts: Omni-Heat Thermal Reflective helps to regulate the body temperature by reflecting and ...
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Dominated By Geox, The Montebelluna Cluster Feels The Pinch
Together, the 34 producers of outdoor shoes operating in the Montebelluna area delivered a total of just over 4.6 million pairs of hiking and trekking shoes worth €182.7 million in 2008, indicating a wholesale price per pair of €28. The values are very similar to those counted for 2005, which ...
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British Oia Elects Its New Board
As reported in The Compass 18 of Oct. 8, the British Outdoor Industries Association has incorporated its organization as a Limited company under British law. The British OIA now has elected a new board of directors to fully represent the U.K. outdoor industry with members from across the sectors. ...
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Blacks Leisure Escapes Insolvency
At meetings this week, the creditors and members of Blacks Leisure Group and its subsidiary The Outdoor Group (TOG) approved company voluntary arrangements (CVAs) with the landlords of hundreds of stores. The CVAs will settle the claims from landlords of 101 stores that are closed or closing and another nine ...
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Berghaus Goes Into Direct Internet Sales In The U.K.
The British brand is going to sell its merchandise via internet directly to consumers in the U.K. by March 2010. Berghaus sees the initiative as part of a broader strategy not only to extend the appeal of the brand, but also to develop the outdoor segment as a whole. ...
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Opponents Of Footwear Duties Have Won A Battle, But Not Yet The War
There is still no answer to the question of whether the European Union will keep the anti-dumping duties on non-athletic leather shoes imported from China and Vietnam that it imposed in October 2006 at the request of shoemakers in Italy, Spain, Portugal and a few other European countries that still ...
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Arc’Teryx And Other Outdoor Brands Go Into Streetwear
A new line of casual menswear, called “Veilance,” has been launched by Arc’teryx for the urban market. Designed by a young Canadian graduate of a London school and entirely manufactured at the company’s factory in Vancouver, it includes blazers, pants, shirts and other street garments full of technical details. They ...
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Amer Sports Bundles Central European Operations
The Finnish parent company of Salomon and Suunto is creating a new structure for Austria, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany. Effective Jan. 1, there will be a Central Zone in place that will be headed by Armin Fuchs, until now the country manager for the Netherlands and Germany, a position ...
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Lundhags Adjusts Management To Conquer New Markets
The Swedish brand of outdoor boots, equipment and apparel, which is a part of the Scandinavian Norrwin group, has promoted Jonas Hellentin to international sales and marketing director. He has acted until now as marketing manager and will now centralize both marketing and sales under his direction. Sales previously ...
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Rocky Reports Softer Sales
Sales fell by 8.1 percent to $66.6 million for Rocky Brands in the third quarter ended Sept. 30. Earnings before income taxes grew by 53.4 percent to $4.4 million. Net earnings were up by 17.2 percent to $2.8 million. The gross margin in the quarter amounted to 37.1 ...
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Google Makes It Into The Gps Market
The search engine is getting serious about moving into the big business with GPS (global positioning system) solutions. Google announced last week that it is putting out its brand new “Android 2.0” software, which is GPS-compatible. Motorola plans to introduce its cell phone “Droid,” which features for the time “Google ...
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The North Face Shines At Vf, Ebit Reaches A Record
VF Corporation saw its third quarter revenues drop by 5 percent to $2,093.8 million, with foreign currency translations accounting for 2 percentage points of the decline. Net income in the quarter fell by 6.8 percent to $217.9 million. VF’s gross margins remained near record levels for the period, ...
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Teva Didn’T Have The Right Products For The Season
Deckers Outdoor Corporation had a 15.8 percent increase in net sales to $228.4 million for the third quarter ended Sept. 30. Sales in the U.S. grew by 10.3 percent to $179.0 million, while sales outside the domestic market jumped by 41.4 percent to $49.4 million. The gross profit margin for ...
