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Strong Deuter Raises Legal Questions On The Future Of Selective Distribution
The Augsburg-based company sold a lot of backpacks in the past fiscal year - to be precise, 1.6 million units, distributed in 45 countries. Deuter's sales were up by 21 percent and reached the impressive level of €46 million. The increase was partially due to currency factors, but still the ...
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Lafuma Reports Declines, Especially In France
For its fiscal year 2008-09 ended Sept. 30, the Lafuma Group recorded a sales decline of 3 percent to €254.2 million. While the international business was basically flat at €104.0 million (-0.1 percent), sales decreased by 4.9 percent in the French home market to €150.2 million. The environment ...
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For Timberland, Wool Continues To Be Smart
The Timberland Company has said that its third-quarter revenues were flat at $421.8 million, but rose by 1.7 percent excluding foreign currency effects, which decreased the total by about $9 million. The company said the sales figures reflected strong growth in boots in Europe and in the SmartWool brand, offset ...
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Jarden Expects Continued Drop In Sales
The Outdoor Solutions division of Jarden Corporation had a 9 percent drop in sales to $565.7 million for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, but operating income grew by 4.1 percent to $63.4 million. The outdoor unit’s results this year included $17.3 million in depreciation and amortization charges and $4.3 ...
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Sales Fall Less Than Expected At Columbia, Which Suffers In Russia
Columbia Sportswear saw revenues decline by 4.0 percent to $434.5 million for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, and net income fell by 19.6 percent to $46.9 million. However, the sales decline was more than $30 million better than forecast. The company attributed this to relatively cold weather and higher-than-expected ...
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Ion Mask Boosts Hi-tec’S Sales
Hi-Tec has reported an 8 percent increase in footwear sales in the U.K. and the rest of Europe for the first nine months of 2009, driven by the outdoor category, whose sales grew by 23 percent over the period thanks to its new “Ion-Mask” technology. The star model in ...
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Another Good Period For Fenix Outdoor
Fenix Outdoor, the company behind brands like Fjällräven, Tierra, Primus and Hanwag as well as the Swedish retail chain Naturkompaniet, posted strong figures for the first nine months of 2009. In the period from January to September, total net revenues were up by 17 percent and reached 874.4 million Swedish ...
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Americans Are Crazy For Paddling
Information collected by the Outdoor Foundation in the U.S. indicated that 17.8 million Americans aged 6 and over participated in kayaking, canoeing and rafting in 2008. The foundation has released a report in conjunction with the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) detailing all of the results, called “A Special Report on ...
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Outdoor Remains Strong At Softened Amer Sports
The Finnish Amer Sports group, which is the parent company of Salomon and Suunto, reports weaker sales for the first nine months of 2009. Turnover was down by 3 percent and reached €1,050.6 million. Earnings before interest and taxes dropped from €43.7 million to €4.4 million. Significant declines in sales ...
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Future Of Blacks Leisure Up In The Air
The fate of Blacks Leisure, the leading British outdoor retailer, was still in the balance early this week as it struggled to reach agreements with landlords over the closure of loss-making stores. This formed a substantial part of the restructuring plan presented by Blacks to Lloyds Banking Group last week, ...
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Wolverine Sees More Signs Of Recovery
Retailers are returning to more normal order placement patterns in the U.S., said Blake W. Krueger, president and chief executive of Wolverine World Wide, in commenting on better than expected results for the third quarter ended Sept. 12. He said the Chinese market is clearly recovering, while Western Europe seems ...
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Outdry Wins Reebok Veteran As A New Partner
OutDry, the young Italian brand of laminate technology for footwear and gloves, has a new shareholder. André Bruère, who has sealed a capital/equity deal with Nextec, the company that markets the OutDry membrane He is managing partner of Referencia International, a private equity firm focusing on companies at an early ...
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Furrer Plucks Wild Roses
Gregor Furrer & Partner Holding has bought Wild Roses, the Swiss women’s-focused outdoor apparel brand, from the Italian company CDA, for an undisclosed price. Gregor Furrer & Partner Holding, a Swiss company that serves as an exclusive distributor for a number of key brands in Switzerland, will present its first ...
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New Sales Structure For Timberland And Smartwool In Europe
Timberland’s wholesale and retail operations will be steered by three managers who will be in charge of different regions of Europe, while taking care of their national markets. They will continue to report to Richard O’Rourke, the company’s European general manager based in the U.K.. The British country manager, ...
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Casual Shoe Retailers Discover The Outdoor Market
Ariston-Nord-West-Ring, Europe’s leading buying group for shoe retailers and the parent company of Sport 2000 Germany, is serious about getting into the outdoor footwear market. At GDS in Düsseldorf, the big trade show for mainly casual shoe retailers, the group revealed its plans to organize an in-house show dedicated to ...
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Blacks Will Close More Stores
Blacks Leisure, the leading British outdoor retailer, is preparing to close 89 loss-making stores and to axe another 50 jobs at its head office in Northampton, as part of the clean-up demanded by its banker. Blacks reported last month that it was about to breach one of its ...
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The British Oia Is On Its Way To Being Incorporated
The U.K’s Outdoor Industries Association has set the stage to incorporate its organization as a Limited company under British law, although it plans to continue as a member-driven organization. At the OTS show in Stoneleigh last week, Louise Ramsay, the newly appointed managing director of the OIA, explained that the ...
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Twinner Launches An Outdoor Banner
Twinner, a French buying group for sporting goods retailers, is launching a label called Montagne Authentique for members located in winter sports resorts. Stores carrying this label will distinguish themselves with a technical offering and an eco-friendly attitude: they will recycle all of their skis and snowboards; use eco-friendly products, ...
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A Czech-hungarian Outdoor Alliance Might Be On Its Way
Rock Point, the Czech retailer and distributor, has appointed András Sárközy as its new chief executive. This move is particularly interesting because Sárközy is and continues to be the owner of Mountex, a leading Hungarian retailer and distributor. Sárközy confirmed his appointment at the top of the Czech company and ...
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Ots Ignores Crisis And Trend Against National Trade Shows
All Britain has been shaken by a heavy economic crisis. All Britain? The newspapers must have forgotten about the good people of Stoneleigh, a small village outside Coventry in the English Midlands where the Outdoor Trades Show took place from Sept. 28 through 30. OTS, which was held for the ...
