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Coleman Moves Head Office From France Across The Rhine
Confirming a rumor, Coleman Europe said that it is preparing to transfer its European head office from France to Germany at the beginning of next year, in a move that should involve the transfer of about twenty leading European executives, chiefly dealing with marketing and finance. It may also involve ...
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Gore Acquires Its Japanese Operations Entirely
W.L. Gore & Associates is transferring its Japanese operations, Japan Gore-Tex Inc. (JGI), into a wholly owned subsidiary. Founded in 1974, JGI had been a joint venture between Gore and Junkosha, a local manufacturer of electronic products. Both parties were holding 50 percent of the stakes. Most recently, JGI had ...
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Scarpa Is Friendly To The Planet
As part of its “Planet Friendly” initiative, Scarpa has launched five models of trail-runners and light hikers for next spring that contribute to the program’s goal of reducing the carbon footprint of this Italian company. The new shoes – the trail-runners “Pursuit” and “Pursuit GTX”; the “Epic”, a hiking shoe ...
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Peak Performance Shines In Ic Companys’ Results
Peak Performance continued to expand its sales for the financial year ended on June 30, up by 5 percent to 941 million Danish kroner (€126.4m-$187.0m), as reported by the Swedish brand’s Danish owner, IC Companys. Underlying growth was even more impressive, reaching about 10 percent in local currencies. This ...
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Columbia Wants To Reap Rewards Of Technology In Products
Columbia Sportswear is turning to more technical features in its garments that can be easily understood by the end user, to help it increase its average sales prices, gain market share and create more value for the consumer. Technology is included in 80-85 percent of the brand’s 2010 product line, ...
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Icelandic Outerwear Brands Are In A Good Mood Despite The Crisis
Icelandic outerwear brands say that they are in reasonable shape one year after the Nordic country’s economy collapsed as the leading three banks of Iceland went into receivership in late September/early October of 2008. All of them, Kaupþing, Landsbanki and Glitnir were subsequently nationalized by the government of this very ...
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Bleak Outlook For Blacks Leisure
Blacks Leisure has been given a two-month deadline to come up with a convincing restructuring plan as it warned earlier this week that it could breach one of its bank covenants at the end of September. The leading British outdoor retailer has already tipped Sandcity, a retail business in its ...
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Backpacking In The U.S. Grows Double-digit, Report Says
The Outdoor Recreation Participation Report that we wrote about in the last issue (focused on camping) is out, and some new findings have been revealed. In 2008, 48.6 percent of Americans spent some leisure time in the outdoors, for a total of 11.16 billion trips, whether near home, to a ...
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Visits to national parks in the U.S. have gone up...
Visits to national parks in the U.S. have gone up in 2009 according to data from the National Park Service. For the first half of this year, there were more than 127.7 million visits, almost 4.5 million more than in the first half of 2008. For June alone, this year ...
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Wolverine World Wide has revamped management of its outdoor footwear...
Wolverine World Wide has revamped management of its outdoor footwear and apparel division, appointing Bill Dodge vice president for footwear product development for the outdoor group and Mark Sandquist president of global apparel. Dodge comes from Patagonia Footwear, where he was general manager , and has held management positions at ...
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At the Eurobike show that started in Friedrichshafen yesterday, Vaude...
At the Eurobike show that started in Friedrichshafen yesterday, Vaude is celebrating the premiere of its line of cycling footwear. The collection comprises seven styles, divided among “Race,” “All Mountain” and “Trek & Trail.” The idea behind the collection is that the footwear is compatible with the usual pedal click ...
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Oksana Donets of Gorgany.com, a distributor of outdoor products in...
Oksana Donets of Gorgany.com, a distributor of outdoor products in the Ukraine, is newly the 50th member of the EOG Association for Conservation. This sort of action is not only taking place in Europe. Promotions held with member companies at the Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake City netted almost ...
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François Le Joncour is the new director of operations for...
François Le Joncour is the new director of operations for Aigle International, and will be a member of the company’s executive committee. Le Joncour, 41, was previously the director of logistics at Chantelle, and he has also worked at Décathlon, Auchan Hungary and KPMG. Aigle International is a French clothing ...
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Peak Performance will open a corporate store in Münster, Westphalia,...
Peak Performance will open a corporate store in Münster, Westphalia, on Sept. 17. It is the 10th door in Germany, where some are corporate and others franchises. Currently, Peak Performance has some 70 flagship stores worldwide and supplies around 2,000 retailers in Europe, Canada and Japan.
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Hans Larsson, until now the chief executive of Craft, has...
Hans Larsson, until now the chief executive of Craft, has been promoted the head of the entire sports division of New Wave, the Danish parent of the Swedish brand. The New Wave Sports division comprises brands outside the outdoor business such as Cutter & Buck and Seger, which are the ...
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Càrn Hikes Into Continental Europe
Càrn, a newly founded British brand of outdoor footwear, is setting sail for the Continent: Its owner, Unified Distribution, has just appointed Sarl-Abaca as its agency for France. Sarl-Abaca also takes care of Icepeak in the country. France is the fourth market that Càrn is targeting after appointing sales representatives ...
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Camping Increased During U.S. Crisis
As the American economy was sinking last year, its citizens went camping. A new study by the Outdoor Foundation and the Coleman Company shows that car and backyard camping went up by 7.4 percent in 2008 to 33.7 million Americans over the age of 5 compared with 2007. ...
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Oase Outdoors, a Danish outdoor equipment company specializing in camping...
Oase Outdoors, a Danish outdoor equipment company specializing in camping that has been growing by between 20 and 35 percent annually in the last three years, has appointed Pascal Meere as sales agent for the Netherlands; with a 400-square-meter showroom in Berneveld. Sport Partner, the Dutch publication, reports that Meere ...
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Salewa is targeting the British Isles: The Italian group has...
Salewa is targeting the British Isles: The Italian group has just appointed Rochford Agencies as sales agency for the Salewa, Dynafit and Silvretta brands in the U.K. and the Republic of Ireland. The agency is run by Stuart Rochford, a former agent in the region for Columbia and Jack Wolfskin.
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The British industry is preparing for the fourth edition of...
The British industry is preparing for the fourth edition of Outdoor Trade Show (OTS) to be held at Stoneleigh Park near Coventry from Sept. 28 through 30. More than 100 exhibitors will welcome more than 1,000 trade visitors who are expected at the event. Among the new exhibitors are prominent ...
