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Vaude Opens Shop In Poland; Appoints New Swedish Distributor
The German outdoor brand will have its first door in Poland by January 2009. The 200-square-meter surface in Kraków will be operated by HiMountain, a specialty retailer that already runs 40 outlets in the country. The move means a comeback in Polish retailing for Vaude after it failed with ...
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Lafuma Cuts Spending After A Poor Financial Year
In reporting disappointing financial results, the Lafuma Group said it would stop adding new single-brand stores to its network of five Lafuma shops and 12 Oxbow stores, although combined they had a 10 percent sales increase on a same-store basis over the past year. The related virtual stores have also ...
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Intersport Prepares Mckinley For Its 25th Anniversary
McKinley, Intersport’s exclusive label for outdoor goods, will turn 25 next year. The group will use the anniversary as an opportunity for a large promotional campaign. Klaus Jost, the general manager of the German section in charge of marketing, purchasing and sales, told The Compass that it is an international ...
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An Industry Veteran Will Run Prana
Michael Crooke has been hired to run PrAna, the environmentally conscious American brand of rock climbing and yoga apparel, as the company's co-founder, Beaver Theodosakis, takes a step back to concentrate on brand strategy. His wife Pam will continue to head up product design. Crooke has a long history ...
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Globetrotter Makes It To Munich At Last
It has never been a secret that Globetrotter Ausrüstung, Germany’s and probably Europe’s largest specialty outdoor retailer, wanted to conquer the southern cities of its home market to overcome its focus on the northern region of Germany. With its superstores in Hamburg, Dresden, Frankfurt, Berlin and Cologne as well as ...
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Columbia Sees New Horizons For Sorel
Columbia Sportswear presented its collection for Fall/Winter 2009-10 to some of its top European retail customers. According to what the team of THE COMPASS could hear and see at the company’s European headquarters in Geneva, retailers were not only pleased with the promising collection, but also with the way the ...
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The Nordic Outdoor Industry Says Good Bye To Gunnar Molander
After a long and severe disease, Gunnar Molander has passed away at the age of 68. The list of attendees to his funeral reads like a who’s who of the Scandinavian and north German outdoor industry. The Swede was a pioneer in introducing Scandinavian brands in Central Europe starting in ...
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Transa Reshuffles Its Single-brand Franchise Business
The Swiss leading outdoor retailer, Transa Backpacking, just completed a new store franchising deal with Jack Wolfskin, a brand that the Zurich-based retailer first introduced in Switzerland nearly 20 years ago. In a related move, the former chief executive of Transa, Lukas Arnold, has agreed to take over the first ...
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The Renamed Pyua Brand Walks Into The Summer Business
PYUA, a new marketer of skiwear that launched its business with the upcoming Winter season, will introduce its first functional outerwear collection for Fall/Winter 2009-10 season. PYUA, a name inspired by the English word pure, stands for 100 percent recycled garments. It uses, for example, the Eco Circle materials of ...
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Charges And Sales Drops In Europe And The Usa Cause A Big Loss For Crocs
Analysts who believed in Crocs’ continued success through product and brand extensions, foreign development and acquisitions were disappointed by its latest sales and profit report. The company, which has some of its products sold in many outdoor stores, had a net loss of $148 million in its third quarter, ...
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JULBO BENEFITS FROM SHUTDOWN OF CÉbÉ
Benefiting in part from the shutdown of Cébé’s sports-related activities, the French company that owns the Julbo brand of eyewear will enjoy a big boost in its turnover this year to around €20 million. That will include sales of €16 million under the Julbo brand, up from €14 million last ...
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Mountain Hardwear Might Reach Sales Of Nearly $100m In 2008
Mountain Hardwear, the high-end outdoor label of Columbia Sportswear, is expected to reach global sales of $97.2 million this year compared with $82.6 million in 2007. The brand’s most important European market continues to be the U.K., followed by Italy, France and Germany at pretty much the same level. According ...
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Eybl Creates Shops For Its Private Label
Intersport Eybl, Austria’s big sporting-goods retail chain, is developing its private label for outdoor activities, Seven Summits, through stores exclusively dedicated to this exclusive brand. The first Seven Summits store recently opened in Innsbruck. The store in the capital, Tyrol, has a selling surface of 250 square meters and is ...
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Columbia Sees Own Retail As Key To Future Growth
Columbia Sportswear’s net sales decreased by 4 percent to $452.4 million in the third quarter. Net income slipped from $62.6 million to $58.3 million in the same period. Business was flat especially in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, where sales went down by 10 percent to $78.2 million. ...
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The Outdoor Coalition Continues To Be Vf’S Driving Force
For the three months ended Sept. 30, VF Corporation saw income grow by 12.9 percent to $233.9 million, with sales up by 6.5 percent to $2.19 billion. The company’s Outdoor Coalition was clearly the biggest earner, with a 16.9 percent increase in operating income, led by 15 percent growth at ...
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Lower Traffic Hurts Cabela’S Operating Income
Cabela’s, the big US outdoor retail chain, reported a drop in net income of 27 percent to $9.7 million for the period ended Sept. 27. Operating income was down by 14 percent to $20.8 million. Total revenues were up by nearly 12 percent to $611.8 million. By segment, the retail ...
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Lafuma Group Is Up, But Not Thanks To Its Core Brand
The French Lafuma group has produced satisfactory figures for its fiscal year ended Sept. 30. Global sales were up by 5.2 percent to €263.7 million. This figure includes the recently acquired Eider brand. Excluding Eider, whose sales were at €8.6 million in 2008, the Lafuma group increased its sales by ...
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Mammut’S Growth Knows No Bounds; Parent Has New Boss
Mammut Sports Group, the outdoor and sports business unit of the Conzzeta Group, posted 9.2 percent higher sales of 111.9 million Swiss francs (€75.5-$96.3m) for the eight months ended Aug. 31. The sports group, which markets the brands Mammut, Toko and Raichle, had higher sales in all regions, even in ...
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Blacks Concentrates On Its Outdoor Core Business
Blacks Leisure, the leading British outdoor retailer, has enjoyed an upswing in the sales at its outdoor stores since the end of the summer. Encouragingly, given the current climate, comparable sales at the retailer’s outdoor stores were up by 4.5 percent in September and October, and there are signs that ...
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Crocs Makes Its Presence Better Felt In France Through Gpg Company
Crocs Europe has officially presented its new sales agency for France, GPG Company, a French group with a significant portfolio of other footwear brands such as Dr. Martens, Replay, Gant and Bronx. The deal will take effect on Jan. 2, though neither company would comment on its duration. Crocs will ...
