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New Customers Help Bluesign To Become A Global Standard
Bluesign, the Swiss company that is setting up an independent standard for the entire outdoor industry and beyond to establish a high quality of environment, health and safety is happy to welcome more major brands that meet the Bluesign requirements. Helly Hansen and Haglöfs have decided to join the club ...
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Ispo Continues Coop With Eog; Appoints New Managers
Messe München has signed a contract with the European Outdoor Group, represented by EOG’s president, Rolf Schmid, who is also the chief executive of Mammut Sports Group, and the federation’s secretary-general, Mark Held. The agreement is for ISPO and EOG to continue to work together closely to provide a ...
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Outdoor Partially Offsets Amer’S Troubled Winter Business
Stressing that the immediate outlook is more uncertain than normal for this time of the year, Amer Sports’ management is predicting a decline in its operating profit this year to somewhere between €80 and €90 million, compared with €92 million in 2007, excluding a €13 million extraordinary gain on the ...
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Adidas Moves Into Outdoor Specialty Retail
After a couple of years of abstention, Adidas Outdoor will exhibit again at Friedrichshafen’s OutDoor show in 2009. This move is part of the Three Stripes’ new strategy to embrace core specialty retailers after focusing more on their general sports customers in retail. According to Rolf Reinschmidt, who acts as ...
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Leki Sells More Than 1m Pairs Of Poles
In a rare move, Klaus Lenhart, owner of the Leki company, has disclosed a few figures from his company and the market of trekking and ski poles in an exclusive interview with THE COMPASS. According to the managing director, Leki sold more than 1,000,000 pairs of poles in 2007. Lenhart ...
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Migros Hikes Into Specialty Outdoor Retail
Migros, the big Swiss retail cooperative operating in goods and non-foods, has opened its first stores called “Outdoor by SportXX”. While SportXX is its already established general sports retail format, Migros had not gone into specialized outdoor retailing so far. The first outlets of Migros' new Outdoor by SportXX chain ...
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Wolverine Just Keeps On Growing
The third quarter of the fiscal year, which ended Sept. 6, marked Wolverine World Wide’s 25th consecutive quarter of record revenues, in spite of the difficult economic circumstances. The company’s sales were up by 2.8 percent to $318.9 million for the period. Blake W. Krueger, president and chief executive, again ...
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Goldwin Turns Nippon Into X-japan
X-Technology, the Swiss marketer of X-Socks and the X-Bionic apparel, continues to expand all over the globe and is now moving into the Japanese market. With annual sales of roughly $420 million, its new Japanese distributor, Goldwin, is one of the largest manufacturers and wholesalers for outdoor and sporting goods ...
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Outdry Secures Patent Rights At Epo
OutDry, the young Italian brand of waterproof membranes for footwear and gloves, has won a case against W.L. Gore before the Munich-based European Patent Office (EPO). Since 2004, Nextec srl, the marketer of the OutDry brand, has fought demands by Gore that it withdrawal its patent EP1139805. The Patent Office ...
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Vietnam Hosts New Eco-friendly Factory
A new leather factory is being built in Saigon that is being promoted as a model for ecological health. Under construction for the German/Chinese leather producer ISA Tan Tec, the new facility will emit 35 percent less carbon dioxide than other leather factories. The water used for tanning will ...
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Salewa Reshuffles Central European Top Management
Karl-Heinz Maurer, Salewa Germany’s managing director for operations and finances, will leave the company by June 30, 2009. Maurer has directed the German subsidiary since 1990 when the Italian Oberalp group led by Heiner Oberrauch acquired the then troubled Munich-based company. For the first eleven years, Maurer served side ...
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Cabela’S Resists U.S. Crisis, But Cuts Jobs
Cabela’s appears to be confident in the face of the U.S. economic crisis, predicting growth in the mid-teens for its financial services unit for the foreseeable future. Right now it has annual growth of 15 to 20 percent in new credits accounts, mostly from customers for its 28 stores in ...
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Bushnell Launches A User-friendly Compass
Called the BackTrack, the new gadget can be described as a very simple electronic compass linked to a satellite-based GPS system that is specifically designed for people to find their way back in the woods, in the city or in any other urban or outdoor environment. It can be used ...
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Swiss Top Brands Join Fair Wear
Odlo and Mammut have signed the code of labour practices for the garment industry requested by a non-profit-making organization, Fair Wear Foundation. The code requires that their products will not be made with the use of forced or child labor or by discriminating against certain types of workers. It asks ...
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Blacks Is Not In The Mood For Leisure
Blacks Leisure , the leading British outdoor retailer, could hardly have picked a worse time to issue yet another profit warning: just a few days before stock markets took a nose-dive, Blacks said that it will report a much wider loss for the first half of its financial year, ended ...
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Vf Corp. Wants Bigger Presence Outside Usa In Future
VF Corporation sees more of its future in its own stores and outside the USA. Right now, the company gets 16 percent of its revenues from own retail; it plans to expand that to 22 percent by 2012. Also by that time, it wants to increase its international business from ...
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Thermore Goes Into Sleeping Bags, Russia, And Ukraine
Thermore, the Italian specialty manufacturer of thermal insulation solutions, no longer puts its focus on apparel alone. After presenting its new 100 percent recycled paddings at this year’s ISPO, the company now comes up with an insulation for sleeping bags which consists of 60 percent recycled fibers. Negotiations with leading ...
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Tnf Is Back In The Promising Turkish Market
After several years of legal squabbling, The North Face has settled a trademark dispute in Turkey to introduce the brand in this hugely promising market from early next year. It will be distributed in the country through the Turkish subsidiary of VF Corporation, the parent company of The North Face, ...
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Equity Firm Creates A Czech Outdoor Alliance
ARX Equity Partners, an investment firm specialized in the acquisition of companies in Central and Eastern Europe, has acquired two major players in the Czech outdoor industry. While it bought 100 percent of Singing Rock, the Czech manufacturer of climbing equipment, it acquired a majority stake in Lanex, the local ...
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European Outdoor Industry Joins The Fight Against Anti-dumping Duties
The European Outdoor Group is inviting all the companies that sell outdoor shoes to oppose the anti-dumping duties being levied on imports of leather shoes from China and Vietnam into the European Union. A majority of the EOG’s members already voted against their continuation at a meeting during the OutDoor ...
