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Garmin Acquires Swedish Distributor Of More And More Brands
Sportmanship International, the Swedish supplier of Garmin navigation and positioning devices, will take over the distribution of Tecnica in Sweden in 2009 from Combisport. It had previous acquired the distribution of Völkl and Marker from the same company. Sportmanship will handle the distribution of Tecnica’s technical footwear, as ...
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Schöffel Hires New Top Sales Managers
Schöffel, a leading German manufacturer of outdoor and snow sports apparel, separated from Alexander Timmers who acted as sales manager for Germany in the last one and a half years. Timmers, a former buyer of sporting goods at Karstadt, has been replaced by Frank Kaltenbach. The 48-year-old was hired from ...
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Norrwin Hires Top Manager To Lead Tenson
Further management changes are afoot at Norrwin, the holding company that controls Five Seasons, Tenson and Lundhags, three Swedish outdoor and golf companies. Just a few weeks ago a heavy-weight executive, Johan Vikman, former chief executive of the Fenix group, took up the same position at Norrwin. Shortly afterward it ...
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Fenix Outdoor Records Strong First Half
Fenix Outdoor, the Swedish group that markets the brnads Fjällräven, Primus, Tierra and Hanwag, increased its sales by 14 percent to 451 million Swedish kronor (€47.5m-$66.0m) in the first six months of 2008. The operating profit was up by 21 percent and reached SEK 58 milion (€6.1m-$8.5m). The groupfs result ...
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Tnf Reshuffles Euro Management
Topher Gaylord, a 15-year veteran of VF Corporation and most recently the groupfs president for international outdoor and action sports as well as managing director of The North Face for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and East Asia, is about to go back to the USA. Gaylord, who has been ...
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Odlo International Reviews Its Scandinavian Distribution
Odlo, the Swiss specialty brand for underwear and cross-country as well as outdoor apparel, has selected Oy Micky as the new distributor of its products in Finland. Oy Micky is already in charge of the Finnish market for Columbia Sportswear and Mountain Hardwear, replacing Exel, which now distributes Bjørn Dæhlie, ...
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Berghaus Signs Major Deal To Conquer The Chinese Market
The outdoor brand of the British Pentland group has announced that it is moving into the Chinese market in 2009. Berghaus has signed a license deal with Symphony Resources, a subsidiary of Symphony Holdings, for six years after a yearlong search for a suitable partner in the local market. Symphony ...
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Karhu Faces Delicate Legal Battle
Karhu, the Finnish brand of cross-country skis, walking poles, outdoor footwear and other sports ranges, is at the center of an odd legal battle including a police investigation for suspected fraud. Karhu Holding BV, a Dutch company set up by two well-known sports executives, Huub Valkenburg and Jay Dukes, ...
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New Owners Will Review Rossi's Outdoor Apparel
A full review of Rossignol's outdoor and winter sports apparel will be among the most urgent tasks set by Bruno Cercley, the French executive behind Rossignolfs take-over from Quiksilver. Backed up by Australian and American investors, the former chief executive of Rossignol entered exclusive talks with Quiksilver to buy the ...
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Twelve Brands Win Polartec's Apex Award
Polartec has announced its annual Apex Design Awards for the top products that feature the material and will reach retailers' shelves for the Fall/Winter season soon. The criteria of the jury were style, function and fit as well as the most inovative and useful way the brands have worked with ...
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Aku Puts More Emphasis On Its Brand
The Italian producer of hiking and trekking shoes is accepting fewer orders from corporate clients, especially from the U.S. private-label sector because of the lower value of the dollar. Instead, it is using a recently reinforced management team instead to push sales of its own AKU brand. In line with ...
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Timberland Spends More On Marketing To Reverse The Tide
Timberland’s efforts to revitalize its brand will become visible over the next months with a large-scale advertising campaign and many other moves, but for the time being the brand is still in the doldrums, with yet another sales dip and another loss for the second quarter. Timberland’s revenues fell ...
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Door Market Is In An Olympic Spirit
The third edition of the Asia Outdoor trade show in Nanjing, which ended on Aug. 2, saw a nice increase both of exhibitors and trade visitors compared with the previous year. The number of visitors grew from 8,200 in 2007 to nearly 9,400 although the event was affected by a ...
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Cabela’S Comparable Sales Keep Company Hopeful
Cabela’s, the big American outdoor retailer, had some bad news for its second quarter ended June 28, with operating income down by 26.6 percent to $14.9 million, net income down by 35.4 percent to $7.3 million and gross margins down by 1.4 percentage points to 34.5 percent. The American outdoor ...
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Third-quarter Blues For Johnson Outdoors
Johnson Outdoors suffered from the poor U.S. economy in its third quarter, with sales down by 5.8 percent to $141.2 million. The third quarter is the most important of the fiscal year for the company, as it is when customers buy equipment for boating, diving and the outdoors for the ...
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Deuter Jumps Easily, Even Loaded With Backpacks
Schwanhäusser Industrie Holding, the German company that owns the well-known Schwan-Stabilo brand as well as an OEM production for cosmetics and, since late 2006, the Deuter brand, increased its annual sales from €340 million to €373 million between the fiscal years 2006-07 and 2007-08, of which the latter ended on ...
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Rocky Brands Is Back In The Black
In the second quarter of 2008, Rocky Brands rebounded from a $1.4 million loss in the same period last year to report a profit of $700,000. Net sales were up as well, by 2.9 percent to $60.5 million. The gross margin overall was down by 0.4 percentage points ...
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Columbia Appoints Top Anager For Europe
Columbia Sportswear has appointed Patrick Chevallier as director of sales in Europe, replacing André-Pierre Bonamy, who left the company. The 46-year-old Frenchman held a comparable position with Amer Sports, where he supervised 20 countries in the EMEA region, especially in Eastern and Central Europe. Prior to that, he had ...
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Margins Improve At Jarden Outdoor, Bolstered By Acquisitions
Operating earnings for Jarden Corporation’s Outdoor Solutions unit, made up of Coleman, K2 and Pure Fishing, rose by 132 percent to $74.8 million for the quarter ended June 30. Revenues were 70 percent higher than the same period last year at $708.6 million, but on a pro forma basis, excluding ...
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Karrimor Pushes To Increase International Sales
Just three years into an international sales drive, Karrimor, the British outdoor brand, is generating about half of its sales outside the British market. While its UK sales often take place through price-aggressive retailers, Karrimor is capitalizing on its brand name to rebuild a network of specialized customers outside its ...
