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Industry Sees Price Hikes As Inevitable
Brand owners at the OutDoor show unanimously agreed that retail price hikes would be inevitable due to hefty increases in the cost of raw materials, oil and labor – the topic at the center of many whispered conversations in Friedrichshafen. Rolf Schmid, president of the European Outdoor Group (EOG), ...
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Logistics Reshuffle Puts Haglöfs In Good Shape
Haglöfs, the Swedish outdoor company, is preparing a Europe-wide launch of its footwear range, which was only sold consistently in Scandinavia so far. It was already tested in a handful of German stores this year but will be introduced in all of the brand’s European markets from next spring. ...
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Friedrichshafen Reports Successful Outdoor Show
Messe Friedrichshafen recorded an all-time high number of trade visitors at the OutDoor show that ended on July 20. It welcomed 18,900 visitors or 2,000 more than in the previous year. The share of German visitors was 47.9 percent followed by Switzerland at 10.4 percent Italy at 6.7 percent and ...
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Fresh Money For Houdini
With fresh capital from its new owners, Houdini, a small but distinctive Swedish brand of outdoor underwear, is moving into higher gear. The money has enabled the company to increase its payroll from 9 to 15 employees last year, providing it with sufficient resources to expand international distribution. Lotta ...
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Lacrosse Opens European Office; Reports Higher Profits
LaCrosse Footwear has created a subsidiary in Copenhagen, LaCrosse Europe, hoping to expand in the European market. It bought the operation for $3.2 million from its long-time distributor there, Gateway Footgear. The company was responsible for sales throughout Europe, but it has been successful mainly in Denmark with the colorful ...
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Klättermusen Invests Massively In The Protection Of The Environment
Just as they do with empty bottles of beer, Swedish consumers could soon get into the habit of returning used outdoor garments in exchange for a small refund. Such an initiative was launched in July by Klättermusen, a Swedish outdoor brand. Consumers who bring a used jacket or backpack ...
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Lundhags Is Ready For Expansion; Drops Own Skate Production
Lundhags, the Swedish outdoor brand, will be closing down its production unit for Nordic skates next year, as dwindling sales no longer justify the expense. Sales of these skates decreased from about 22,000 to 7,000 pairs over the last years, after two mild winters. The capacity of the Lundhags ...
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Columbia Reports Flat Sales In Second Quarter
Columbia Sportswear’s sales slipped in the second quarter of fiscal 2008 by 3 percent to $213.1 million. The net loss was at $1.8 million compared to a net income at $10 million in the same period in 2007. According to the company, the second quarter is typically the lowest volume ...
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Garmont Selects New Distributor For Central Europe; Moves Into Trail Running
Garmont, the Italian footwear company, has switched the distribution of both its outdoor footwear and the newly presented line of trail running shoes in Austria and Germany. In charge now is Franz Siegesleuthner who runs the Hagan touring ski company and who has been distributing Garmont’s line of ski boots ...
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Golite Restructures Footwear Business
GoLite did not have footwear to exhibit at this year’s OutDoor show. After Timberland pulled out of the GoLite business earlier this year, it re-licensed the brand to two partners: apparel and equipment is operated by GoLite LLC, backed by the Coupounas family. GoLite was founded by that family which ...
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Blacks Sees The Positive Effect Of Vacation-hungry Brits Staying In U.K.
Blacks Leisure told its shareholders last week that its outdoor retail sales had dropped by 2.2 percent on a same-store basis in the 19 weeks ended on July 12, compared with a buoyant trading period at the same time last year. The British group’s total same-store sales fell by 5.4 ...
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New Managers And Distributors For Berghaus
Berghaus has fine-tuned its organization to place design above its separate apparel, footwear and equipment categories. The managers in charge of each of the units were removed in April, while Ross McPhee was recruited as head of design for all categories, to make sure that seasonal concepts and timing matched ...
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Bergans Finalizes New Distribution Structure For Europe
A German subsidiary of Bergans of Norway is taking over the brand’s distribution in the Germanic countries and deliveries to nearly all other countries in Europe from the beginning of next month. This puts an end to a distribution agreement with Scandic Outdoors, run by Jan Molander, which had been ...
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Eddie Bauer, On Rebound, Reunites With Everest Climber
Forty-five years ago Eddie Bauer outfitted the first American expedition to Mount Everest, led by Jim Whittaker. The retailer and Whittaker have rekindled the relationship, with the famous mountain climber signing an exclusive partnership with the outdoor brand to be its consultant, assist in product development, help with marketing ideas ...
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Nanjing’S Asia Outdoor Records Strong Increase In Exhibitors
The third edition of Asia Outdoor in Nanjing/China will be held from July 30 till August 1. Its organizer, a cooperation of Nanjing Nantex International Exhibition Center and Messe Friedrichshafen, the host of the international OutDoor show in Europe, targets a number of professional visitors at some 9,000. The ...
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13.7% Growth For The Outdoor Shoe Market In 2007
While Nike, Adidas and other all-around athletic footwear brands raised their sales by 12.0 percent in dollars at the wholesale level last year to $29 billion, the more or less pure outdoor brands increased their footwear sales at a slightly higher rate of 13.7 percent to $2.92 billion, or one-tenth ...
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Ebi Targets Wenger-brand Shoe Sales Of 1m Pairs
Established Brands International has acquired the worldwide footwear licence for Wenger’s Swiss Army Knife. According to Ron Page, the CEO of Established Brands, there are splendid business opportunities to label footwear with the world-famous white cross because it stands for high quality and very functional products. Especially in the US, ...
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Chiruca Fills White Spots On The European Map
Chiruca, the Spanish brand of outdoor and hunting footwear, is adding two more markets to its European map. The Spaniards have just hired four agents to cover both Austria and Germany, where they did not have any presence before. Another major European country which is again a white spot ...
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Vaude Is Prepared For Change Of Generation
At this OutDoor show, Vaude gave an outlook on how the structure of the management is expected to look like after its founder, Albrecht von Dewitz, steps down from his job as managing director. When his daughter Antje takes over in early 2009, she will be supported by an advisory ...
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Splendid Increase For Camp
Italy’s Camp group achieved sales of €20 million in 2007, amounting to an increase of 13 percent. About 75 percent of the sales are generated by the Camp business from Italy, while the rest comes from its French subsidiary and Camp’s secondary brand, Cassin. The export ratio is at ...
