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Taiwanese Textile Suppliers Want To Be Recognized As Brands
Taiwan has long been a source for high-performance functional textiles for the outdoor industry, but the names of the high-technology companies behind these fabrics are virtually unknown. The island has quietly become the home of powerhouse OEM and ODM suppliers, and now a government initiative aims to establish them as ...
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Euro Family Adopts Two Joint Private Labels
Euro Family, an informal consortium of leading outdoor specialist retailers, has decided to adopt two joint private labels, replacing in due time some or all of their existing private brands. The partnership will enable them to reduce costs through economies of scale, working with fewer but stronger private brands that ...
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German Intersport Posts Strong Outdoor Performance
The German Intersport members recorded strong sales for the first half of 2008. Turnover increased in the first six month by €77 to 1.127 billion in retail prices after VAT. The good performance was mainly due to two factors: sales of team sports products before and during the Euro 2008 ...
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Eog Sees European Outdoor Market's Growth Slowing And Prices Going Up
The European outdoor market rose by 3.35 percent to €5.676 billion after VAT at the retail level in 2007, judging from an annual survey conducted by the European Outdoor Group (EOG), but the growth is expected to slow down this year, with a projected rise of just 2.48 percent for ...
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Britons Spend More In Blacks Stores This Summer
Blacks Leisure told its shareholders yesterday 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 percent ...
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New Agency In Germany For Carinthia And Other Brands
Miguel Ferreira, a 39-year-old salesman who has worked in Germany for 15 years for Suunto, Katadyne, Primus, Mountain Hardwear and Tropicare, has set up his own agency, representing various foreign brands in Germany and other countries. He is representing Carinthia in Germany and in the Benelux countries. This large ...
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Mammut And Tatonka Adopt Coldblack, And Bluesign Gets A New Partner
Schoeller, the Swiss developer of high-tech functional fibers and fabrics, is introducing its latest technology, Coldblack, at the OutDoor show, providing better temperature management and protection against UV rays. This innovation had its sneak preview at last year’s show, but this time it has been incorporated into the first branded ...
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Outdoor Industry Awards Attract 43 More Entries
This year’s OutDoor Industry Award competition, the third to be held at OutDoor, attracted a total of 280 entries from 25 different countries. An international jury of experts presented two gold and six silver awards on the first day of the show, honoring exceptional performance in the field of design ...
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The North Face Grows By More Than 40%
The star brand of the American group, The North Face, delivered a sales increase of more than 40 percent in dollar terms during the second quarter ended June 30, rising at similar rates in the U.S. market and in the rest of the world. It was partly aided by the ...
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The Outdoor Fair Hosts 150 New Exhibitors
Organizers of the OutDoor fair reiterated their commitment to improve infrastructure in Friedrichshafen, as the event continues to grow. This year’s fair is held in 11 halls, including one of two new halls promised by the organizers as they defeated Messe München last January in its bid to host the ...
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Trezeta Teams Up With Kamik In Germany And Gpg In France
Trezeta, the Italian boots brand, and Kamik, the Canadian footwear manufacturer, are joining forces to develop common global strategies. In a first step, Kamik’s German distributor has been appointed as Trezeta’s new master agent for both Germany and Austria. Genfoot Marketing Europe will sell Trezeta in the region through nine ...
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Keen Europe Moves To Rotterdam
The move from the Munich region to Rotterdam, the hub of European logistics, is partly due to the termination last month of an agreement with FLA, a Belgian-based service provider that had been offering a full range of services to the American outdoor brand including customs clearance, logistics, billing, finance ...
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Wolverine Is Optimistic For Merrell Despite Weakening Orders
The uncertain economic climate has caused some retailers to stop placing future orders and increase at-once orders, particularly in the USA and the U.K., according to Wolverine World Wide. This resulted in a slowing of the growth of orders from 10 percent at the end of the first quarter to ...
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Cascade Designs Globalizes Management, Launches New Gear
The U.S. company, which markets a variety of outdoor-related brands including Therm-a-Rest, MSR, SeaLine and Platypus, used to have separate management for Europe, based in Ireland, and for the rest of the world, based at the global head office in Seattle. A growing number of top executives are now assuming ...
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The Outdoor Market Rises By 4% Worldwide, Says Npd
The global market for outdoor sports goods reached $44.7 billion or €29.8 billion last year, according to the market research group NPD, with a margin of error of 20 percent. This would represent 4 percent growth over the figure for 2006. In Europe, the outdoor market grew by 3.4 ...
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Katadyn Posts Record Sales For 2007
Katadyn Group, the Swiss supplier of water purification solutions that claims to be world market leader with a global market share exceeding 50 percent, reports strong growth for 2007. Sales increased by 5.1 percent to 32.9 million Swiss francs (€20.3m-$32.3m). A good part of the increase is due to the ...
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Outdoor Sports Make Up 13% Of German Sport 2000 Sales
In the first six months of 2008, Sport 2000 Germany recorded an increase in sales of outdoor products of 16 percent. According to Andreas Rudolf, the headquarters’ managing director, the outdoor segment made up 13 percent of the entire group’s sales in 2007. Last year, the retailers affiliated with the ...
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Prominent New Exhibitors In Friedrichshafen
The OutDoor show taking place in Friedrichshafen on July 17-20 expects several new exhibitors including well-respected names in the industry such as New Balance, Craft of Scandinavia, Bushnell, Chiemsee, Killtec, L-Fashion (Luhta) and Spyder. Chiemsee and New Balance are especially worth mentioning because they are not necessarily connected to the ...
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High Sierra Eyes European Subsidiary
High Sierra Sport, a U.S. company specializing in backpacks and other types of soft-sided bags and luggage, plans to open its European office in the Munich area at the end of this year or early in 2009. It has already identified a candidate for the position of European director who ...
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Lafuma Starts Eider’S Turnaround With Layoffs
Nearly half of the workforce is to be laid off at Eider, the French ski and outdoor company taken over last month by the Lafuma group. As part of drastic cost-cutting measures, Eider’s new owner has planned to eliminate 47 of the company’s 102 jobs. Nearly all of the employees ...
