All General Outdoor articles – Page 119
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VF appoints new VP investor relations
Source: VF Corp Allegra Perry VF Corp. has appointed Allegra Perry to the position of vice president, investor relations, effective Jan. 2022. She will report to VF’s chief financial officer, Matt Puckett, and work closely with the group’s executive leadership team and executives across the company’s 12 ...
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Acquisition of Igloo completed
On Sept. 17, Swedish company Dometic announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Igloo, the Texas-based manufacturer of passive coolers and drinkware for the outdoor market, from private equity group ACON Investments. The closing of the transaction was subject to certain regulatory approvals, which have now been ...
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Dakine with new distribution for Germany, Austria
Dakine, founded in Hawaii in 1979 and headquartered in Oregon, has been working exclusively with Stuttgart-based Trade Art Distribution GmbH as its sales partner for Germany/Austria since Oct. 1, 2021. The agency is led by long-time business professionals, managing directors Hardy Tunnissen and Heiko Grelle, supported by new sales manager ...
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3M defies supply chain issues, raises guidance moderately
Announcing results for its Q3 2021 ended Sept. 30, U.S.-based conglomerate corporation 3M said sales increased 7.1 percent year-over-year to $8.9 billion. Total sales increased 8.1 percent in consumer products, 7.2 percent in safety and industrial, 5.8 percent in transportation and electronics and 4.1 percent in healthcare. On a geographic ...
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Vista makes Investor’s Business Daily’s top 100 ESG list
Vista Outdoor is ranked 39th on Investor’s Business Daily’s 2021 Best ESG Companies list, which recognizes the top 100 companies with outstanding Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) ratings in addition to strong fundamentals and technical stock performance. This is the first year Vista Outdoor has made the list. From the ...
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Unifi with strong Q1
Unifi, Inc., a U.S.-based producer of recycled and synthetic yarns, released operating results for the first fiscal quarter that ended Sept. 26. Net sales were $196.0 million, an increase of 38.5 percent from the first quarter of fiscal 2021 and an increase of 6.3 percent from the last Q4 (2021). ...
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„She is Outdoors“ gear awards application for winter product closing soon
Innovative outdoor products are being sought for the second edition of the #sheisoutdoors gear awards – the first winter version of the awards given to designated women’s gear. The jury will judge the products in seven categories: outdoor professionals and expedition, camping, hardware, footwear, apparel, snow sports and girls, with ...
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Columbia Sportswear appoints VP Investor Relations
Portland, Oregon-based Columbia Sportswear Company, which owns the Columbia, Mountain Hardwear, Sorel and prAna brands, has promoted Andrew Burns to vice president of strategic planning and investor relations. Burns has been with Columbia for more than three years leading the investor relations program. Prior to that, he spent more than ...
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New Arc’teryx video Nic‘ole introduces circularity designer Nicole McLaughlin
As part of the ongoing cooperation with New York-based designer Nicole McLaughlin, Canadian brand Arc’teryx went online with a new video that gives a deeper insight into her upcycling projects and consumer workshops. The film named “Nic’ole” is roughly five minutes long and lets the climber and artist talk about ...
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OvareVentures expands portfolio of outdoor brands
OvareVentures, a “committed growth initiative” of privately held Los Angeles-based holding company OvareGroup, has acquired Toronto-based Gull Lake Boat Works, a canoe and kayak manufacturer and restorer founded in 2008 by owner-operator Marc Russell. In August, OvareGroup named retail veteran Kara Anastasiadis president of the newly formed OvareGroup Outdoor Division. ...
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VF maintains FY outlook despite supply chain issues limiting Q2 sales growth
VF Corp improved its guidance for the full year (to $12.0 billion from $11.8 billion) despite a more challenging than expected operating environment in the second quarter. Overall revenues for the group that owns brands including Vans, The North Face (TNF), Timberland, Icebreaker and Smartwool increased by a reported ...
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Dometic Q3 sales growth gets a boost from M&A as supply chain problems persist
Dometic saw sales in the third quarter rise by 24 percent to SEK 5,545 million (€555.2m-$646.5m) despite continuing to suffer from “significant” supply chain disruptions. Growth in the top line of the Stockholm-based specialist in products for mobile living was largely due to acquisitions, with M&A seen increasing revenues by ...
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Thule sees gains in RV products and carrier systems
The outdoor trend, which kicked in after the Covid-19-related lockdowns, has once again brought good sales growth for the Swedish Thule Group. The trend toward outdoor and leisure activities closer to home continued to positively impact all of the group’s product categories in the third quarter. According to Thule’s preliminary ...
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Liz Wilson promoted SVP global product creation at OR
Liz Wilson Seattle-based brand Outdoor Research (OR) has promoted Liz Wilson to senior vice president of global product creation. Wilson, who has worked for OR for four years, is tasked with leading the product creation team and product development process from concept to consumer, from product and ...
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Equip brands again receive South Pole climate neutral label
Climate solutions provider South Pole has awarded Equip Outdoor Technologies brands Rab and Lowe Alpine with its climate-neutral label for the second year running in 2021. South Pole’s team has been consulting with the U.K. company on its climate journey since 2020, when Equip started offsetting its ...
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Nilit joins The Ocean Foundation’s Blue Resilience initiative
Nilit, a global supplier of 6.6 nylons and owner of the Sensil brand, has announced its new engagement in the Blue Resilience Initiative, a project led by the Ocean Foundation that works to safeguard and reestablish ocean meadows and other marine habitats under threat. According to a company release, Nilit’s ...
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PrimaLoft receives Derryck Draper Award for innovation
PrimaLoft® has received the Derryck Draper Award from the OWPG (Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild) for its innovative and sustainable manufacturing process. The judges highlighted PrimaLoft® P.U.R.E.™ manufacturing technology, which reduces CO2 emissions by up to 70 percent during the production process. The award, named in memory ...
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Kathmandu Holdings publishes 2021 sustainability report
Source: Kathmandu Kathmandu Holdings Ltd. sustainability report 2021 In its 2021 sustainability report, Kathmandu Holdings provides insight into the CSR and sustainability progress of its three brands, Kathmandu, Oboz and Rip Curl. The group undertook its first Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) materiality assessment this year, conducted ...
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Wildberries expands to Baltics
Russia’s largest online retailer Wildberries is entering Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, but the marketplaces are only available in English and Russian. The company also announced that iOS and Android mobile applications would soon be available in the three Baltic countries. Wildberries indicated that international logistics operators deliver orders in the ...
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Pelican Products changes hands
Pelican Products, a U.S. manufacturer of protective cases, has been sold by New York-based Behrman Capital to another private equity firm, Los Angeles-based Platinum Equity, on undisclosed terms. The transaction is expected to close by the end of Q4, 2021. In addition to outdoor equipment cases, Pelican also makes gun ...