All General Outdoor articles – Page 162
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News briefsThe North Face introduces the Explorer Team
The North Face (TNF) has announced the launch of a new team that will involve everyone around the world who see themselves as explorers or adventurers – from scriptwriters and photographers to trail runners and powder enthusiasts. TNF took the inspiration for its “Explorer Team” from the Covid-19 period and ...
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News briefsCake boosts its executive management team
Cake, the Swedish manufacturer of light electric high-performance motorcycles and a member of the Scandinavian Outdoor Group (SOG), today announced the hiring of three new executives at its headquarters in Stockholm. Per Werin joins the company as chief operating officer. He previously served as chief marketing officer and managing director ...
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News briefsJack Wolfskin has a new CFO
André Grube has been appointed new chief financial officer of Jack Wolfskin. He has been in charge of the company’s financial division as well as the tax & legal, human resources and office management departments of the German outdoor brand since Oct. 1. Grube succeeds Ante Franicevic, who will be ...
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News briefsNorrøna opens factory in Lithuania
On its blog, the Norwegian brand Norrøna revealed that it has just opened its own new factory in Kaunas, Lithuania, which has been developed and built since 2018 to make highly functional products with premium quality more sustainable. “Having our very own factory also allows us to improve innovation and ...
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Safilo expects Q3 sales to be better than expected
Safilo estimates that in the third quarter its net sales grew by a mid-single digit rate at constant exchange rates compared to the same quarter of 2019. It also expects to return to a profit at adjusted Ebitda level. Previously, the company had forecast a moderate decline in sales for ...
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Wildberries faces sanctions in Ukraine
Ukraine may impose sanctions against Russia’s largest online retailer, Wildberries, according to a proposal by the Ukrainian Minister of Culture and Information Policy, Oleksandr Tkachenko. The recommendation was made after Wildberries announced plans to begin sales in Ukraine. The minister called on the government to consider the possibility of applying ...
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U.S. retailer REI will again close all shops on Black Friday
For the sixth year in a row, outdoor retailer REI will close its 167 locations – stores, activity centers, distribution centers, call centers and headquarters – and pay its more than 13,000 employees to #OptOutside on Black Friday, Nov. 27. Since 2015, REI has made the decision to close on ...
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New sales director at Cascade Designs
Jeremy Hancock is the new senior director of sales at Cascade Designs, the Seattle-based company behind the Therm-a-Rest, Mountain Safety Research (MSR), Platypus, SealLine and PackTowl brands. Hancock is joining the company after previously serving as director of North American sales for CamelBak, where he worked with specialty and key ...
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News briefsBergzeit receives EMAS certification
The Chamber of Industry and Commerce of Munich and Upper Bavaria and the Bavarian Environmental Agency awarded the mountain sports retailer Bergzeit for its long-standing holistic environmental commitment that goes far beyond legal obligations. The company based in Otterfing near Munich received the EMAS certification on Sept. 25. EMAS (Eco-Management ...
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Norway's Beach Mountain and Response Nordic join forces
Spex Holding is acquiring all the shares of two Norwegian wholesale distribution companies, Beach Mountain and Response Nordic. As reported by the Norwegian Sports Industry Association, Invest42, until now the sole owner of Beach Mountain, is becoming a co-owner of Spex. Both Beach Mountain and Response Nordic, which is already ...
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ArticleRainer becomes Oberalp’s CSO, Busa is Salewa’s new GM
Justifying the introduction of a new sales structure with a shift to a “channel-driven approach” rather than a geographical basis under the management of Christoph Engl, the Oberalp Group has announced that Stefan Rainer will become its chief sales officer on Oct. 1. Rainer, who has been the general manager ...
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Anta’s president will run Amer Sports
Jie (James) Zheng, executive director and president of Anta Sports Products, is taking over the responsibilities of Heikki Takala, who has decided to resign from his role as president and chief executive of Amer Sports after ten years in the position. Takala, a former commercial director of Procter & Gamble, ...
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News briefsLenzing helps found sustainable-carbon initiative
Lenzing has just helped found the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI), which hopes by 2050 to replace fossil carbon with renewable carbon – from biomass, CO2, recycled materials and other sources. Overall the RCI will be creating cross-industry platforms to demonstrate the feasibility of renewable carbon, lobbying for changes to legislation, ...
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News briefsNew Wave GmbH reorganizes management
Andre Bachmann, managing director of the German company New Wave GmbH, which is best known for the distribution of the Swedish brand Craft, has granted general procuration to his long-time employees Henriette Pfeiffer and Felix Lechner. Pfeiffer, New Wave’s chief financial officer, has been with New Wave for 14 years. ...
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Bever’s new CEO comes from Nike
According to several media reports, Albert Scholte will be the new chief executive of the Dutch outdoor retail chain Bever as of Oct. 1. Scholte previously spent 13 years at Nike, where he was most recently responsible for the brand’s European business at Foot Locker. He is the successor of ...
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Changes in the team at Chris sports
Chris sports, a Swiss distributor for numerous sports, bike and outdoor brands such as Giro, Kari Traa, Keen, Elevenate, Evoc and Mountain Hardwear, is reorganizing the business unit hardgoods/bike in the same way as its softgoods/shoes department – with only one sales manager – due to the departure of Hubert ...
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Oeko-Tex to certify products for Amazon
Oeko-Tex, an international association of 18 independent research and testing institutes that set safety standards for textiles and leather, will be certifying the environmental bona fides of products on Amazon’s behalf. The huge American e-tailer relies on the certification of many such labs to bestow its Climate Pledge Friendly label ...
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Dewerstone founder wins entrepreneurship award
Rory Atton, founder of the Dewerstone brand of outdoor apparel and sunglasses, has won an Entrepreneur for Good Award for the southwestern U.K. in the eighth edition of the Great British Entrepreneur Awards. Like the winners in the other categories, Atton received his award in a virtual ceremony – made ...
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Hohenstein debuts its Digital Fitting Lab
Hohenstein, the family-owned testing, certification and research company for textiles, has developed what it calls a Digital Fitting Lab for brands, retailers and suppliers. The German company is inviting such companies to consult its engineers and designers, through workshops or the Hohenstein Academy, to adapt their existing procedures to 3D ...
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Calida plans complete takeover of Lafuma SA
The Swiss Calida Holding has announced its intention to launch a buy-out tender offer followed by a squeeze-out for all outstanding shares of its subsidiary Lafuma SA, which is listed on Euronext in Paris/France. Calida currently holds 93.50 percent of the share capital and voting rights of Lafuma SA. The ...
