All Hiking & Trekking articles – Page 38
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News briefsPeak Performance opens a new concept store in Denmark
Swedish outdoor brand Peak Performance has opened a new 160 square meter concept store in Copenhagen city center, aiming to showcase the brand’s determination to reduce the environmental impact and focus on community and services. The new store — with an interior inspired by nature in the northern part of ...
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ArticleMountain Equipment publishes first impact and responsibility report
U.K. brand Mountain Equipment has released its first annual impact and responsibility 2021 report that covers work the brand has undertaken to date to understand and reduce the impact on the environment, to identify and reduce its carbon emissions, and enhance its corporate and social responsibility. The 41-page paper, titled ...
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VF Corp. to potentially sell the JanSport brand
According to Bloomberg citing „people with knowledge of the matter,” VF Corp is considering selling the JanSport backpack and adventure luggage brand. There are no details of a potential investor revealed whatsoever. Shares of VF, the owner company of The North Face (TNF), Vans and Timberland brands, have dropped by ...
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News briefsCMP opens its 50th store
Italian outdoor brand CMP, part of the F.lli Campagnolo SpA group, has opened a new flagship store in Bologna, in northern Italy. It is the brand’s 50th store. CMP opened its very first flagship store seven years ago. Opened on Dec. 13 and located in Bologna’s city center, at 4 ...
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News briefsBurbank succeeds Millenacker as global brand president of Royal Robbins
Source: Royal Robbins Erik Burbank Fenix Outdoor has appointed Erik Burbank as global brand president of Royal Robbins. Burbank, an industry veteran with extensive experience leading brands in the U.S. and Europe, will succeed Michael Millenacker, who is retiring at the end of the year. Burbank will ...
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News briefsHohenstein pilots Oeko-Tex Leather Standard certification for shoes with Lowa
Outdoor shoe brand Lowa and the testing service provider Hohenstein have piloted a new project: the Lowa model Lady Light GTX has passed the Oeko-Tex Leather Standard certification, making it the first hiking shoe of which all components complied with the required criteria of the Leather Standard RSL (Restricted Substances ...
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News briefsNew Recco SAR helicopter detectors in Spain and Sweden
Recco reports the deployment of two more SAR helicopter detectors: Pompièrs Emergéncies S.L.U in Val d’Aran in the Pyrenees has been equipped with the innovative search device. While many rescue teams in Spain are already equipped with the Recco detectors, which they use as handheld devices for avalanche burial searches, ...
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News briefs66°North opens European flagship in London
66ºNorth has opened a retail store in the heart of London’s West End, on Regent Street. The 3,500-sqm store also serves as the brand’s European flagship. It is the first store of the Icelandic outerwear brand outside of Iceland and Denmark. 66° North recently opened a pop-up store in London’s ...
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News briefsSarah Seifert joins OR as new VP e-commerce
Source: Outdoor Research Sarah Seifert Seattle-based brand Outdoor Research (OR) has hired Sarah Seifert as its new vice president e-commerce. Seifert has been e-commerce manager at Eagle Creek most recently. Prior to that, she worked for seven years as director of e-commerce for Smartwool. Her experience also ...
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ArticleHaglöfs Restored is back on track
After an unexpected closure last spring, the second-hand website Haglöfs Restored is now back up and running. A new partnership with Belfast, Ireland-based apparel refurbishment service provider and advocate of the Responsible circular economy allows the company to continue. Haglöfs Restored is one of several initiatives aimed at extending the ...
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News briefsMarmot announces distribution changes in Italy and Austria, new sponsoring partner
Marmot starts into the fall/winter sales season with new partnerships in Italy and Austria. In Italy, the company is working with Premiere Distribution (based in Bolzano), starting with the FW 2023 collection. The new partner’s sales team is responsible for all sales topics, from key account management to new customer ...
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ArticleIcebug supports transformation to renewable energy in Vietnam, updates business purpose
Swedish footwear brand Icebug has started a new initiative to promote the change to renewable solar energy in production facilities in Vietnam – not only with its own production partners but industry-wide. Teaming up with German renewable energy developer Clean Energy Investment Accelerator (CEIA), the brand (which is also a ...
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News briefsSalewa Alp Trainer 2 Mid GTX Hiking Boots voluntary product recall
Salewa has launched a voluntary recall for the product Alp Trainer 2 Mid GTX (item code men’s version: 61382 - item code women’s version: 61383), manufactured before April 2022. If the recalled AT2 boots are loosely laced or not laced, not laced in the ankle area, not laced through the ...
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News briefsAn exhibition in the heart of the Dolomites to tell the Salewa story
A new exhibition at Lagazuoi Expo Dolomiti, titled “La terra, il cielo e la montagna in mezzo” (”The earth, the sky and the mountain in between”), tells the story of Italian outdoor brand Salewa, with a focus on the relationship between man and the environment. The exhibition, curated by Anna ...
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News briefsVaude passes Green Button 2.0 certification
As the first company, Vaude has passed the revised and tightened requirements of the German government’s textile standard “Grüner Knopf” (Green Button). Since Aug. 2022, companies have been able to be audited in accordance with the Green Button 2.0 standard. Their requirements newly include introducing measures to promote living wages ...
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ArticleSchwan-Stabilo’s outdoor brands grow by 16.4%
The German Schwan-Stabilo group, the owner of Deuter, Ortovox, Maier Sports and Gonso, has published its 2021/22 business numbers, achieving growth in all of the group’s categories, which are cosmetics, writing instruments and outdoor sports. In the time span reported, the group generated sales of €745.3 million (previous year: €623.2 ...
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News briefsNaturkompaniet opens new Fjällräven store in Norway
Swedish outdoor chain Naturkompaniet is continuing its expansion in Norway with the opening of a new Fjällräven store in Trondheim. With Naturkompaniet and Fjällräven heavily focused on a sustainable outdoor life and making products that last, the new store reflects this. Consumers will be able to deliver Fjällräven’s G-1000 ...
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News briefsBergans latest brand to announce its sustainable alternative to Black Friday
Outdoor clothing retailer Bergans of Norway is the latest brand to announce its sustainable alternative to Black Friday. Bergans will be hosting a second-hand sale and breakfast in its flagship store in Oslo on Friday, Nov. 25. So far, over 700 people have shown an interest in the event on ...
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News briefsFitur launches new sports tourism exhibition space “Fitur sports” at its 2023 show
Fitur, the international tourism fair organized by IFEMA Madrid, has announced the addition of a dedicated extra exhibition space that will focus on sports tourism, one of the fastest-growing tourism products worldwide. The special area is organized in collaboration with AFYDAD, the Spanish association of manufacturers and distributors of sporting ...
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News briefsJack Wolfskin hires new country managers for the U.K. and Scandinavia
Source: Jack Wolfskin Steve Rosier, Country Manager U.K. and Ireland German brand Jack Wolfskin has announced executive changes in the northern hemisphere: Steve Rosier has been appointed country manager for the U.K. and Ireland. Rosier, who has most recently served as senior sales manager and POD lead ...
