All Hiking & Trekking articles – Page 55
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News briefsFrance is Inov-8’s newest direct market
Source: Inov-8 Emmanuel Fedon U.K.-based running, hiking and fitness brand Inov-8 has added France to its portfolio of European direct markets, led by Emmanuel Fedon as sales manager. Fedon lives in Annecy and brings two decades of sports industry experience to the role. He previously worked for ...
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ArticleDeuter pushes ahead with climate strategy
Under the motto “Changing for the better means taking responsibility” – part of the Deuter Promise, which calls for 360-degree responsibility – German backpack and sleeping bag manufacturer Deuter is launching a new sustainability strategy. One of the six fields of action anchored within addresses climate protection – with the ...
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News briefsEquip reports successful trial run of polybag recycling project
Source: EOG/Rab U.K. outdoor brands Rab and Lowe Alpine (owned by Equip Outdoor Technologies Ltd.), together with the European Outdoor Group (EOG), have presented the first results of their polybag recycling project, conducted as part of the EOG’s Single Use Plastics (SUP) project. In this test run, ...
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News briefsOsprey opts for recycled fabrics for new fall 2022 styles
For Fall 2022, backpack specialist Osprey announced a shift to 100 percent recycled fabrics in the main bodies of all new SKUs introduced for the fall 2022 line. According to a company release, this move reduces Osprey’s impact by 30 to 40 percent compared to using virgin materials. For Fall ...
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News briefsThe winners of the French Outdoor Awards 2022
Source: OSV Gignoux Mountain, winner of the FOA Innovation Award 2022 The jury of experts appointed by the French trade association Outdoor Sports Valley (OSV) announced the four winners of the French Outdoor Awards (FOA) 2022 on Jan. 15 in Chamonix. While the competition is open to ...
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News briefsEcco USA with new CEO
Source: Ecco USA Tom Berry Danish footwear brand Ecco has appointed Tom Berry as president and CEO of Ecco USA, based in Londonderry, New Hampshire, effective immediately. After more than 20 years with the brand, former president Dave Quel had announced his retirement last summer, with CFO ...
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Moody’s upgrades Amer Sports’ outlook to positive on strong nine-month sales growth
Rating agency Moody’s reports that Amer Sports, the parent of Arc’teryx, Salomon, Wilson, Peak Performance, Suunto and Atomic, which has been majority controlled by Chinese sportswear giant Anta Sports since 2019, reported solid sales growth of +29 percent in the first nine months of 2021. The gains were driven by ...
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News briefsCordura launches re/cor RN66 Nylon fabric line from pre-consumer waste
For fall 2023, Invista brand Cordura has introduced a new collection of nylon 6.6 fabrics from recycled raw material marketed under the Cordura re/cor line of recycled fibers. Re/cor is a trademark applied in November 2021 and works as a Cordura sub-brand for GRS (Global Recycled Standard) certified post-consumer recycled ...
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News briefsSchöffel’s Austrian boss says goodbye
After almost twelve years at the helm, Jürgen Nairz is surrendering his position as managing director of Schöffel Austria GmbH, which also shares responsibility for the Italian market. Nairz took up his post in the fall of 2010 as head of the Innsbruck-based subsidiary newly founded under his leadership. ...
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News briefsMountain Hardwear promotes Sablle Scheppmann to director of sales
Mountain Hardwear, a wholly owned subsidiary of Columbia Sportswear Company, has promoted Sablle Scheppmann, who has served as the brand’s national sales manager for the past three and a half years, to its new director of sales. Scheppman helped the company focus on the brand’s specialty business and structure its ...
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ArticleJack Wolfskin with strategic repositioning aimed at global expansion, customer centricity and sustainability
Jack Wolfskin, the German manufacturer of outdoor apparel and equipment that has been part of U.S.-based golf outfitter Callaway Golf Company since January 2019, has unveiled a new strategic brand reset with its fall/winter 2022 collection. The central elements of this are the new claim “We Live to Discover,” as ...
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News briefsHohenstein expands collaboration with data management platform Texbase
Germany-based textile testing institute Hohenstein (also the owner of the Oeko-Tex labels and certification processes) has broadened its collaboration with Texbase Inc., a cloud-based data management platform for the textile and consumer product industries. Hohenstein customers can now collaborate, send test requests and receive test reports within the Texbase Connect ...
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News briefsArc’teryx continues global brand store expansion
Source: Arc’teryx Arc’teryx has increased the number of its own brand stores by 15 percent Canadian brand Arc’teryx Equipment opened 21 stores internationally in the past twelve months, ending 2021 with a total of 159 brick-and-mortar brand shops globally. In addition to the new stores, Arc’teryx also ...
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ArticleOutdoor and bike industry stocks rose by 3.0% in Q4
Our quarterly analysis of the outdoor stock market shows a 3.0 percent sequential increase in the average stock prices of 32 public companies primarily involved in the outdoor and bicycle sectors between Sept. 30 and Dec. 31, 2021. This came after increases for most of the same companies of 18.9 ...
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ArticleSchwan-Stabilo acquires stake in footwear start-up Doghammer
The German Schwan-Stabilo group has taken a minority stake in Doghammer, a young outdoor footwear brand. The agreement was signed shortly before the end of 2021. Further details of the transaction were not disclosed. Doghammer was established in 2015 by Matthias Drexlmaier and Maximilian Hundhammer in Rosenheim in Bavaria. Since ...
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News briefsColumbia appoints new VP U.S. sales
Source: Columbia Jim Beeman Columbia Sportswear Company has named Jim Beeman vice president, U.S. sales for the Columbia brand. In this role, Beeman will report to Tim Sheerin, senior vice president, global wholesale for the Columbia brand. Beeman spent more than 22 years at Nike, most recently ...
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News briefsSpinnova invests in Rieter system for new yarn fabrication in Finland
Spinnova has purchased a full line of production machines from Swiss spinning technology specialist Rieter to be installed at the company’s premises in Jyväskylä, Finland. Following the agenda published before, Spinnova plans to spin the wood pulp fiber into yarn on the Rieter system on a large scale by the ...
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News briefsTradeinn records another strong increase in annual sales
Spanish e-tailer Tradeinn enjoyed a stellar year in 2020. The results for 2021 surprised even its CEO, David Martín, as he confessed to CMDsport. The effects of the pandemic produced a 52 percent increase in annual sales to €288 million for 2020, which was followed by a further 31 percent ...
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News briefsReima commits to Science Based Targets initiative
Reima is the first Finnish apparel company to join the global Science Based Targets (SBTi) initiative. In accordance with the initiative, Reima will set emissions reduction targets that support the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees. The targets apply to Reima’s own operations as well as ...
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ArticleAmer Sports divests Suunto
Amer Sports revealed it has reached an agreement with Chinese technology company Liesheng to sell its Finnish brand Suunto, a manufacturer of sports watches, dive computers and precision instruments. Amer said the sale was in line with its strategy to focus on developing internationally recognized sporting goods brands in the ...
