All Legal & Institutional articles – Page 36
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European importers may be able to recover some of...
European importers may be able to recover some of the anti-dumping duties that they had to pay for shoes sourced in China and Vietnam. Responding to a complaint filed by Puma, the financial court of Munich has formally asked the European Court of Justice to issue a verdict on ...
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Peak Performance, founding member of the Scandinavian Outdoor Group, SOG,...
Peak Performance, founding member of the Scandinavian Outdoor Group, SOG, is back as a new member from this year together with Cintamani, a brand of outdoor apparel from Iceland; Exel from Finland; Ulvang, a wool brand from Norway and Röjk from Sweden. The SOG now has a total of 39 ...
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Primaloft, which is growing faster than when it was part...
Primaloft, which is growing faster than when it was part of Albany International, has various new projects in the pipeline for fibers that will retain body heat and harness the heat from the sun. The company has also taken over its agents in Russia and Scandinavia, and it is launching ...
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As we have previously reported, the European Federation of the...
As we have previously reported, the European Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry, Fesi, has become very active in its lobbying efforts in Brussels. A few days ago, it held a couple of important meetings with key personalities of the European Commission and the European Parliament that should lead to ...
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Frank Dassler, general counsel and chief compliance officer at the...
Frank Dassler, general counsel and chief compliance officer at the Adidas Group, was unanimously elected for a three-year term as president of the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) during the organization's annual assembly just before the recent Ispo Munich fair, as expected. Dassler was most recently the ...
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Two lifestyle brands, Napapijri and Calamar, are adopting Gore-Tex membranes...
Two lifestyle brands, Napapijri and Calamar, are adopting Gore-Tex membranes for their autumn/winter 2014/15 collections
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Freewaters, the California-based maker of beach style shoes and sandals,...
Freewaters, the California-based maker of beach style shoes and sandals, will partner with Therm-a-Rest and Cascade Designs to provide real-world lessons on water science and purification for high school students in Ventura County, California, starting in May. Sales of Freewaters shoes featuring Therm-a-Rest insoles will support the project. Volunteers will ...
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The Outdoor Industries Women's Coalition (OIWC) has announced the winners...
The Outdoor Industries Women's Coalition (OIWC) has announced the winners of its 2014 Pioneering Woman and First Ascent awards. Sally Jewell, 51st U.S. Secretary of the Interior and former chief executive of REI, has won the Pioneering Women Award and Elizabeth Averbeck, director of sales and marketing at Active Interest ...
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Outdoor Sports Valley (OSV), the association based in Annecy, France,...
Outdoor Sports Valley (OSV), the association based in Annecy, France, announces a new Bachelor's degree program for “International Sales Specialists in Sports” in collaboration with the Technical Institute of the Université de Savoie. Held in English and targeting students from all over the world, it will start next September, rounding ...
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China's President Xi Jinping recently talked around the country about...
China's President Xi Jinping recently talked around the country about his passion for hiking and this may have been indirectly beneficial for some brands. Beijing-based Toread saw its share-price climb sharply in mid-January at a time when the President's comments on his passion for outdoor activities were being extensively covered ...
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The Outdoor Industries Association (OIA) of the U.K. has decided...
The Outdoor Industries Association (OIA) of the U.K. has decided to outsource its marketing, communication and PR functions to Media Contact Services (MCS), the PR, marketing and event management agency in Manchester that organizes the eight-year-old Outdoor Trade Show at Stoneleigh Park. Described as the longest-established agency in the (British) ...
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Columbia Sportswear has filed a lawsuit against Seirus Innovative Accessories...
Columbia Sportswear has filed a lawsuit against Seirus Innovative Accessories for infringement on its patent for its insulating Omni Heat reflective material. In the lawsuit it filed in Seattle at the beginning of December, Columbia accused Utah-based Seirus of selling gloves with a heat-reflecting material and bearing a wavy ornamental ...
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Go Outdoors and Design Go have settled their trademark dispute...
Go Outdoors and Design Go have settled their trademark dispute with an agreement that allows both parties to co-exist in the U.K. and elsewhere without the risk of confusion in the branding of their respective products and retail services. The terms of the settlement have not been revealed. Go Outdoors, ...
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Sporaltec, the sports innovation cluster in the Rhône-Alpes region of...
Sporaltec, the sports innovation cluster in the Rhône-Alpes region of France, is asking for financial aid from the government to finance a €400,000 program for the industrialization of two ranges of technical apparel and footwear outdoor products that would be manufactured in France and marketed in the summer of 2015. ...
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Bruno Alves, senior director of government and public affairs at...
Bruno Alves, senior director of government and public affairs at Nike Europe, has been unanimously elected as the new president of Fesi, the European sporting goods industry federation of which the European Outdoor Group is a member. He will succeed Frank Dassler, general counsel of Adidas, who is a candidate ...
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Alexey Grebtzov has been elected as the new chairman of...
Alexey Grebtzov has been elected as the new chairman of the Russian Outdoor Group, replacing Alexander Glushkovskiy. Grebtzov is the managing director of Start 1, a company that distributes the products of La Sportiva and Tatonka in Russia. It also has its own brand of outdoor products, Alexika, which produces ...
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Jennifer Mull has been elected as the new chair of...
Jennifer Mull has been elected as the new chair of the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) of the U.S., taking the place of Will Manzer, chief executive of Eastern Mountain Sports, following the end of his two-year term. Mull is chief executive and president of Backwoods Inc., a manufacturer and retailer ...
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At a party celebrating the 20th anniversary of the OutDoor...
At a party celebrating the 20th anniversary of the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen last month, John Jansen, managing director of Keen Europe and president of the European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA), publicly expressed a wish that the European Outdoor Group (EOG) should open itself up to outdoor retailers. He has been ...
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The Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) of the U.S. is urging...
The Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) of the U.S. is urging members of the U.S. House of Representatives to use “common sense” as they finalize the 2014 budget of the U.S. Department of the Interior. The budget proposal released by the House in March zeroes out funding for the Land and ...
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It seems that NKD's decision to drop Wild Roses, pushing...
It seems that NKD's decision to drop Wild Roses, pushing the Swiss women's apparel company into insolvency (Compass issue 6-10+11 of July 10), was largely due to its own financial problems. Reports from Germany indicate that a German court has launched an investigation into NKD' financial situation because of suspicions ...
