News Briefs – Page 134
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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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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 briefsBackcountry launches Shaun White's Whitespace brand
U.S. retailer Backcountry, parent company of German retail specialist Bergfreunde, has teamed up with pro snowboarder Shaun White for his new Whitespace brand of hardgoods and apparel. Backcountry will act as the exclusive retailer for Whitespace and is kicking off the partnership with a limited-edition Whitespace Freestyle Shaun White Pro ...
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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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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 briefsBode Miller becomes Scarpa brand ambassador
Scarpa announced that U.S. ski star Bode Miller is the new ambassador for the Italian footwear brand. Miller won four World Championship titles in four different disciplines (combined and GS 2003, super-G and downhill 2005) and six medals at the Winter Olympics – silver twice (GS and combined) in Salt ...
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News briefsTeijin launches new Future Navigation website
Japanese fiber and fabrics specialist Teijin has launched an interactive website named Future Navigation to interact with individuals and groups interested in discovering and discussing solutions that address social issues in the modern world. The project is connected to the 100th anniversary of the company in 2018 when the first ...
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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 briefsEurobike 2022 will be a showcase for future mobility
The concept expansion of Eurobike 2022, which will be held in Frankfurt for the first time, and the explicit integration of the topics of future mobility and urban mobility are bearing fruit: The organizers are already reporting a record number of registrations seven months before the show. In close cooperation ...
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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 briefsANWR Group’s exit from Bico has no impact on Swiss Bike Profi
The exit of ANWR Group as a minority shareholder from the German bicycle trade organization Bico Zweirad Marketing GmbH has no impact on the Swiss bicycle trade organization Bike Profi. Bike Profi operates under the umbrella of ANWR-Garant Swiss AG. ANWR-Garant Swiss AG has already been operating in the bicycle ...
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News briefsIcebug partners with POW
Swedish outdoor footwear manufacturer Icebug is the latest global partner of Protect Our Winters (POW). Icebug has a longstanding commitment to sustainability, whether it’s switching from petrochemical to algae foam, changing fabric dyeing processes, eliminating air freight or installing solar power in its supply chain factories. Icebug is also a ...
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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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News briefsSKS Germany with record sales in 2021
For German bicycle accessories manufacturer SKS Metaplast Scheffer-Klute GmbH (SKS Germany), 2021 was a special year: the company not only celebrated its 100th anniversary but also achieved record sales of around €87 million. In total, the company sold 1.2 million air pumps, 4.5 million permanently mounted and 2 million clip-on ...
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News briefsMerrell pulls out of OR Snow Show
Footwear News reported that Merrell has decided to withdraw its participation from the Outdoor Retailer Snow Show (Jan. 26-28, Colorado Convention Center, Denver) due to the recent Covid-19 surge in the U.S. The brand will donate the money saved by not participating – about $25,000 – to the Boulder County ...
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Oeko-Tex introduces impact calculator for textile companies
After about two years of development, Oeko-Tex has produced an “impact calculator” with which textile and leather companies can track their CO2 emissions and water use and share the data with customers, investors, business partners or others. The tool is available to customers of STeP by Oeko-Tex. Later this year, ...
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News briefsEcco releases 3D printed tooling for direct injection PU soles
After extensive research into 3D-printed footwear and 3D-printed footwear tooling, Danish footwear company Ecco has announced that after three years of development, it is now ready to offer 3D-printed tooling for product development and commercial samples for the broader footwear market. The company intends to offer four different options, ranging ...
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News briefsChange of leadership at Chris Sports
Christian Bättig, owner and founder of Chris Sports AG, a Swiss general importer for numerous outdoor and bike brands, has handed over the reins of management to the company’s previous chief financial officer, Andreas Guglielmo, effective Jan. 1. Guglielmo has been with Chris Sports for more than 12 years. Bättig ...
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News briefsMaloja founders to hand over to new management
According to German business newspaper Handelsblatt, the founders of German brand Maloja, Klaus Haas and Peter Räuber, are planning to resign from their current leadership positions to hand over to a new management team. Eighteen years after the brand was founded, Haas and Räuber want a younger generation to take ...
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News briefsSamsung and Patagonia team up to develop microplastic-retaining laundry machines
According to a press release from the consumer electronics company, Samsung is collaborating with Patagonia on a “feasible, effective and expandable way to combat the microplastics that result from textiles and laundry.” Samsung says it is developing an advanced new washing machine that will allow people to safely wash their ...
