News Briefs – Page 162
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News briefsDeuter uses fabric scraps for new Infiniti line
Source: Deuter Infiniti Dirtbag To put unavoidable production waste to good use, German brand Deuter has launched a new line of stuff sacks, bags and backpacks made from fabric scraps from its regular collection of backpacks and sleeping bags. For this first limited Infiniti series, almost 24,000 ...
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News briefsClarus finalizes acquisition of Rhino-Rack
Clarus Corp., the Utah-based parent company of Black Diamond and Pieps, among others, has completed the acquisition of Australia-based Rhino-Rack Pty Ltd, which we previously reported. Rhino-Rack will continue to operate independently as a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Clarus and will form a third reporting segment. Clarus acquired Rhino-Rack ...
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News briefsEOCA names the conservation projects of its latest funding round
After receiving more than 250 grant applications in November 2020, an extensive evaluation process, a public and a members-only vote, the European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA) has named the first projects it will support in its latest fundraising round - more than €185,000 split among seven projects. Source: ...
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News briefsItalian bicycle brand Colnago taps former Selle Royal executive as CEO
Nicola Rosin In October 2020, industry veteran Nicola Rosin announced his departure from the Selle Royal Group. Since then, there have been rumors that he could become CEO of his home country’s legendary road bike brand, Colnago Ernesto & C. S.r.l., which was founded in 1954 in ...
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News briefsKarpos unveils its “Help the Mountains” project
Karpos has announced Help the Mountains, a new initiative based on the donation of 1 percent of the brand’s annual turnover to a series of activities to protect mountains and the environment. The project stems from the Italian company’s desire “to give a name and a home” to its long-standing ...
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News briefsSport not among top e-commerce performers in Spain
Sport does not figure among the chief product categories in Spanish e-commerce. So says the latest edition of an annual study put out by Elogia, a Spanish digital marketing agency, and IAB Spain, which claims to be the world’s largest association of communications, advertising and digital marketing agencies. Some 25.8 ...
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Hoka strengthens product team
Hoka One One has announced Evie Moe and Matt Rask as new senior members of its product team. Moe has been hired as the brand’s first senior director of apparel. Hoka’s apparel division was launched in March 2020, and it is growing rapidly. Most recently, Moe served as the vice-president ...
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News briefsAnta Sports appoints new executive team members
Anta Sports Products Ltd announced two executive changes. Bi Mingwei has been appointed as an executive director of the company, effective July 1. Mingwei is currently a vice president of Anta Sports and a director of certain subsidiaries within the group, primarily responsible for financial management, business processes, information management ...
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News briefsSalewa opens brand store in Munich
South Tyrolean brand Salewa opened a new 140-square-meter mono-brand store in downtown Munich on June 25. Munich is the birthplace of Salewa. On July 8, 1935, Josef Liebhart, then the director of the Munich Saddlers’ and Upholsterers’ Purchasing Cooperative, founded Salewa as a subsidiary for saddle and leather goods. The ...
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News briefsBystronic finalizes sale of Mammut
Bystronic, the Swiss holding company previously called Conzzeta Group, has announced the completion on June 30 of the sale of the Mammut Sports Group to Telemos Capital for an enterprise value of 230 million Swiss francs (€209.7m-$248.6m), including an earn-up of up to CHF 45 million (€41.0m-$48.6m). The figure is ...
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News briefsNew series shares best practices to eliminate child labor in supply chains
GoodWeave International, a nonprofit organization founded in 1994 by Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi and with offices in Washington DC and Oxfordshire, England, has released its “Best Practice Series to Eliminate Child Labor in Global Supply Chains” as a resource during this International Year for the Elimination of Child Labor. ...
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News briefsArtilect becomes future Nuyarn reference brand
The new Boulder, Colorado-based outdoor brand Artilect and New Zealand-based TMC Ltd, owner of the spinning technology Nuyarn, are starting a material and design collaboration for Artilect’s first range of technical apparel and accessories to debut this fall. Nuyarn forms the basis for the collection, consisting of base layers, mid-layers ...
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News briefsTimberland announces global product take-back program in partnership with ReCircled
Source: ReCircled Circular economy: the ideal world needs a different infrastructure Timberland is kicking off a product take-back concept. After launching in the U.S. in August 2021, the program will expand to EMEA this fall and to the APAC region in spring 2022. Developed in partnership with ...
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News briefsPatagonia signs multi-year agreement with Infinited Fiber
Patagonia and Infinited Fiber Company, a Finnish circular fashion and textile biotechnology company founded in 2016, have signed a multi-year distribution agreement for Infinited’s regenerated textile fiber called Infinna. The virgin-quality fiber comes with the soft and natural look and feel of cotton. It is made from cotton-rich textile waste ...
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News briefsEcco invests in advanced green technology
Danish footwear brand Ecco has acquired a 30 percent stake in Danish startup Bioscavenge, which specializes in water treatment technologies and the development and implementation of new methods for water treatment plants. Over the past two years, Ecco has already collaborated with Bioscavenge on a research and development project to ...
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News briefsSaucony unveils Run It Local campaign to support running retailers
Saucony is launching a new initiative, Run It Local, to support specialty running retailers. The €335k campaign will run from July to September with various activities across Saucony’s EMEA territories. Beginning with a drive to access runner-reach, a geo-targeted social media burst and digital ads will highlight the benefits of ...
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News briefsVF sells its Work segment, except Dickies and Timberland Pro
After announcing in April that it had reached a definitive agreement to sell this business unit, VF Corp. announced that it has completed the divestiture of the workwear portion of its Work segment to an affiliate of Baltimore-based Redwood Capital Investments, LLC, a diversified holding company. The transaction includes the ...
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News briefsSchöffel strengthens presence in digital and brick-and-mortar retail
In order to support its retail partners and strengthen its presence in the outdoor and bike sector both digitally and stationary, Schöffel is specifically expanding its sales and marketing teams. Carolin Schöttle joins the brand’s digital sales team with immediate effect. The new key account manager digital sales will support ...
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Lenzing receives two awards
Lenzing received an award in the business competition Austria’s Leading Companies, which is organized by PwC Austria, the daily newspaper Die Presse and KSV1870, a credit protection company and business platform. The award recognizes the country’s most successful companies. Lenzing won the first prize in the “Climate protection” category. In ...
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News briefsDecathlon France offers marking and engraving for bicycles to prevent theft
In France, legislation was recently passed that makes it mandatory to mark bicycles to protect them from theft. All new bicycles sold in the country since January 1, 2021, must bear an engraved “Bicycode” identification number and be registered in a national registry. This measure will also be extended to ...
