News Briefs – Page 199
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Major burglary at Specialized headquarters
The headquarters of Specialized Bicycle Components in Morgan Hill, California, was hit by a daytime break-in and robbery on Sunday, Dec. 13. According to reports in The Mercury News, the thieves stole 18 high-value bicycles worth more than $160,000 in total. Police officers were called at about 4:35 pm by ...
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Yuba appoints Pat Cunnane as president and global COO
Yuba Bicycles, headquartered in Cotati, California, has named Pat Cunnane as president of North American operations and chief operating officer of the company’s global business. Both positions are new for the company. Cunnane has been working in the bicycle industry for decades in executive positions. He has served for nearly ...
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News briefsFjällräven announces recipients of 2020 Arctic Fox funds
With the Arctic Fox Initiative, Fjällräven annually awards funds to several non-profit organizations and projects that aim to preserve nature or wildlife and are either associated with taking climate action or encouraging more people to go outdoors and appreciate nature. Fjällräven believes that great ideas need collective support to be ...
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News briefsPomoca is the first manufacturer of touring skins to eliminate all PFCs
Starting this season, Pomoca, the Swiss touring skin manufacturer that is part of the South Tyrolean Oberalp Group, reduces its ecological footprint and offers full transparency of its production chain. The brand has completely eliminated environmentally harmful perfluorinated and polyfluorinated chemicals, known as PFCs, from its entire range of skins. ...
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News briefsRussia's Wildberries now selling in Israel
Russia’s biggest online retailer, Wildberries, has stepped up its international expansion by entering the Israeli market, the company said in a statement. The company will be offering buyers in Israel up to 5 million items from 39,000 brands, including sports products, clothing, toys and household appliances. Purchased items are to ...
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News briefsFourth U.S. search and rescue organization acquires RECCO helicopter detector
Teton County Search and Rescue (TCSAR), located in Jackson, Wyoming, is the fourth search and rescue organization to be operational in the U.S. with the RECCO SAR helicopter detector. The detector will be used to search for missing people in the outdoors year-round, the non-profit organization said. The ski patrols ...
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News briefsOn opens tech-driven global flagship store in New York
Source: On Running On Running NYC flagship store On Running has opened its first global flagship store. Located in New York City’s NoHo, the store is designed to become, in time, a “seasonal hub” for runners and athletes. For now, it is serving digitalized personalization. “Hidden gait-cycle ...
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Burton pilots sales incentive program in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
According to Boardsport Source, Burton has initiated in certain European countries a pilot version of the “Sales Incentive Program” it has set up in the U.S. Employees at its wholesale partners in Germany, Austria and Switzerland are receiving a commission, or “cash bonus,” on the sale of Burton x BOA ...
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Picture opens three new stores in France
Picture Organic Clothing, the French brand of sustainable outdoor clothing, opened three new franchised stores in France earlier this month. The stores are located in Saint-Etienne (east-central France), Montpellier (southern France) and La Rochelle (southwestern France). In an interview with Sport-Guide.com, Florian Delobre, Picture’s retail manager, explained that the brand ...
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Accell names Epco Vlugt director for Benelux and Denmark
Accell Group has appointed Epco Vlugt as the new regional director of Accell Benelux and Denmark, effective Feb. 1, 2021. He will take over from Sten van der Ham, who is leaving the organization. Vlugt is the current managing director of Vélosophy, part of the Accell Group.
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Line and Full Tilt hire new brand director
Line Skis and Full Tilt Boots, both subdivisions of K2 Sports under its parent business, Kohlberg & Company, have hired Steven Hartl as global brand director. Hartl has worked in the outdoor industry for nearly 14 years with companies including Summit at Snoqualmie, Sturtevant’s, POW Inc. and Outdoor Research, most ...
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A new U.K. alliance for sustainable transport
Nine groups have joined forces in the U.K. to launch the Sustainable Transport Alliance, a new partnership that will work to promote sustainable mobility. The Sustainable Transport Alliance has been established by: Bus Users UK; the Campaign for Better Transport; Collaborative Mobility UK (CoMoUK); the Community Rail Network; the Community ...
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Climbing brand Gramicci appoints distributor for U.K. and EU
Gramicci, a Californian climbing brand founded in 1982 by climber Mike Graham, is partnering with Wisdom and Effort (W&E) for sales, marketing and e-commerce of its products in the U.K. and the European Union. Fred Royle, the co-founder of W&E Distribution, said: “Our aim is to focus on what we ...
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News briefsMoncler opens its biggest store in Paris and gets robbed in another one
A band of a dozen individuals entered the Moncler boutique on boulevard Saint-Germain, in the elegant and trendy 6th district of Paris, on Friday, Dec. 11, and stole as many jackets of the brand as they could grab in a matter of seconds. The hooded individuals required the security guard ...
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Pro Feet Functional Wear reorganizes its management
German company Pro Feet Functional Wear GmbH, responsible among other things for the H.A.D. headwear and multifunctional scarf brand, has appointed Sebastian Reuthal as its new managing director. He takes over from Alexander Klinger, who had assumed operational management of the sales, marketing and logistics divisions as CEO in 2014. ...
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Carhartt launches updated Yukon Extremes workwear range with Cordura
U.S. brand Carhartt has unveiled its updated Yukon Extremes collection. According to the label, the new edition of the workwear collection first introduced over 25 years ago is the brand’s warmest, most durable gear to date, but without any added weight compared to previous collections. It’s also the first time ...
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The North Face rejects Christmas gift order from Texas oil and gas firm
The North Face (TNF) allegedly refused to take an order for about 400 jackets from Innovex Downhole Solutions, an oilfield services group based in Houston, Texas. According to reports by WTVM, Innovex intended to offer North Face jackets, customized with the Innovex logo, to its employees as Christmas gifts, but ...
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New North American business unit director for Tecnica Footwear
Tecnica Group has appointed Rob Phillips as North American business unit director for Tecnica Footwear, a newly created role. Responsible for overseeing commercial operations, product and marketing, Phillips comes to Tecnica with over 14 years of diverse sales and management experience, including seven years with 5.11, where he helped lead ...
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Spyder adds footwear to its offerings
The lifestyle, ski and outdoor brand Spyder has partnered with Footwear Unlimited, a U.S. full-service company that designs, manufactures and distributes footwear. With the launch of its own shoes, Spyder is rounding out its head-to-toe offerings for men and women. According to the brand the new collection fuses elements of ...
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Amplid goes CO2-neutral
German snowboard brand Amplid, currently best known for its lightweight splitboards for backcountry access, has signed an agreement with the Plant-for-the-Planet Foundation to calculate its current CO2 emissions. Through this cooperation, the snowboard brand supports the foundation in planting trees on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, which bind CO2. The ...
