News Briefs – Page 212
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Save the Duck opens second store in Milan
Known for outerwear made exclusively with animal-free and “cruelty-free” materials, Save the Duck was, in June of last year, the first Italian fashion company to receive B Corp certification for the sustainability of its products and processes. In contrast with Moncler or Canada Goose, it produces its stylish jackets and ...
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News briefsLenzing helps found sustainable-carbon initiative
Lenzing has just helped found the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI), which hopes by 2050 to replace fossil carbon with renewable carbon – from biomass, CO2, recycled materials and other sources. Overall the RCI will be creating cross-industry platforms to demonstrate the feasibility of renewable carbon, lobbying for changes to legislation, ...
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News briefsNew Wave GmbH reorganizes management
Andre Bachmann, managing director of the German company New Wave GmbH, which is best known for the distribution of the Swedish brand Craft, has granted general procuration to his long-time employees Henriette Pfeiffer and Felix Lechner. Pfeiffer, New Wave’s chief financial officer, has been with New Wave for 14 years. ...
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Bever’s new CEO comes from Nike
According to several media reports, Albert Scholte will be the new chief executive of the Dutch outdoor retail chain Bever as of Oct. 1. Scholte previously spent 13 years at Nike, where he was most recently responsible for the brand’s European business at Foot Locker. He is the successor of ...
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Changes in the team at Chris sports
Chris sports, a Swiss distributor for numerous sports, bike and outdoor brands such as Giro, Kari Traa, Keen, Elevenate, Evoc and Mountain Hardwear, is reorganizing the business unit hardgoods/bike in the same way as its softgoods/shoes department – with only one sales manager – due to the departure of Hubert ...
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Stefan Herzog appointed president of German VDS
Stefan Herzog, who has been secretary general of the German sporting goods retailers’ federation (VDS) since 2018 and president since last spring of Fedas, the European umbrella organization of the specialist sports retail trade, has moved to the top of the German association. He was appointed as VDS’ new president ...
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Oeko-Tex to certify products for Amazon
Oeko-Tex, an international association of 18 independent research and testing institutes that set safety standards for textiles and leather, will be certifying the environmental bona fides of products on Amazon’s behalf. The huge American e-tailer relies on the certification of many such labs to bestow its Climate Pledge Friendly label ...
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New Schöffel-Lowa store in Düsseldorf with focus on sustainability
The Schöffel-Lowa store in Düsseldorf, Germany, is moving. The new store is located in Blumenstraße – at the back of the well-known Schadow-Arcades shopping center. According to Schöffel-Lowa-Sportartikel, the joint venture of the two independently operating outdoor specialists Schöffel and Lowa, who each have a 50 percent share in the ...
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Dewerstone founder wins entrepreneurship award
Rory Atton, founder of the Dewerstone brand of outdoor apparel and sunglasses, has won an Entrepreneur for Good Award for the southwestern U.K. in the eighth edition of the Great British Entrepreneur Awards. Like the winners in the other categories, Atton received his award in a virtual ceremony – made ...
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Preventive inspection call for Skylotec’s SAM 2.0 climbing harness
The German climbing material specialist Skylotec has discovered a missing structural seam on a Skylotec SAM 2.0 harness during a routine inspection. After a thorough inspection of all harness inventories, no other harnesses with this defect pattern could be identified, but the manufacturer has published a precautionary inspection notice. Since ...
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Dynafit strengthens its sales team
Mountain sports specialist Dynafit has strengthened its team. The newly created position of strategic account specialist was filled by Herbert Steinmaßl, who has already worked for Dynafit for more than five years and was most recently brand representative responsible for Bavaria. His previous job has been taken over by Lisa ...
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Calida plans complete takeover of Lafuma SA
The Swiss Calida Holding has announced its intention to launch a buy-out tender offer followed by a squeeze-out for all outstanding shares of its subsidiary Lafuma SA, which is listed on Euronext in Paris/France. Calida currently holds 93.50 percent of the share capital and voting rights of Lafuma SA. The ...
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Early launch of Swix’s next-gen fluoro-free race wax
The Norwegian company Swix, a subsidiary of Brav, has launched its latest gliding wax collection, Swix Pro, which will be available in stores this fall and comprises three lines called Performance Speed, High Speed and Top Speed, with both solid and liquid waxes available. The new line has been in ...
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Clarus raises $11.5m from three top investors to bolster financial strength
Utah-based Clarus Corporation, parent company of Black Diamond, Pieps, Sierra Bullets and Skinourishment, entered into an agreement with three of its top 10 investors - Brown Advisory, Greenhouse Funds and TT Investimentos - to sell 900,000 registered shares of the company to support future growth. The sale will be priced ...
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Beneben appointed president of Bollé’s sport & luxury division
After leaving the position of vice president of the Rossignol Group for Europe, Asia and the Southern Hemisphere earlier this year, François Beneben has now joined Bollé Brands as president of their sport and luxury division, covering the group’s brands of sunglasses and goggles: Bollé, Spy, Cébé, H2Optik and Serengeti. ...
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Scarpa switches from a distributor to an agent in Spain
Scarpa has informed Spanish retailers that it has started working with an agency, Panasport ETD, to cover the entire Iberian market, putting an end to a wholesale distribution contract for Spain with Iberovegas after Dec. 31. Panasport, which is also an agent for Patagonia, has already started collecting orders for ...
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Unify distributes Nixon in the U.K.
Nixon, the California brand of lifestyle watches and other accessories, has announced a distribution contract for the U.K. with Unify Brand Partnerships, effective immediately. The partnership covers Nixon’s full range of products, including its new line of backpacks, convertible duffels, totes and other carry products made with Reprieve Our Ocean ...
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Gucci is partnering with The North Face
Gucci has revealed that it is partnering with The North Face for an unspecified collaboration in the coming months “that celebrates the rich heritage of both brands.” For the big Italian luxury brand, it is the first collaboration of this kind since Alessandro Michele became its creative director five years ...
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Canada Goose gets positive rating by Moody’s
Rating its debt for the first time, Moody’s gave Canada Goose a B1 corporate family rating and a B2 rating to a proposed senior secured loan of 402 million Canadian dollars (€258m-$300m) due in 2027, nearly half of which would be used to add cash to its balance sheet and ...
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OTS is moving to Liverpool
The Outdoor Trade Show (OTS) is moving from the venue it occupied for the past two editions, EventCity in the English city of Manchester, to the Exhibition Centre Liverpool. The next edition is scheduled for June 29 to July 1, 2021, the week after OutDoor by Ispo (June 20-23, 2021). ...
