News Briefs – Page 237
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New CEO for Rapala
(SGI) In the midst of reforms to turn around the business, Rapala VMC has appointed Nicolas Warchalowski as its new chief executive, effective March 1, 2020. He has had an extensive career in international consumer businesses, heading up companies such as BabyBjörn, Peak Performance and Haglöfs. Warchalowski is taking the ...
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Shimano buys Pioneer Sports Cycle assets
(SGI) Shimano is planning to develop new products, web services and applications using certain assets of Pioneer Sports Cycle that it has acquired from Pioneer Corporation, the U.S. company that developed the first pedaling monitor and cycling computers in 2013. Many of Pioneer’s current products have been designed to be ...
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Markus Bötsch will leave Jack Wolfskin
(SGI) On July 31, after almost 30 years, Markus Bötsch will leave Jack Wolfskin, the German outdoor brand acquired by Callaway Golf at the beginning of last year. Bötsch is currently a member of the management board, responsible for sales strategies. He started out as a sales assistant in 1991, ...
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Skateistan documentary wins Academy Award (Video)
(SGI+) The documentary ”Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl)” won an Oscar for the best documentary short subject at the 92nd annual Academy Awards. The film is about the first skate school in Kabul, Afghanistan, which the non-profit organization Skateistan opened in 2009. The story ...
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News briefsMusto signs long-term partnership with Land Rover
(SGI) Musto, the British brand of nautical and outdoor apparel, announced a five-year worldwide licensing deal with Land Rover at this year’s Ispo Munich, extending a previous deal that produced Above and Beyond, a 24-piece apparel collection launched with the new Land Rover Defender at the Frankfurt Motor Show in ...
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Mixed results for Thule
(SGI) The phasing-out of low-margin contracts with OEMs in the U.S. had a negative impact on Thule’s sales of SEK 11 million Swedish kronor (€1.0m-$1.1m) for the fourth quarter and accounted for half of the negative trend in the region. The Swedish company is known for its roof racks, roof ...
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Boa introduces new platform
With the introduction of the H4 platform, Boa Technology, inventor of the Boa Fit System, introduced an extremely robust dial lock platform for snowboard boots at Ispo Munich. The interior of the H4 consists of a revised modular assembly and a newly designed bayonet for extra durability. The release mechanism ...
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Darn Tough returns to Ispo Munich
The American sock manufacturer Darn Tough returned to Ispo Munich for the second time this year seeking, in the words of its owner, Ric Cabot, to conquer the European market “one sock at a time.” Cabot is a third-generation hosiery manufacturer and founded Darn Tough with his father in 2003, ...
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The Calida Group continues to slim down the Lafuma Group
The Calida Group continues to slim down the Lafuma Group, focusing it on the Lafuma and Millet brands. It reports that Rainbow, a company founded by Emmanuel Debruères and Jean-Christophe Chetail, has offered to acquire Oxbow from Lafuma, adding that Debruères and Chetail seek to raise Oxbow toa new stage ...
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Montura makes North American debut
Montura, the Italian outdoor apparel brand, will make its debut in the North American market via the Outdoor Retailer trade show in Denver, on June 23-25. Montura will be introduced in the U.S. and Canada by M.T. Imports. The initial focus will be on the outdoor winter snowsports line for ...
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Burton opens new store in Verbier
Burton is opening a new 218-square-meter store in Verbier, Switzerland, which will combine retail space with a showroom for Western Switzerland, a booking desk for the local Independent Snowboard School and a test-ride center. This is the first time the company will be directly operating a shop at a resort ...
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Bergans fights for the seasons (Video)
Bergans of Norway and WWF Norway delivered a letter to the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment in mid-January asking the Minister to help get the seasons – the actual seasons of the year – onto the UNESCO World Heritage List. The initiative originated with Bergans, which has entered into ...
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News briefsOutDry’s inventors present new membrane
Columbia Sportswear acquired OutDry Technologies 10 years ago and decided at the time to restrict the membrane to products under its own brands, such as Columbia and Mountain Hardwear. This compelled OutDry’s more than 50 external customers to look for alternatives. OutDry’s inventor, Matteo Morlacchi, and his brother Luca, who ...
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Mammut partners with Powdr
Mammut is entering a long-term partnership with Powdr, an American ski resort operator. The partnership makes the Swiss sports brand the official uniform and clothing supplier for more than 8,000 mountain professionals working at 10 of the Powdr mountain resorts in the U.S. The partnership starts with the 2020/21 winter ...
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Ispo Munich 2020 in numbers
Messe München reports that about 80,000 people from 120 countries passed through the turnstiles on a daily basis at the latest edition of the Ispo Munich trade show. This figure is down from 80,200 a year ago. The number of visitors from Germany was down to 30 percent from 31 ...
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Tim Boyle named chairman of Columbia
At its meeting of Jan. 24, the board of directors of Columbia Sportswear appointed as its chairman the company’s long-standing president and chief executive, Tim Boyle, who is now 70 years old. He takes the place on the board that was previously occupied by his “tough mother,” Gert Boyle, who ...
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Spanish association Afydad holds summit at Ispo
The Spanish sporting goods industry association, Afydad, held a ”summit” on Jan. 28 in Munich during Ispo Munich, where it drew high-level representatives from six Spanish sporting goods retail groups, with some 1,200 points of sale between them.
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News briefsPorsche Design Elan Amphibio receives German Design Award
The “Porsche Design Elan Amphibio” ski model received the coveted German Design Award on Feb. 7 in the Forum at Messe Frankfurt. Marc Hasenstein, managing director of Elan Central Europe, accepted the prize in the Excellent Product Design category. Elan is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. Together with Elan ...
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New round of financing for France’s Snowleader
(SGI) Snowleader, the leading French online retailer of winter sports and outdoor products, says it has collected €10 million in new financing from three institutional investors, including a fund owned by the BNP Paribas bank, to help pursue its international omni-channel strategy. The company’s revenues have grown by 38 percent ...
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The U.S. and China have signed the “phase one” trade deal
The U.S. and China have signed the “phase one” trade deal that was confirmed in December (see SGI Europe – Vol. 30 n°43, 44 Dec. 24, 2019) after a year and a half of back-and-forth tariff impositions. The deal covers intellectual-property rights, which China has been known to circumvent in ...
