News Briefs – Page 242
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Snowleader, the French online retailer for ski and outdoor products,...
Snowleader, the French online retailer for ski and outdoor products, is expanding into the Italian market, with a dedicated web store in the Italian language offering more than 18,000 products, including local brands like Montura. It's the eighth market for the Annecy-based company, after France, the U.K., Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, ...
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The North Face will open the first mono-brand store in...
The North Face will open the first mono-brand store in Russia in cooperation with a local retail partner, Inventive Retail Group, occupying 160 square meters in the Galereya Mall in St. Petersburg next March, the company told the local press. The group plans to open a total of 10 TNF ...
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This month, Norrøna opened a flagship in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood...
This month, Norrøna opened a flagship in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood on Greene Street. This is the Norwegian outdoor brand's 24th brand retail store globally and the second one in the U.S. after the concept store in Boulder, Colorado – itself near the American subsidiary Norrøna established last year. Stacy Lockhart, ...
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Fusalp is opening a new shop in Paris, not far...
Fusalp is opening a new shop in Paris, not far from the Eiffel Tower. The new shop follows another Parisian store on boulevard Beaumarchais, between Bastille and République, opened in mid-October. Fusalp posted revenues of €16.6 million for the financial year ended on May 31, representing a 49 percent increase, ...
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Black Diamond Equipment has opened its first European flagship store...
Black Diamond Equipment has opened its first European flagship store in Innsbruck, Austria. The downtown store offers all of the brand's product categories as well as events and workshops. It also serves as a platform for end consumers to test or borrow selected equipment. The positioning in Innsbruck, where Black ...
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Anta Sports Products, the Chinese sports brand, is confident in...
Anta Sports Products, the Chinese sports brand, is confident in its growth trajectory, to judge by its latest 2019 projections. According to a letter sent by the company to its shareholders, its financial data through November is indicative of a jump in net income of at least 45 percent by ...
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Production delays pushed deliveries of GoPro's new Hero8 cameras into...
Production delays pushed deliveries of GoPro's new Hero8 cameras into the fourth quarter, leading the company to record weak results for the third quarter, but the drop was lower than what GoPro and the financial community had predicted. Revenues tumbled by 54.1 percent to $131.2 million, while the gross margin ...
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Johnson Outdoors returned to profit in its fourth fiscal quarter,...
Johnson Outdoors returned to profit in its fourth fiscal quarter, ended on Sept. 27. The group's net income reached $3.9 million, against a net loss of $4.9 million for the corresponding period in 2018. The management said this was largely due to increased sales and the timing of tariff exclusions ...
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American Outdoor Brands, which is aiming to separate its outdoor...
American Outdoor Brands, which is aiming to separate its outdoor and firearms businesses in the second half of 2020, reported a 15 percent drop to $47.8 million in the revenues of its Outdoor segment in the company's second quarter ended Oct. 31, due to lower sales of shooting and hunting ...
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A Pinterest 100 report has revealed that customers will emphasize...
A Pinterest 100 report has revealed that customers will emphasize environmentally friendly products and ’90s designs in 2020. The report compared search queries on its platform from August 2017 to July 2018 with queries from August 2018 to July 2019 and from the data predicts the 100 trends that should ...
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The fight against counterfeit products and the creation of an...
The fight against counterfeit products and the creation of an adequate framework for the digital transformation in Europe will be among the main priorities for the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi) following the appointment of a new president, Neil Narriman, during the organization's annual general assembly in ...
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Swiss import duties on various consumer goods could be abolished...
Swiss import duties on various consumer goods could be abolished in the future. If Parliament gives its approval, the plan will come into force in 2022. The abolition of tariffs on a number of industrial products, including bicycles, clothing and health products as well as some raw materials and semi-finished ...
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Helly Hansen will be launching a new fabric technology called...
Helly Hansen will be launching a new fabric technology called Lifa Infinity Pro at Ispo Munich. According to the brand, the technology sets a new standard for responsible waterproof-breathable apparel. Lifa Infinity Pro has a three-layer fabric construction and uses Helly Hansen's proprietary Lifa technology, which the brand has continued ...
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The Fastening Products division of YKK – a network of...
The Fastening Products division of YKK – a network of 108 companies in 72 countries – has established a partnership with Browzwear, which produces a software suite for 3D apparel design and display. Parts of YKK’s catalog of zippers, hook-and-loop fasteners, webbing tapes, snaps and buttons will be available for ...
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Polartec has received an R&D 100 Award 2019 for its...
Polartec has received an R&D 100 Award 2019 for its Polartec Power Air fabric technology. The annual R&D 100 Awards, organized by American magazine R&D World, have served as the most prestigious innovation awards program since 1963 and are presented in recognition of exceptional new products or processes developed and ...
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News briefsIndustrial Summit Technology (I.S.T) to launch new high-tech fiber at Ispo Munich
Industrial Summit Technology (I.S.T), a Japanese materials company, will launch a new high-tech fiber at the next edition of Ispo Munich in January. The new Imidetex material is based on Polyimide, a high-performance polymer widely used in the aerospace industry, and boasts a tensile strength equivalent to Kevlar. According to ...
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Lowa is the sponsor and official footwear supplier for volunteers...
Lowa is the sponsor and official footwear supplier for volunteers helping to organize the Biathlon World Championship, which will be held in Rasen-Antholz, in Italy's South Tyrol, on Feb. 12-23, 2020. The footwear model that the volunteers will be wearing is called Antholz GTX MID, named after the municipality that ...
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UYN, the new Italian brand of functional knitwear, has announced...
UYN, the new Italian brand of functional knitwear, has announced its sponsorship of Didier Cuche. The Swiss ski champion will wear its underwear and socks and lend his face for products sold in Switzerland and their packaging. The brand, which is owned by a former licensee of X-Bionic, is already ...
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Ziener will be for the first time the official clothing...
Ziener will be for the first time the official clothing partner of the Nordic World Ski Championships. They will be staged by the International Ski Federation (FIS) in Oberstdorf from Feb. 23 to March 7, 2021. Under the deal, which was brokered by Infront, the German brand will dress more ...
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Adidas Terrex UK will be the official apparel sponsor of...
Adidas Terrex UK will be the official apparel sponsor of the Threshold Trail Series in 2020, a series of four endurance trail events in the U.K. The four events include: the Heineken Race to the Castle (June 6-7), the latest addition to the Threshold Trail Series portfolio, finishing at Bamburgh ...
