News Briefs – Page 249
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Buff, the head- and neckwear brand based in Catalonia, is...
Buff, the head- and neckwear brand based in Catalonia, is releasing an interesting new Mountain Collection of tubulars for autumn/winter 2019/20. The designs feature iconic peaks throughout the world such as Montblanc, the Matterhorn, the Jungfraujoch, the Dolomites, the Zugspitze, the Grossglockner and Mount Elbrus in Europe; Mount Whitney, Grand ...
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Polygiene, the Swedish developer and supplier of Stays Fresh and...
Polygiene, the Swedish developer and supplier of Stays Fresh and Odor Crunch technology, has announced new agreements with Vtinon, a Korean producer of socks, and with Osklen, a sustainable Brazilian sportswear brand owned by the Alpargatas group. It has previously announced Tommy Sport as a client. The Swedish company's financial ...
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Eastpak has joined forces with Neighborhood, the Japanese streetwear label,...
Eastpak has joined forces with Neighborhood, the Japanese streetwear label, founded by Shinsuke Takizawa in 1994, on a range of padded bags. The collaboration has resulted in four items made of nylon and satin, inspired by Neighborhood's military/biker streetwear style. Each item features co-branded graphics as well as Neighborhood's slogan, ...
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Canada Goose is launching Branta, a new capsule collection for...
Canada Goose is launching Branta, a new capsule collection for autumn/winter 2019, comprised of six limited-edition parkas for men and women that are based on the artwork of Diane Burko. This season's theme is Glacial Shifts, inspired by Burko's work, who used art to document the disappearance of glaciers through ...
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Runners took part in the Inov-8 Descent Race on Austria's...
Runners took part in the Inov-8 Descent Race on Austria's Hanekamm mountain earlier this month. The annual event, organized by a local outdoor retailer, Georg Uberall, took place in the rain and turned Kitzbuehel's Steif slope into mud. The hill has an 80 percent gradient and is considered one of ...
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Ferrino has unveiled the Happiness project. The brand will be...
Ferrino has unveiled the Happiness project. The brand will be supporting Giuseppe Bertuccio D'Angelo's world tour to discover the secret of happiness. D'Angelo, 29, from Milan, will go to all six continents to interview as many people as he can about the concept. Each interview will ask 10 questions on ...
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Ferrino has announced that Krzysztof Wielicki, the Polish mountaineer who...
Ferrino has announced that Krzysztof Wielicki, the Polish mountaineer who collaborates with the brand, has won a Piolet d'Or for 2019, equivalent to an Oscar for mountaineers, as the company called it. Wielicki has been one of the first to complete all the 14 eight-thousand climbs, and the first to ...
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The very active Outdoor Industries Association (OIA) of the U.K....
The very active Outdoor Industries Association (OIA) of the U.K. is organizing a conference on counterfeiting in London on Oct. 24, starting at 12:30 and finishing at 15:30. Presentations will be made by one of the association's members, SnapDragon Monitoring, and a law firm specializing in intellectual property protection, UDL. ...
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Patagonia opened a pop-up café at the Broadway Market, in...
Patagonia opened a pop-up café at the Broadway Market, in the Hackney area of central London, on Sept. 27 that has been hosting training courses for activism on the issue of climate change. Running until Oct. 17, the company's so-called Patagonia Action Works Café offered visitors a chance to “learn ...
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For this year's “Socktober” campaign, Smartwool has established a partnership...
For this year's “Socktober” campaign, Smartwool has established a partnership with Friends of the Lake District for its “Fell Care Days” campaign. “Fell” refers to the moors of the U.K.'s Lake District, a World Heritage Site, and “Fell Care Days” is an annual event there in which volunteers pick up ...
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Ispo has launched the 2020 edition of the Ispo Award,...
Ispo has launched the 2020 edition of the Ispo Award, which honors outstanding products and services in the sports industry. Companies can submit their new products for consideration until Dec. 3, 2019, benefiting from early-bird rates if they submit their products by Nov. 6, 2019. The international jury of experts ...
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Blacks, the British outdoor retailer owned by JD Sports Fashion,...
Blacks, the British outdoor retailer owned by JD Sports Fashion, is offering a discount of 15 percent on all in-store purchases to customers who drop off clothing or footwear for donation to The British Heart Foundation. Donations collected at Blacks' stores will be distributed to the foundation's 750 stores in ...
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In the interests of sustainable development, Chiruca, the Spanish outdoor...
In the interests of sustainable development, Chiruca, the Spanish outdoor footwear brand owned by Calzados Fal, has made some changes to the manufacturing and packaging of its boots. First, it has replaced its old alcohol-based treatment for water and oil repellence with a new water-based treatment that contains nanoparticles. These ...
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Clean Kanteen has committed to reducing its company-wide carbon emissions...
Clean Kanteen has committed to reducing its company-wide carbon emissions by joining Climate Neutral's certification program. The independent certification program will verify that the producer of stainless-steel bottles has achieved net-zero carbon emissions with a combination of reductions and offsets. In mid-2020, the bottle maker may begin featuring the Climate ...
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Craghoppers has added a “Best Social Impact” category to its...
Craghoppers has added a “Best Social Impact” category to its Craghoppers Film Prize, conferred annually in London at the Discover Film Awards on a short film that grapples with ethics, environmental protection or societal problems. The British outdoor apparel brand is also supporting the recent release of the Discover Film ...
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Ternua, one of the founding members of the It's Great...
Ternua, one of the founding members of the It's Great Out There Coalition, organized an event last month where it arranged for a group of ten young people on the margins of the education system to participate in a three-day program of kayaking, canyoning, cycling, via ferrata and sleeping under ...
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Equip Outdoor Technologies, the group behind Lowe Alpine and Rab,...
Equip Outdoor Technologies, the group behind Lowe Alpine and Rab, has a new two-year partnership with a British outdoor educational charity, The Outward Bound Trust. The group and the charity will each help 24 young people to attend a five-day residential course in the Lake District National Park, combining learning ...
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Keen Footwear is collaborating with Sherpa Adventure Gear on the...
Keen Footwear is collaborating with Sherpa Adventure Gear on the Innate LTD project. For every pair of Innate x Sherpa Adventure Gear shoes sold, Keen will donate €15 to Room to Read, a charity focused on literacy and school gender equality in third-world countries. In this case, the funds will ...
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This month, in keeping with its pledge in 2018 to...
This month, in keeping with its pledge in 2018 to phase out single-use, non-biodegradable plastics, Finisterre established a partnership with another British company, Aquapak, which manufactures water-soluble, recyclable, compostable and biodegradable polymers. Over the past 10 months, they have developed a dissolvable packaging that breaks down into non-toxic biomass in ...
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Fjällräven is one of the latest brands to have signed...
Fjällräven is one of the latest brands to have signed the United Nations (UN) Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action, an initiative under the auspices of U.N. Climate Change that brings fashion stakeholders toward the goals of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement. The Swedish outdoor brand said in a ...
