News Briefs – Page 266
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Somos Numa has announced a project that will see the...
Somos Numa has announced a project that will see the Brazilian company sell shoes to help street dogs. The Brazilian athletic shoe brand said that it intends to donate the money from the sale of 160 pairs of its recycled cotton, recycled PET and recovered rubber tennis shoes to Patas ...
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Toray, the Japanese textile company, has inaugurated an advanced weather...
Toray, the Japanese textile company, has inaugurated an advanced weather simulator at its Fibers & Textiles Research Laboratories in the city of Seta. To test the comfort of garments, the Technorama GIII – as the facility is called – uses “sensitivity engineering” to go beyond heat, cold and humidity and ...
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The UTMB family will be enriched with a new trail...
The UTMB family will be enriched with a new trail running event that will take place in Val d'Aran, in the Spanish Pyrenees, as from next year. The Val d'Aran by UTMB will operate as a partnership between UTMB International and InAran Sports, with the collaboration of Conselh Generau d'Aran. The ...
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Vibram is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Vibram Technological...
Vibram is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Vibram Technological Center (VTC) in Guangzhou, China. The facility is an innovation hub where the Italian brand studies innovative compounds and technologies and creates prototypes of new products prior to launching them on the market. The VTC staff operates in close synergy ...
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The takeover of Amer Sports by the Mascot Bidco consortium...
The takeover of Amer Sports by the Mascot Bidco consortium headed up by Anta Sports Products is making progress. Mascot Bidco has struck a seven-year inter-company financing agreement for €1,236 million involving a term loan of about €921 million for the refinancing of existing debts and a revolving credit facility ...
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Garmin has completed the acquisition of Tacx Onroerend en Roerend...
Garmin has completed the acquisition of Tacx Onroerend en Roerend Goed. The Dutch company develops and makes indoor bike training software and applications as well as indoor bike trainers, tools and accessories.
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Scarpa North America has hired Matt Ginley and Danny Ciavarro...
Scarpa North America has hired Matt Ginley and Danny Ciavarro for its sales team. Ginley joins as the new North American sales manager. He previously worked as an account manager at Rock and Ice Magazine. Before then, he worked as a sales rep for brands in the outdoor and climbing ...
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Mountainsmith, the American brand of outdoor gear, has hired Josh...
Mountainsmith, the American brand of outdoor gear, has hired Josh Kerns as national sales manager and Jeff Popp as product line manager. Kerns will be heading up the outdoor brand's independent sales representatives in North America and oversee sales strategy. He serves in the Army National Guard and he previously ...
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VF Corp. is moving Jeremie Blondel from Vans to The...
VF Corp. is moving Jeremie Blondel from Vans to The North Face. Filling a newly created role, he will serve as vice president of sales for TNF in Europe, the Middle East and Africa with responsibility for the entire wholesale business in the region. Blondel will work under Jan van ...
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Big Agnes has made several executive hires. Robert Fry has...
Big Agnes has made several executive hires. Robert Fry has taken the new post of director of product and will be leading the development and sourcing teams. Fry formerly held senior posts in product design and merchandising at Black Diamond Equipment, Mountain Hardware, The North Face and Simms Fishing Products. ...
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Tretorn is developing its online business with the aim of...
Tretorn is developing its online business with the aim of boosting the proportion of online transactions with consumers and through retailers and internet marketplaces. The long-term goal is for online sales to account for 40 percent of total sales. To achieve it, a new team of three employees has been ...
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Craghoppers, the British travel clothing specialist, is strengthening its German...
Craghoppers, the British travel clothing specialist, is strengthening its German sales team by hiring Christoph Schröder. The 30-year-old was most recently sales manager for Northern Germany at Kübler Sport. Also, Karolin Krohn will strengthen the marketing team at Craghoppers’ European headquarters in Hamburg under the leadership of Oliver Robens. The ...
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Klättermusen, the Swedish producer of robust and sustainable mountaineering equipment,...
Klättermusen, the Swedish producer of robust and sustainable mountaineering equipment, announced the strengthening of its global operations with the opening of a German office and the appointment of Patrick Kaulen as head of sales for the DACH region, covering Germany as well as Austria and Switzerland. With more than ten ...
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The Fenix Outdoor Group has gone one step further in...
The Fenix Outdoor Group has gone one step further in its internationalization process by acquiring a 70 percent controlling stake in its Taiwanese distributor through an equity increase. The distributor, called Outdoor Gear Co., mainly sells the group's Fjällräven brand in the market.
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X-Bionic has signed a landmark deal in China, naming Beijing...
X-Bionic has signed a landmark deal in China, naming Beijing Sanfo Outdoor Products as its exclusive strategic partner for the launch of a new X-Bionic 4.0 collection in the country's market. The two partners have also agreed to set up their own research and development center, the Nature Mimicry Research ...
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Odex, the European distributor of Aclima headquartered in Denmark, has...
Odex, the European distributor of Aclima headquartered in Denmark, has hired an industry expert, Günter Almberger, for the distribution of this Norwegian brand of wool clothing in Austria. Almberger, an Austrian native living in Southern Germany, is an industry veteran who has worked for Skylotec, Gecko Bergsport, Sport Scheck and ...
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Millets is pursuing its expansion in the U.K. with the...
Millets is pursuing its expansion in the U.K. with the opening of a new store in North London, on Barnet's main High Street, on May 4. The 170-square-meter shop will be located in a unit formerly used by The Living Style Furniture Company. The shop will feature a boot fitting ...
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La Sportiva is opening two new monobrand stores in Trento...
La Sportiva is opening two new monobrand stores in Trento and Pozza di Fassa, in Italy's region of Trentino. The openings brings the number of brand stores to eight, including the others in Ziano di Fiemme, Cavalese, Arco, Finale Ligure – all in Italy – as well as Rodellar in ...
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Salomon has opened its first fully-fledged mono-brand store in Spain,...
Salomon has opened its first fully-fledged mono-brand store in Spain, which measures 206 square meters on two floors. It is located in the very central Calle Fuencarral of Madrid. A second store is due to be opened in Barcelona in June, again at in a central location: the Rambla de ...
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Maloja, the German sportswear brand from Rimsting/Chiemsee, recently opened its...
Maloja, the German sportswear brand from Rimsting/Chiemsee, recently opened its seventh store. The new franchised store, which covers 100 square meters, is located in Freiburg. Maloja already has a company-owned store in Munich as well as franchised stores in Aschau/Chiemgau, Obertsdorf, Wiesbaden, Innsbruck and Seoul. A total of 40 people ...
