News Briefs – Page 276
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Columbia Sportswear has announced the appointment of John Soh as...
Columbia Sportswear has announced the appointment of John Soh as vice-president and general manager of China. The appointment will be effective in mid-February 2019. In his new role, he will report to Doug Morse, senior vice-president of emerging brands and APAC. Soh joins Columbia from Lego, where he was a ...
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VF Corp. has appointed Todd Dalhausser to the position of...
VF Corp. has appointed Todd Dalhausser to the position of brand president of the Altra brand, effective immediately. He will report to Steve Murray, VF's vice-president of strategic products. Dalhausser joins VF from Wolverine Worldwide, where he served as senior vice-president of sales for Saucony North America. Dalhausser is a ...
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Peter Ruppe, who recently left as Under Armour's senior vice...
Peter Ruppe, who recently left as Under Armour's senior vice president of footwear, is joining Columbia Sportswear to help double sales of Columbia branded shoes within three years, according to the Oregonian. Mark Nenow will continue to be in charge of Sorel, another brand of the group. Ruppe joined UA ...
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Thule has appointed Nis Gjendal as vice-president of global purchasing,...
Thule has appointed Nis Gjendal as vice-president of global purchasing, effective Jan. 7, 2019. Gjendal has more than ten years of experience in various management positions in the area of global purchasing, including the position of global vice-president of procurement and sourcing at Nilfisk. He also has experience in complex ...
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Primaloft has appointed Tanja Ederer, 25, to be its European...
Primaloft has appointed Tanja Ederer, 25, to be its European trade marketing assistant. Working out of the company's European headquarters in Taufkirchen, Germany, Ederer will be in charge of retail marketing: setting up trade fairs, POS activations and the Primaloft Training Tour. She will also handle the Banff Mountain Film ...
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Chris Pawlus is the new vice president of product design...
Chris Pawlus is the new vice president of product design and innovation at Keen, the Portland-based maker of outdoor shoes. He will oversee the Outdoor, Lifestyle and Kids departments. Pawlus joins Keen from Timberland, where he spent 21 years, most recently as creative director and vice president of global product ...
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Esportiva AKSA, the Barcelona-based importer and manufacturer of outdoor equipment,...
Esportiva AKSA, the Barcelona-based importer and manufacturer of outdoor equipment, has become a distributor for Ticket to the Moon (TTTM), maker of a camping hammock. TTTM was founded in 1998 by a backpacker named “Charly” who found a way to improve his personal design for a hammock-tent after stumbling upon ...
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The North Face has opened a lifestyle-oriented pilot store in...
The North Face has opened a lifestyle-oriented pilot store in the Williamsburg district of Brooklyn, New York, saying that it represents the next phase on the brand's retail offering, with a focus on a curated customer experience. Covering 4,000 square feet, it features higher-end collections that are more fashion-oriented.
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Haglöfs already has brand stores located in Stockholm, Åre, Oslo,...
Haglöfs already has brand stores located in Stockholm, Åre, Oslo, London and Chamonix. Now, the Swedish city of Göteborg can be added to the list. The new 110-square-meter Haglöfs store is located on a popular shopping street, Kungsgatan, which is becoming a major outdoor hub. Among the neighbors are Houdini, ...
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Mountain Warehouse, the U.K.-based outdoor retail chain, has leased space...
Mountain Warehouse, the U.K.-based outdoor retail chain, has leased space for a new store at the Festival Place shopping center in Hampshire. The store will be opening next year. With its downtown location, Festival Place attracts 22.4 million visitors a year and is already home to JD Sports, Sports Direct ...
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Arc'teryx, a division of Amer Sports, has opened a new...
Arc'teryx, a division of Amer Sports, has opened a new mono-brand store in Japan, its largest in-mall store in the country. The new 264-square-meter store, on two floors, is located in Fukuoka Momochi, the largest commercial facility in western Japan. The store, which was inaugurated on Nov. 21, sells Arc'teryx's ...
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Canada Goose suspended the planned opening of a flagship store...
Canada Goose suspended the planned opening of a flagship store in Beijing, originally planned for Dec. 15, justifying the move with delays in construction. No new date was given. Observers felt that the suspension was linked to the arrest on Dec. 1 of Meng Wanzhou, the financial director of Huawei, ...
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Kathmandu saw its share price jump by 17 percent after...
Kathmandu saw its share price jump by 17 percent after the New Zealand-based outdoor group told investors that it was expecting a strong improvement in its profits for the first half of its financial year. Its Australian retail operations, which represent two-thirds of its sales, performed best in the 15 ...
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Haglöfs, the Swedish outdoor brand owned by Asics, raised its...
Haglöfs, the Swedish outdoor brand owned by Asics, raised its turnover by 3.6 percent to 7,227 million Japanese yen (€55.7m-$63.6m) for the first nine months of this year, amounting to a rise of 5.5 percent in constant currencies, with steady sales of outdoor apparel. Asics said the segment's income for ...
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It looks like the choice of Interlaken as the venue...
It looks like the choice of Interlaken as the venue for next September's European Outdoor Summit was a good one. The number of ski visits went up by 7.4 percent in Switzerland during the autumn/winter 2017/18 season. More interestingly, a further 17.0 percent increase was recorded in the number of ...
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In reporting its results for the third quarter, Canadian Tire...
In reporting its results for the third quarter, Canadian Tire said that Helly Hansen, the company that it recently acquired, had sales of 181.7 million Canadian dollars (€120.3m-$137.8m) during the period, of which C$ 25.2 million (€16.7m-$19.1m) were generated in Canada and C$ 156.5 million (€103.7m-$118.7m) in the rest of ...
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Goldwin, which also controls The North Face's trademark in Japan...
Goldwin, which also controls The North Face's trademark in Japan and has a stake in Woolrich International, saw net income shoot up by 47 percent to ¥1,563 million (€12.2m-$13.9m) for the first half of the year, which ended on Sep. 30. Sales for the period were up by 16 percent ...
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The Boy Scouts of America, one of the largest youth...
The Boy Scouts of America, one of the largest youth organizations in the U.S., may file for bankruptcy protection due to dropping membership and increasing legal costs in connection with allegations of sexual abuse. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the organization has hired a Chicago law ...
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The Scandinavian Outdoor Group (SOG) has hired Per Jonsson Öhlin...
The Scandinavian Outdoor Group (SOG) has hired Per Jonsson Öhlin as project manager for all the international trade shows in which it participates. He will start by taking care of the traditional “Scandinavian Village” at the Outdoor Retailer & Snow Show in Denver and Ispo Munich. He will be one ...
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Polartec is introducing Power Air, a fabric said to reduce...
Polartec is introducing Power Air, a fabric said to reduce fiber shedding. Even the most resilient fiber is susceptible to shedding through normal wear. The construction of Polartec Power Air is said to mitigate this by encasing the insulating lofted fibers during the knitting. As the first fabric construction to ...
