News Briefs – Page 282
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The most recent edition of the Kendal Outdoor Retail Show...
The most recent edition of the Kendal Outdoor Retail Show (KORS), which took place in Kendal, in England's Lake District, in July of this year, was the last. The organizers of the show have announced that starting in 2019, KORS will merge with the Outdoor Trade Show (OTS) in Manchester. ...
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Sports retailers are being given preferential rates for attending the...
Sports retailers are being given preferential rates for attending the Ispo Munich show next Feb. 3-6, supplementing various services that are already available to this important target group. Exhibitors are already being given free tickets for their key retail customers. The others will have to pay only €19 for a ...
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Ispo started to accept applications for the 2019 Ispo Awards...
Ispo started to accept applications for the 2019 Ispo Awards on Oct. 1, establishing Dec. 7 as the deadline for receiving them. In the previous contest, the deadline had been set much later, on Jan. 10, leaving little time for the jury to make its selections.
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Timberland has opened a temporary space in the heart of...
Timberland has opened a temporary space in the heart of Milan, in Piazza XXV Aprile 9, exclusively designed for women, under the artistic direction of Saturnino Celani. The event, which will run until Oct. 21, is part of a Timberland Studio project and follows similar events in London, Amsterdam and ...
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Timberland's Yellow Boot model has turned 45. In order to...
Timberland's Yellow Boot model has turned 45. In order to celebrate the anniversary, the U.S. brand, which is part of the VF Corp. group, is staging numerous events all over the world. In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, it is offering customers to tattoo their new boots by local tattoo artists. ...
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VF Corp. is making available to consumers the sourcing maps...
VF Corp. is making available to consumers the sourcing maps for ten of its brands' most iconic products. The sourcing maps, which can be viewed on VF's sustainability website, are meant to ensure transparency about every step in the production of VF's apparel and footwear. The interactive maps show the ...
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The European Outdoor Conservation Association (Eoca) has announced the shortlist...
The European Outdoor Conservation Association (Eoca) has announced the shortlist of the projects that will be taking part in the next public online vote for funding, many of which still needing nominators, the association said. Nominations, which will be taken on a first-come first-served basis, involve no money, just an ...
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Lifestraw, the Dutch-based manufacturer of water filters and purifiers, has...
Lifestraw, the Dutch-based manufacturer of water filters and purifiers, has announced that it will be joining the Conservation Alliance in the U.S., while releasing a special edition of its LifeStraw Go bottle, called “Big Adventure, Small Footprint.” The special-edition bottle includes a filter in its built-in straw, like other LifeStraw's ...
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Ternua has announced a new initiative to help save whales....
Ternua has announced a new initiative to help save whales. The outdoor brand said it is channeling plastic waste from recycled bottles and other post-industrial waste products into the raw material for its spring/summer 2019 collection of travel accessories and backpacks. Plastic waste typically ends up in the ocean and ...
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Starboard, the Bangkok-based watersports company specializing in paddle, surf, windsurf...
Starboard, the Bangkok-based watersports company specializing in paddle, surf, windsurf and kiteboards, and Royal DSM have announced a collaboration to transform discarded fishing nets from waste into high-end surfboard components. Royal DSM is a global company active in nutrition, health and sustainable living headquartered in the Netherlands. The two companies ...
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Louis Nielsen, a Danish optical retail chain that is a...
Louis Nielsen, a Danish optical retail chain that is a leader in the market for affordable eyewear, has launched , a charity project in Tanzania with Lego Wear, the Danish brand for outdoor apparel for children. As of last month, Kabooki, the clothing licensee for the Lego Wear brand, and ...
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VF Corp. is making available to consumers the “sourcing maps”...
VF Corp. is making available to consumers the “sourcing maps” for ten of its brands' most iconic products. The sourcing maps, which can be viewed on VF's sustainability website, are meant to ensure transparency about every step in the production of VF's apparel and footwear. The interactive maps show the ...
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Austria is the first country to cover all its regions...
Austria is the first country to cover all its regions with the Recco SAR helicopter detector for the search and rescue of missing people in the outdoors. The detectors are now available at four bases of the Austrian Air Traffic Police. Every year, between 500 and 600 people are reported ...
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A grant from the It's Great Out There Coalition is...
A grant from the It's Great Out There Coalition is helping more than 400 students from a school in eastern England explore the outdoors on water. The students, including 128 who had never been on water before, have been canoeing in boats that were bought using the grant. The project ...
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La Sportiva has been awarded the 2018 OMI prize, which...
La Sportiva has been awarded the 2018 OMI prize, which is given every two years in Italy to the best corporate monograph. OMI is the acronym of the Italian Observatory for the Study and Conservation of Institutional Corporate Monographs. Institutional monographs are documents, typically books, which tell the story of ...
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Sports Direct International (SDI) announced just before its shareholders' assembly...
Sports Direct International (SDI) announced just before its shareholders' assembly last week that its chairman, Keith Hellawell, would retire and not stand for re-election. The same applied for Simon Bentley, senior independent director. Three proxy advisers had previously urged SDI shareholders to vote against Hellawell, who has been in place ...
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The Wall, a six-year-old French firm that runs ten climbing...
The Wall, a six-year-old French firm that runs ten climbing gyms under the Arkose banner, has bought one of its French competitors, Mur Mur. It has obtained €10 million in new equity financing from NextStage to expand elsewhere in Europe.
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Canada Goose has announced that it will open a new...
Canada Goose has announced that it will open a new factory in Winnipeg, its third manufacturing facility in the capital of the Canadian province of Manitoba and the seventh wholly-owned factory for the company, adding to three in Toronto and one in Boisbriand, Quebec. It will be the brand's largest ...
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GSM Outdoors has acquired New Archery products, a company founded...
GSM Outdoors has acquired New Archery products, a company founded in 1971, from BRS Outdoor Sports Holdings. Founded in 2000 and based in Grand Prairie, Texas, GSM already owns many other brands including Bullseye, NAP, Stealth Cam, Walker's, Hunting Made Easy, Shooting Made Easier, Cyclops, American Hunter and Western Rivers. ...
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Compass Diversified (CODI), the former owner of Camelbak, has bought...
Compass Diversified (CODI), the former owner of Camelbak, has bought Ravin, a company that develops high-end cross bows, through one of its subsidiaries, Velocity Outdoors. It is paying $94 million with a possible earnout of as much as $25 million for Ravin, which had sales of $46 million last year. ...
