News Briefs – Page 301
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Eurazeo has announced the sale of 8,500,000 shares of Moncler...
Eurazeo has announced the sale of 8,500,000 shares of Moncler S.p.A. through its subsidiary ECIP M S.A. at a price of €24.48 per share, for a total amount of around €208 million. As a result of the sale, ECIP M S.A. will hold 5.31 percent of the share capital and ...
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Canada Goose has named Rick Wood as chief commercial officer,...
Canada Goose has named Rick Wood as chief commercial officer, responsible for wholesale as well as retail operations. He joins the company with many years of experience with VF Corp. in various divisions until October 2014, when he formed his own consultancy in Montreal. In the previous three years, he ...
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Andre Bachmann will be taking over the leadership of the...
Andre Bachmann will be taking over the leadership of the New Wave Group's subsidiary in Germany from the start of next year, while Karin Ganster is taking up the same function in Austria. They will both replace Holger Hoffmann, who supervised New Wave in both countries until it was decided ...
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Albrecht Volz has become German sales manager for Hanwag, the...
Albrecht Volz has become German sales manager for Hanwag, the German outdoor footwear company that belongs to the Fenix Outdoor International group, the owner of several other outdoor brands and retailers in Scandinavia and Germany. This comes after the departure of Jürgen Siegwarth, who has been general manager at Hanwag ...
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Tobias Baier has been appointed as country manager for Osprey...
Tobias Baier has been appointed as country manager for Osprey in Germany, a new position. Baier has been in the outdoor and sports industry for several years, working for brands from Zimtstern to Five Ten, Arc'teryx, Columbia and the Oberalp Group. He joined Osprey last year to become distributor brand ...
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Merrell has appointed a new chief marketing officer, Strick Walker,...
Merrell has appointed a new chief marketing officer, Strick Walker, and a new senior product director for active lifestyle, Johanna Koeberle. Walker comes from Spindrift Beverage company, where he had a similar job. He worked previously for Patagonia and Converse. Koeberle is an Adidas veteran who has also worked for ...
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Casey Sheahan, who had announced his retirement last month after...
Casey Sheahan, who had announced his retirement last month after one year as president of Keen Footwear, is going back into active duty as chief executive of Simms Fishing Products, while that company's president and majority owner, K.C. Walsh, will become executive board chairman. Sheahan served as president of Patagonia ...
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Naglev, the new Italian brand formed by Achille Morlin and...
Naglev, the new Italian brand formed by Achille Morlin and his daughter Elettra, has received its first order from a Korean distributor, which also represents Stanley, for an initial lot of 500 pairs of its sustainable shoes. Achille Morlin, the former owner of Garmont, is handling its production in China. ...
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Snow Factory, a Barcelona-based distribution firm selling brands such as...
Snow Factory, a Barcelona-based distribution firm selling brands such as La Sportiva, Icebreaker and Zoggs, has sealed a partnership with Ferrino to sell the Italian brand of backpacks in Spain, Portugal and Andorra from September 2018. Ferrino is currently sold in Spain by Vertical, another Spanish distribution company that deals ...
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Sherpa Adventure Gear opened its first flagship store in the...
Sherpa Adventure Gear opened its first flagship store in the U.S. on Nov. 11 in Seattle, where the company is based. Besides its product range, which is largely developed and produced in Nepal, it features Nepalese furniture and decoration, plus pictures of sherpas, one of whom died in an avalanche ...
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Arc'teryx has opened its largest store in Japan. Covering 286...
Arc'teryx has opened its largest store in Japan. Covering 286 square meters in the Sakae shopping area of Nagoya. The Canadian brand has also reopened a 5,000-square-foot store in Montreal, following its renovation.
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Patagonia has signed a contract to open a new store...
Patagonia has signed a contract to open a new store of 3,300 square feet at 51 King Street, in the downtown area of Manchester. Covering two floors, it will be brand's eighth store in Europe and the only one in the U.K. following the shutdown in 2014 of a store ...
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Canada Goose's new flagship in London was hit by burglars...
Canada Goose's new flagship in London was hit by burglars on Nov. 14, just days after its opening. According to reports, a ten-people gang used scooters to smash into the store's glass door. The thieves threatened a night security guard with a hammer and then managed to run away with ...
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Snowleader, a French online retailer of snow sports products, has...
Snowleader, a French online retailer of snow sports products, has added Spain to the country list of its online boutiques, with the launch of a new “.es” e-commerce site. The announcement was made by Thomas Rouault, the co-founder and chief executive of Snowleader, on the occasion of the first conference ...
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Weaker sales of the Haglöfs brand were identified as the...
Weaker sales of the Haglöfs brand were identified as the cause for a decline of 7.3 percent to 6,976 million yen (€52.9m-$61.5m) for the Other Business unit of the Asics group during the first nine months of this year. Without currency exchange, the sales decline still amounted to 7.1 percent but ...
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Compass Diversified reported a 40 percent drop in the quarterly...
Compass Diversified reported a 40 percent drop in the quarterly Ebitda of 5.11 Tactical, where the implementation of a new ERP system slowed operations, leading to a 4 percent drop in sales to $72.0 million. Lower operating results were also reported for Liberty Safe, whose sales declined by 23 percent ...
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Goldwin moved to a comprehensive net profit of 1,681 million...
Goldwin moved to a comprehensive net profit of 1,681 million yen (€12.7m-$14.8m) in the first half ended Sept. 30 from a loss of ¥1,126 million. Excluding extraordinary items, the earnings doubled to ¥1,065 million (€8.1m-$9.4m) as the gross margin rose by 2.3 percentage points to 47.7 percent thanks to a higher proportion ...
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Columbia Sportswear has obtained a temporary restraining order from a...
Columbia Sportswear has obtained a temporary restraining order from a district judge to prevent Seirus Innovative Accessories from initiating an examination by the U.S. Patent Trademark Office of its own Omni Heat design patent. The court had already dismissed Seirus' challenges against the patent's validity without prejudice. The jury in ...
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The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has agreed to review...
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has agreed to review a complaint by Yeti that Alibaba and certain other online retailers and manufacturers are selling insulated beverage containers that infringe on nine trademarks or design patents that protect its coolers. Besides Alibaba, other companies named in the complaint are several ...
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Woolrich is again associating its name with Supreme, the disruptive...
Woolrich is again associating its name with Supreme, the disruptive American brand of skate-inspired streetwear, for a co-branded wool throw blanket with the image of a rather cheeky smiley. Made at the Woolrich Woolen Mill, the oldest facility of the kind in the U.S., the limited edition of about 1,000 ...
