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Salomon has opened a new brand store of 250 square...
Salomon has opened a new brand store of 250 square meters in the French winter resort of Chamonix, based on a new design developed by Retail 3d. It has already been applied to a Salomon store in Whistler, Canada, one in Serravalle, Italy, and two others in Shanghai. The same ...
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Deuter launched a couple of new digital services for retailers...
Deuter launched a couple of new digital services for retailers last year. The company is offering them all the product descriptions for their online stores or websites. With a “Bazar Voice” program, Deuter collects all comments and evaluations made for its products online. Retailers are then able to add them ...
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Decathlon has several other new markets on the radar, after...
Decathlon has several other new markets on the radar, after an anniversary year in which it entered five of them and opened many new stores, helping to lift its total sales above €10 billion in connection with its 40th birthday. This year, it's going to be the turn of Austria ...
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In presenting its financial results to analysts, XXL's management pointed...
In presenting its financial results to analysts, XXL's management pointed out that it is setting up a centralized organization in Austria for purchasing, customer support and other functions that will be scalable for Germany and Switzerland. It is aiming for average annual sales of €12 million per store and a ...
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Moncler's gross margin hit a pretty high level of 75.7...
Moncler's gross margin hit a pretty high level of 75.7 percent last year, 1.3 percentage points better than in 2015, thanks in part to a strong contribution from its directly managed stores, whose number grew from 173 to 190 in the course of the year. Retail sales rose by 23 ...
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The growth of the outdoor market in China continued at...
The growth of the outdoor market in China continued at a slow pace last year. Retail sales in the sector rose by an estimated 4.91 percent to 23.28 billion yuan renmimbi (€3.20bn-$3.39bn) in 2016, according to the report presented by the China Outdoor Commerce Alliance (Coca) at the recent Ispo ...
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Without providing a more specific figure, Decathlon announced a few...
Without providing a more specific figure, Decathlon announced a few days ago another increase of 12 percent in its total sales to a new record of around €10 billion before sales taxes for 2016. It also reached a new record with one billion items sold at its stores around the ...
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We aRe SpinDye, a two-year-old company from Stockholm, exhibited for...
We aRe SpinDye, a two-year-old company from Stockholm, exhibited for the first time at Ispo Munich last month, occupying a prime location left from the shrinking of a neighboring booth. The company claims to reach greater accuracy in rendering any of 1,095 colors on polyester through a unique pigment recipe ...
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Dachstein, the Austrian brand of outdoor footwear, has added new...
Dachstein, the Austrian brand of outdoor footwear, has added new colors and a low-cut version of its pioneering knitted Super Leggera DDS outdoor shoe, which earned an OutDoor Industry Award in 2015. The knitted outdoor shoes are waterproof and breathable and give the user a feeling that he or she ...
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An international jury selected Scarpa's Ribelle Tech OD as “Product...
An international jury selected Scarpa's Ribelle Tech OD as “Product of the Year” in this year's Ispo Awards. Equipped with an Outdry membrane, it weighs only 580 grams and is meant for a variety of challenging outdoor pursuits including trekking, via ferrata and mountain ascents. Products by Katadyn, Ternua, Pyua, ...
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The Scandinavian Outdoor Group named Devold, which also got an...
The Scandinavian Outdoor Group named Devold, which also got an Ispo Gold Award, as the overall winner of the SOG Awards for the autumn/winter 2017/18 season at Ispo. Picture Organic, which uses mostly recycled materials in its technical garments, mostly used in skiwear, came out as the winner of ...
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Michelin Technical Soles unveiled collaborations at the Ispo Munich show...
Michelin Technical Soles unveiled collaborations at the Ispo Munich show last month with four more companies - Columbia, Hanwag, Mammut and Nordica – starting with the next autumn/winter season. It has also developed new projects with Etnies in the area of skate shoes and Chaud Devant for chefs' shoes.
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Victorinox has decided to stop marketing a collection of apparel...
Victorinox has decided to stop marketing a collection of apparel by the end of this year. It will still sell a line for autumn/winter 2017/18 in Japan, but its involvement in the segment will end elsewhere after the spring/summer 2017 line. The Swiss company has been marketing its quite functional ...
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Go Outdoors is the new recommended outdoor retail partner for...
Go Outdoors is the new recommended outdoor retail partner for The Scout Association, the biggest mixed youth organization in the U.K. The association had previously partnered with Costwold Outdoor. To celebrate the new partnership, Go Outdoors has sponsored an activity badge, which will be part of the curriculum of the ...
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Boa Technology has introduced a new corporate branding and visual...
Boa Technology has introduced a new corporate branding and visual identity, which is to reflect its expanded growth, innovations and partnerships. The updated branding was presented globally in February across an entirely new website, which focuses on educating consumers about Boa's products and categories.
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At its next edition, due to take place on June...
At its next edition, due to take place on June 18-21, the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen will add two new segments, a “running center” for trail running shoes in Hall B4 and an area for lifestyle-oriented brands of outdoor shoes, apparel and accessories in Hall A6. A “community area” will ...
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A new, consumer-oriented Outdoor Expo is going to be staged...
A new, consumer-oriented Outdoor Expo is going to be staged in the Italian city of Modena from March 17 to 19. It will cover 15,000 square meters, taking place at the same time as the 15th edition of the Children's Tour, a fair for family vacations that is attended by ...
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Booked to capacity, last month's Ispo Beijing welcomed more than...
Booked to capacity, last month's Ispo Beijing welcomed more than 40,000 visitors, up from 38,600 a year ago. The number ofn exhibitors was up by 7 percent to a record of 502 companies, representing 728 brands, and 83 percent of them came from China.
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Textile Exchange has awarded certification to Downlite under its Global...
Textile Exchange has awarded certification to Downlite under its Global Recycled Standard (GRS) for its 100 percent recycled Re/charged down. The U.S. company is a major supplier of down to outdoor apparel brands, including Columbia, Patagonia and The North Face. Downlite points out that its down is processed at a ...
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VF Corp., the owner of Timberland, The North Face and...
VF Corp., the owner of Timberland, The North Face and other brands, has released its first-ever formal policy to minimize impact on forests. VF's Forest Derived Materials Policy, which was released on Feb. 27, sets guidelines for the group's purchasing preferences and its use of sustainable forest materials and products. ...
