News Briefs – Page 328
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A Spanish importer, Esteller, has announced the takeover of 11...
A Spanish importer, Esteller, has announced the takeover of 11 outdoor brands from the portfolio of another Spanish distributor, Altitud Sport, following the latter's shutdown. The 11 brands are Bridgedale, Fritschi, Hagan, Inook, Katadyn, Montana Skins, Nikwax, Optimus, Singing Rock, Stubai and Trek'n Treat. Esteller will start invoicing for them ...
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Sherpa Adventure Gear has signed a deal with an agency...
Sherpa Adventure Gear has signed a deal with an agency in Prague, Outdoor Brothers, to represent the Nepalese brand in the important Czech outdoor market. The two young managers who run the agency, Vlasta Pazourková and David Chovanec, who are also responsible for Icebreaker's sales in Eastern Europe, will also ...
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Sealskinz has set up a German sales subsidiary at Ottensoos,...
Sealskinz has set up a German sales subsidiary at Ottensoos, near Nuremberg, which will also cover the markets of Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia for the British high-performance sports and outdoor apparel company. The new subsidiary will be run by Marc Wachter, a 40-year-old manager ...
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Garmont North America is opening a new sales office for...
Garmont North America is opening a new sales office for the Canadian market. It is headed up by Stephen Bergeron, who has worked for Trangoworld, La Sportiva, Kayland and Icebug.
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Lowa, the German-based producer of outdoor shoes, introduced a 3D-scanning...
Lowa, the German-based producer of outdoor shoes, introduced a 3D-scanning system at outdoor and sporting goods retailers that sell its product range. The 360° photo-scan system, developed exclusively for Lowa by Netvico, measures the customers' feet using 3D technology. The concept was honored with the Digital Retail Award 2016 in ...
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Go Sport is launching Go Sport Montagne, a new banner...
Go Sport is launching Go Sport Montagne, a new banner for mountain enthusiasts, just a few months after the launch of another new banner called Bike+. For Go Sport Montagne, the French retailer is looking at 100 franchised stores, which will rely on the network of sporting goods retailers affiliated ...
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JD Sports Fashion has launched a new store concept for...
JD Sports Fashion has launched a new store concept for Blacks, the British chain of 70+ outdoor stores, that includes digital screens and self-service kiosks like some of its new generalist JD Sports stores. The first Blacks unit of the kind opened last month at Aviemore, in the Cairngorms National ...
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The European Outdoor Group has hired a new sustainability project...
The European Outdoor Group has hired a new sustainability project manager, Katy Stevens. Based in Germany, she will work with Pamela Ravasio, who is also in charge of corporate social responsibility, to help the EOG and its members to develop sustainability programs. Stevens is a textile chemist with many years ...
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After similar research conducted in Austria and the U.K., the...
After similar research conducted in Austria and the U.K., the U.S. should be able to measure the contribution of outdoor recreation to the U.S. economy, which would be made part of the country's GDP. The House of the U.S. Congress has unanimously passed a vote for the Outdoor Recreation Act, ...
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Anne Schott will replace Remi Forsans as executive director of...
Anne Schott will replace Remi Forsans as executive director of Outdoor Sports Valley (OSV), the French trade association based in Annecy, after the end of this year. Schott has accompanied Forsans as the association's general manager for the past six years. Forsans is said to be planning to start a ...
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Helly Hansen is an official supplier of Vendée Globe, the...
Helly Hansen is an official supplier of Vendée Globe, the round-the-world solo yacht race that started in France on Nov. 6. It is providing the outerwear, tested by professionals, for 130 skippers and more than 200 organizers. Four Helly Hansen ambassadors will also personally participate in the race. They are: ...
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Helly Hansen has been chosen as the new ski apparel...
Helly Hansen has been chosen as the new ski apparel partner for the Swedish alpine ski team. This means that the members of Ski Team Sweden Alpine will now also be taking advantage of Recco reflectors, which have been integrated into Helly Hansen's ski apparel for many years. The reflectors ...
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Enertor, the Arizona-based orthotics brand, has signed a new agreement...
Enertor, the Arizona-based orthotics brand, has signed a new agreement with Human Race to become the official insole partner of Human Race Events for the 2017 season. The deal covers 12 running and triathlon events including the Cancer Research UK Winter Run Series and Windsor Triathlon, which attracted a total ...
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Pertex has received the Outdoor Writers Guild's Derryck Draper Award...
Pertex has received the Outdoor Writers Guild's Derryck Draper Award 2016 for its CS10 Technology, which uses unique diamond-shaped filaments to provide fabrics with abrasion resistance and improved water beading properties. The textile brand was already the recipient of the first Derryck Draper Crystal Award back in 1999 for Pertex ...
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Lowa invited 170 sales professio nals from the German shoe...
Lowa invited 170 sales professio nals from the German shoe and sporting goods retail sector to some very special events in Nuremberg, Hinterzarten and Rettenberg in Bavaria. Professional actors integrated participants in a crime comedy act that was written exclusively for Lowa. The act combines the crime story with elements ...
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Bearpaw has announced its first television campaign, which comes on...
Bearpaw has announced its first television campaign, which comes on the heels of the brand's recent venture into the apparel market. The national campaign, which will debut this month, is set to increase brand awareness through commercial spots broadcast on popular U.S. networks for women and families such as Bravo, ...
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Bouldering enthusiasts are participating in an effort in support of...
Bouldering enthusiasts are participating in an effort in support of the people of central Italy who were hit by earthquakes on Aug. 24 and October 2016. Gyms across Italy will be raising funds by organizing bouldering contests under the umbrella of an initiative called Rebuild Boulder. In Italy there are ...
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Berghaus has launched the “Get Out Game,” an initiative to...
Berghaus has launched the “Get Out Game,” an initiative to get people outside during the weekend that follows “Black Friday.” The outdoor brand will not be discounting its products on Black Friday, which falls this year on Nov. 25. Instead, it will hand out 1,000 prizes that can only be ...
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Speakers from sports and outdoor brands including Patagonia, Norrona, Vaude,...
Speakers from sports and outdoor brands including Patagonia, Norrona, Vaude, Houdini Sportswear and others will take part in a summit on sustainability in Oslo on Nov. 17. The event, which is entitled “Forward Thinking: Summiting with Sustainability,” is organized by the Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture in collaboration with ...
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More than 250 people attended the Ispo Academy held for...
More than 250 people attended the Ispo Academy held for the first time in Seoul earlier this month. Organized at the Textile Center on Nov. 7-8, in partnership with the Korea Outdoor & Sports Industry Association (KOIA), it brought together brand owners and retailers to hear about the development of ...
