News Briefs – Page 339
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Stephen Barnes has been appointed senior product manager for Sierra...
Stephen Barnes has been appointed senior product manager for Sierra Designs, the American outdoor brand. Barnes was most recently the founder and president of Barnestorm Product Solutions, assisting startups on business plans and working with other customers on brand messaging and product launches. He was formerly product development manager at ...
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Caro Krissman, the founder and chief executive of Outdoor Tech,...
Caro Krissman, the founder and chief executive of Outdoor Tech, has left the company after selling his shares to Rob Caulfield, the brand's lead investor. Charlie Gugliuzza, who has served as Outdoor Tech's chief operating officer, has taken over as the brand's new chief executive. Under Krissman's leadership, Outdoor Tech ...
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Brian Mecham, formerly U.S. general manager for Icebreaker, has been...
Brian Mecham, formerly U.S. general manager for Icebreaker, has been appointed to a similar job at Salewa North America, where the brands owned by the Italian group - Dynafit, Salewa, Wild Country and Pomoca - still have strong potential for growth. Mecham reports to Claes Broqvist, who joined the Oberalp ...
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Nester Hosiery has promoted Kelly Nester to the position of...
Nester Hosiery has promoted Kelly Nester to the position of chief executive officer, with immediate effect. Kelly Nester joined the company in 1996 and has been president since 2008. Marty Nester, the company founder and current chief executive, will continue to chair the company's board of directors. Nester Hosiery, based ...
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Ecco decided to initiate a gradual generational handover of responsibilities...
Ecco decided to initiate a gradual generational handover of responsibilities in the executive board at its supervisory board meeting and its annual meeting last month. After being in charge of the big Danish group for almost 12 years, Dieter Kasprzak is handing over its day-to-day management to Steen Borgholm, and ...
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Garmont International, the Italian outdoor footwear company, has appointed new...
Garmont International, the Italian outdoor footwear company, has appointed new distribution partners in the U.K. and Spain. The Italian brand's sales agency in the U.K. is New Heights, a young company run by Kieron MacKenzie, who has a track record of more than 30 years in the industry as a ...
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Angela Rux has stepped down as managing director at Globetrotter...
Angela Rux has stepped down as managing director at Globetrotter at the beginning of March, but she was appointed to handle the German outdoor retailer's finance, controlling, human resources and administration as an authorized representative. The change comes after Fenix Outdoor International, the Swedish-based outdoor retailer and brand owner, became ...
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Fjällräven has opened a store in Portland, Oregon, as part...
Fjällräven has opened a store in Portland, Oregon, as part of the rapid development of its own retail business in North America. With this latest opening, Fjällräven has built up a network of 15 stores across the country in the last three years, which has strongly contributed to the brand's ...
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Norrøna has opened a store in Chamonix, France. The investment...
Norrøna has opened a store in Chamonix, France. The investment was described as the first move in a new strategy to expand the company's retail network away from the saturated Norwegian market. It is also part of a plan to double the company's total sales by 2020. Last year, Norrøna's ...
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Vibram has opened its first flagship store in Athens, called...
Vibram has opened its first flagship store in Athens, called the Vibram Athens Academy. This first store represents an evolution from the Vibram Sole Factor trucks, which have been traveling around Europe, offering customers the opportunity to improve the performance of their shoes by choosing a sole from the brand's ...
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Canada Goose has announced the opening of its first two...
Canada Goose has announced the opening of its first two stand-alone stores this coming autumn. The stores are set to open on New York's Wooster Street, in the heart of SoHo, and in the Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto. Each store, covering a surface of more than 4,000 square feet, ...
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Decathlon has opened business in South Africa with a pop-up...
Decathlon has opened business in South Africa with a pop-up store in the Soweto area of Johannesburg. The French retailer's project leader in South Africa, Arnaud Gauquelin, says in an entry on Decathlon's website that the retailer is starting with a pop-up store to learn more about the demand from ...
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Woolrich Europe posted a 4 percent sales increase during the...
Woolrich Europe posted a 4 percent sales increase during the first quarter of the year. The new company, which was created in January as part of the Wp Lavori in Corso holding company, plans new store openings and targets an 8 percent sales increase to around €115 million for the ...
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Daniel Vilà, product manager at Trekkinn, the Spanish online sales...
Daniel Vilà, product manager at Trekkinn, the Spanish online sales platform for outdoor products, has told CMD Sport that its turnover soared by 90 percent last year. Trekkinn is integrated into Tradeinn, which sells a broader range of sporting goods and reportedly achieved sales of more than €50 million last ...
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Patrick Giraudon, owner and chief executive of Arva/Nic Impex, a...
Patrick Giraudon, owner and chief executive of Arva/Nic Impex, a leading player in the French ski touring market, has taken over from Jean-Luc Diard as president of Outdoor Sports Valley (OSV), a French-based organization representing about 370 members in the outdoor industry. Giraudon, who was already on OSV's board in ...
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SnowSports Industries America (SIA) has announced that it will relocate...
SnowSports Industries America (SIA) has announced that it will relocate its headquarters office from McLean, Virginia, in the Washington, DC area, to Park City, Utah. The new location will bring the organization near Salt Lake City, into one of North America's snow sports hubs and close to like-minded organizations and ...
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Prana, the outdoor and yoga apparel brand that was acquired...
Prana, the outdoor and yoga apparel brand that was acquired by the Columbia Sportswear group two years ago, has become a member of the European Outdoor Group (EOG). Prana embarked on an international expansion drive last year, which was one of the strategies advocated by Columbia to capitalize on the ...
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Polartec has announced that Westcomb, Outdoor Research, Kitsbow and Velocio...
Polartec has announced that Westcomb, Outdoor Research, Kitsbow and Velocio will be the first brands to offer garments featuring its Delta cooling platform. Polartec Delta is said to utilize a sophisticated construction as opposed to chemical additives. The technology is based on a mechanical wicking construction which uses hydrophobic and ...
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Black Diamond has recalled about 100 of its Via Ferrata...
Black Diamond has recalled about 100 of its Via Ferrata Climbing Sets made in the U.S. due to a potential fall hazard. The sets were sold without the orange safety stitching on the lanyards, and this may allow the ends to unexpectedly detach, posing a risk of injury or death ...
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SportScheck, Germany's largest sporting goods retailer, is inviting end consumers...
SportScheck, Germany's largest sporting goods retailer, is inviting end consumers to four hiking events this summer and autumn. More than 1,000 hikers participated at the events held in Oberstdorf, Bavaria, and in Bad Schandau, Saxony, last year. This summer, an additional hiking event will be organized in Molveno, situated in ...
