News Briefs – Page 380
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Calida, which currently owns nearly 60 percent of Lafuma Group,...
Calida, which currently owns nearly 60 percent of Lafuma Group, is reportedly considering acquiring full control of the French company, which is still quoted on the French stock exchange, but is in no hurry to do so. It is said to be intent on further improving its profitability and on ...
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Compass Diversified Holdings (Codi) has launched a secondary offering of...
Compass Diversified Holdings (Codi) has launched a secondary offering of trust shares intended to raise up to $125 million to repay a portion of its credit facility. Codi is the parent company of Camelbak Products, Ergobaby and Liberty Safe. It is also a minority shareholder in Fox Factory, which is ...
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Patrik Frisk, 51, has left VF Corporation to become the...
Patrik Frisk, 51, has left VF Corporation to become the new chief executive of the Aldo Group, a big international, Montreal-based chain of more than 1,700 corporate and franchised shoe shops. A former manager of Peak Performance and W.L. Gore & Associates, Frisk joined VF in 2004 as regional manager ...
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Peter Fabrin is starting as the new chief executive of...
Peter Fabrin is starting as the new chief executive of Haglöfs, taking the place left vacant last March by the abrupt departure of Nicolas Warchalowski, who then became CEO of Peak Performance in September, replacing Anders Cleemann. Fabrin has worked in the past for Peak Performance and other parts of ...
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Flemming Kruse Henriksen has left Peak Performance, where he was...
Flemming Kruse Henriksen has left Peak Performance, where he was in charge of emerging markets, to take care of business development for products and marketing in the apparel division of LTP, an international sourcing company. His functions are being taken over by Martin Netinder, sales director for exports and Canada.
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Sätila of Sweden has announced that Mats Hedblom has joined...
Sätila of Sweden has announced that Mats Hedblom has joined the company board. Hedblom has worked for over 30 years at Haglöfs, including 17 years as chief executive, during the period 1993-2010. The other board members of Sätila of Sweden currently include Lennart Grebelius, also a director, and Fredrik Helgesson, ...
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The Swedish outdoor retailer Addnature has a new chief executive....
The Swedish outdoor retailer Addnature has a new chief executive. Starting on Nov. 25, David Rönnberg will be responsible for leading Addnature's online business and its three physical stores, including bikester.se. Addnature's founder and former CEO, Mathias Hedstrom, will now concentrate on sales and purchasing, two areas that have been ...
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Go Outdoors has named Claire Webb as its new chief...
Go Outdoors has named Claire Webb as its new chief financial officer. Webb joins the U.K.-based outdoor equipment and clothing retailer from Maplin, an electronics retailer, where she was responsible for the finance, legal and human resources functions. Earlier this year, at Maplin she oversaw re-financings and the sale of ...
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Magnum has promoted Glen Richards, its former sales director in...
Magnum has promoted Glen Richards, its former sales director in the U.K., to global brand director. He will be responsible for leading global product development and marketing strategy and will be based at the company's headquarters in Amsterdam. Additionally, the company has announced that Brent Smith has joined as sales ...
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Hydro Flask has hired Dennis Conner as the company's new...
Hydro Flask has hired Dennis Conner as the company's new vice president of operations, effective Oct. 13. Additionally, Rocco Villano has been promoted to director of sourcing and planning, from his previous role as senior operations manager, while Rob Mitchell, a veteran of the outdoor industry, has joined the company's ...
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Wolverine has announced the appointment of a new member of...
Wolverine has announced the appointment of a new member of its board of directors, Roxane Divol. The 42-year-old is senior vice president of Alliances for Symantec Corporation, one of the world's largest software companies that specializes in personal and organizational security, storage and availability solutions. She previously worked for McKinsey ...
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Primaloft has named Mats Jengard sales & marketing territory manager...
Primaloft has named Mats Jengard sales & marketing territory manager for Scandinavia. In this function, Jengard will be responsible for expanding the Primaloft brand in Norway, Finland, Iceland and Sweden. Jengard is an established expert in the outdoor market, with many years of experience in the Scandinavian outdoor industry and ...
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Garmont has set up a North American subsidiary, located in...
Garmont has set up a North American subsidiary, located in New Hampshire. The Italian company, which was recently bailed out by Pierangelo Bressan, had a North American subsidiary before in Portland, Oregon, but closed it down at the end of 2012 after selling its ski boot business to Scott Sports ...
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Schöffel, the German marketer of snow and outdoor apparel, is...
Schöffel, the German marketer of snow and outdoor apparel, is about to enter the Japanese market. The company, which is already selling its products directly in South Korea and Taiwan, has signed a distribution and licensing deal with Osaka-based SSK Corporation. SSK has been a family-run firm for seven decades ...
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A Spanish distributor, Sporttotal, is taking on the distribution of...
A Spanish distributor, Sporttotal, is taking on the distribution of Altra Running in Spain. It is calling on specialty retailers and the press to participate in testing days in Barcelona and Madrid this week to demonstrate the features of its footwear line.
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Ruffwear, the U.S. specialty brand of dog gear for outdoor...
Ruffwear, the U.S. specialty brand of dog gear for outdoor purposes, has handed over its distribution in the Italian market to Accapi Group, its current distributor for the U.K. and other European countries. Accapi is based in Britain, but will be represented in Italy by Massimo Pinarelli. Accapi distributes other ...
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Columbia Sportswear has adopted Centerstone Technologies' Ivendix online B2B platform...
Columbia Sportswear has adopted Centerstone Technologies' Ivendix online B2B platform to service its European dealers with its Columbia, Sorel and Mountain Hardwear brands. The new platform will be launched with the spring/summer 2015 reorder season. With more than 35,000 users, Centerstone claims that its secure, multi-lingual, multi-currency ordering platform is ...
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In October, Vaude opened two more stores in partnership with...
In October, Vaude opened two more stores in partnership with franchisees in the German city of Ulm and in Wallisellen, a town outside Zurich, Switzerland. The Ulm shop is the 12th of its type in Germany, the Swiss one the first abroad (except for Asia). The selling surface of 220 ...
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Houdini Sportswear put out a rather funny press release last...
Houdini Sportswear put out a rather funny press release last week, announcing that it was opening a special brand store in Oslo with “the world's largest fitting room.” It's a pop-up store where customers are encouraged to test the clothes out in the wild before they buy them. If they ...
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XXL ASA, the Nordic sports retailer that went public at...
XXL ASA, the Nordic sports retailer that went public at the beginning of October, reports a 31 percent increase in total revenues to 1,416 million Norwegian kroner (€166.90m-$207.29m) in the third quarter, with 6.7 percent growth on a same-store basis and a 74 percent jump in e-commerce. Operating profit before amortization ...
