News Briefs – Page 396
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After 28 years with Silva, Christer Tillander is leaving as...
After 28 years with Silva, Christer Tillander is leaving as its export manager to pursue new challenges, and he will not be replaced. His functions will be taken over by Marcus Haas, who has been sharing responsibilities with him as international sales manager.
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Mads Hahnemann, 49, has assumed the responsibilities of Alex Nicolai...
Mads Hahnemann, 49, has assumed the responsibilities of Alex Nicolai as head of the sports business unit of Ecco, covering its athletic and outdoor shoes, but not its golf footwear. Hahnemann has been with the Danish group for 14 years, working in logistics, sales, business planning and product management. Prior ...
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Deckers Outdoor has announced the appointment of two senior...
Deckers Outdoor has announced the appointment of two senior executives who will work on the continued expansion of the company's omni-channel infrastructure and resources. Brad Willis has been appointed senior vice president, information technology. He was previously chief information officer and vice president of information technology at West Marine, ...
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Haglöfs will be distributed in Switzerland from next Jan. 1...
Haglöfs will be distributed in Switzerland from next Jan. 1 on by Montane Sport, which is already the successful distributor of its own new parent company, Asics. The partnership is expected to lead to new synergies. In a press release, Haglöfs pays tribute to its current Swiss distributor, ACE Alpine ...
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Sympatex set up a new sales office in Boras...
Sympatex set up a new sales office in Boras near Goteborg in Sweden on April 1. For 2014, the German company plans to develop its business in Scandinavia, Korea, China and Taiwan. In October, Sympatex set up a new subsidiary in Seoul in Korea, where currently 10 people are ...
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Grisport has opened its first German store in Solingen. The...
Grisport has opened its first German store in Solingen. The Italian producer of hiking and trekking shoes already has 18 stores in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and China. They reached a turnover of €130 million in 2013, up from €109 million in the previous year, thanks to a 16 percent ...
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Bergzeit, the German online and offline outdoor retailer recently acquired...
Bergzeit, the German online and offline outdoor retailer recently acquired by the Oberrauch family, is managing the new Salewa World store in Munich as its franchisee. The 400-square-meter flagship store is located on Tail 21, near the central Marienplatz and close to many other important mono-brand and multi-brand outdoor stores. ...
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An Italian newspaper and a German magazine gave a few...
An Italian newspaper and a German magazine gave a few figures for the Salewa-Oberalp group's performance in 2013, but they were not accurate. A top executive of the company tells us that its sales rose by 8 percent last year, reaching €194 million, and similar growth is expected for 2014. ...
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Rocky Brands has reported 22.5 percent higher sales of $65.8...
Rocky Brands has reported 22.5 percent higher sales of $65.8 million for the first quarter of 2014, with strong double-digit growth in all its major categories and higher military sales. The management said it was also pleased with the initial performance of Creative Recreation, a brand of sneakers bought at ...
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Like in 2012, sales of sports shoes performed better...
Like in 2012, sales of sports shoes performed better in Europe than those of sports and leisure apparel last year. According to NPD's online consumer panel, the consumption of athletic footwear grew by 2.9 percent to €9.4 billion in 2013 in the five major European markets last year. It ...
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NPD is also preparing the ninth edition of its...
NPD is also preparing the ninth edition of its annual estimate of the size and growth of the global sports market. It has agreed to share with us the highlights of its eight edition, which covered the market in 2012 and showed that China overtook for the first time ...
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The Outdoor Industry Association of the U.S. (OIA) is teaming...
The Outdoor Industry Association of the U.S. (OIA) is teaming up with Egg Strategy, which has been chosen among more than 20 candidates to develop a new segmentation of consumer types for the outdoor industry. The research will be both quantitative and qualitative. It is intended to identify and quantify ...
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The new All-Party Commission on Physical Activity of the British...
The new All-Party Commission on Physical Activity of the British government has released a report which estimates at £20 billion (€24.27bn-$33.61bn) the annual cost to the country of the lack physical exercise by its population. It calculates that about 37,000 deaths could be avoided each year if people were physically more ...
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The European Parliament has approved a new set of...
The European Parliament has approved a new set of proposals on consumer safety and protection that include the obligation to put a label of origin on shoes and on all other kinds of products sold within the European Union except foods and drugs. The Federation of the European Sporting ...
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European importers may be able to recover some of...
European importers may be able to recover some of the anti-dumping duties that they had to pay for shoes sourced in China and Vietnam. Responding to a complaint filed by Puma, the financial court of Munich has formally asked the European Court of Justice to issue a verdict on ...
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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 test different climbing, biking, rafting, kayaking and mountaineering equipment during the “Outdoor Testival,” which is to be held on Sept. 4-7 at the Lago di Molveno in Italy, next to the Dolomites. A maximum of 250 sports enthusiasts are ...
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Chaco will be a platinum sponsor of the Outsiders Ball....
Chaco will be a platinum sponsor of the Outsiders Ball. Organized by the Outdoor Foundation of the U.S. on the eve of the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market in Salt Lake City, it raised last year nearly $400,000 to support 100 community projects across the country to promote greater participation in ...
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For the sixth year running, Keen Footwear is supporting the...
For the sixth year running, Keen Footwear is supporting the non-profit organization “Respect the mountains” in the organization of the “Envirotrek Clean Up Series” as a main sponsor. Envirotrek is a grassroots event series that takes place in the summer after the winter snow melts. Local companies and associations as ...
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GoMotion, the U.S.-based maker of wearable lighting systems for runners...
GoMotion, the U.S.-based maker of wearable lighting systems for runners and hikers, has signed up with Ragnar Events for both the Ragnar Road Relay Series and Ragnar Trail Relays as the exclusive “Wearable Lighting” national supplier for the 2014 season. Based in Utah, Ragnar Events is the largest overnight running ...
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IC Companys, parent company of Peak Performance, is joining the...
IC Companys, parent company of Peak Performance, is joining the Leather Working Group, whose members include companies such as Ecco, H&M and Timberland. The groups has an internet-based grading system that measures the level of compliance by tanners with specific guidelines for the level of harmful substances in leather and ...
