News Briefs – Page 398
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Aigle has launched a new version of its website which...
Aigle has launched a new version of its website which provides visitors with intuitive access to e-commerce functions. The website is managed by The Other Store and is already operational in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. In partnership with SoCloz, customers can also book products online to try them on ...
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The year 2013 was very good for Norrøna. The Norwegian...
The year 2013 was very good for Norrøna. The Norwegian company grew by nearly 30 percent, with sales amounting to about 360 million Norwegian kroner (€43.5m-$59.4m). In an interview published by Sportsbransjen, Norrøna's chief executive, Jørgen Jørgensen, explained that the company's strong growth comes after many years of clear distribution ...
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The North Face is reportedly testing artificial intelligence by IBM...
The North Face is reportedly testing artificial intelligence by IBM Watson in its online shop. Through its new software, the website helps to reply to questions regarding the most suitable gear for a winter expedition, for example. It proposes various types of sleeping bags based on the opinions expressed by ...
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Mammut is recommending that end users should check out the...
Mammut is recommending that end users should check out the connectors of some models of avalanche airbags delivered for the winter 2011/12 and 2012/13 seasons under the Mammut and Snowpulse brand names. They should do so as part of their regular equipment check. Inspections indicate that airbags produced for those ...
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Adidas Outdoor has signed a sponsorship agreement with Hayley Ashburn,...
Adidas Outdoor has signed a sponsorship agreement with Hayley Ashburn, a 25-year world slacklining champion. She set the record for the highest highline by a woman in Yosemite Valley, where slacklining started back in the 1970s. Last month, she was part of the first team to have successfully walked a ...
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Mizuno, which recently set up its own sales subsidiary in...
Mizuno, which recently set up its own sales subsidiary in Spain for the Iberian Peninsula (more on this in SGI Europe) is investing in trail running but sponsoring two brothers, Angel and Mario Llorens, and their sister Rosi. They have all reached the highest rankings in various trail running competitions ...
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W.L. Gore took the first place this year in France...
W.L. Gore took the first place this year in France among the “Great Places to Work” that employ less than 500 people. It's not the first time that the Great Place to Work Institute gives it this honor. It has already won similar mentions in national competitions in France as ...
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Ferrino is sponsoring a new expedition by Michele Pontrandolfo where...
Ferrino is sponsoring a new expedition by Michele Pontrandolfo where he will march alone for 1,000 kilometres across the North Pole. He will be using a sleeping bag specially developed together with the Italian company. The Italian athlete has undertaken 14 similar expeditions in the North Pole, Greenland, Iceland, Patagonia ...
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Hoka One One has signed up two more athletes to...
Hoka One One has signed up two more athletes to its team of runners. One is Magdalena Lewy-Boulet, an Olympic runner and the other is Nicole Schappert, an All-American Miler.
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A new consumer-oriented outdoor festival and trade show, Outdoor Show...
A new consumer-oriented outdoor festival and trade show, Outdoor Show Belgium 2014, is being launched in Belgium for Sept. 26 to 28. The venue is a large area at Libramont that is used every year for a big agricultural fair. It is located close to the French, German and Dutch ...
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The Conference Group, which belongs to the German publishing company...
The Conference Group, which belongs to the German publishing company behind Textilwirtschaft, is organizing a new annual convention for the outdoor sector. Outdoor Business 2014 is scheduled to take place at the Hilton Hotel in Frankfurt on May 27. Ulrich Dausien, who runs McTrek, is going to be the keynote ...
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Kielce Sport Zima, the winter edition of the Polish sports...
Kielce Sport Zima, the winter edition of the Polish sports and outdoor fair, which was held on Feb. 12-15, welcomed a total of 140 exhibitors, presenting their new collections to more than 3,000 trade visitors from 13 countries. For the first time, the organizers of the show integrated a special ...
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The 6th International Workshop on Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances...
The 6th International Workshop on Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances (PFAS) will take place in Idstein, Germany, on June 15-18. Speakers at the four-day conference will include Christoph Schulte from the German Federal Environment Agency, who will discuss exposure, and Christopher Lau of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, who will ...
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The Environment Directorate of Norway has recommended a postponement of...
The Environment Directorate of Norway has recommended a postponement of its ban on the importation and sale of consumer products containing PFOA produced before June 1, 2014. However, there will be no changes to the ban on the manufacture of products containing this substance, for which the deadline was the ...
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Thule Group has released its second annual environmental report, which...
Thule Group has released its second annual environmental report, which highlights the major progress it made in 2013 in the use of renewable energy and sustainable processes. At its U.S.-based site in Fall River, Massachusetts, the group reduced water consumption by 44 percent through closer monitoring of the washing system ...
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Columbia Sportswear said that by raising over $123,000 in 2013...
Columbia Sportswear said that by raising over $123,000 in 2013 alone, its overall donation from its Tested Tough in Pink Collection exceeded $1 million. Since 2007 the U.S.-based outdoor company, in collaboration with participating retailers, has helped the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) provide thousands of free mammograms and early ...
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On March 7, Mogens Arens, the owner of Oase Outdoors,...
On March 7, Mogens Arens, the owner of Oase Outdoors, the Danish maker of camping equipment and marketer of the brands Outwell, Robens and Easy Camp, passed away after a long illness. Arens was 74. He founded Oase Outdoors and ran the company between 1984 and 2004 when he handed ...
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JD Sports Fashion has taken over yet another British...
JD Sports Fashion has taken over yet another British outdoor retailer, Ultimate Outdoor, which operates three stores under its own name in Northern England and Wales, plus a Planet Fear store in Keswick. Based in Lancaster, it has been running in its present form since 1999, but its roots reportedly ...
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The Lafuma Group has reported the successful completion of an...
The Lafuma Group has reported the successful completion of an equity increase of €10 million, but the company had not yet published the new structure of the capital as of today. In a preliminary report, the group has indicated that its sales inched up by 2.8 percent in the quarter ...
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Lorpen, the high-performance sock maker from Spain, faced financial problems...
Lorpen, the high-performance sock maker from Spain, faced financial problems during 2013, but is currently in discussions with a potential investor and the deal should be finalized in the next few months. As it turns out, the company recorded last year 10 percent growth in sales in the U.S. and ...
