News Briefs – Page 401
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Dachstein has moved its head office from Kufstein to Salzburg....
Dachstein has moved its head office from Kufstein to Salzburg. According to the Austrian company, the new headquarters and its new collection reflect a new image. The office includes a showroom. The collection will be presented at the Ispo Munich show, where the brand is returning following its relaunch under ...
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Two American paddlesports company, Wenonah Canoe Inc. and C4 Waterman, announced...
Two American paddlesports company, Wenonah Canoe Inc. and C4 Waterman, announced their merger at the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market in Salt Make City on Wednesday. Wenonah's international distribution network will take care of C4's products.
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NRS, the Idaho-based manufacturer of rugged paddling gear and high-performance...
NRS, the Idaho-based manufacturer of rugged paddling gear and high-performance inflatable watercraft, announced that, as of 2014, the company is 100-percent owned by its employees. The staff have assumed full ownership of the company after purchasing all outstanding stock from its independent shareholders. The move tops a bold year for ...
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Noting that he is a runner himself, Angel Martinez, president...
Noting that he is a runner himself, Angel Martinez, president of Deckers Outdoor Corp., tells Footwear News that he sees the recently acquired Hoka One One brand of trail running shoes hitting an annual turnover of $100 million within a short time. The company told investment analysts at the ICR ...
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Hydrapak, the U.S.-based producer of innovative hydration systems, has announced...
Hydrapak, the U.S.-based producer of innovative hydration systems, has announced that it has doubled the size of its headquarters in Oakland, California. The expansion comes on the heels of its new partnership with REI, as the retailer selected Hydrapak's award winning SoftFlasks to headline its “First to Market” program, selling ...
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Nano-Tex has been acquired by Crypton Fabrics from private equity...
Nano-Tex has been acquired by Crypton Fabrics from private equity and venture capital investors. Sellers included WL Ross and Co. LLC, Norwest Venture Partners, Masters Capital Nanotechnology Fund, Firelake Capital Management and Masters Capital Management. Nano-Tex employs a proprietary nanotechnology approach to enhance textiles that provides permanent performance attributes such ...
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Sympatex Holding has completed the sale of bonds worth €13...
Sympatex Holding has completed the sale of bonds worth €13 million, with a coupon of 8 percent and maturing in five years' time. They are trading on the Open Market of the Deutsche Börse. The management says that 30 percent of the proceeds will be invested in product development and ...
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Ploucquet, an affiliate of Sympatex Holding in Germany, will move...
Ploucquet, an affiliate of Sympatex Holding in Germany, will move all activities to its production site in Zittau. In addition to the existing “Tection” division, which covers technical textiles and applications, all the activities of the “Textiles” business area, which also includes fashion textiles, will also be operated in Zittau, ...
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Casey Sheahan is leaving next Feb. 7, as chief executive...
Casey Sheahan is leaving next Feb. 7, as chief executive and president of Patagonia, a role that he held since March 2006, to return to his family in Colorado. His positions are being taken over by Rose Macario, CEO of the parent company, Patagonia Works. Both have been working closely ...
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Andy Rubin, chief executive of Pentland Brands, has appointed Richard...
Andy Rubin, chief executive of Pentland Brands, has appointed Richard Leedham as brand president for Berghaus on an interim basis as the executive search for a successor to Richard Cotter continues. Leedham has been with Pentland for 18 years, and for the last nine years he has been a member ...
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Icebreaker, the New Zealand company specializing in outdoor merino wool...
Icebreaker, the New Zealand company specializing in outdoor merino wool apparel, has hired Dion Taylor as the company's general manager for Europe. In this new position, Taylor will be responsible for the company's multi-channel strategy, including the expansion of digital marketing and the introduction of select retail stores across Europe, ...
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Stephan Hagenbusch, 34, has been appointed European marketing manager for...
Stephan Hagenbusch, 34, has been appointed European marketing manager for Black Diamond Equipment, taking the place of Saskia Stock, who is joining Transa, the largest outdoor retailer in Switzerland, and its marketing manager. Hagenbusch comes from Amer Sports, where he took care of marketing for Salomon and Suunto in Germany ...
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Vaude has announced that Peter Sontheimer, chief product officer, has...
Vaude has announced that Peter Sontheimer, chief product officer, has joined its executive board effective Jan. 1, 2014, in a move to anchor the Products segment at the executive level of the brand. In his 20 years with the German outdoor company, Sontheimer has significantly influenced the development of the ...
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Claudio Angaran has been named international sales and marketing manager...
Claudio Angaran has been named international sales and marketing manager of Garmont. The Italian executive has worked in the past 15 years for three other Italian outdoor firms: Trezeta, La Sportiva and Aku. Angaran takes the place of Gian Luca Farinazzo, who has left the company to work for Lowa. ...
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Chris Parkhurst, who has been running MSR's alpine and snow...
Chris Parkhurst, who has been running MSR's alpine and snow tools division, has been promoted to vice president of MSR, with profit and loss responsibility and tasked with creating new product, marketing and sales strategy for the brand, which belongs to Cascade Designs. Parkhurst is said to have been instrumental ...
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Kamik, a division of Genfoot, has appointed Michel Benoit as...
Kamik, a division of Genfoot, has appointed Michel Benoit as chief marketing officer. In his role, Benoit will oversee product development, sales and marketing initiatives. Benoit was previously at Boulart, makers of artisan bread, where he was vice president of global sales and business development since 2011. Prior to this, ...
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Petzl America, the North American subsidiary of Petzl, has appointed...
Petzl America, the North American subsidiary of Petzl, has appointed Oliver McLeod to a new position as manager of the company's new Petzl Technical Institute (PTI) in Clearfield, Utah, which will develop and deliver technical training programs in verticality for its network of so-called Petzl Technical Partners, or PTPs. These ...
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Creating a new position, Curtlo, one of the major outdoor...
Creating a new position, Curtlo, one of the major outdoor brands in Brazil, has appointed Fernando Gonzalez as its sales director. He previously acted as sales manager for Hi-Tec Sports at the company's Brazilian distributor, DLD.
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Black Diamond's president and chief executive, Peter Metcalf, has been...
Black Diamond's president and chief executive, Peter Metcalf, has been named a director of the Salt Lake City Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco for a three-year term that began on Jan. 1, 2014. Metcalf replaces Scott Hymas, chairman of the board of the Salt Lake City ...
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Oboz Footwear, the fast-growing American brand of outdoor shoes known...
Oboz Footwear, the fast-growing American brand of outdoor shoes known for its special footbeds, has signed a distribution agreement with the Bollin Group for the U.K., effective immediately. This will allow the brand to show in Europe for the first time at Ispo Munich, in Hall A6, in the next ...
