News Briefs – Page 408
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Wade Davis, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence from Canada, will be...
Wade Davis, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence from Canada, will be the keynote speaker at the Conservation Alliance Breakfast during the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market next Jan. 23. The anthropologist and botanical expert, who is also a poet, will tell the story of the fight won by his community in British ...
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Equip Outdoor Technologies, the British company that owns Rab and...
Equip Outdoor Technologies, the British company that owns Rab and Lowe Alpine, has reached an agreement to sell the Podsacs brand to Planet X, the U.K. bike maker and retailer based in Sheffield. Equip, which is based in Derbyshire, acquired the Podsacs brand in 2007 from Pete O'Donovan, a climber ...
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Sport Partner reports that Snowworld, the company behind two indoor...
Sport Partner reports that Snowworld, the company behind two indoor skiing centers in Zoetermeer and Landgraaf, at the south-eastern tip of the Netherlands, is preparing for a stock market flotation to raise €7.5 million for further expansion. All going well, Snowworld should be listed on Euronext in Amsterdam by the ...
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Amer Sports has issued a bond worth 750 million Swedish...
Amer Sports has issued a bond worth 750 million Swedish kronor (€85.4m-$115.4m) to institutional investors, with a floating rate and a loan period of five years. It will use the bond for the repayment of loans and general corporate purposes. Nordea Markets acted as the sole book-runner for the bond, ...
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Amer also reports that a total of 19,109 shares granted...
Amer also reports that a total of 19,109 shares granted as share-based incentives were returned to Amer Sports on Nov. 7 in accordance with the terms of an incentive plan as the employment of their holders came to an end. Amer holds now a total of 982,587 shares of its ...
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Osprey Europe has adopted the iVendix B2B e-commerce platform of...
Osprey Europe has adopted the iVendix B2B e-commerce platform of CenterStone Technologies. CenterStone's B2B e-commerce platform allows customer to check out Osprey's products online and order them at any time, seven-days-a-week. They can check stock availability for orders or reorders and monitor the status of orders already placed. CenterStone's multi-language ...
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Simone Favero has been appointed marketing coordinator for Scarpa. Reporting...
Simone Favero has been appointed marketing coordinator for Scarpa. Reporting to Cristina Parisotto, marketing manager from the family that owns Scarpa, she has taken over some of the responsibilities of Riccardo Milani, who has left the Italian company.
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Patagonia has promoted John Collins to the new role of...
Patagonia has promoted John Collins to the new role of vice president of global sales, reporting directly to Casey Sheahan, chief executive of the company. Collins served at the company for the last three years as vice president for the Americas and Asia-Pacific. He previously acted as vice president of ...
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Black Diamond Inc. has promoted Aaron Kuehne to the position...
Black Diamond Inc. has promoted Aaron Kuehne to the position of chief financial officer, after an extensive external search for a possible alternative candidate for the post. He had already served as interim CFO and principal accounting officer since last March 15 following the departure of Robert Peay after 16 ...
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Poc Sweden, the helmet specialist acquired by Black Diamond last...
Poc Sweden, the helmet specialist acquired by Black Diamond last year, is investing more in its eyewear line, which was first presented at the Mido eyewear show in Milan last year. It has hired a new global marketing director for its eyewear business unit, Jonas Söderqvist, replacing Sarah Laurell in ...
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Big Agnes, a growing American manufacturer of sleeping bags and...
Big Agnes, a growing American manufacturer of sleeping bags and other outdoor products, has announced the appointment of Katie Hughes as marketing specialist and Kaitlin Cowart as graphic design assistant. An expert in strategic marketing, Hughes worked most recently in marketing and sales at Point6 and Smartwool, respectively. .Named after ...
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Hydrapak has appointed Jordan Phillips as director of sales, with...
Hydrapak has appointed Jordan Phillips as director of sales, with a focus on its consumer products. He worked most recently at Levi Strauss & Co., but was previously sales manager and director of sales at Gregory Mountain Products and Overland Equipment. He has been an advisor to major outdoor brands. ...
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Longworth Industries, and American producer of underwear “made in the...
Longworth Industries, and American producer of underwear “made in the USA,” has hired Keith Myers as sales director for its brand of baselayers, Polarmax, in a bid to expand its presence in the outdoor and casual apparel markets. Myers has worked for more than 20 years in the apparel sector, ...
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Pelican International, the Canadian maker of plastic boats, has appointed...
Pelican International, the Canadian maker of plastic boats, has appointed Alex Tongue as its new agent for Europe, effective immediately. Tonge has worked as Pelican's distributor in the U.K. for more than 10 years and is therefore very familiar with Pelican's Twin Sheet Thermoforming technology and its product portfolio. He ...
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B. Robinson has hired Alex Webb, a former official of...
B. Robinson has hired Alex Webb, a former official of Revo, to fill the new position of vice president of U.S. sales for the specialty outdoor, sporting goods and sunglass retailer channels. B. Robinson recent licensed the Revo brand of sunglasses from Sequential Brands, which bought it from Luxottica. Webb ...
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Adidas Outdoor has appointed Viking Nord Pool as its exclusive...
Adidas Outdoor has appointed Viking Nord Pool as its exclusive agent for the Italian market on an experimental basis, starting with the spring/summer 2014 collection. Adidas was previously covering the Italian market through its own sales subsidiary for its outdoor products, but it had little success with outdoor specialty retailers. ...
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Dare 2b, the British mountain sports brand, reports on a...
Dare 2b, the British mountain sports brand, reports on a new partnership with Moore Large, which claims to be the U.K.'s largest distributor of bicycles, parts and accessories. It will distribute Dare 2b's new range of cycling apparel to bike dealers in the U.K. and Ireland from next February, complementing ...
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Napapijri, the Italian sportswear label owned by VF Corp., is...
Napapijri, the Italian sportswear label owned by VF Corp., is making a comeback into the U.S. market through an agreement with Moosejaw Mountaineering to be its exclusive online retailer in the country. Napapijri had left the market in 2009 after closing down its U.S. stores to concentrate on Europe. Moosejaw ...
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Snow Factory has taken on the exclusive distribution in Spain...
Snow Factory has taken on the exclusive distribution in Spain of the sports nutrition products of Multipower in the multi-sport, triathlon, outdoor and ski retail channels. Sales and marketing will be handled by Daniel Rosal, who took care of Speedo in Spain between 1998 and 2008. He is the son ...
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Timbuk2 opened on Oct. 31 its first store outside the...
Timbuk2 opened on Oct. 31 its first store outside the U.S. in Singapore through Primer-Uniglobe Singapore, a member of the Primer Group of companies. The store is also the first one to offer an “in-store customization experience” for its products outside the U.S., and the company says this is the ...
