News Briefs – Page 409
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SportScheck, Germany's largest sporting goods retailer, has opened its new...
SportScheck, Germany's largest sporting goods retailer, has opened its new high-tech flagship store in Munich on a net sales surface of 10,200 square meters. The store employs a staff of 250 people and offers some 30,000 different products under 530 brands, arranged by sports category and led by outdoor, running ...
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Quechua, the outdoor brand of Décathlon, is preparing the launch...
Quechua, the outdoor brand of Décathlon, is preparing the launch of its own smartphone and its own tablet for outdoor enthusiasts in France, Spain and possibly other countries carrying retail prices of about €230 and €280, respectively. According to press reports that the retailer declined to confirm before a presentation ...
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Julbo won the Silmo d'Or award at the recent Silmo...
Julbo won the Silmo d'Or award at the recent Silmo eyewear show in Paris for its Tensing Flight sunglasses in the sports category. Developed for base jumping and other extreme sports, the Tensing Flight model features an adaptable nosepad, and its temples have been replaced by an elastic band. The ...
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Confirming an article in SportEco, TSL says it is going to...
Confirming an article in SportEco, TSL says it is going to launch a highly innovative Nordic walking pole at the 2014 OutDoor show, but doesn't want to give away any details. The French snowshoe specialist already markets a line of rather technical Nordic walking poles, with sales stablizing at around 20,000 ...
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A highly respected triathlon champion, Conrad “The Caveman” Stoltz has...
A highly respected triathlon champion, Conrad “The Caveman” Stoltz has joined the athletes' team of Hoka One One, the brand of trail running shoes founded by Jean-Luc Diard and Nicolas Meroud four years ago and taken over by Deckers Outdoor Corporation at the end of last year. The native South ...
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La Sportiva has created its own team of ski-touring athletes...
La Sportiva has created its own team of ski-touring athletes called “La Sportiva Mountain Attack Team” named after Mountain Attack, a major ski touring race in Austria which usually attracts some 1,000 participants from 15 countries. The next Mountain Attack, the 16th altogether since it came into existance, will be ...
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Grifone is organizing a contest intended to associate its image...
Grifone is organizing a contest intended to associate its image with the Pyrenees Mountains, where the Spanish outdoor apparel company has its headquarters. It will select by Jan. 31 an adventurer with good communication skills who will receive €6,000 from Grifone to tour throughout the mountain range in a camping ...
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Chiruca, the Spanish brand of outdoor shoes, has just launched...
Chiruca, the Spanish brand of outdoor shoes, has just launched the second round of its marketing campaign on social networks. The new contest is called “Pieza a pieza,” which means “Piece by piece.” Chiruca's followers on social networks are invited to complete a puzzle online as quickly as they can. ...
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Point6, the U.S.-based maker of merino wool socks, sponsored the...
Point6, the U.S.-based maker of merino wool socks, sponsored the second edition of the Pedal the Plains tour, the annual three-day bike ride across south eastern Colorado, which was held this year on Sept. 20-22. The event is organized, among others, by the Colorado Tourism Office and The Denver Post. ...
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Vaude is going to launch a new advertising spot in...
Vaude is going to launch a new advertising spot in 70 cinemas in Germany, Austria and Switzerland during the month of November. The 30-second spot covers all of Vaude's product segments: mountain sports, bike sports and backpacks. The longer version of the spot, 4 minutes long, will be presented online. ...
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Responding to strong demand from the sports and outdoor industry,...
Responding to strong demand from the sports and outdoor industry, the Ispo fair in Munich has decided to enlarge its Ispo Inspire exhibition area next year to show what individual companies and brands are doing in the area of sustainability and corporate social responsibility. The space dedicated to this exhibit ...
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Arc'teryx will replicate its annual Bird's Nest project at the...
Arc'teryx will replicate its annual Bird's Nest project at the Globetrotter mega-store in Cologne this weekend. Industry officials and consumers are being encouraged to put together waterproof capes for the homeless in the area, using remnants of Gore-Tex fabrics and other products from the Canadian factory in Vancouver. W. ...
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Tashi Sherpa, president of Sherpa Adventure Gear, will be among...
Tashi Sherpa, president of Sherpa Adventure Gear, will be among the speakers at a conference organized by the Outdoor Industries Association (OIA) of the U.K. in connection with its annual general meeting. A member of the British Parliament, Rory Stewart, and Richard Leafe, chief executive of the Lake District National ...
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A jury has elected Sympatex Technologies' Moisture Tech Volterra polyester-polyamide...
A jury has elected Sympatex Technologies' Moisture Tech Volterra polyester-polyamide compound to get the 2013 Performance Award at the Munich Performance Days, the sports textiles show due to be held on Nov. 19-21 in the Bavarian capital. It picked Sympatex' four-layer footwear laminate among more than 600 submissions. The product ...
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General Electric's expanded polytetrafluorothylene membranes, called in eVent and used...
General Electric's expanded polytetrafluorothylene membranes, called in eVent and used in fabrics for apparel and footwear, have been awarded the Oeko-Tex Standard 100 certification. This standard is described as a comprehensive, global certification program for the safety of textile products that tests them for chemical substances believed to be harmful ...
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The Hohenstein Institute in Bönnigheim, Germany has developed some new...
The Hohenstein Institute in Bönnigheim, Germany has developed some new tests to determine the so-called “g-value,” a measure for the energy transmittance of materials. Textile manufacturers can use the results of these tests to optimize their products with specific regard to low energy transmission. The g-value is composed of the ...
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Bluesign Technologies has appointed a dedicated staff for North America....
Bluesign Technologies has appointed a dedicated staff for North America. It will be headed by Kevin Myette who has been named director of customer relationship management for the U.S. and Canada, servicing North American companies that are affiliated with Bluesign. Myette has worked for 26 years at REI, the U.S. ...
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Marmot Mountain has announced a repeat of last year's partnership...
Marmot Mountain has announced a repeat of last year's partnership with the Grassroots Outdoor Alliance, with a goal to raise up to $10,000 in November for the Conservation Alliance in the U.S. For any Marmot products priced at $99.00 or more bought from the retailers affiliated with the Grassroots Outdoor ...
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Zeal Optics, an American brand of sunglasses that recently joined...
Zeal Optics, an American brand of sunglasses that recently joined the European Conservation Alliance, continues to spread its environmental message. As we already reported on Aug. 9, Zeal released earlier this year the world's “greenest” sunglasses, using a patented biodegradable compound based on cotton, called Ace. The company, which is ...
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VF Corp. is currently developing a list of chemicals whose...
VF Corp. is currently developing a list of chemicals whose use will be banned in the production processes of its suppliers. The company also intends to control the finished products to ensure compliance. This is what Peter Higgins, senior manager, product and supply chain sustainability for the group, announced at ...
