News Briefs – Page 422
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In the context of World Environment Day, which was organized by...
In the context of World Environment Day, which was organized by the United Nations Environment Program on June 5, Vaude announced that it was able to decrease its overall greenhouse gas emissions by 23 percent in 2012 as compared to the previous year. Since last year, the Vaude headquarters in Tettnang, ...
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Carl Elsener, “senior leader” of Victorinox, passed away at the...
Carl Elsener, “senior leader” of Victorinox, passed away at the age of 90. He had been lately the chairman of the company, founded by his family in 1884. He worked for the company behind the well-known Swiss army knife over a period of more than 70 years. Elsener was born in ...
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Canada Goose has expanded production by setting up a new...
Canada Goose has expanded production by setting up a new factory in Winnipeg. Over the past six months, the production capacity has been doubled and 25 new employees have been engaged. About 160 employees are going to work in the new factory, which measures 5,300 sqm. The factory includes areas ...
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Deuter inaugurated a brand-new headquarters last week. Located at Gersthofen...
Deuter inaugurated a brand-new headquarters last week. Located at Gersthofen outside Augsburg, Germany, the new site has a total surface of 20,000 square meters on three floors. The space includes 2,100 m² occupied by offices, a 100-m² shop and a 7,200-m² warehouse to process the three million-odd items that the ...
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SmartWool, a wholly-owned subsidiary of VF Corporation, has completed the...
SmartWool, a wholly-owned subsidiary of VF Corporation, has completed the renovation of its global headquarters at Steamboat Springs, Colorado, its design center in Boulder, and its development center in Tennessee. At a cost of $2.2 million, the renovation of the three offices has taken nearly four years of planning and ...
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Dynafit is building a research center in the Swedish town of...
Dynafit is building a research center in the Swedish town of Åre where the ski touring company will share its offices with the Swedish Winter Sports Research Center. The research institute is described as one of the three leading, international think tanks for snow sports research. The new Dynafit Development Center will be ...
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Canada Goose is on the lookout for new equity investors...
Canada Goose is on the lookout for new equity investors through a Canadian investment bank, Canaccord, says Reuters. The family-owned firm is apparently seeking new equity to support its strong growth, especially in the lifestyle segment of the market. For example, its sales in Germany have grown by 500 percent ...
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Shaw Gorman, the 47-year-old great-grandson of Leon Leonwood Bean, who...
Shaw Gorman, the 47-year-old great-grandson of Leon Leonwood Bean, who founded L.L. Bean in 1917, will be the new chairman of the American company, where he has already worked for more than 20 years in various functions, including brand communication. He will take the place of his father Leon A. ...
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Bradshaw Taylor is taking over as the new sales agent...
Bradshaw Taylor is taking over as the new sales agent for Black Diamond Equipment in the U.K. and Ireland after its contract with First Ascent expires in June. The British firm will also take care of the Pieps brand recently acquired by Black Diamond, and it will provide localized technical ...
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OCC, the U.K. trade publication, reports on a couple of...
OCC, the U.K. trade publication, reports on a couple of new distribution setups for the U.K. and Ireland. MBC has been appointed as U.K. distributor for the French ski brand Black Crows. MBC will be supporting both existing and new retailers of the brand with a higher marketing budget and has ...
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Columbia Sportswear has appointed Shawn Cox as senior vice president...
Columbia Sportswear has appointed Shawn Cox as senior vice president of retail, a newly created position that reports directly to Tim Boyle, president and chief executive officer. The 49-year-old Cox will be responsible for leading the company's brick-and-mortar retail and ecommerce operations in the U.S., Europe and Canada. Cox has ...
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Cousin Trestec has appointed Amorini as its Italian distributor. The...
Cousin Trestec has appointed Amorini as its Italian distributor. The French company is a leader in the production of braided ropes for climbing and other uses, manufacturing 47,000 kilometers a year at its own facilities in the north of France.
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Sub Zero Technology, British manufacturer of high-quality base layers and...
Sub Zero Technology, British manufacturer of high-quality base layers and outdoor apparel, has assigned Beijing Travel Mouse Outdoors Company for the distribution of the brand in China. Sub Zero is already distributing the brand in the Far East, Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea, where its 'made in England' label ...
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Alys Diffusion has assumed the distribution in France of Tropicare,...
Alys Diffusion has assumed the distribution in France of Tropicare, the Dutch company that markets the Care Plus line of travel health products. Since a couple of years ago, the French company has been distributing the outdoor and survival equipment and survival products of brands such as Meteor, Highlander, Kupilka ...
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Camila Vesth has been appointed as the new global design...
Camila Vesth has been appointed as the new global design director of Timberland International for apparel and accessories. She has been working most recently as head of creative apparel and director for Le Coq Sportif, and she has also been supervising the collections for Karmameju and for Run and Relax, ...
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Jeff Bowman is taking the place of Brad Poorman as...
Jeff Bowman is taking the place of Brad Poorman as the new chief executive of Cocona, the U.S.-based developer of active particle technologies used in technical apparel, footwear and other products. Bowman was most recently chief operating officer and technical officer at Massif in Ashland, Oregon. Like Poorman and other ...
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The North Face opened a new partner store in Vienna...
The North Face opened a new partner store in Vienna on April 26. The store, which measures 75 sqm and is situated in 'The Mall,' a shopping center in downtown Vienna, is the third partner store of TNF in Austria. It is managed by the Stefan + Reiter Group in ...
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Keen has opened its third single-brand store worldwide in Prague...
Keen has opened its third single-brand store worldwide in Prague on a selling area of 230 square meters. Like the other two doors, it is operated by the U.S. footwear company's Czech distributor, Outdoor Concept. The new shop is located in Zli?in, a shopping mall described as one of the ...
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A new design and visual merchandising concept has been adopted...
A new design and visual merchandising concept has been adopted by Bever Outdoor & Travel, the Dutch specialty outdoor retailer. Designed by Storeage, an Amsterdam-based retail design and strategy agency, it has been implemented in a premium Bever store in Rotterdam and will be rolled out to other stores of ...
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A group of Spanish entrepreneurs has launched Outdooing.com, described as...
A group of Spanish entrepreneurs has launched Outdooing.com, described as the first website that customers can use to buy and sell products related to outdoor sports at interesting prices. The initiative comes at a time where the consumption of all kinds of products is suffering in Spain because of a ...
