News Briefs – Page 447
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Stefan Wahlén, former global sales director at Peak Performance, started...
Stefan Wahlén, former global sales director at Peak Performance, started as managing director for Patagonia Europe at the beginning of this month. After the untimely death of Holger Bismann last November, the European operation was run on an interim basis by Andrea Tomasini, the head of Patagonia in Italy, aided ...
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Martin van Urk, the general manager of Lafuma Nederland, has...
Martin van Urk, the general manager of Lafuma Nederland, has left the Dutch subsidiary of the French outdoor and action sports company, after it was restructured to focus entirely on the Lafuma and Oxbow brands. When it comes to the Lafuma brand, the Dutch team is to concentrate on camping ...
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Keen has opened its third corporate store in the Japanese...
Keen has opened its third corporate store in the Japanese capital of Tokyo. The shop is placed in a neighborhood called Harajuku in the Shibuya district. The brand has been in the Japanese market since 2004 and currently counts 1,000 retail partners in the country. The third own store follows ...
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Polartec has honored a couple of brands for their products...
Polartec has honored a couple of brands for their products using Polartec fabrics with the APEX Award 2012. This year's winning brands and their products, which will hit the European stores in autumn, are: 66° North (“Eldborg Jacket”), Eider (“Uphill Jacket & Uphill Pant”), Karpos (“Marmolada Jacket”), Kjus (“Equilibrium Jacket”), ...
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The Scandinavian Outdoor Group (SOG) has announced the award winners...
The Scandinavian Outdoor Group (SOG) has announced the award winners that were picked by an international jury of journalists that came together in Åre, Sweden, at the end of June. For summer 2013, the overall winner is the “Biom Hike” boot from Ecco, while the sustainability award goes to the ...
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Gregory is new sponsoring partner of hiking tour operators in...
Gregory is new sponsoring partner of hiking tour operators in Germany and Austria: The companies Clearskies and Alpinkreativ, an operator specializing in outdoor activities for women, will be supplied with gear packages for the customers.
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Patagonia launches the “Vote the Environment” campaign, in which it...
Patagonia launches the “Vote the Environment” campaign, in which it asks customers to learn about the environmental records of the candidates for the next presidential elections in the U.S. and vote for the world they live in. To achieve the campaign's objectives, Patagonia has partnered with the rock band Wilco, ...
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La Sportiva will launch a new clothing line dedicated to...
La Sportiva will launch a new clothing line dedicated to the world of mountain running and trail racing during the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen this week. The new line has been produced in collaboration with Samsung of South Korea, like the first skiwear collection that the company had recently released, ...
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Lafuma will present its first collection of sleeping bags entirely...
Lafuma will present its first collection of sleeping bags entirely designed in the U.S. at the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market in Salt Lake City in August. The French company began to integrate designs from the United States into its sleeping bag collections last season, when it commissioned Jason Belaire, owner ...
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GE has announced that Rab will launch GE's new eVent...
GE has announced that Rab will launch GE's new eVent DVL technology and fabrics at the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market on August 2-5 Salt Lake City, for introduction to the market in its spring 2013 line. Rab, headquartered in the U.K., produces outdoor apparel for extreme conditions. eVent DVL (direct ...
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Styl Grand has signed a licensing deal for the production...
Styl Grand has signed a licensing deal for the production and sale worldwide of T-Shoes, the brand of sneakers of Tecnica Group, starting with the spring/summer 2013. Introduced in 2003, they have been sold so far mostly in Italian shoe shops.
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Haglöfs, the Swedish outdoor brand, has joined the Fair Wear...
Haglöfs, the Swedish outdoor brand, has joined the Fair Wear Foundation (FWF) as part of its ambition to become a front-runner in terms of sustainability. The FWF is an independent organization that aims to improve labor conditions for workers in the garment industry, around eight basic standards stemming from international ...
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Another new member of the Fair Wear Foundation is Mountain...
Another new member of the Fair Wear Foundation is Mountain Equipment, which joined the club on July 1. Being a part of the U.K.-based Outdoor and Sports Company, along with other brands such as Sprayway, Ron Hill and Hilly, Mountain Equipment is the first British outdoor brand to join FWF.
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Patagonia's sales have doubled since 2008 to reach $540 million...
Patagonia's sales have doubled since 2008 to reach $540 million for the financial year ended last April, or 30 percent more than in the previous year, according to a report in The Seattle Times, and its profits have tripled in the same period. After 14 openings in the past year, ...
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Filson Holdings, an American producer of outdoor apparel and accessories...
Filson Holdings, an American producer of outdoor apparel and accessories whose origins date back to 1897, has been sold to Bedrock Manufacturing Company by its previous owner, Brentwood Associations. Financial details were not released. Under Brentwood's team of senior management, including Mark Korros as chief executive, the Filson brand was ...
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The French and British outdoor trade organizations have decided to...
The French and British outdoor trade organizations have decided to cooperate in various fields of common interests. The Outdoor Sports Valley of France and the British Outdoor Industries Association have signed a memorandum for a closer partnership. The alliance of OSV and OIA includes aspects such as sharing of services ...
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Finansavisen, a Norwegian newspaper, reports that inventories have been piling...
Finansavisen, a Norwegian newspaper, reports that inventories have been piling up at Bergans, due to the outdoor brand's relatively weak growth in its own market last year. As reported in our previous issue, Bergans' turnover jumped by more than 8 percent to nearly 700 million Norwegian kroner (€92.9m-$116.0m) last year, ...
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The International Cotton Advisory Council predicts that cotton prices will...
The International Cotton Advisory Council predicts that cotton prices will stay low because of high inventories for the next year. The council says that cotton stocks should rise by 43 percent to 13.3 million tons in the year that ends July 31, and should grow by another 9 percent to ...
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Outdoor Sports Valley, the association that federates outdoor sports companies...
Outdoor Sports Valley, the association that federates outdoor sports companies and organizations operating in France, has selected the three companies that will receive its support and that of local authorities this year. The group's selection committee reviewed seven applicants for this year's three slots. They chose Alps Bivouac, an organizer ...
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After five days of clashes between factory workers and the...
After five days of clashes between factory workers and the police, Bangladesh has decided to shut down 300 garment factories in the town of Ashulia. Some half a million workers are employed there, representing 60 percent of the people working in the country's textile industry. Apparel makes up 80 percent ...
