News Briefs – Page 452
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Red Wing has hired George Curleigh vice president for its...
Red Wing has hired George Curleigh vice president for its Vasque division. He formerly served as vice president in charge of sales at Arc'teryx and before at Salomon as managing director for the U.K.
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Galeria Kaufhof, the department store chain, has added a fourth...
Galeria Kaufhof, the department store chain, has added a fourth store to its specialty outdoor banner called Wanderzeit (“time for hiking”). The selling space of 490 square meters is located in a shopping mall in the German city of Hildesheim, Lower Saxony. Kaufhof launched the new concept last spring with ...
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Vibram has inaugurated a special store at 292 Newbury Street...
Vibram has inaugurated a special store at 292 Newbury Street in Boston to showcase its FiveFingers line of glove-styled shoes. It features “experience zones” to test its shoes on marble, woodchips, grass, stones and the kind of safety strips used in the subway. Some of the models are sold only ...
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The North Face has opened a partner store in cooperation...
The North Face has opened a partner store in cooperation with a franchisee in the French town of Annecy. The store has a selling surface of 170 square meters. The opening came after the opening of three shop-in-shops with surfaces between 30 and 140 square meters in St. Lary, Lyon ...
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Arc'teryx, the Canadian brand of outdoor apparel owned by Salomon,...
Arc'teryx, the Canadian brand of outdoor apparel owned by Salomon, is opening its first women-specific store in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. The store will be called Nuttallii, named after the Latin name for the floral emblem of British Columbia. The store opened earlier this week, with a soothing white-on-white ...
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About a year after joining the Fair Wear Foundation, Schöffel...
About a year after joining the Fair Wear Foundation, Schöffel has published its first social responsibility report. On 26 pages, the outerwear company gives insight in its supply chain to provide transparency on working conditions and related issues. The report highlights what Schöffel and its vendors have already accomplished in ...
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The European Outdoor Conservation Association has selected Nadine Horn to...
The European Outdoor Conservation Association has selected Nadine Horn to be one of its ambassadors, the group's first woman in this role. The hard-core athlete spent two months cycling around Spain last year – 150 kilometers per day – and this September will participate in her first “half ironman” competition. ...
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Meanwhile, EOCA has announced the environmental projects that were chosen...
Meanwhile, EOCA has announced the environmental projects that were chosen through a public vote via the internet in cooperation with various consumer magazines across Europe, such as TGO, Alpin, Lift, Bike and Trekking, Wider, and National Geographic. The winning projects, which will enjoy funding from EOCA this year, are the ...
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Simultaneously, EOCA has hired a couple of scholars to create...
Simultaneously, EOCA has hired a couple of scholars to create a panel of experts to give advice on the selection of future environmental projects. The group comprises professor Martin Price, director of the Centre for Mountain Studies at the Perth College, University of the Highlands and Islands, Jonny Hughes, director ...
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The EU has launched a program to support the development...
The EU has launched a program to support the development of sustainable cotton in Pakistan throughout the supply chain. It will cover the process from farm to final product, including liaisons with retailers and brands, and is funded by the Switch Asia initiative. WWF-Pakistan will fund the project, which is ...
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Regatta announced that it was awarded the prestigious “Queen's Award...
Regatta announced that it was awarded the prestigious “Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2012.” Given every year to companies in all sectors on the British queen's birthday, this is one of the U.K.'s most prestigious accolades for business performance. The only other British company remotely involved in the sporting ...
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GPS brand Falk Outdoor has sealed a sponsoring deal with...
GPS brand Falk Outdoor has sealed a sponsoring deal with Delius Klasing, a German publisher of a wide range of sports-related consumer magazines, including the magazine Bike, which is title sponsor of five major events across Europe: Falk will act as official navigation supplier at the Sympatex Bike Festival at ...
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Vibram is partnering with the Melloblocco event, the largest bouldering...
Vibram is partnering with the Melloblocco event, the largest bouldering meeting in the world bringing together thousands of climbers. The event in Northern Italy will be held May 3-6. A certified resoler from Vibram will be on hand to put new soles on shoes using the material of your choice ...
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Eider has organized a giant treasure hunt in the streets...
Eider has organized a giant treasure hunt in the streets of Paris to launch its spring range, focusing on breathability. The concept of the game, called the Eider Urban Game by Gore-Tex, was that participants should find one of the personalities sponsored by the brand, using the latest geo-finding apps ...
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Hirotaka Takeuchi, the Japanese mountaineer, has sealed a sponsoring deal...
Hirotaka Takeuchi, the Japanese mountaineer, has sealed a sponsoring deal with Komperdell, the Austrian manufacturer of ski and trekking poles. The 40-year-old father of two aspires to be the first Japanese ever to climb all mountains higher than 8,000 meters. He already climbed 13 of them, some of them with ...
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Salewa is launching program to help Nepalese women to become...
Salewa is launching program to help Nepalese women to become sherpas. For each product sold from its 5Continents collection, the company will donate one euro to the ONG Empowering Women of Nepal, which organizes a two-year training program for them in the areas of trekking and tourism.
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Outdoor China, the Shanghai-based trade show organized by Messe Frankfurt...
Outdoor China, the Shanghai-based trade show organized by Messe Frankfurt in cooperation with China Outdoor Commerce Alliance (COCA), the Chinese industry organization, said that there will be no show this year. The combined trade and consumer show was originally scheduled for July 5-7 at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre. However, there ...
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Nielsen, the organizer of the Outdoor Retailer show, is examinating...
Nielsen, the organizer of the Outdoor Retailer show, is examinating possible new locations for the event in cooperation with the U.S. Outdoor industry Association (OIA). Apparently, the managers of the successful show, which has been hosted in the Salt Lake City's Salt Palace Convention Center since 1996, feel that the ...
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A few years ago, Klaus Lenhart, the owner and managing...
A few years ago, Klaus Lenhart, the owner and managing director of Leki, called the editor of this newsletter. He approached me because he needed an idea for a press presentation. He sensed that “we need something more than just a showcase of our new products.” I replied: “If you ...
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Klaus Lenhart was definitely a product-driven man with a passion...
Klaus Lenhart was definitely a product-driven man with a passion to his gear. To improve the poles again and again was his mission, but he was also visionary: He did not believe just in constructing great poles. He saw the hand, the glove and the pole as a functional ...
