News Briefs – Page 455
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A group of 17 independent Spanish retailers focusing on outdoor...
A group of 17 independent Spanish retailers focusing on outdoor and mountain sports have launched a manifesto against price wars in this category. The retailers from all around the country appealed to brand owners and distributors to help create healthy competition in the Spanish market, and to protect the profit ...
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X-Bionic, the Swiss brand of functional under- and outerwear, has...
X-Bionic, the Swiss brand of functional under- and outerwear, has opened its first single-branded point of sale on 15 square meters at Shin Kong Plaza, the prestigious shopping mall in Beijing. According to Patrick Lambertz, the company's chief administrative officer, the shop reached a turnover of more than 10,000 yuan ...
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Shortly before this summer's Olympic Games, Marmot Mountain Europe is...
Shortly before this summer's Olympic Games, Marmot Mountain Europe is about to open its second corporate store in London. The door will be located in the Westfield Stratford City shopping mall in the northeast of the city, in the neighborhood of the Olympic venues. The outdoor brand opened its first ...
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Backcountry Access (BCA) reached an extremely high level of awareness...
Backcountry Access (BCA) reached an extremely high level of awareness with a film broadcast on YouTube that has been viewed by at least 730,000 people. The film shows an athlete, Meesh Hytner, taking part in a grass-roots snowboard freeriding event and getting into trouble with loads of snow. The rider ...
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Haglöfs is accompanying the launch of its skiing products range...
Haglöfs is accompanying the launch of its skiing products range with the sponsorship of the Scandinavian Big Mountain Championships. The event, which will take place in May at Riksgränsen in Kiruna, Swedish Lapland, is billed as the world's oldest and most prestigious freeskiing competition. Haglöfs has become its lead sponsor, ...
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As a record number of projects applied for funding by...
As a record number of projects applied for funding by the European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA) this year, the organization is asking the public to get involved and to vote on the applications that they think should obtain support. EOCA already received 31,000 votes from across Europe last year and ...
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Outdoor Sports Valley, the organization supporting the local French industry...
Outdoor Sports Valley, the organization supporting the local French industry of the Haute-Savoie province, is working on sustainability issues for its members and the industry. Created last year, a unit in charge of sustainable development has set up an agenda for this year that includes the adoption of the legal ...
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After moving its U.S. headquarters from California to Portland, Oregon,...
After moving its U.S. headquarters from California to Portland, Oregon, last year, Hi-Tec is busy deepening its roots at its new home. This is meant literally: Hi-Tec supports the ideals of Friends of Trees and its annual forest park planting event. The brand will pay the nonprofit organization $10,000 for ...
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For the third time in a row, Dynafit, Salewa's ski-touring...
For the third time in a row, Dynafit, Salewa's ski-touring brand, supports initiatives to protect snow leopards, the animal that the brand has in its logo. The company invites freeriders in Germany, France, Italy, Norway, Austria, Sweden and Switzerland to take part in the International Snow Leopard Day, an event ...
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Helly Hansen, the Norwegian outdoor and sailing brand, continues to...
Helly Hansen, the Norwegian outdoor and sailing brand, continues to enjoy the benefits of the strategic overhaul it launched four years ago, with a sales increase of 17 percent to just under 1.6 billion Norwegian kroner (€209.1m-$275.1m) last year. Its comparable Ebitda, excluding the survival unit divested early last year, ...
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OCC Outdoor, the U.K. trade publication, reports that Gelert, the...
OCC Outdoor, the U.K. trade publication, reports that Gelert, the big brand of camping and outdoor goods, has been sold to Jason Granite, a businessman who recently acquired the retail chain Yeoman's. The former owner is the company's founder, Alastair Langdon, who put the company in place as early as ...
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Albany International, the owner of the Primaloft brand, has announced...
Albany International, the owner of the Primaloft brand, has announced a strong increase in sales of this specialty brand of insulation products. In its fourth quarter, Primaloft's sales soared by 47.1 percent to $5.22 million, and its operating profit went up to $2.23 million – six times or so higher ...
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Crocs has announced that it has been exploring licensing agreements...
Crocs has announced that it has been exploring licensing agreements as a means to expand beyond footwear. The company said that more than 200 million pairs of Crocs had been sold in over 90 countries, and it was time to capitalize on the strength of the brand with other products. ...
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Chiruca suffered a 12.2 percent decline in its sales to...
Chiruca suffered a 12.2 percent decline in its sales to €12.5 million in 2011, according to CMD, as lower consumption levels in Spain combined with adverse weather conditions to drag them down from the record level of €14.2 million reached in 2010. On the other hand, sales outside Spain grew ...
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LaCrosse Footwear says its sales to the outdoor market declined...
LaCrosse Footwear says its sales to the outdoor market declined by 20 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011 and by 2 percent for the full year, despite the launch of a new line of hiking boots and higher sales of work boots for agriculture, mining and oil exploration. The ...
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A 40 percent drop in sales of outdoor gear, due...
A 40 percent drop in sales of outdoor gear, due to a 66 percent decline in sales of military tents, did not prevent Johnson Outdoors from posting a 2 percent increase in sales to $80.2 million for the first quarter of its financial year, which ended on Dec. 31, but ...
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OutDry, the Italian manufacturer of waterproof and breathable laminates for...
OutDry, the Italian manufacturer of waterproof and breathable laminates for gloves and footwear that is owned by Columbia Sportswear, has extended its portfolio of customers to Browning, which it supplies for the company's offer of gloves for hunting. Additionally, OutDry has sealed a deal with Celtek, a U.S. brand of ...
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Pacsafe, the specialty brand of locks and other travel safety...
Pacsafe, the specialty brand of locks and other travel safety devices, is expanding its business to Canada, where Stephen and Sue Kay – both in the sporting goods and travel gear business for 27 years – will take on the distribution. Meanwhile, Pacsafe has hired Patricia Hui as global director ...
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Icebug, the Swedish brand that focuses on footwear with grip...
Icebug, the Swedish brand that focuses on footwear with grip for icy conditions, is to be launched in South Korea and China in the next months. The company has teamed up with Seven Summits in South Korea and Go Rising in China. This comes as Icebug continues to expand rapidly, ...
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Ruffwear, the specialty outdoor brand for dog's gear, has picked...
Ruffwear, the specialty outdoor brand for dog's gear, has picked Ricochet as its sales agency for France. Ricochet currently serves the French market with products from Asolo, Lowe Alpine, Thorlo and others. Ruffwear's new partner in the Czech Republic and Slovakia is Outdoor Concept, whose sister company, Rock Point, is ...
