News Briefs – Page 462
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The North Face has launched an online platform in Europe...
The North Face has launched an online platform in Europe to promote safety in the mountains. The “kNOw boundaries” website contains several sections, focusing on items such as safe equipment, how to spot an avalanche, signs of unstable snow, and so forth. Each of them is animated by videos featuring ...
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The Outdoor Sports Valley initiative of France announces that the...
The Outdoor Sports Valley initiative of France announces that the next edition of the Tecnica Maxi-Race du Lac d'Annecy will take place on May 26-27 of next year. Participants can still sign up, although the number of participating athletes is limited. Last year, some 1,200 trail-runners joined the event, many ...
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Powertraveller, the U.K. specialty company for power recharge solutions outdoors,...
Powertraveller, the U.K. specialty company for power recharge solutions outdoors, will provide a special service to visitors of the upcoming Ispo show. Everybody with low power can leave his or her gadgets to have recharged at Powertraveller's booth (UE 502 B A5) which will be placed in the corridor between ...
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The North Face has set ambitious targets to increase the...
The North Face has set ambitious targets to increase the sustainability of its products and operations, as part of its first public sustainability report. The document takes stock of The North Face's progress in terms of sustainability in 2010 and sets objectives for the five years until 2015. Among others, ...
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The German government has created a national award for the...
The German government has created a national award for the protection of nature (“Deutscher Naturschutzpreis”). Under the helm of the German federal office in charge of the environment, all the first awards went to projects and organizations dedicated to the rescue and/or development of regional forests, plus a lifetime award ...
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Vaude has joined forces with the Plant for Planet initiative,...
Vaude has joined forces with the Plant for Planet initiative, an environmental organization founded in 2007 by the then-9-year-old (sic!) schoolboy Felix Finkbeiner. Vaude invited 57 kids from 19 schools in the region to the company's headquarters near Lake Constance. The idea behind Plant for Planet is to make the ...
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EOCA, the European Outdoor Conservation Association, has launched a new...
EOCA, the European Outdoor Conservation Association, has launched a new section on its website (outdoorconservation.eu). The section is dedicated to products which might encourage people to experience the outdoors. This gear section informs potential new consumers on what they need for a great day outside.
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Aku, the Italian manufacturer of functional footwear, is stepping in...
Aku, the Italian manufacturer of functional footwear, is stepping in to help the victims of disastrous rain falls in Italy last month. In connection with a local club of hiking enthusiasts, it will help financially to re-build the hard-hit village of Val di Vara through a relief fund.
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Ispo says that its Beijing show already enjoys a 36...
Ispo says that its Beijing show already enjoys a 36 percent increase in numbers of exhibitors and net surface alike. Directly or through their Chinese distributors, new exhibitors from the outdoor business will premier at Ispo Beijing, including Deuter, Vaude, Eagle Creek, Five Ten, Icebreaker, Salomon and X-Bionic. Meanwhile, Ispo ...
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A new outdoor trade show for consumers and professionals is...
A new outdoor trade show for consumers and professionals is emerging in the Italian market. The event, which is called Rainbow, will take place on the fairground built in 2009 in Piacenza, a centrally located city southeast of Milan. It is scheduled to be held from next April 13 through ...
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Gokaldas Exports, the largest manufacturer of sports apparel in India,...
Gokaldas Exports, the largest manufacturer of sports apparel in India, is reportedly holding talks with Jack Wolfskin and several other companies that want to shift some of their sourcing from China to other Asian countries. Based in Bangalore, Karnataka, Gokaldas is chiefly known in the sports industry as a supplier ...
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Compass Diversified Holdings, the new investor behind Camelbak, has secured...
Compass Diversified Holdings, the new investor behind Camelbak, has secured fresh money by striking a deal worth $515 million of new debts to push its existing business and to buy more companies. Most recently, the private equity firm said that it had sold its biggest company in the portfolio, Staffmark ...
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ABS Peter Aschauer, the specialty company of airbags and avalanche...
ABS Peter Aschauer, the specialty company of airbags and avalanche rescue backpacks, has decided to invest in its own production facility just 120 kilometers away from the equally new offices outside Munich. For the last three years, manufacturing has been sourced out to external partners, but ABS believes that own ...
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Entre Prises, a French company that is one of the...
Entre Prises, a French company that is one of the global leaders in the manufacture of climbing walls, is to buy one Spanish counterpart, Top 30 Climbing Walls. Founded in 1992 in Asturias, in the north of Spain, this manufacturer is said to be the market leader in its home ...
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Trilantic Capital Partners, a private equity firm active in North...
Trilantic Capital Partners, a private equity firm active in North America and Europe that focuses on consumer products among other segments, is buying Implus Corporation in partnership with
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Implus' chief executive, Seth Richards, and president, Todd Vore. Financial...
Implus' chief executive, Seth Richards, and president, Todd Vore. Financial details were not publicized. Implus specializes in insoles, shoe care products, socks, sports monitors and fitness products. Its brands include Sof Sole, Sof Comfort, Airplus, Apara, Yaktrax, Sneaker Balls, Little Hotties and Perfect fitness products. In an interview in September ...
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Equip Outdoor Technologies has completed its acquisition of Lowe Alpine...
Equip Outdoor Technologies has completed its acquisition of Lowe Alpine from Asolo for a reported amount of £20 million (€23.3m-$32.0m). To help finance the acquisition, an investment company, Matrix Private Equity, has taken a minority stake in Equip as well as a seat on its board of directors, chaired by ...
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Garmin's outdoor category managed to increase its sales by 5...
Garmin's outdoor category managed to increase its sales by 5 percent to $94.7 million in the third quarter, while the entire company's sales were down from $692.4 million to $667.0 million. The decline came basically from Garmin's largest division, automotive, for which the sales dropped by 13 percent to $384.2 ...
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Crocs has reported a 20.8 percent increase in net income...
Crocs has reported a 20.8 percent increase in net income to $30.2 million and a rise of 27.5 percent in revenues to $274.9 million for the third quarter. The company had predicted higher sales, but they came in below forecast in its U.S. stores and to a lesser extent in ...
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Teva's sales rose by 7.3 percent to $14.7 million in...
Teva's sales rose by 7.3 percent to $14.7 million in the third quarter, aided in part by a wider range of products and by the takeover of the distribution in the U.K. and the Benelux countries by its parent company, Deckers Outdoor Corporation. While the brand experienced higher shipments of ...
