News Briefs – Page 463
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Rocky Brands continues to talk about plans to boost its...
Rocky Brands continues to talk about plans to boost its sales of outdoor shoes. In the third quarter, its total sales fell by 5.1 percent to $71.0 million because of a decline in its military business that offset increases in Western and hunting boots. Excluding the military business and Dickies, ...
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LaCrosse Footwear posted a 54.5 percent increase in net income...
LaCrosse Footwear posted a 54.5 percent increase in net income to $1.7 million for the third quarter ended on Sept. 24, although its total sales declined by 6.4 percent to $35.3 million. A gain of $800,000 from a legal settlement helped out. Sales to the outdoor market increased by 1 ...
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Daniel Humbel has replaced Philipp Schnell as chief executive of...
Daniel Humbel has replaced Philipp Schnell as chief executive of Transa, Switzerland's leading specialty retailer, effective Nov. 1. The company says that differing views on the future strategy between Schnell and the supervisory board led to Schnell's departure.
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Icebreaker, the kiwi Merino apparel brand, has promoted Maximilian Hofbauer...
Icebreaker, the kiwi Merino apparel brand, has promoted Maximilian Hofbauer to chief of European operations. He has been with the company since 2009, serving as managing director of Icebreaker's distribution company based outside Munich and in charge of Germany, Sweden and Norway. He will continue to direct the business in ...
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Iain Bradley is the new European business manager for performance...
Iain Bradley is the new European business manager for performance and protective fabrics of Invista's Cordura activities. His responsibilities comprise sales, marketing and business development in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) for apparel in the outdoor, military and performance segment – a sector that Cordura entered just recently, ...
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Olivier Gouby, a Frenchman who has been taking care of...
Olivier Gouby, a Frenchman who has been taking care of sales and marketing for Norrøna in France and Italy, has been reassigned to the post of European sales director for the Norwegian brand of outdoor apparel. Some of his former responsibilities will be taken over by Ludovic Daouze, a former ...
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Karl-Heinz Maurer, the managing director of Salewa Germany for 19...
Karl-Heinz Maurer, the managing director of Salewa Germany for 19 years who created his own consultancy firm in 2009, no longer cooperates with his partner HFT-Consulting, a similar company that puts its focus on the apparel and shoe business. Maurer says that synergies were not sufficient, but he emphasizes that ...
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Maxime Guillaumond, a former K2 executive, has been promoted to...
Maxime Guillaumond, a former K2 executive, has been promoted to sales director of the Raidlight and Vertical brands in the German-speaking countries. The French-born Guillaumond joined the combination of the two brands in April as sales & marketing coordinator and has assumed the additional function after Raidlight decided to take ...
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The European Outdoor Group is set to focus more on...
The European Outdoor Group is set to focus more on communication of its activities. EOG, therefore, has hired Mathias Basedow as marketing and communications associate as a fully employed staff member assisting Mark Held, the federation's secretary general, in meeting the increased the workload of the association, especially when it ...
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Magellan has appointed Pascal Darré as country manager for France....
Magellan has appointed Pascal Darré as country manager for France. He has worked for Philips Semiconductors and other firms. Notably, he became in 2006 marketing director of a GPS company, CompeGPS, before acting as a freelance consultant and journalist in the sector. FFRP, the French hiking and trekking association, has ...
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Lorpen, the Spanish maker of technical socks, has added 7,500...
Lorpen, the Spanish maker of technical socks, has added 7,500 square feet at its factory in Mexico and is working on expanding both its Mexican and Spanish production facilities by 17 percent with new higher-tech knitting machines. In addition, Lorpen has made some staffing changes to help the company expand. ...
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The board of the Outdoor Industries Association has seen some...
The board of the Outdoor Industries Association has seen some changes in the last weeks. Matthew Eastlake, the communications director for the Camping and Caravanning Club, is stepping down after two years, as is Martin Binnendijk, the former chief executive of Hi-Tec. Stephen Newlands, the managing director of AMG, will ...
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Halti, the Finnish winter sports and outdoor brand, opened its...
Halti, the Finnish winter sports and outdoor brand, opened its first store in the center of Helsinki on Friday. On the Finnish capital's busiest shopping street, across from the Stockmann department store, the Halti shop covers about 120 square meters. The brand already has several shop-in-shops and its distributor in ...
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Odlo is about to open three more stores in Germany,...
Odlo is about to open three more stores in Germany, one factory outlet in Metzingen and two regular stores in Mannheim and Dortmund. The latter two have a selling surface of some 130 square meters while the former is almost double that size. Currently, Odlo counts 48 single-brand stores across ...
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Salewa will open its fifth “Mountainshop” in Switzerland on Nov....
Salewa will open its fifth “Mountainshop” in Switzerland on Nov. 17. The store, on a selling surface of 123 square meters, will open in Sankt Gallen following other doors of that type in Davos, Zermatt, Pontresina and Grindelwald.
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EOCA, the European Outdoor Conservation Association, has picked Es Tresidder...
EOCA, the European Outdoor Conservation Association, has picked Es Tresidder as its first ambassador for EOCA's mission to support environmental projects. The Brit, who is sponsored by Mountain Equipment as well, holds various speed records in mountain running. Besides his athletic achievements he is preparing his PhD thesis on environmental ...
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Patagonia Footwear will put a stronger focus on promoting trail-running...
Patagonia Footwear will put a stronger focus on promoting trail-running by supporting extreme runner Krissy Moehl and the Ultra Running Team that bears Patagonia's name. Jointly, Patagonia and these athletes will develop a larger line of trail-running shoes. Additionally, it will increase its efforts in supporting major events such as ...
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Scarpa sponsored a special new 46.5-kilometer trail-running race through the...
Scarpa sponsored a special new 46.5-kilometer trail-running race through the slopes of Monte Grappa and neighboring hills in the Veneto region of Italy last month. Called Trail degli Eroi – Trofeo Scarpa (Heroes Trail – Scarpa Trophy), it involved about 300 participants and commemorated the death of 12,000 people in ...
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With great distress we learned that Holger Bismann, the chief...
With great distress we learned that Holger Bismann, the chief of Patagonia's European operations, passed away after a struggle of several months against cancer in October. He was 50 and leaves behind his wife, Christelle, and his daughters, Johanna and Helena, as well as many in the industry who admired ...
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Last Thursday, the Salewa/Operalp group opened officially its futuristic headquarters...
Last Thursday, the Salewa/Operalp group opened officially its futuristic headquarters in Bolzano, Italy. The avant-garde building, whose shape recalls that of a mountain, is self-sufficient in terms of energy and CO2 free and is set to supply also neighboring companies with solar energy. The building comprises the offices of the ...
