News Briefs – Page 475
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Trekmates, the U.K. brand of technical apparel, has a new...
Trekmates, the U.K. brand of technical apparel, has a new partner: EV Group, an institutional investor that acquired a substantial minority stake in the Nottingham-based company. The whole deal was worth £8.7 million (€9.8m-$14.3m). For continued growth, Trekmates has additionally reached a debt facility with The Co-operative Bank.
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TRB Acquisitions has bought the assets of the children’s retailer...
TRB Acquisitions has bought the assets of the children’s retailer Rugged Bear and plans to relaunch the brand, which declared bankruptcy in January. The purchase includes the Rugged Bear and Live Life Rugged trademarks, logos, website, and style and pattern books.
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La Sportiva has formally announced a strategic agreement with Fulgent...
La Sportiva has formally announced a strategic agreement with Fulgent Sun Group, which has been its Chinese footwear supplier for the past 13 years. The Italian company has invested in a joint venture with Fulgent, called Fujian La Sportiva Co. Ltd., that will promote and distribute all the products of ...
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Boa Technology has changed the name of its Boa Lacing...
Boa Technology has changed the name of its Boa Lacing System to Boa Closure System as it takes its technology to markets beyond footwear. These include helmets by Pro-Tex and Smith; medical braces by Futuro and Exos Medical; apparel by Marmot; hydration packs by The North Face; and motorcycle gloves ...
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VF Corporation has broken ground on construction of a new...
VF Corporation has broken ground on construction of a new corporate headquarters for The North Face, JanSport and Lucy. The campus, set on 11 acres in Alameda, California, should be open for business in summer 2012. It will be made up of four buildings covering a total of 160,000 square ...
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Replicating the pattern of the last quarters, footwear and apparel...
Replicating the pattern of the last quarters, footwear and apparel marketed by Salomon and Arc’teryx fueled the quarterly sales increase of their owner, the Amer Sports group. Hiking and trail-running products pushed up the group’s footwear sales, particularly in Europe, while all its apparel ranges performed well. Furthermore, pre-orders for ...
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Crocs increased net income by 276.1 percent to $21.5 million...
Crocs increased net income by 276.1 percent to $21.5 million in the first quarter, lifted by a 36 percent increase in revenues to $226.7 million. The group booked strong sales growth in all distribution channels and geographies. Wholesale revenues increased by 36.9 percent to $164.6 million, retail by 32.5 percent ...
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Sales of PrimaLoft insulation products continued to grow in the...
Sales of PrimaLoft insulation products continued to grow in the first quarter of this year, up by 20.4 percent to $6.77 million, and they would have increased by a further seven percentage points if currency exchange rates had remained the same. PrimaLoft’s parent company, Albany International, booked a 17.8 percent ...
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Au Vieux Campeur, the leading French outdoor retailer, has started...
Au Vieux Campeur, the leading French outdoor retailer, has started selling a range of products on its website. The offering started last month with backpacks and food but was rapidly expanded with sleeping bags, camping furniture and climbing equipment. It should be widened further in the coming months but the ...
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Sports Experts, the price-driven Austrian chain of sporting goods, has...
Sports Experts, the price-driven Austrian chain of sporting goods, has launched its own private label for outdoor hard- and softgoods called Wilder Kaiser (“wild emperor”), named after the mountain in Tyrol. Vendors and distributors are quite worried about the extensive ambitions in exclusive brands of the big players in Austrian ...
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Intersport Eybl has created special spaces dedicated to “urban outdoor”...
Intersport Eybl has created special spaces dedicated to “urban outdoor” in its 10 megastores in Austria. With selling surfaces varying from 105 to 140 square meters, the chain puts its focus on less technical but stylish outdoor apparel and other products.
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Galeria Kaufhof, the big German department store chain and a...
Galeria Kaufhof, the big German department store chain and a subsidiary of the Metro Group operating in Germany and Belgium, has created a specialty banner for outdoor retailing. Under the roof of Sportarena, Kaufhof’s chain of specialty sports stores, the group launched two pilot stores called Wanderzeit (“hiking time”) in ...
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Barrabés, the leading outdoor retailer on the Spanish market, is...
Barrabés, the leading outdoor retailer on the Spanish market, is launching a new store of 1,000 square meters in the center of Zaragoza. It features among things a corner with books focusing in mountain-related subjects. It’s the 8th Barrabés in the country, not including its pioneering e-commerce operation, which began ...
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Marmot will open its first flagship store in Europe by...
Marmot will open its first flagship store in Europe by September. The shop is located in downtown Nuremberg on Kaiserstraße and has a selling surface of nearly 400 square meters. The same company has joined the European Outdoor Conservation Alliance (EOCA), formerly known as EOG Association for Conservation, as the ...
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Mammut has opened a new franchise store operated by Graf...
Mammut has opened a new franchise store operated by Graf Sport AG in the outdoor arena of Grindelwald, Switzerland. The shop opening was supported by mountaineers who hid a 30-kilogram wooden mammoth in the huge legendary Eiger north face above the town. The first four consumers who saw the mammoth ...
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Garmin has opened a pilot shop-in-shop at Engelhorn in Mannheim,...
Garmin has opened a pilot shop-in-shop at Engelhorn in Mannheim, whose selling surface of 9,600 square meters makes it one of the largest sports stores in Europe. The GPS specialty brand offers its range on a surface of some 20 square meters.
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The British Outdoor Industries Association has launched The Active Guide...
The British Outdoor Industries Association has launched The Active Guide (TAG), a web-based information portal that is set to give comprehensive information on outdoor activities for consumers all around the U.K. A special interest of www.theactiveguide.com is to provide information to all those people who are new to the British ...
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The Outdoor Foundation of America has put out its 2011...
The Outdoor Foundation of America has put out its 2011 Outdoor Recreation Participation Top-line Report. The study says that some 137.9 million Americans of 6 years of age and older participated in at least one outdoor activity in 2010. Altogether the report indicates that there were around 10.1 billion outdoor ...
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Lafuma is launching a new pan-European trail running circuit, by...
Lafuma is launching a new pan-European trail running circuit, by partnering with the organizers of 11 races due to be held in seven different countries this year, and possibly extended to Austria and Switzerland in 2012. The first race sponsored by the French firm already took place in Luxembourg last ...
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Timberland said it will plant one tree in Haiti for...
Timberland said it will plant one tree in Haiti for every response to its “Virtual Forest” application on Facebook, up to a target of one million trees. Planting trees in the Dominican Republic, Beijing, Madrid and other locations is also part of the initiatives that will be taken by Timberland ...
