News Briefs – Page 480
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The North Face will be the official outfitter of the...
The North Face will be the official outfitter of the U.S. free-ski team at the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympic Games, according to The Wall Street Journal, which quotes a ticket of more than $6.5 million for the deal. Another report indicates that the deal is part of a new ...
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The Czech anti-trust authority confirmed last Feb. 3 the fines...
The Czech anti-trust authority confirmed last Feb. 3 the fines that it had ordered against Husky and Pinguin in 2009 on charges of fixing prices for tents, backpacks, sleeping bags and clothing with Czech retailers. Husky had been assessed a fine of 2,316,000 Czech crowns (€95,000-$130,000), while the smaller Pinguin ...
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The agency KlimaHaus has granted a certificate of quality named...
The agency KlimaHaus has granted a certificate of quality named ?Work & Life? to the new headquarters of Salewa in Bolzano that is under construction. KlimaHaus evaluated the new building considering ecology, corporate culture and economic transparency, and gave Salewa the top grade, ?summa cum laude.?
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Vaude has successfully passed Bluesign screening for its own production...
Vaude has successfully passed Bluesign screening for its own production plant in Germany. At the headquarters in Tettnang, the company manufactures fashionable bags and waterproof bags for bicycles. The same company has teamed up with the German section of the World Wildlife Fund: 1 percent from the sales of Vaude's ...
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Jack Wolfskin has joined forces with PrimaKlima, an environmental initiative,...
Jack Wolfskin has joined forces with PrimaKlima, an environmental initiative, to plant trees on a total surface of 100 hectares in Germany, Nicaragua and South Africa. The idea behind the project is the compensation for the CO2 that Jack Wolfskin produced in 2010. Simultaneously, the brand is working on reducing ...
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Nikwax and its sister company for garments, Páramo, are launching...
Nikwax and its sister company for garments, Páramo, are launching their joint initiative called ?Green Retailer.? If retail customers fulfill certain criteria, they will be awarded the title of ?Nikwax & Páramo Green Retailer.? Customers are invited to fill out a questionnaire giving information on the shops' ecological footprint, including ...
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Petzl is furious about a major attack of Chinese counterfeiters...
Petzl is furious about a major attack of Chinese counterfeiters who not only copy the brand's products, but also use the logo and other nearly identical features. As of this writing, Petzl has identified four products that were skillfully faked: the ?Croll? ascender, the ?Attache? locking carabiner, the ?Ascension? handled ...
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Heimplanet (?home planet?) is introducing ?The Cave,? a tent without...
Heimplanet (?home planet?) is introducing ?The Cave,? a tent without poles. ?The Cave? was developed by Stefan Clauss and Stefan Schulze Dieckhoff, two entrepreneurs from Hamburg, whose innovation is based on a so-called ?IDG? (inflatable diamond grid) and can be inflated in less than a minute.
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Berghaus' new hybrid down jacket made its debut at Ispo...
Berghaus' new hybrid down jacket made its debut at Ispo this month, created by its MtnHaus design and development team. The lightweight jacket, the ?Mount Asgard Hybrid?, uses hydrophobic down, Primaloft One and Pertex Quantum to provide warmth and comfort in changing weather conditions. Hydrophobic down takes the form of ...
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At Ispo, Camp presented two innovations: ?X-Dream? is a new...
At Ispo, Camp presented two innovations: ?X-Dream? is a new ice axe that allows the user to practice ice climbing and dry tooling thanks to its patented handle with adjustable inclination. ?Race 290? is a superlight crampon designed for ski mountaineering competitions. Its patented ?Clip-in? heel step-in system is compatible ...
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Many of Timberland's spring products are going to make use...
Many of Timberland's spring products are going to make use of its new ?Bionic? canvas, which uses ion mask technology. The company claims that the canvas is 30 percent stronger than regular canvas and dries 30 percent quicker than all-cotton canvas. It is made from Bionic yarn, which is 50 ...
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The 71st Ispo trade show ended in Munich after four...
The 71st Ispo trade show ended in Munich after four days on Feb. 9 with a record increase in attendance. The number of daily passages through the turnstiles jumped by more than 25 percent from a year ago to over 80,000, confirming the fair's role as the leading international meeting ...
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Pharaoh's Famous Last Words
Recently, the industry has been very creative in inventing reasons why outdoor products from China might not hit the shelves of the stores in the Western world on time. We all know about the problems that the supply chain is suffering, but it is always good to outline with intricate ...
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Effective March 7th, Columbia brands Mountain Hardwear and Montrail will...
Effective March 7th, Columbia brands Mountain Hardwear and Montrail will have a new Director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA): Andrew Barker has worked for The North Face for a decade, most recently as country manager for the U.K. and Ireland as well as sales manager for northern ...
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Schöffel has appointed Arno Dietz new head of product management....
Schöffel has appointed Arno Dietz new head of product management. The 33-year-old replaces Birgit Delfs who left the company. Dietz was chief buyer and managing director at Bächli Bergsport, one of Switzerland's most important specialty outdoor stores, for seven years.
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Nikon has appointed Markus Krill the new senior manager of...
Nikon has appointed Markus Krill the new senior manager of the Sport Optics division for Europe and South Africa, effective Feb. 1. Previously, Krill was in charge of sales and marketing in Germany, Austria, Slovenia and the Netherlands. In his new role he is no longer with the ...
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Marco Ellerker will be the new managing director of Brasher...
Marco Ellerker will be the new managing director of Brasher Boots from next March, taking the place of Andy Loeber, who came over from Rockport four years ago. Ellerker has more recently been with Lacoste Footwear, another business unit of Pentland Group. Without providing any specific figures, the British outdoor ...
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Anthony Bunn has been promoted to country manager of Timberland...
Anthony Bunn has been promoted to country manager of Timberland for France, replacing the veteran Patrick Babouin, who is going to concentrate on the development of women's ranges for the European market. Bunn, who is 40 years old, has been commercial director of Timberland France since 2009. He worked previously ...
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Vaude has appointed Stefan Schmidhuber as the new country sales...
Vaude has appointed Stefan Schmidhuber as the new country sales manager for northern Europe, the U.S. and parts of eastern Europe. He replaces Tobias Mayr who left both the company and the industry after five years with Vaude.
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Massimo Lazzari has been named president of Columbia Sportswear Japan,...
Massimo Lazzari has been named president of Columbia Sportswear Japan, a wholly owned subsidiary of the American parent company. In his new position, which takes effect immediately, Lazzari will be in charge of both wholesale and retail, handling brand positioning, sales and marketing for the Columbia, Mountain Hardwear, Sorel and ...
