News Briefs – Page 486
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Black Diamond Equipment has announced a voluntary recall of some...
Black Diamond Equipment has announced a voluntary recall of some of its AvaLung Packs because of intake tubing that could crack in cold temperatures. The recall affects only a small manufacturing run of the product, and that determination must be made by Black Diamond. To find out more about the ...
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Johnson Outdoors closed its financial year on Oct. 1 with...
Johnson Outdoors closed its financial year on Oct. 1 with a net profit of $6,539,000 against a loss of $9,671,000 in the previous year, following many sustained cost reduction initiatives taken in the last 18 months and thanks to a 7 percent increase in total sales to $382.4 million, up ...
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RCG Corporation, the Australian distributor for Merrell, has opened the...
RCG Corporation, the Australian distributor for Merrell, has opened the brand’s first flagship store in that country. The Sydney store sells hiking footwear and outdoor performance apparel. RCG took up distribution of the brand in January, operating a wholesale division for it as well. It has said that sales for ...
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Prana has introduced its first Fair Trade Certified garment, the...
Prana has introduced its first Fair Trade Certified garment, the women’s Soul T. The T-shirt will come out next spring and is the first of many Fair Trade products it plans to develop. The Liberian Women’s Sewing Project manufactures the Soul T.
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Teva is going to launch a mountain biking shoe for...
Teva is going to launch a mountain biking shoe for autumn 2011, designed with the input of Jeff Lenosky, a professional mountain biker. The shoe, called Links, is a freeride mountain bike shoe with technical features such as Teva’s proprietary Spider365 sticky rubber sole and Ion Mask technology to make ...
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The team of Messe Friedrichshafen, the organizer of the OutDoor...
The team of Messe Friedrichshafen, the organizer of the OutDoor and Eurobike shows, is handling a higher birth rate than Bangladesh. A couple of women walked away from the core team around Stefan Reisinger including Melanie Gunz (OutDoor) and Birgit Mattmann (Eurobike) for maternity. Steffi Sommer (OutDoor) – as of ...
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The organizers of Ispo are getting ready for the 71st...
The organizers of Ispo are getting ready for the 71st edition of the show, reporting that the halls are fully booked with more than 100,000 square meters of exhibit space, about 12 percent more than last February. The show, being held next Feb. 6-9 in Munich, will feature around 2,000 ...
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Ispo is introducing its new ExpoEasyContact, a web-based tool for...
Ispo is introducing its new ExpoEasyContact, a web-based tool for scheduling meetings at the hectic event. Exhibitors can use the free planner on their homepage or add it to their invitation emails so that potential visitors can see their schedule. A personal copy of ExpoEastContact is available at www.ispo.initiative-messeerfolg.de.
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The Performance Days events held last month in Munich and...
The Performance Days events held last month in Munich and Annecy drew record attendance, with 60 percent more visitors than the events in April. For the first time, many attendees came from other countries besides Germany and France, including visitors from Australia and the U.S. A total of 21 countries ...
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The organizers of the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market being held...
The organizers of the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market being held in January in Salt Lake City have released an application for smartphones that will help attendees navigate the exhibition space. The first version of the app came out for last summer’s show, but the new one has added features, including ...
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The sixth edition of Project OR, the 48-hour concept-to-prototype apparel...
The sixth edition of Project OR, the 48-hour concept-to-prototype apparel design event, will take place during Outdoor Retailer next month. Six student competitors will design brief and initial sketches as they fan across the show floor sourcing the latest in garment materials. They will spend the balance of their 48-hour ...
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Famous Last Euro
For journalists like us, the New Year season is a time when we are busy looking for the word or the man or the woman of the year. What should be this year’s choice? WikiLeaks? No, it just writes what everybody knows. Julian Assange? No comment, the editor does not ...
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Coronel Tapiocca, the bankrupt Spanish chain of travel and adventure...
Coronel Tapiocca, the bankrupt Spanish chain of travel and adventure stores, has agreed to reduce the number of its stores in Spain, Portugal and Italy by 50 percent to only 40, resulting in the dismissal of 104 employees throughout the chain. The measure is intended to obtain the agreement of ...
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Under new ownership since Oct.1, Karstadt has new management. At...
Under new ownership since Oct.1, Karstadt has new management. At top of the business is Thomas Fox as chief executive; he served as the department store chain’s chief restructuring officer. Fox will also replace Emmanuel Siregar as the board member in charge of human resources. The new chief financial officer ...
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Patagonia is rolling out its network of stores run on...
Patagonia is rolling out its network of stores run on a partnership basis throughout Europe, complementing its five company-owned stores in Chamonix, Dublin, Milan, Munich and Prague. Two such stores have opened in the last few days in two French cities – Grenoble and Toulouse – after those in Chambéry, ...
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Shortly after the opening of franchises in Nuremberg and Munich,...
Shortly after the opening of franchises in Nuremberg and Munich, Mammut has opened its first door in Austria, in the city of Linz. The selling surface of 270 square meters is run by Alexandra Kohl, a former employee of Mammut’s Austrian operations.
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In a remarkable effort, Mammut has recently pulled together its...
In a remarkable effort, Mammut has recently pulled together its European key accounts in specialty retailing to showcase its new high-end collection, “Eiger Extreme,” on the top of the Swiss mountains at Jungfraujoch. The line is the Swiss brand’s new flagship and will hit the stores in fall 2011. It ...
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Andrea Ruota has been appointed as the new country manager...
Andrea Ruota has been appointed as the new country manager of The North Face in Italy, replacing Andrea De Lauso. Ruota has worked for Stonefly, a casual footwear company in the Montebelluna region, as export area manager for Southern Europe. He also spent time at Benetton Group as export sales ...
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L-Fashion Group and Oberalp have decided to put an end...
L-Fashion Group and Oberalp have decided to put an end to a 5-year-old distribution agreement for the Icepeak brand on the Italian market, and the Finnish company is now setting up its own subsidiary in the country for Icepeak as well as its other sports brands, including Luhta and Rukka. ...
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IC Companys, the Danish company that owns Peak Performance, is...
IC Companys, the Danish company that owns Peak Performance, is delegating its power to give more responsibility to each of its 11 brands. Each of them be in charge of their whole value chain, including distribution. Finance, IT, logistics and production will still be shared among the whole group. This ...
