News Briefs – Page 497
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Several types of Montbell sleeping bags being sold for the...
Several types of Montbell sleeping bags being sold for the 2010-11 season will use FlowGate insulation technology from Insotect, the first time the two companies have collaborated. FlowGate will be used in the Spiral Down Hugger line of sleeping bags, which have longer than usual baffle tubes. Normally this would ...
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Outdoor Research is sponsoring the participants of Connecting the Gems,...
Outdoor Research is sponsoring the participants of Connecting the Gems, a project in which two people exploring two different outdoor areas in the Western U.S. will collect data about how they are connected ecologically. The areas are the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in Montana and Wyoming, and a designated wilderness area ...
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Patagonia is directly helping out in the Gulf of Mexico...
Patagonia is directly helping out in the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of the oil rig explosion in April. It is sending 10 employees per week to the coast to help a group it supports, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, in relief efforts. Patagonia pays the employees’ wages and all ...
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Blacks Leisure has signed up for a 500-square-meter stand at...
Blacks Leisure has signed up for a 500-square-meter stand at the Outdoors Show being held in London in January. This is a boon for the organizers of the show, which for the first time is being held in conjunction with the London Bike Show and the London International Boat Show. ...
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Coldblack, the special Schoeller fabric, has been nominated for a...
Coldblack, the special Schoeller fabric, has been nominated for a Designpreis Deutschland – the Design Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany, the highest official German award in the area of design. In order to be nominated, a company has to already have won national or international awards, and must ...
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Thule, the well-known Swedish supplier of automotive rack systems, has...
Thule, the well-known Swedish supplier of automotive rack systems, has launched a new line of highly functional backpacks and luggage in its Thule Crossover collection and appointed two new high-level executives with global functions. Frederik Etlandsson, a 39-year-old executive who has worked for Diageos in the Nordic countries and Eastern ...
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Two Spanish publishers have joined forces to create La Biblia...
Two Spanish publishers have joined forces to create La Biblia del Outdoor, or Outdoor Bible. This is basically a detailed catalog of outdoor products for medium-level outdoor enthusiasts that is intended to help them make the best possible choices. With an initial circulation of 10,000 copies, the first issue has ...
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Golde, the German sleeping bag specialist, is launching a sub-label...
Golde, the German sleeping bag specialist, is launching a sub-label called 4teens. The line targets children between 2 and 12 years. The company run by Sammy Golde has a patent on sleeping bags that grow with the size of the child. The 4teens collection comprises seven different styles.
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In an interview with OCC Outdoor, Neil Gillis, the chief...
In an interview with OCC Outdoor, Neil Gillis, the chief executive of Blacks Leisure, said that he thought the company would have more than half the share of the U.K. outdoor market by 2012. He hinted to the magazine that this could come by way of acquisitions as well as ...
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Our colleagues from OCC Outdoor, the British trade publication, have...
Our colleagues from OCC Outdoor, the British trade publication, have more interesting stuff to report: AMG Group, the owner of the Vango and Force 10 brands, has a new distributor for the Benelux countries. CJ Agencies, the company based in Baarn, the Netherlands, is already responsible in the region for ...
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SGB Outdoor is switching to online-only publication as of this...
SGB Outdoor is switching to online-only publication as of this month. The B2B publication’s owner, Datateam Publishing, said this was for environmental reasons
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Keen is pushing its efforts for sustainability in Santiago, Dominican...
Keen is pushing its efforts for sustainability in Santiago, Dominican Republic, where the shoe of the same name is going to be manufactured. The location ensures shorter transport routes to the main market, the U.S. The plan is to create a shoe that can be hand-sewn exclusively by locals, dispensing ...
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CamelBak has sealed a sponsorship deal with Messe Friedrichshafen for...
CamelBak has sealed a sponsorship deal with Messe Friedrichshafen for both the OutDoor and the Eurobike shows. The brand will install water dispensers all across the venue. Instead of the usual plastic cups, the visitor is asked to bring his own bottle or glass and is invited to buy a ...
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The judges chose the eight winners of the OutDoor Industry...
The judges chose the eight winners of the OutDoor Industry Awards in Hannover on July 1, and they will be announced at the show this month. Overall, the contest garnered 412 entries from 28 countries, a 70 percent increase over the 242 entries from 18 countries that were submitted for ...
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Décathlon opened its biggest store ever on June 28, with...
Décathlon opened its biggest store ever on June 28, with a net retail space of 11,000 m², in the enlarged Rivas Futura shopping mall near Madrid, taking the place of a smaller 4-year-old store nearby. In a major innovation for this leading European supplier of outdoor gear, the store has ...
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Thomas Lipke, joint managing director of Globetrotter, was set to...
Thomas Lipke, joint managing director of Globetrotter, was set to be elected president of the German Distance Retailing Federation (BVH) at its annual meeting in June, replacing Rolf Schäfer, who has retired as chief executive of Schwab, a company of the Otto Group. The federation, whose members are gradually shifting ...
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Béal, the leading producer of climbing harnesses, has sold Vertical,...
Béal, the leading producer of climbing harnesses, has sold Vertical, a subsidiary that sells hiking and mountaineering clothing, to Raidlight, another French company that sells clothing, shoes and accessories for trail-running and other sports. In their past financial year, Raidlight and Vertical had an annual turnover of about €2.3 million ...
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Degré 7, a French brand of skiwear, has developed its...
Degré 7, a French brand of skiwear, has developed its first spring/summer collection for introduction at retail in 2011. Called Degré 7 Colors, the very colorful line is inspired by the garments worn by the Akhas, en ethnic group that fled southern China to settle in the mountains of northern ...
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The management of Wolverine World Wide told a recent investors’...
The management of Wolverine World Wide told a recent investors’ conference that it sees sourcing costs rising by low- to mid-single digits in the second half of this year and by mid- to high-single digits in 2011. Wolverine has already raised prices in the U.S. but has not yet found ...
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Effective July 1, Jack Wolfskin has joined Fair Wear, a...
Effective July 1, Jack Wolfskin has joined Fair Wear, a nonprofit foundation that aims to secure social responsibility standards in the textile industry. With this move, the brand intends to make sure that working conditions at its German headquarters as well as the production facilities of its suppliers, which are ...
