News Briefs – Page 498
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Jarden Corporation kept its position last year as the largest...
Jarden Corporation kept its position last year as the largest supplier in the annual sports equipment chart of Sporting Goods Intelligence with total sales of $2,312 million. The company, which owns Coleman (its largest brand, with sales of about $800 million), K2, Rawlings and other brands, actually raised its share ...
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Shimano still ranked second on the chart, but its sales...
Shimano still ranked second on the chart, but its sales fell by 28.1 percent to $1.74 billion. Amer Sports, parent company of Atomic, Salomon, Suunto and Wilson, came in third with sales of $1.70 billion, down by 10.1 percent from the previous year. The full chart and another one on ...
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The Italian Outdoor Group (IOG) has decided to organize two...
The Italian Outdoor Group (IOG) has decided to organize two separate “buying days” for Italian retailers next September and to open them up to exhibitors that are not members of the association. The first workshop will take place in Trento on Sept. 6-8, to be followed by another one staged ...
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Giancarlo Zanatta, president of Tecnica Group, leaves as president of...
Giancarlo Zanatta, president of Tecnica Group, leaves as president of Assosport, the Italian sporting goods industry association, after eight years in which the membership has grown from 13 to 140 companies. His successor at the head of the association is Luca Businaro, chief executive since 2005 of Novation, the sophisticated ...
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With growth of 20 percent in global wholesale revenues, Berghaus...
With growth of 20 percent in global wholesale revenues, Berghaus was one of the fastest-growing brands last year at Pentland Group, which has just announced a 9 percent increase in group revenues to £1,134 million (€1,375m-$1,724m) and a 16 percent rise in operating profit to £79.4 million (€96.3m-$120.7m), in spite ...
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Jonas Peterson, former sales and marketing manager for Craft in...
Jonas Peterson, former sales and marketing manager for Craft in Sweden, is the new chief executive at Cross, the Swedish ski and golf apparel brand. He replaces Håkan Ekstrand, who has been at the helm for the last two years, stabilizing the company after some restructuring and the arrival of ...
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As part of its redeployment across Europe, GoLite has appointed...
As part of its redeployment across Europe, GoLite has appointed Essential Basics as its agent for the Benelux countries. The agent already deals with Superfeet insoles, Teko, the American brand of merino wool outdoor socks with a focus on sustainability. and Turboflame, a British brand of outdoor lighters. The Benelux ...
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Schoeller, the Swiss textile technology company, introduces Inzectic, a finish...
Schoeller, the Swiss textile technology company, introduces Inzectic, a finish applied to the outside of apparel that paralyzes and kills bugs. It can prevent bites from such disease-carrying species as ticks and mosquitoes. Schoeller said that since the finish is put on the outside of the clothes, it won’t harm ...
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The North Face opened a store on Carnaby...
The North Face opened a store on Carnaby Street in London on June 24. The new shop has 140 square meters on two floors, and is the brand’s ninth store in the U.K.
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Eric Leemans, chief executive of A.S. Adventure, the leading Belgian...
Eric Leemans, chief executive of A.S. Adventure, the leading Belgian outdoor retailer, is expanding his assignment by taking over the same tasks at Bever Zwerfsport, by far the largest specialist chain in the Netherlands. The two banners are part of the ABC group, which also operates Cotswold Outdoors in the ...
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The Danner Factory Store has just opened in Portland, Oregon,...
The Danner Factory Store has just opened in Portland, Oregon, not only selling Danner products but with an actual recrafting factory, where craftsmen rebuild Danner boots from old ones and customers can watch. The store has 4,000 square feet of sales space. Danner also plans to open a 59,000-square-foot factory ...
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Andrew Baxter is joining Cape Union Mart in South Africa...
Andrew Baxter is joining Cape Union Mart in South Africa as its technical merchandise manager. Baxter, the founder of the South African brand Capestorm, will work to expand the reach of Cape Union Mart’s K-Way range.
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Lisa Thompson, a long-term employee of Icebreaker, has been promoted...
Lisa Thompson, a long-term employee of Icebreaker, has been promoted to be president of the New Zealand company’s U.S. operations. She had been vice president for sales in the U.S. since January; she started with the company in 1999 as receptionist and office manager. Justin Watkins will step into her ...
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Russ Hopcus has joined the team of Keen to be...
Russ Hopcus has joined the team of Keen to be in charge of sales and global market development. It has also hired Phyllis Grove to be vice president for marketing, and Sandy La Rowe to oversee bags, socks and special projects. Hopcus was formerly president of U.S. operations for Icebreaker ...
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Wenger has hired a new business development manager in Mike...
Wenger has hired a new business development manager in Mike Gugliociello, formerly with Wenger’s P.R. firm, SK Communications, where he was an account supervisor. Michael Schwetz is the new regional sales manager for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. He comes from Festina Watch Company, where he was a territory ...
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C.A.M.P., the Italian company that makes climbing, mountaineering and safety...
C.A.M.P., the Italian company that makes climbing, mountaineering and safety equipment, has created a subsidiary for the U.S. to serve that market. C.A.M.P. USA is based in Colorado, and will be headed up by Jesse Mattner, director of sales and marketing. He’s been with the company for six years. This ...
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Koflach plastic mountaineering boots will start being distributed by Scarpa...
Koflach plastic mountaineering boots will start being distributed by Scarpa North America next spring, when the brand re-enters the global market. From its distribution center in Boulder, Colorado, Scarpa North America will sell the “Arctic Expe,” a warm boot for cold-climate expeditions and climbing, and the “Degre,” an all-around double ...
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Polartec is going to start using Polygiene’s silver-salt odor-resistant technology...
Polartec is going to start using Polygiene’s silver-salt odor-resistant technology on its performance fabrics. Polygiene is approved for the Bluesign standard, as are most of Polartec’s fabrics, and is on Oeko-Tex’ safe list. Polygiene’s technology is antimicrobial, inhibiting the growth of odor-causing bacteria for the life of the garment. The ...
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Terra Nova, the British outdoor brand, plans to display what...
Terra Nova, the British outdoor brand, plans to display what it is calling the lightest double-wall tents in the world at the Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake City in August. The tents, for one person and two people, use a proprietary fabric called Ultra. The "Laser Ultra 1" tent ...
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Concept III, the textile resource and garment production service, is...
Concept III, the textile resource and garment production service, is joining with the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists to hold a seminar at the Outdoor Retailer show next month. It will be held the first morning of the show, Aug. 3, and take a look at the how ...
