News Briefs – Page 501
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Herkules Capital, a Norwegian private equity company, has replaced TowerBrooks...
Herkules Capital, a Norwegian private equity company, has replaced TowerBrooks as the major shareholder in Odlo Sports Group. The son of Odlos’s Norwegian founder, Odd Roar Lofterød, has announced that he will reinvest a substantial amount in the Swiss company. He and members of the executive management keep a minority ...
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Three months after Sports Direct International (SDI), the leading British...
Three months after Sports Direct International (SDI), the leading British sports retailer and wholesaler, acquired a stake of about 28.5 percent in Blacks Leisure, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is considering if this has led to what it describes as a “relevant merger situation;” After several months of uncertainty, ...
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Koflach outdoor boots are heading back into production after the...
Koflach outdoor boots are heading back into production after the venerable Austrian brand, owned by a group of private Swiss investors, struck a global five-year renewable licensing agreement with Atomic. The deal applies to all Koflach product categories. The brand will show at OutDoor in Friedrichshafen and will present a ...
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Consumption of outdoor clothing and footwear grew by an estimated...
Consumption of outdoor clothing and footwear grew by an estimated 3.6 percent in Italy last year, according to NPD, driven in particular by higher sales of hiking, trekking and mountaineering boots. While men bought more shoes, women above the age of 14 bought 10 percent more outdoor apparel than in ...
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Barry McGeough is the new head of footwear and equipment...
Barry McGeough is the new head of footwear and equipment at Berghaus. He was formerly with The North Face, where he was vice president for footwear and equipment. Before that, he spent almost a decade as senior development director for the Teva and UGG brands of Deckers Outdoor Corporation.
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The North Face has started up an online community, PlanetExplore,...
The North Face has started up an online community, PlanetExplore, to let people know about outdoor activities they can do in their own areas. The company just introduced the program in the Chicago and the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro region, after roll-outs in Denver, New York and the San Francisco area. ...
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The U.S. Court of International Trade has ruled against CamelBak...
The U.S. Court of International Trade has ruled against CamelBak Products, which was trying to get a line of products reclassified so they would garner lower import duties. The products, hydration packs imported from the Philippines in 2003, are classified by the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection as “travel, ...
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Five Ten has hired Mark Busby, formerly at Bigstone, to...
Five Ten has hired Mark Busby, formerly at Bigstone, to be its new European sales director as of June 15. Bigstone is the U.K. agency for brands such as Five Ten, Arc’teryx and others. That remains unchanged, but Busby is no longer in charge of U.K. sales. The U.S. brand ...
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Falke is setting up a larger factory at Leskovac in...
Falke is setting up a larger factory at Leskovac in Serbia for the manufacture of socks and hosiery that should start up next year. The German company has been producing knitted socks there since 1992. The new facility will take the place of a smaller factory that Falke opened in ...
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The North Face will pay $207,500 to settle a lawsuit...
The North Face will pay $207,500 to settle a lawsuit by the Environmental Protection Agency of the U.S. alleging that shoes claimed to kill bacteria were never actually tested. Although the more than 30 styles contained pesticides, they had never been tested. They used topsheets by Agion in the footbeds. ...
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Nigor Net, the licensee of Eureka! and Camp Trails tents...
Nigor Net, the licensee of Eureka! and Camp Trails tents across Europe, has opened a large showroom in Utrecht, in the middle of the Netherlands, on a surface of 2,000 square meters. Displaying a range of about 80 tents and many more accompanying products, this space is intended for retail ...
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Christian Bättig, the chief executive of Chris Sports Systems, will...
Christian Bättig, the chief executive of Chris Sports Systems, will resign from his job by June 1 to leave the operating business to Damian Wirth, who has been acting as CEO of the Swiss Schaetti group, a supplying manufacturer of fibers and plastics. Thomas Stumpp, next to Bättig the other ...
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Genfoot, the parent company of Kamik, has won two “Alpha...
Genfoot, the parent company of Kamik, has won two “Alpha Awards” put out by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. It secured the title as overall best company of the year in the Montréal region and in the category of eco-friendly companies. The Chamber of Commerce honored Genfoot as best company ...
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Bluesign Technologies, the Swiss standard for an eco-friendly and socially...
Bluesign Technologies, the Swiss standard for an eco-friendly and socially fair supply chain, reports that more companies have agreed to undergo the Bluesign screening of their production facilities. Shang Hai Boyang Imitation Silk Wadding Company of China manufactures polyester paddings. Designer Textiles International of New Zealand is a high-end mill ...
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Barry McGeough is the new head of footwear and equipment...
Barry McGeough is the new head of footwear and equipment at Berghaus. He was formerly with The North Face, where he was vice president for footwear and equipment. Before that, he spent almost a decade as senior development director for the Teva and UGG brands of Deckers Outdoor Corporation.
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Montane, the British brand of higher-end functional apparel, has picked...
Montane, the British brand of higher-end functional apparel, has picked Robert Pollhammer as its agent for the German market. Pollhammer has experience as a buyer in sports retailing and organizes international adventure events such as the Yukon Arctic Ultra.
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Alco, a Norwegian producer of outdoor and action sports clothing,...
Alco, a Norwegian producer of outdoor and action sports clothing, has changed its name to Missing Link Group under the management of Linda Retvik, named as chief executive last summer. The 37-year-old company has thus adopted the name of its biggest brand, Missing Link, which represented last year almost half ...
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High Sierra Sport Company, a U.S. company that makes adventure...
High Sierra Sport Company, a U.S. company that makes adventure travel luggage, has announced a global licensing deal with NorthPole to produce and sell camping and outdoor recreation equipment under the High Sierra brand name. The first product ranges are being developed for the spring/summer 2011 season. NorthPole will sell ...
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Bushnell and its technology partner Laser Technology (LTI) have reached...
Bushnell and its technology partner Laser Technology (LTI) have reached a settlement in their patent dispute with the Brunton Company, the American producer of compasses and other outdoor equipment recently acquired by Fenix Outdoor. The settlement calls for Brunton to stop selling certain laser range-finders made by Lanshuo and to ...
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Cape Union Mart, the largest chain of outdoor shops in...
Cape Union Mart, the largest chain of outdoor shops in South Africa, decided after a few months to drop plans to sponsor the national Shosholoza sailing team for the America’s Cup with a whole range of products bearing the K-Way brand name. This is because Cape Union Mart registered the ...
