News Briefs – Page 509
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The Outdoor Retailer Winter Market starting in Salt Lake City...
The Outdoor Retailer Winter Market starting in Salt Lake City tomorrow is on track to exceed figures from last year, reporting that buyer registration and store representation are ahead of where they were last year at this time. The show expects 170 new exhibitors, including Venture Snowboards, Xterra Footwear, Bausch ...
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Timberland has signed an exclusive partnership with Reliance Brands to...
Timberland has signed an exclusive partnership with Reliance Brands to distribute Timberland products in India through branded retail stores and premium department stores. Reliance Brands already has joint ventures set up with Paul & Shark and Diesel. The company is part of Reliance Industries, described as the largest private sector ...
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Norrøna is opening its first flagship store in the center...
Norrøna is opening its first flagship store in the center of Oslo, featuring more than 2,000 products on 550 square meters, including hiking shoes and accessories by some other brands. The two-level structure will also be used to state conferences and other events intended to promote active lifestyles. The Norwegian ...
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Bergans of Norway has appointed Claire Mouzard as country manager...
Bergans of Norway has appointed Claire Mouzard as country manager for France. The 33-year-old has worked for nine years in international marketing for Eider, the French sports clothing brand acquired by Lafuma last year. Before, Bergans had an agent in France for two years that was representing several Norwegian brands. ...
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Blake W. Krueger, chief executive and president of Wolverine World...
Blake W. Krueger, chief executive and president of Wolverine World Wide, will add the title of chairman, effective next Jan. 1. The current chairman, Tim J. O’Donovan, will remain on the board of directors. Krueger has spent nearly 40 years in the footwear industry and has been an executive of ...
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Harrie van Kaam, European sales manager at Tenson, will leave...
Harrie van Kaam, European sales manager at Tenson, will leave the Swedish outdoor and leisurewear company at the end of the year, after more than two decades with the brand. Van Kaam, managing director of Tenson Nederland, assumed his international functions seven years ago. Tenson is Swedish and owned by ...
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Hi-Tec has appointed John Broughton as U.K. sales manager for...
Hi-Tec has appointed John Broughton as U.K. sales manager for its lifestyle range. Broughton used to work for the brand in various positions, including the one of a product manager for the outdoor line of footwear. Most recently, he worked outside Hi-Tec as developer of branded and private label lifestyle ...
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Hanwag has appointed Toni Klotz for the newly created position...
Hanwag has appointed Toni Klotz for the newly created position of export manager for key accounts in the international markets. Klotz previously worked as a regional sales representative for Fenix Outdoor’s footwear brand.
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Textilwirtschaft reports that Jack Wolfskin is serious about the French...
Textilwirtschaft reports that Jack Wolfskin is serious about the French and the U.K. markets and eyeing Paris and London for flagship stores with a selling surface of some 400 square meters in top high street locations. The stores are seen as a tool to increase brand awareness in both markets ...
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Hamm Market Solutions has signed a licensing agreement to design,...
Hamm Market Solutions has signed a licensing agreement to design, develop, produce and sell all over European a footwear line for VF Corporation’s fast-growing Napapijri brand of sports clothing, starting with the autumn/winter 2010/11 season. Hamm has been already a successful footwear licensee of Marc O’Polo and Tommy Hilfiger, and ...
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In 2009, Patagonia donated more than $3.8 million to environmental...
In 2009, Patagonia donated more than $3.8 million to environmental grassroots organizations around the world to fulfill its promise to give 1 percent or more of its turnover to actions to save the planet. Since 1973, the total amount of money or merchandise which has been donated accumulates to $34 ...
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Vaude has successfully passed an independent re-audit for the EU’s...
Vaude has successfully passed an independent re-audit for the EU’s EMAS directive (eco management and audit scheme) for 2009. According to company information, the brand was first in the outdoor industry to fulfill the EMAS criteria in 2008. EMAS certification requires that a company must prove that its eco management ...
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Mammut is introducing its own “app” for Apple’s iPhone. The...
Mammut is introducing its own “app” for Apple’s iPhone. The brand’s “safety app” can be downloaded free of charge from the iTune App Store. It aims to help snow sport enthusiasts in assessing the local avalanche risk. The app features a clinometer to estimate slope angle, a compass to determine ...
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Columbia has revamped its website, www.columbia.com, so that it now...
Columbia has revamped its website, www.columbia.com, so that it now offers specific European content in five languages: French, Spanish, Italian, German and English for the U.K. The website also features “Inside Out”, a blog for regional users within Europe. In addition, there is an improved dealer locator to find Columbia’s ...
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Rover Textiles will introduce 8848 Altitude, the Swedish ski apparel...
Rover Textiles will introduce 8848 Altitude, the Swedish ski apparel brand, in the Dutch market next year. Established twelve years ago by Robert Verhoef, a long-time executive in the Dutch sports and apparel business, Rover Textiles already sells Didriksons, the Swedish outdoor brand, in the Netherlands as well as Belgium. ...
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Jürg Buschor, a former executive of Salewa, and his company...
Jürg Buschor, a former executive of Salewa, and his company Outkomm are launching Freeride Maps, a collection of maps for freeriders providing a profound knowledge of freeride hot spots in the Alps. All rideable slopes, drops and couloirs are marked as freeride corridors and marked with different colors for three ...
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Arc’teryx supports an interdisciplinary research team of the ETH Zurich,...
Arc’teryx supports an interdisciplinary research team of the ETH Zurich, the EPF in Lausanne and the universities of Basel and Zurich by providing equipment. The researchers are working on the effect of the global warming on rock-ice compounds which seem to loosen due to higher temperatures what has caused major ...
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Columbia Sportswear has added to its lawsuit against Crocs involving...
Columbia Sportswear has added to its lawsuit against Crocs involving a former Columbia designer who the company claims designed products for Crocs while still on Columbia’s payroll. Columbia is now saying that Crocs misappropriated trade secrets, intentionally interfered with a contract and aided and abetted breach of duty of loyalty. ...
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Ispo just communicated the winners of its Brandnew Awards contest...
Ispo just communicated the winners of its Brandnew Awards contest for start-ups and/or young companies in the industry. One outdoor brand made it into the club of the award winners – surprise, surprise – in the category “eco and fair trade”. The young Nuremberg-based brand of climbing apparel Monkee walked ...
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At Ispo, the EOG Association for Conservation will present the...
At Ispo, the EOG Association for Conservation will present the film “Home”. The visual portrayal of the earth was shot by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, the award winning French aerial photographer.
