News Briefs – Page 520
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Schöffel is happy and proud to announce that a member...
Schöffel is happy and proud to announce that a member of its team of professional climbers, Ralf Dujmovits, is now Germany’s first person ever to have climbed 14 mountains higher than 8,000 meters. In May, he was standing on Mount Lhotse with his wife, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, along with Hiro Takeuchi ...
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Rob Achten, creative director for Icebreaker, has been promoted to...
Rob Achten, creative director for Icebreaker, has been promoted to vice president of product and creative director. In addition to product design, he will now also oversee brand identity and strategy. The vice president for product since January 2007, Sandy LaRowe, is leaving the company. Achten has been with Icebreaker ...
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Icebreaker has introduced a line of its merino wool apparel...
Icebreaker has introduced a line of its merino wool apparel for children, putting colorful prints on its new “Bodyfit+ line”. It has also announced that the packaging for its Bodyfit Kids products is eco-friendly. For very young children, the inside box becomes a finger puppet that the child can play ...
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Cloudveil has appointed James Samuel to be its director of...
Cloudveil has appointed James Samuel to be its director of global sales. Samuel, previously the company’s senior international sales manager, will manage Cloudveil’s worldwide sales campaign in the newly created position. Ned Hutchinson, a four-year veteran of the company, is moving from angling category sales manager to manage North American ...
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Vasque has created Project Thanks as its newest initiative to...
Vasque has created Project Thanks as its newest initiative to help preserve trails in the U.S. Already its Vasque Project sponsors trail races throughout the country, and the new program urges its partner sponsors to donate a portion of their race fees to trail preservation or other philanthropic groups. Vasque ...
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About 150 companies and more than 10,000 people from Italy...
About 150 companies and more than 10,000 people from Italy and abroad participated during the weekend of May 22-24 in the second edition of the OutdoorDays, the outdoor fair and festival in and around Riva del Garda. Montura, the rising Italian brand that had the largest stand in the fairgrounds ...
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The organizers of the British Outdoor Trade Show (OTS), which...
The organizers of the British Outdoor Trade Show (OTS), which is going to be held in Stoneleigh Park from Sept. 28 through 30, reports good bookings for this year’s show. According the organizers, only one-third of the available surface is left to be filled. More than 80 exhibitors will attend ...
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iF International Forum Design invites the outdoor industry to submit...
iF International Forum Design invites the outdoor industry to submit innovations to the jury of the Outdoor Industry Award on behalf of Messe Friedrichshafen, organizer of the OutDoor show. The deadline is June 15. The best products will be awarded in the categories apparel/helmets/footwear, backpacks/baggage, mountaineering equipment, camping equipment, sleeping ...
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FAMOUS LAST WORDS: Messe Friedrichshafen has got the message at...
FAMOUS LAST WORDS: Messe Friedrichshafen has got the message at last: A good trade show is not only about the major brands that exhibit their latest products and innovations. In the late afternoon of a fair, it is the good choice of drinks that really matters to many visitors. The ...
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Skylotec, the German outdoor brand, has acquired Mountain Wave, a...
Skylotec, the German outdoor brand, has acquired Mountain Wave, a label for freeride skis. Its former owner, Markus Steinke, remains with the brand and will serve as product developer.
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Lacrosse Footwear is going to buy the footwear business of...
Lacrosse Footwear is going to buy the footwear business of END, a company whose name stands for Environmentally Neutral Design Outdoor. Lacrosse formed a new subsidiary that has signed a deal to acquire END’s inventory, intellectual property and other assets of its footwear business. The estimated cost is $500,000 and ...
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Eric Wiseman, the chief executive for VF Corporation, has said...
Eric Wiseman, the chief executive for VF Corporation, has said that the company is actively looking for acquisitions to boost its outdoor and action-sports coalitions. He told Bloomberg News that VF Corp., parent of such brands as The North Face, Napapijri, Eastpak, Jansport, Eagle Creek and Vans, has already been ...
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Décathlon is planning to enter the Czech market early next...
Décathlon is planning to enter the Czech market early next year. According to local reports, the French giant should start up there in the spring of 2010 with a store of 3,700 square meters in the winter sports resort of Liberec, 110 kilometers north of Prague, but company officials indicate ...
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Maloja, a young German outerwear label, has opened its first...
Maloja, a young German outerwear label, has opened its first own store worldwide. The door is in the city center of Munich and has 80 square meters. The brand has launched a brand-new collection called “wood78,” which is inspired by the late 1970s.
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Christian Kraus is the new commercial director of Salewa Germany....
Christian Kraus is the new commercial director of Salewa Germany. The 32-year-old, who started working for the Italian brand on May 1, replaces Karl-Heinz Maurer, managing director of the German sales subsidiary in charge of finance, organization and personnel since 1990. Maurer is creating his own consultancy for the sports ...
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Columbia Sportswear has appointed Francesca Busetto to be the company’s...
Columbia Sportswear has appointed Francesca Busetto to be the company’s new Italian country manager, replacing Luciano Baroncini. The 39-year-old executive has spent the last 15 years in the sporting goods industry in Italy, working for Diadora, The North Face, Salomon and Vuarnet, among other brands. She is joining at a ...
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Christiane Hoss-Nurminen, who has been Schöffel’s marketing director for more...
Christiane Hoss-Nurminen, who has been Schöffel’s marketing director for more than six years, will leave the company effective July 31. She will join Schuster, Munich’s big sports and outdoor retailer, as its marketing director. Monika Weilhammer, Schöffel’s press officer, quit last week for purely private reasons. She will move to ...
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GoLite has promoted Mark Flanagan from European general manager to...
GoLite has promoted Mark Flanagan from European general manager to the position of international general manager. He now oversees all operations outside the U.S. and Canada. In the past 19 months, Flanagan has increased the distribution in Europe from one to 15 countries. Andy Burgess, until now vice president for ...
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Dale Bard is the new chief operating officer for Ortovox...
Dale Bard is the new chief operating officer for Ortovox USA, where he will work to build sales of the company’s backpacks and merino wool softgoods through distribution and the national sales network. He is a noted rock climber and alpinist as well as skier, and was a sponsored athlete ...
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Cocona, the U.S. specialty brand for performance fabrics, has appointed...
Cocona, the U.S. specialty brand for performance fabrics, has appointed two new agents for the European market. Debra Beckwith is now in charge of sales in the U.K. Beckwith formerly worked for W.L. Gore as well as for Bemis Seam Sealing, a supplier to brands such as Aigle, Salomon, Salewa ...
