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Leon Gorman, head of L.L.Bean, died on Sept. 3 at...
Leon Gorman, head of L.L.Bean, died on Sept. 3 at his home in Yarmouth, Maine. He was 80 years old and reportedly suffered from cancer. Gorman, who was the grandson of the company's founder, was president and chief executive of L.L. Bean from 1967 to 2001, chairman from 2001 to ...
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Francesco Delladio passed away on June 29, at the age...
Francesco Delladio passed away on June 29, at the age of 88. He worked all his life for La Sportiva, the Italian company founded in 1928 by his father Narciso Delladio, expanding its presence internationally. La Sportiva is currently run by Francesco's son, Lorenzo Delladio, and by his granddaughter, Giulia ...
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Harrison Greenberg, 19-year-old son of Michael Greenberg, president of Skechers...
Harrison Greenberg, 19-year-old son of Michael Greenberg, president of Skechers USA, died unexpectedly on April 6 while on a vacation in Thailand. His death was attributed by the company to a tragic and sudden choking accident. Introduced since the age of 15 to the family's business, he had been working ...
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Joan Fontfreda, who founded the Chiruca brand of hiking and...
Joan Fontfreda, who founded the Chiruca brand of hiking and hunting boots together with his brother Lluís in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, has passed away at the age of 92. Working out of the company left by their mother, who died early, they decided to make mountain ...
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More than 900 people gathered at a church in the...
More than 900 people gathered at a church in the Netherlands on Aug. 13 for the funeral of Barry Kooijmans, the 47-year-old managing director of The Nomad Company, according to the Sport Partner magazine. Kooijmans died along with his wife April and their two daughters on the Malaysia Airlines' flight ...
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The Dutch outdoor industry has been shaken by news that...
The Dutch outdoor industry has been shaken by news that Barry Kooijmans, director of The Nomad Company, was among the victims of the Malaysia Airlines air crash in the Ukraine last week, along with his wife April and their two young daughters, Sport Partner reports. Barry was well known in ...
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On March 7, Mogens Arens, the owner of Oase Outdoors,...
On March 7, Mogens Arens, the owner of Oase Outdoors, the Danish maker of camping equipment and marketer of the brands Outwell, Robens and Easy Camp, passed away after a long illness. Arens was 74. He founded Oase Outdoors and ran the company between 1984 and 2004 when he handed ...
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Richard N. Cabela, co-founder and chairman emeritus of Cabela's, passed...
Richard N. Cabela, co-founder and chairman emeritus of Cabela's, passed away at his home in Sidney, Nebraska on Feb. 18. He was 77. Along with his wife Mary and brother Jim, he founded the American outdoor retail firm somewhat inadvertently in 1961, when he bought $45 of fishing flies in ...
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An emblematic personality in the Swedish outdoor industry, Åke Nordin,...
An emblematic personality in the Swedish outdoor industry, Åke Nordin, has passed away at the age of 77. He was the hard-headed Swedish entrepreneur who built his own backpack at 14 and founded Fjällräven in Örnsköldsvik in 1960. The company subsequently diversified its range and bought other outdor companies to ...
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Polish suppliers and visitors at the OutDoor fair were shaken...
Polish suppliers and visitors at the OutDoor fair were shaken by news that Artur Hajzer, an emblematic figure of the Polish outdoor industry, died last week after an attempt to reach the summit of Gasherbrum in the Karakorum range. Hajzer, who was 51 years old and was known among Polish ...
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Carl Elsener, “senior leader” of Victorinox, passed away at the...
Carl Elsener, “senior leader” of Victorinox, passed away at the age of 90. He had been lately the chairman of the company, founded by his family in 1884. He worked for the company behind the well-known Swiss army knife over a period of more than 70 years. Elsener was born in ...
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Bill Forrest, the legendary climber and inventor from Colorado who founded...
Bill Forrest, the legendary climber and inventor from Colorado who founded Forrest Mountaineering, died on Dec. 21 of a heart attack while snowshoeing with his wife, Rosa. He owned 17 U.S. patents, generally related to climbing and snowshoeing equipment. One of his legacies is the first rock-and-ice hammer with interchangeable picks, ...
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At the age of 86, Tosaku Nishida, the founder of...
At the age of 86, Tosaku Nishida, the founder of Goldwin Inc. of Japan, died on Sept. 1. Nishida started his career in 1951 by establishing a knitting factory. He moved on to found Goldwin, which became one of the most important market players for sporting goods in Japan. A ...
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Klaus Lenhart was definitely a product-driven man with a passion...
Klaus Lenhart was definitely a product-driven man with a passion to his gear. To improve the poles again and again was his mission, but he was also visionary: He did not believe just in constructing great poles. He saw the hand, the glove and the pole as a functional ...
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The management was unavailable on today's holiday for further comment,...
The management was unavailable on today's holiday for further comment, but it is safe to say that the company is in good hands beyond the tragic death of its leader. Leki is led by long-time employees such as Bernd Mayer, sales director, and Heidi Kreusel, marketing director.
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Roger Furst, the co-founder of Eastern Mountain Sports, died this...
Roger Furst, the co-founder of Eastern Mountain Sports, died this month at 78 years old. He started the retail chain in the 1960s with Alan McDonough, with whom he hiked and fished. They opened their first store when they realized there was a huge market for lightweight backpacks, hiking boots, ...
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The “King of Poles” had another passion - aviation. With...
The “King of Poles” had another passion - aviation. With his small red aircraft, Lenhart won various titles in artistic flying, including the German championships. Yesterday afternoon, he headed off for his last flight. Apparently, he trained a young pilot. The aircraft crashed nearby the runway at his home town ...
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A few years ago, Klaus Lenhart, the owner and managing...
A few years ago, Klaus Lenhart, the owner and managing director of Leki, called the editor of this newsletter. He approached me because he needed an idea for a press presentation. He sensed that “we need something more than just a showcase of our new products.” I replied: “If you ...
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Klaus Lenhart died yesterday - one day before his 57th...
Klaus Lenhart died yesterday - one day before his 57th birthday - leaving behind his family, some 250 employees and an industry which has been impressed by his visions, passions and missions. We will always be.
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With great distress we learned that Holger Bismann, the chief...
With great distress we learned that Holger Bismann, the chief of Patagonia's European operations, passed away after a struggle of several months against cancer in October. He was 50 and leaves behind his wife, Christelle, and his daughters, Johanna and Helena, as well as many in the industry who admired ...
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