All Winter Sports articles – Page 18
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Burton releases an Ak snowboarding apparel line with Gore-Tex
Burton’s new snowboarding apparel incorporates Gore-Tex fabrics and is named after the postal abbreviation for Alaska. The Ak line has received Bluesign approval and purports to combine waterproofing and breathability with style. The first items are the Ak 457 Gore JP Jacket and JP Bib, made with a three-layer 70D ...
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New winter sports logistics center for Amer in Austria
Amer Sports has opened a new, more modern and sustainable logistic center for the winter sports products of Atomic, Salomon and Armada at Pongau, near the group’s Austrian ski production facility in Altenmarkt. The group has invested €23 million to modernize Atomic’s former distribution center and to expand it by ...
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ArticleEurope's winter sports industry calls for uniform anti-virus protocols
The European Sporting Goods Industry Association, FESI, is circulating a statement calling on national government authorities to avoid “another catastrophic season” for the winter sporting goods industry, particularly in view of recent increases in the number of Covid infections in certain countries, which are creating the risk of “localized waves.” ...
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Golf offsets winter sports at Alpen in Japan
Sales of winter sports products fell by 16 percent to 6,628 million yen (€51.5m-$60.3m) for the financial year ended June 30 at the Alpen Group, one of the major sporting goods retailers in Japan, mainly due to a lack of snow because of a warm winter season. Total revenues increased ...
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The Beijing 2022 Olympics want to engage 300 million Chinese in winter sports
The Beijing Organising Committee of the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games has integrated the goal of positioning China as a new winter sports destination for local and overseas visitors throughout the planning process for the Games. It has just released a 108-page “Legacy Report of Olympic and Paralympic Winter ...
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Short stops
June 25 Short Stops: Canada Goose - CSGA – HeiQ – Hestra - Jones Snowboards - Klarna – London Ski & Snowboard Festival - Parley For The Oceans - Shopify
Corporate: +++ HeiQ has acquired 100% of the equity and voting rights in a Hong Kong-based materials technology company, Life Material Technologies, which develops bio-based antimicrobial additives and treatments used by manufacturers of plastics, coatings, textiles, ceramics and paper, for $6.45 million, plus a potential earn-out ...
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Burton calls on snowboarders to clean up their mountains
Burton Snowboards is calling for the annual Burton Clean Up Days, which started years ago with a crew of company employees picking up trash on their local mountain. Over the years, the event has grown into a movement of like-minded snowboarders cleaning up their personal playgrounds around the world. This ...
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Soft anti-Covid restrictions boost sales of winter sports items in Russia
After a slump in sales at the beginning of the current autumn/winter season, sales of products for winter sports in Russia have proven to be strong in January and February thanks to abundant snow and weak quarantine restrictions, allowing all ski facilities to continue to operate in contrast with ...
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Burton wants to see more female snowboarders in Sweden
Snowboarding has been expanding in Sweden lately. Starting with the current winter season, Burton Snowboards and the Swedish Ski Association have entered a collaboration to promote snowboarding among women, giving them an opportunity to try out the sport. Burton is partnering with the organization on projects like ProgSession and its ...
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Blue Tomato to rent snowboards and related gear
Blue Tomato, the European action sports e-tailer and retailer based in Austria and owned by Zumiez, has begun renting snowboards, splitboards, boots and bindings at two points of sale in Austria: one store in Obertauern and its headquarters in Schladming. The service, called “Rent Your Ride,” will be expanded to ...
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News briefsGiro brings Rome Snowboards' co-founder on board as snow brand manager
Giro, the U.S. helmet specialist owned by Vista Outdoor, has hired Josh Reid as its new snow brand manager. Reid has a 25+ year career in the snowsports industry. He started as a prototype tester at Burton Snowboards, eventually having a hand in everything from leading Burton’s hardgoods testing department ...
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German winter sports retailers ask for special government aid
Rainer Angstl, the manager of Sport Schuster in Munich, and the managing directors of more than 170 other German sports retailers that depend heavily on the winter sports business have signed an open letter to the federal government, asking for subsidies based on the monthly gross profits that they are ...
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ArticleA cross-industry warning from the European winter sports sector
The Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi) has released a statement in which 10 leading ski companies, five sports retail groups and 12 sporting goods industry federations raised concerns about the consequences for the industry of the planned closure of many European winter sports resorts in relation to the ...
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ArticleSchöffel: Germans are cautiously looking forward to winter sports
As Germany comes right after the U.S. in terms of the number of skiers, with an estimated 14.6 million practicing the sport, snow sports specialists are wondering whether Germans are going to go on a ski vacation this year, in spite of Covid-19. The question mark will probably remain for ...
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Burton cancels 2021 snowboarding event
Burton Snowboards announced that the company had cancelled the 2021 edition of the Burton U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships, scheduled for March 1-6, 2021 at Vail Mountain Resort in Colorado, due to ongoing uncertainties around the Covid-19 pandemic. Burton’s chief executive, John Lacy, explained that it was a difficult decision as ...
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Head introduces lightest snowboard range on the market
Head has announced the introduction of the lightest snowboard range on the market with boards made of innovative material combinations following the “Lyt Tech” principle. The brand applies the principle also to other product lines, including skis and ski boots. The idea is to focus only on essentials during product ...
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Zimstern launching apparel collection for skiers and snowboarders
Zimtstern, the German-based action sports brand, is launching a new apparel collection for skiers and snowboarders and has recently expanded its sales team. The former Swiss boardsports brand – once a part of Sports Pool, the Swiss company behind the Belowzero brand of ski and snowboard apparel – withdrew from ...
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Jake Burton Carpenter, the founder of Burton Snowboards and one...
Jake Burton Carpenter, the founder of Burton Snowboards and one of the true snowboarding pioneers, died on Nov. 20 at the age of 65 of complications from a relapse of testicular cancer. Jake was instrumental in making snowboarding a major sports activity, an important business and an Olympic discipline. He ...
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Tom Wilson-North, former owner of the freeride snowboard shop Zero...
Tom Wilson-North, former owner of the freeride snowboard shop Zero G in Chamonix, France, is joining the Nidecker Group in the new role of digital transformation manager. Wilson-North has been senior snowboard writer at Boardsport Source, key advisor to Protect Our Winters Europe and a member of the snow sports ...
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Burton Snowboards has become the first snowboarding company to obtain...
Burton Snowboards has become the first snowboarding company to obtain B Corporation certification from the B Lab, showing that the company is using its business “as a force for good” around the world. At last month's European Outdoor Summit in Interlaken, Donna Carpenter, co-founder of Burton, stated that the company ...
