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Technical Apparel segment drives Amer Sports’ Q1 revenue growth
Bolstered by constant-currency growth of 48 percent for its Technical Apparel segment that includes the Arc’teryx business, Amer Sports delivered Q1 sales and profitability above guidance in Q1. Operating profit fell by 16 percent to $109.0 million from $130.4 million in the period ended March 31. Ebit tumbled by 67 ...
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In Paris, Arc’teryx opens shop-in-shop ahead of flagship
Outdoor apparel brand Arc’teryx has opened an 80-square-meter shop-in-shop on the ground floor of La Samaritaine, the department store on Paris’s Rue de Rivoli. The retail space, inaugurated on Feb. 9, showcases a range of functional and performance items from the brand’s spring/summer 2024 collection. Arc’teryx will soon open ...
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Canada Goose launches U.S. resale platform powered by Trove
Trove, a service provider that powers the secondhand stores of Patagonia, Lululemon, REI, Arc’teryx, On and Allbirds, is now also the partner for Canada Goose’s new authorized reselling platform: Canada Goose Generations. Consumers can trade in their used Canada Goose products online, for assessment and authentication. Canada Goose will compensate ...
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E-commerce, DTC model bolstered Anta H1 Sales
Anta Sports Products recorded a 13.8 percent increase in first half revenues to 25,965 million yuan renminbi (€3,687.0b) thanks to contributions from its direct-to-consumer and e-commerce segments, which helped to offset a 34 percent sales decline in its traditional wholesale business that was adversely impacted by the pandemic. DTC sales ...
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Arc’teryx continues global brand store expansion
Source: Arc’teryx Arc’teryx has increased the number of its own brand stores by 15 percent Arc’teryx, the Vancouver-based brand owned by Amer Sports, opened 21 stores in the past twelve months, ending 2021 with a total of 159 brick-and-mortar mono-brand shops around the world - 16 ...
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Arc’teryx launches first winter edition of its academies in Europe
Arc’teryx is already well known in Europe for its yearly summer Alpine Academy event in Chamonix. It is now launching for the first time a series of winter events in Europe, called Arc’teryx Academy, From Feb. 18 to 20, the “Arc’teryx Academy: freeride” premiere will be held in St. Anton, ...
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Former Nike footwear product manager joins Arc’teryx in a similar role
Arc’teryx has appointed Ovidio Garcia as vice president of footwear, effective immediately. He will be reporting directly to Katie Becker, Arc’teryx’ chief creative officer. Garcia brings 15 years of experience at Nike in product management, merchandising and product operations for footwear on a global scale, most recently as global footwear ...
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Arc’teryx opens new NY location, rebranding its Icon Stores as Arc’type
Located across from Central Park in the Upper West Side of New York, Arc’teryx Equipment has just opened a newly rebranded micro-store concept called Arc’type, centered around the brand’ s most renowned designs. It features a curated selection of just 22 items, ”specifically selected to help introduce guests to Arc’teryx ...
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Arc’teryx will hold its Alpine Academy on-site and digitally from July 1
Arc’teryx’ Alpine Academy will return to Chamonix for the tenth time on July 1-4, accompanied by a full digital program. For those who can make it to the French alpine village, the downtown area will host movie screenings, DJ sets, product demos and more. An Arc’teryx brand experience area will ...
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Arc’teryx appoints Karl Aaker as brand vice president
Arc’teryx Equipment, the Canadian sports brand inherited by Anta Sports Products and other interests through their investment in Amer Sports in 2019, announced the appointment of Karl Aaker to the role of VP brand, effective immediately. In his new role, Aaker will be responsible for leading the global brand strategy, ...
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Arc’teryx partners with an “upcycling sorceress”
Source: Arc’Teryx Nicole McLaughlin Described by Gentleman’s Quarterly as an “upcycling sorceress,” Nicole McLaughlin is known to have turned old sneakers into vests, tennis balls into shoes, badminton shuttlecocks into slippers or oven mitts into jackets. She has worked on upcycling projects for sports brands such as ...
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Herschel hires former Arc’teryx president as new CEO to diversify its range
Herschel Supply Co., a Canadian company known for its Herschel brand of lifestyle backpacks, has brought Jon Hoerauf on board in the newly created position of chief executive officer, effective immediately, with a plan to further diversify it into other categories and to verticalize its business. Herschel has already expanded ...
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Amer Sports appoints new CEO for Arc’teryx, planning to accelerate DTC
Amer Sports has announced the immediate appointment of Stuart Haselden, a retail industry executive, to the newly created position of CEO of Arc’teryx Equipment, based in Vancouver, Canada. He succeeds Jon Hoerauf, Arc’teryx’ president, who has decided to leave the company to pursue other plans after eight years with the ...
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Arc’teryx aims for Fair Trade certification
With a goal of having 80 percent of its products certified by Fair Trade by 2025, Arc’teryx has announced plans to get three production facilities in Vietnam converted in order to obtain the label in the coming year. The move comes as part of the company’s response to the global ...
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Arc’teryx opens first Icon Store with flexible DTC services
Arc’teryx has launched a new retail store concept called The Icon Store. The first store was opened in Walnut Creek, California, on Nov. 12 with 77 square meters of floor space, inspired “by wood-frame backcountry huts.” The compact store is designed to streamline the shopping experience by showcasing only a ...
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Arc’teryx promotes second-hand gear for Black Friday
To shift the focus away from the mass consumption usually associated with Black Friday, Arc’teryx will be rewarding consumers in the U.S. and Canada who trade in their used equipment with a gift card worth 30 percent of an item’s original retail value, a 10 percent increase in the ...
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Arc’teryx launches virtual product advisor for consumers
If consumers can’t make it to a store, but have questions about Arc’teryx’ new product line for the autumn, they can now make an appointment online with the new Virtual Advisor. The Canadian brand claims that the 30-minute appointments, which are available worldwide but currently only in English, will help ...
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Vincent Wauters quits Hunter Boots
Vincent Wouters, the former president of Arc’teryx who became the chief executive of Hunter Boots in 2016, will be stepping down “by mutual agreement” at the end of July to pursue new opportunities, said the Edinburgh-based company, adding that it is launching a “strategic review” of its operations. This comes ...
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A tweet imperils multiple basketball deals
Basketball is very popular in China, but in response to a few words delivered on social media, the two major Chinese internet marketplaces and several retailers in major Chinese cities have pulled all merchandise bearing the brands of the Houston Rockets or the NBA from their shelves. Nike took similar ...
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Amer’s new investors want total board control
After receiving pledges for about 94.98 percent of the voting shares in Amer Sports, even before the deadline of March 29 set for the completion of the tender offer, the Mascot Bidco consortium proposed yesterday to change completely the composition of Amer's board of directors at an annual general meeting ...