All Icebreaker articles
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ArticleVF Corp publishes Environmental and Social Responsibility Report 2023
Source: VF Corp Under the title “Purpose. Driven.” VF Corp has published its Environmental and Social Responsibility Report for the 2023 financial year. The comprehensive report emphasizes the key areas that VF focuses on: People, Planet and Product. Topics covered in the report include gender parity, racial ...
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ArticleVF reshuffles management of Dickies, Altra, Smartwool and Icebreaker
Denver-based VF Corporation has announced executive changes at four of its emerging brands – Dickies, Altra, Smartwool and Icebreaker – effective immediately. Dalhausser: From Altra to Dickies Todd Dalhausser has been named global brand president of Dickies. He will report to VF’s interim president & CEO Benno Dorer and will ...
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ArticleVF braces for weaker consumer environment, lowers FY outlook
VF Corp is maintaining its full-year revenue growth guidance of 5-6 percent, citing its balanced portfolio and a building recovery in China as two examples, but has lowered expectations on some key financial metrics due to currency headwinds, higher inventory levels and a more promotional environment. The North Face parent ...
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VF Corp. sets initiatives for brands to reach FY27 targets
This is how VF Corp. wants to reach its growth targets for 2027 in challenging times.
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News briefsZalando signs Four Paws’ letter of intent for mulesing-free wool
The animal welfare organization Four Paws has announced a new signing of the letter of intent to move away from mulesing sheep’s wool. Retailer Zalando has joined the campaign, pledging to phase out its offerings of wool products that are not mulesing-free. The campaign calls for a complete shift away ...
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News briefsGoldwin’s annual operating profit up 11 percent
Goldwin’s revenues rose by 8.6 percent to 98,235 million yen (€756.4m) in the financial year ended March 31, while operating profit climbed by 11.2 percent to ¥16,501 million (€127.1m), better than a Feb. 10 operating earnings forecast calling for a 5.7 percent decline to ¥14 billion. But the reported annual ...
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VF is splitting up Icebreaker
Four years after acquiring the brand of merino-wool apparel based in New Zealand, VF Corp. has decided that it will be splitting Icebreaker into three entities, according to reports in the NZ Herald. Two of these entities will be operating out of the present headquarters, in the city of Ponsonby, ...
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VF’s Icebreaker has a new global president
Jan Van Mossevelde is VF Corp’s new global president for the Icebreaker brand. Succeeding Greg Smith, who has resigned, Van Mossevelde will be working out of the brand’s international head office in Auckland, New Zealand, while reporting to Martino Scabbia Guerrini, president of the EMEA region. The new position is ...
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CSR & SUSTAINABILITY
+++ Icebreaker, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, has vowed to become 100% plastic-free by 2023/24 +++
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Icebreaker works with a start-up on temperature-taking armband
Icebreaker, a brand of VF Corp., is partnering with a start-up on the development of a smart armband designed to monitor the wearer’s temperature, which could become a key tool in the post-coronavirus world. Nightingale MedTech, the company behind the armband idea, was only formed on May 1. The prototype ...
