Swany Europe, a 3-year-old company based in Switzerland, has taken over the distribution of the American brand of medium-high-priced sports gloves from Trisport. The brand is now distributed in many important European markets – Austria, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden – and the company’s general manager, Martin Haldimann, is working on a deal in Germany. For the Fall/Winter 2006/07 collection distributed in Europe, Swany has incorporated into its gloves the same warm, insulating and anti-odor fabric used by Odlo for its sports underwear, which contains silver. Swany says its looking more for quality distribution than volume with its highly technical line, which got a safety award from the Volvo Sports Design Forum at the last ISPO, plus a Red Hot Award for visual design.