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News briefsTecnica Group confirms previous year's record results
Tecnica Group sustained its strong performance through a market and product diversification strategy amidst post-pandemic challenges. Despite prevailing uncertainties, the group showcased resilience in 2023, maintaining its growth trajectory initiated in 2020, which saw double-digit expansion in 2021 and 2022. The fiscal year 2023 concluded with sales totaling €540 million ...
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ArticleProgress in ski boot recycling; call for collaboration
Source: Dalbello Dalbello LIFE ReSkiBoot Italian ski boot brand Dalbello celebrated the conclusion of its EU-funded LIFE ReSkiBoot project this February. The stated aim of this LIFE project was to produce and market 1,000 high-quality, competitive ski boots made from around 90 percent recycled secondary raw materials. ...
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ArticleTecnica Group with new racing sport management
Source: Tecnica Group Manfred Mölgg and Jörg Ruedl Italy-based Tecnica Group has reorganized its racing department. Jörg Ruedl, who has been area sales and product manager for accessories and licensing at Nordica for 10 years, has taken over the position of racing business manager. Manfred Mölgg, a ...
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ArticleTecnica Group wraps up record financial year
According to its 2022 financial statements just published, Italy’s Tecnica Group looks back on the highest results in its history, with sales of €561 million, up 21 percent year-on-year. Adjusted Ebitda amounted to €94.5 million, up 14 percent compared to FY2021. In 2022, the company also posted a consolidated operating ...
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Former Nordica president Franco Vaccari has passed away
Source: private Franco Vaccari Franco Vaccari, a former shareholder of the Tecnica Group, passed away unexpectedly on March 11, 2023, at 83, according to Tecnica Group information. Vaccari was one of the most important entrepreneurs in the history of the so-called Sportsystem district of Montebelluna in the ...
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News briefsRakuscha named head of international brand experience at Blizzard-Tecnica
Source: Blizzard-Tecnica Markus Zeman-Wurzer Blizzard-Tecnica, part of the Italian Tecnica Group, has announced that Markus Zeman-Wurzer, most recently working 18 years in various positions at Salomon, has succeeded Tom Rakuscha as sales and marketing manager at Blizzard-Tecnica in Austria. Rakuscha has since taken on an international and ...
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Infographics & DataThe international outdoor footwear market 2021
This exclusive, yearly analysis includes the market size as well as revenues, market shares and growth for the leading outdoor footwear brands for 2021 and 2020.
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ArticleRecycle Your Boots: Tecnica Group’s recycling project aims at closing the loop
The Tecnica Group is committed to closing the circle of ski boot life cycles: 4,200 ski boots have already been collected, dismantled and recycled into new products in the first year since autumn 2021 of the group’s “Recycle Your Boots” (RYB) project.
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ArticleTecnica Group shows resilience
Sales grew by 21.8 percent to €466 million in 2021 for the Tecnica Group, leading to a 40 percent improvement in operating earnings (Ebitda) to €77 million for the year, despite adverse factors like the Covid-19 epidemic, higher prices for raw materials, which were said to have been in limited ...
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ArticleWinter Olympics may revive a languishing ski market in China
The emerging Chinese alpine skj market currently represents only about 3 percent of the global market, about twice the level of 2015, when we issued a big market research report on the broad Chinese sporting goods market in collaboration with ISPO. It has been languishing lately, but there is strong ...
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Tecnica hires social & environmental impact guide
Tecnica Group North America has hired Matthew Miller to fill the new post of ”social & environmental impact guide.” He will be overseeing the group’s social and environmental policies, especially with respect to partnerships with organizations and retailers. He will also be promoting product circularity, energy and carbon savings, and ...
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News briefsTecnica grew by 27% in H1, performed better than in 2019
Tecnica Group posted revenues of €173.7 million in the first half ended June 30, representing a 27 percent increase as compared to the same period of last year. Ebitda jumped to €17.1 million from €2.7 million in the first half of last year. The net result was a loss of ...
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ArticleGiovanni Zoppas will run Tecnica Group
Giovanni Zoppas is returning to Tecnica Group as its chief executive and general manager, starting in May. The 62-year-old Italian executive knows the group well as he is a member of its board of directors and worked as general manager of its Nordica brand between 2003 and 2006, taking care ...
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ArticleInline skating offsets Covid impact on Tecnica’s results
The Tecnica Group reported a drop of 9.8 percent in its revenues to €382 million in 2020, and said that it managed nonetheless to further improve its Ebitda by 10.7 percent to €55 million. The parent company of brands such as Nordica, Blizzard, Tecnica, Lowa, Boot and Rollerblade said its ...
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Another legal victory for the Moon Boot
Tecnica Group has won a second court verdict in Italy to protect the intellectual property rights behind its Moon Boot, and it is now planning to carry the fight to other countries as well, starting with Germany and Italy. The Milan Tribunal ruled on Jan. 25 that the unique design ...
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Tecnica partners with a local innovation hub for its digitalization
Tecnica Group has signed a new partnership agreement with H-Farm, an innovation hub located in Ca’ Tron, near Venice, that combines investment, business consulting and digitally-enhanced educational programs. The partnership calls for the launch of new digital activities by Tecnica’s employees and the development of new courses aimed at training ...
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ArticleTecnica’s former CEO is now running Pinarello
Antonio Dus, the seasoned manager who has led Tecnica Group for the past five years, has become the new global CEO of Cicli Pinarello, with a financial stake in the iconic Italian brand of high-end bicycles, which came three years ago under the control of L Catterton, the private equity ...
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Tecnica among the most performing firms in Italy’s northeast
Tecnica Group has been ranked among the 100 top-performing companies in Italy’s Triveneto area for 2019. The ranking is available in TOP 100, a special supplement that the Gedi publishing group has devoted to the best-performing companies in Italy’s northeast. The supplement has been on sale since Nov. 20 with ...
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News briefsTecnica comments on Blizzard's situation in Austria
Earlier this week, some media reported that the ski manufacturer has stopped production at its Tecnica Group Ski Excellence Center in Mittersill, Austria, which has triggered various suspicions and rumors because of the Covid-19 situation. The Tecnica Group has now officially commented and clarified that the Tecnica Group ...
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ArticleAntonio Dus leaves Tecnica
The Tecnica Group says that its chief executive, Antonio Dus, is leaving in December 2020 “in order to be able to devote himself to other personal and professional projects.” The company’s chairman, Alberto Zanatta, will be acting as CEO on an interim basis with effect from Nov. 1. Reaching Ebitda ...
