The first ever industry wide End of Life solution is currently being sought by the Sustainability Working Group, part of the European Outdoor Group. (more…)

Zug, Switzerland – The first ever industry wide End of Life solution is currently being sought by the Sustainability Working Group, part of the European Outdoor Group. (more…)

Press Conference Speech
16 July 2009, OutDoor, Friedrichshafen, Germany
Rolf G Schmid, President, European Outdoor Group; CEO, Mammut Sports Group
Given by Mark Held, Secretary General of the European Outdoor Group on behalf of Rolf Schmid.

Welcome
On behalf of the European Outdoor Group a warm welcome to the 16th OutDoor Trade Fair.

Since our last fair, the world has been taken up with stories of economic crisis and difficult times for many industrial sectors. We hope that OutDoor 2009 will prove to be an oasis in troubled times, that will refresh you and leave you feeling more able to face the world. In fact the very feeling we are left with after being out in the great outdoors that we love so much. (more…)

The first interim results of a major outdoor consumer research project undertaken by the European Outdoor Group (EOG) are starting to emerge, and they offer some good news for the German outdoor industry. (more…)

Zug, Switzerland – The first interim results of a major outdoor consumer research project undertaken by the European Outdoor Group (EOG) are starting to emerge, and they offer some good news for the German outdoor industry. (more…)

The workings of the European Commission are sometimes strange and mysterious and our industry has struggled to understand why when ice screws, ropes, harnesses and karabiners are all considered as Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), ice tools are not. (more…)

Zug, Switzerland – The workings of the European Commission are sometimes strange and mysterious and our industry has struggled to understand why when ice screws, ropes, harnesses and karabiners are all considered as Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), ice tools are not. (more…)

An important and highly topical Sustainability Workshop will be held during OutDoor this summer. The Workshop will take place from 8.30am on the Friday morning of the fair, the 17th July, in the new East Foyer, Room Berlin. (more…)

The European Outdoor Group’s Sustainability Working Group (SWG) now has a live website, which gives access to updates of all areas of the SWG’s work. (more…)

The European Outdoor Group is part of the European Footwear Alliance (in conjunction with FESI – Federation of European Sporting Goods Industries and the EBFC -European Brown Footwear Coalition), which is fighting Anti Dumping measures that currently add a punitive duty to footwear coming into the EU from China and Vietnam. (more…)