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Wednesday, 16 January, 2008
Management buy-out for Dynastar?
Rumours about the future of Dynastar have been circulating for the past couple of years. The Sallanches (Haute-Savoie) based company, part of the Quiksilver stable (NYSE:ZQK), is the last major ski manufacturer in France. Their factory has a capacity to produce 450,000 skis per year. Quiksilver has seen its share price plummet faster than a downhill skier over the last quarter.
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Friday, 11 January, 2008
Salomon halts French ski production
The slow decline of Salomon continues. After major restructuring and job losses in 2005/6 the group has announced that it will close the Rumilly plant and stop ski production in France. The news has still been a shock for the Haute-Savoie company which only recently celebrated its 60th anniversary. According to a union representative employees “are battered and bruised but were resigned to the decisions taken by Amer sports (OMX:AMEAS) in Finland, they no longer believe in the company”.
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Thursday, 13 December, 2007
Artificial snow, a short term fix?
The Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research located in Davos have just released a monster 189 page tome in German studying the effects of snow canons on the mountain economy. I’ve only had time to read the “shorter” 35 page version. The overall conclusion is that while artificial snow is essential in the short term for the economic stability of ski areas long term it has no future below 1500 meters.
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Wednesday, 12 December, 2007
Kilimanjaro, blame it on the sunshine
The melting snows of Kilimanjaro near the African equator have become a symbol of global warming but is there really a link between the two? Two geophysicists, Philip Mote and Georg Kaser don’t think so. In an article in the journal American Scientific the two scientists have identified other causes.
Kilimanjaro - shrinking snows (photo: Nasa)
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Tuesday, 04 December, 2007
Oil price will hit ski resorts hard
Sheikh Yamani once said that the stone age didn’t end for lack of stone and if a new book by Jean-Marc Jancovici, consulting engineer and specialist in energy consumption is correct the ski age will end long before snow runs out. Interviewed by Stéphène Jourdain for the Dauphine Libere Mr Jancovici’s book is called “Le Plein s’il vous plaît!” (fill her up, please - ISBN: 978-2757803011).
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Sunday, 02 December, 2007
Cébé halts production of goggles and helmets
Cébé has announced that it is to close all its French factories and stop production of goggles and helmets by the end of the year. The manufacturer started production in Franche-Comté (France) at the end of the 19th century. It has been a subsidiary of the Italian Macrolin [MCL - ISIN:IT0001129847] group since 1999.
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Wednesday, 28 November, 2007
Henry’s Avalanche Talk in Val d’Isere this Saturday
As some of you will know the first weekend of December is the traditional opening date for Val d’Isere. Although the Foehn and Lombard winds have had a bad effect on the November snow Meteo France is predicting a storm for the week-end with lots of fresh snow. It is certainly cold enough with temperatures well below freezing.
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Henry’s Avalanche Talk launches new information services
Henry’s Avalanche Talk, launches new information services to help you stay safe and have fun out on the snow. HAT (Henry’s Avalanche Talk) have completely revamped their web based information services. In addition to the weekly ezine, there are now 4 new blog sites.
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Monday, 26 November, 2007
Salomon turns 60
We will probably all be content to make our sixtieth although there will be the inevitable feeling that our glory days lie somewhere behind us. It seems that way for Salomon, once one of the powerhouses of ski equipment design.
“Your guardian angel”, Salomon advert circa 1965
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Thursday, 22 November, 2007
You dig, or you die!
January 2004, the temperature was - 7 °C and winds were blowing at 100 km/h. Not a place you’d put a dog out let alone a group of trainee soldiers from hot African countries. In the bitter cold of the 2600 Restefond pass in the Southern Alps the order was given: “dig or die”. Two officers perished in the storm and another two were rescued “in-extremis”, one in a hypodermic coma. Three officers were before the military division of the Marseille criminal court this week accused of manslaughter and breaching health and safety regulations.
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