Black Diamond Third Quarter Rely On Clothing Line To Help Performance Growth

< p > a few days ago, the US outdoor company < a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > Black Diamond < /a > Inc announced the company's third quarter financial report.

As of September 30th, the Black Diamond company, which owns Black Diamond, Gregory and other brands, had a sales income of $52 million 800 thousand in the third quarter, an increase of 8% compared with 48 million 700 thousand of the same period last year. The growth was mainly due to the launch of the autumn Black Diamond apparel line and the growth of Gregory's acquisition of Kabushiki Kaisha A&F of Japanese dealers.

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< p > this autumn, the Black Diamond brand, which has been focusing on outdoor hardware and equipment, has expanded its new field. The new a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > clothing product < /a > is officially on the market.

In the 2013 autumn and winter clothing products, Black Diamond main push Schoeller elastic series, Primaloft warmth series and Polartec grabs series three series.

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< p > > "we a href=" //www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp "> autumn winter clothing > /a > promotes the growth of the third quarter, which is consistent with our expectations for the second half of 2013 and the beginning of next year.

Peter Metcalf, chairman and chief executive officer of Black Diamond, said: "our clothing has received good feedback from the market and has been well received by retailers. It has sold to 240 sales outlets worldwide, and there are 25 440 SKU.

In addition, our sales and profits will continue to grow as we have independent dealers in the Japanese market. "

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< p > after adjustment, the latest financial expectation of Black Diamond2013 is: the total sales amount is between 2.05-2.10 billion dollars, an average of 11 million US dollars lower than the original 216 million -2.21 billion US dollars.

Such an adjustment means that the company's growth rate in 2013 is between 17%-19.

The gross profit margin also dropped slightly from the original 40%-41% to 38.5%-40%.

The adjustment of gross sales and gross margins has taken account of the impact of exchange rate changes since the beginning of 2013, but it has not calculated the impact of exchange rate movements over the next period of time.

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< p > for 2014, Black Diamond hopes to maintain a sales growth rate of around 20% under the guarantee of good profitability.

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The predecessor of < p > Black Diamond originated from Chouinard Equipment, founded by Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard. In 1989, the company was wholly-owned by the current chairman, Peter Metcalf, and became the later private property of the Black Peter, the equipment company, which began to be famous for providing professional outdoor climbing equipment. In May 2010, the company was backdoor listing through the company, and completed the acquisition of the old brand of backpackers.

Since then, Clarus has been renamed Black Diamond Equipment, Inc (NASDAQ: BDE, CLRS before), Peter Metcalf as CEO and chairman.

While buying Gregory, Clarus headquarters moved from Stamford to Salt Lake City, where Black Diamond is headquartered.

Since its successful listing, Black Diamond has started the pace of rapid expansion and acquisition. It has successfully acquired POC, GREGORY (Gregorian) Japanese agency Kabushiki Kaisha (referred to as A&F) and PIEPS company of Austria, further enriching and expanding the company's product line.

In 2012 winter Black Diamond sole owned ski production plant was completed in Zhuhai.

The factory has an area of nearly 4000 square meters, the production line adopts a brand-new manufacturing process, and has begun to produce samples for the 2013/2014 season ski line.

In 2012, Black Diamond estimated that the total annual sales volume was about $175 million 500 thousand, which increased significantly compared with the previous year's performance of US $145 million 800 thousand.

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< p > Black Diamond Equipment: with climbing equipment as the main product, in 2013, a number of brands will be launched jointly for the first time.

< p > Gregory Backpacks: for decades, the design and production of outdoor knapsack is less than /p.

Founded in P > PIEPS:2006, the leading manufacturer of alpine skiing safety equipment < /p >

< p > POC: Swedish brand, mainly developing and producing extreme sports protection products < /p >