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Berghaus Limited is a British outdoor clothing and equipment brand founded in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England, and now headquartered in nearby Sunderland. [2] It was founded in 1966 by climbers and mountaineers Peter Lockey and Gordon Davison, initially as an importer and distributor of outdoors products. [ 3 ]
The Group owns Speedo, Berghaus, Canterbury of New Zealand, Endura, Boxfresh, Ellesse, Red or Dead, SeaVees and Mitre. It is also the UK footwear licensee for Kickers and has a joint venture partnership for Lacoste footwear. The Group also holds interests directly and indirectly, through fund managers, in activities and businesses operating in ...
In 1978, he designed the innovative Brasher Boot – a walking boot with the comfort of a running shoe. In their time these were amongst the best products, but declined in quality, were merged with Berghaus under Pentland ownership in 2014, and were finally discontinued before 2017. [7] In 1981 John Disley and Brasher founded the London ...
Robert Stephen Rubin OBE (born December 1937), is a British billionaire businessman. He is the chairman, and co-owner (alongside members of his family) of Pentland Group, the holding company for a number of sporting goods companies, based in Finchley, north London.
Pentland Group also owns other well-known sportswear brands, such as Berghaus and Speedo. [4] It currently licenses the Ellesse brand to partners in countries around the world, who manufacture and distribute Ellesse products in their territory. Ellesse celebrated its 50th anniversary with a party in Rome in July 2009.
Berghaus is a German language habitational surname meaning 'at the Berghaus' ("mountain house"). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Notable people with the name include: Albert Berghaus (fl. 1869–1880), American illustrator
VF Corporation (formerly Vanity Fair Mills until 1969) is an American global apparel and footwear company founded in 1899 by John Barbey and headquartered in Denver, Colorado. [3]
Cerberus owns IAP Worldwide Services, which bought Johnson Controls' World Services division in February 2005. Previously owned Multimax (purchased predecessor company in 2000 and Multimax in 2006; sold entire holding in 2007 to Harris Corporation). Cerberus owns Tier 1 Group, a private company that provides military training. [55]