Mountain Designs Explained

Mountain Designs
Type:Subsidiary
Industry:Retail
Founded: in Brisbane, Australia
Founder:Rick White
Areas Served:-->
Products:Outdoor clothing and equipment
Parent:Spotlight Retail Group

Mountain Designs is an outdoor clothing and equipment business based in Australia. They sell hiking, rockclimbing and general outdoor and recreational equipment. The company stocks a variety of international and local brands, as well as their own brands of clothing, accessories, sleepwear and bags.[1]

History

The business was founded by Rick White in Brisbane in 1975.

By 2004, Mountain Designs was operating a factory, head office and factory outlet in Brisbane. It had 29 regular stores: three in Queensland, seven in New South Wales, six in Victoria, seven in Western Australia, one in South Australia, one in the Australian Capital Territory, and four in New Zealand. At this stage, the chain was still yet to open in Auckland.[2]

Mountain Designs pulled out of the New Zealand market in 2014, citing a slow economy and a saturated market.[3] At the time of the announcement, it had 12 stores around the country,[4] including three in Auckland.[5]

In January 2018, the chain closed all its stores and transitioned to online-only retailing; it had 45 stores across Australia by this time.[6] In March of that year, the Spotlight Retail Group purchased the company for an undisclosed sum.[7] [8]

In April 2019, Mountain Designs relaunched its e-commerce website. It also began to sell a selection of its range through about 60 of Spotlight's Anaconda outdoor stores.[9]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mountain Designs . mountaindesigns.com . Spotlight Retail Group.
  2. Web site: Store Locations - Australia and New Zealand . mountaindesigns.co.nz . Mountain Design Holdings . https://web.archive.org/web/20041011035718/http://www.mountaindesigns.co.nz/Index.cfm?Action=staticContent&content=storeLocations . 11 October 2004.
  3. Web site: Outdoor chain closes due to 'saturated' market. Moir. Jo. 6 August 2014. Stuff. 28 December 2018.
  4. News: Mountain Designs to exit NZ shores . . . 7 August 2014.
  5. Web site: Stores in North Island - New Zealand . mountaindesigns.com . Mountain Design Holdings . https://web.archive.org/web/20130601053858/http://www.mountaindesigns.com/stores/state/north-island . 1 June 2013.
  6. News: Koehn . Emma . Mountain Designs to close a third of stores in face of "increased competition": Will retail store networks shrink in 2018? . 2 June 2018 . Smart Company . 11 January 2018.
  7. News: Koehn . Emma . Troubled outdoor retailer Mountain Designs bought by Spotlight Group . 2 June 2018 . Smart Company . 29 March 2018.
  8. Web site: Spotlight Group Holdings Acquires Aussie Retail Brand. 26 March 2018. Spotlight Group Holdings. https://web.archive.org/web/20181228031402/https://www.spotlightgroup.com/medias/spotlight-group-holdings-media-release-26-03-2018.pdf?context=bWFzdGVyfHJvb3R8NzA0Mjh8YXBwbGljYXRpb24vcGRmfHJvb3QvaDg4L2gwZS85ODE4Njc3MjE1MjYyL3Nwb3RsaWdodC1ncm91cC1ob2xkaW5ncy1tZWRpYS1yZWxlYXNlLTI2LTAzLTIwMTgucGRmfGJiZmMxYzNmNTE3MDFmZjNlZWMyYTU0NzY3ZmNlYTViNmEyZDAyNDk4NTVlYTJlMDViMWUxNmU1MGExODAzM2M. 28 December 2018. live. 2 June 2018.
  9. Web site: Mountain Designs relaunches online. Blake. Dean. 11 April 2019. Inside Retail. https://web.archive.org/web/20190416052320/https://www.insideretail.com.au/news/mountain-designs-relaunches-online-201904. 16 April 2019. live. 16 April 2019.

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