Spine That Does Things Differently (But Finally Launches Its Website)

Spine That Does Things Differently (But Finally Launches Its Website)

Leaders, Newsfeed
Spine Sports is perhaps the oddest company there is in the whole of the xcski industry. Yet their market strategy seems to be working as more and more athletes and serious amateurs are being seen in Spine's marquee lapis-lazuli boots. [caption id="attachment_16860" align="alignnone" width="616"] Company is often defined by its boss - and Spine Sports offers proof of that postulate: Dmitry Vargin, Spine's co-founder and CEO, is mercurial and ambitious. As a man who built a multimillion dollar company from total scratch would be expected to be [/caption] Here's what makes them so different: - They are the world biggest cross-country boots producer by volume, churn out hundreds of thousands of them every year and operate large and well equipped factory in outskirts of the city of Yaroslavl in Russia…
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Packaging Can Be Theater…

Packaging Can Be Theater…

Gear News, Newsfeed
“Packaging can be theater, it can create a story.” You know who said? Steve Jobs. If you need higher authority on how to do marketing, you're much smarter than us. Apple allegedly maintains a special "unpackaging room" where hundreds of potential package designs are being tried & tested to get the all-important unwrapping experience perfect. The august world of cross country skiing,by contrast, holds true that every product should reach the end customer in packaging that not only is made of recycled material - it also looks recycled. That environmentalist in us applauds the former - but consumer in us has an issue with the latter. Enter Spine Sports. And casts a glance at the packaging issue. [caption id="attachment_16349" align="alignnone" width="1313"] Those €500 boots come to you in box that…
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