SHOT hit with outdoors fans
Before long, the New Haven company was turning out camouflage coveralls, jackets, shirts and pants under its own label as well as for retail stores such as Bass Pro Shops, Cabela's and Gander Mountain. "It built to a point in the late '90s and probably peaked about 2002," said Jeff Chrisman, the company's marketing manager. "Since then it's flattened off. A lot of companies we used to produce for have their own manufacturing teams or they go overseas to have their products made. That's where we're competing now." That competition took center stage last weekend at the 29th annual Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show, otherwise known as the SHOT Show. Although hunting clothes account for only 20 percent of Berne Apparel's business these days, Chrisman said missing the SHOT Show is not an option considering the contacts the company has made since first going to the event in 1990.
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From wireless boloney to fibre-optics
The main stories in the January 07 issue of the Industrial Automation Insider newsletter are as follows. * Emerson says battery life criticisms of its network are 'boloney' as 2.4GHz Smart Wireless launches in Europe. Emerson Process Management duly brought its in-plant wireless technology to Europe, and indeed to the rest of the world outside North America, in the second week of January when it summoned the European press to Bologna in Northern Italy for the launch of the 2.4GHz version of the 'Smart Wireless' solutions it unveiled in the US last October (See INSIDER, October 2006, page 1). Why Bologna? It's the birthplace of Guglielmo Marconi and, to put everyone in a suitably wireless mood, proceedings commenced on the Wednesday evening with a tour of the Villa Griffone, the former Marconi family seat where young Guglielmo conducted his experiments which is now a wireless museum.
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Before long, the New Haven company was turning out camouflage coveralls, jackets, shirts and pants under its own label as well as for retail stores such as Bass Pro Shops, Cabela's and Gander Mountain. "It built to a point in the late '90s and probably peaked about 2002," said Jeff Chrisman, the company's marketing manager. "Since then it's flattened off. A lot of companies we used to produce for have their own manufacturing teams or they go overseas to have their products made. That's where we're competing now." That competition took center stage last weekend at the 29th annual Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show, otherwise known as the SHOT Show. Although hunting clothes account for only 20 percent of Berne Apparel's business these days, Chrisman said missing the SHOT Show is not an option considering the contacts the company has made since first going to the event in 1990.
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From wireless boloney to fibre-optics
The main stories in the January 07 issue of the Industrial Automation Insider newsletter are as follows. * Emerson says battery life criticisms of its network are 'boloney' as 2.4GHz Smart Wireless launches in Europe. Emerson Process Management duly brought its in-plant wireless technology to Europe, and indeed to the rest of the world outside North America, in the second week of January when it summoned the European press to Bologna in Northern Italy for the launch of the 2.4GHz version of the 'Smart Wireless' solutions it unveiled in the US last October (See INSIDER, October 2006, page 1). Why Bologna? It's the birthplace of Guglielmo Marconi and, to put everyone in a suitably wireless mood, proceedings commenced on the Wednesday evening with a tour of the Villa Griffone, the former Marconi family seat where young Guglielmo conducted his experiments which is now a wireless museum.
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