Polygiene in strategic partnership with Japanese Goldwin and its brand THE NORTH FACE

Publish date: 21 Mar 2017

The first product launch concerns five different types of sock models that are included in the THE NORTH FACE spring and summer collection 2017. The socks have the added value of Polygienes Odor Control Technology.

Japanese Goldwin holds the trademark rights for THE NORTH FACE in Japan and The Republic of Korea, and has a strategic partnership with THE NORTH FACE Inc. (US) to develop the brand’s business in these countries.   

We have great expectations for our long-term partnership with Goldwin in the years to come. They have an interesting brand portfolio of Japanese consumer sport brands. Asian consumers purchasing power is on the rise and the demand for sport garments and goods are big in Japan”, says Christian von Uthmann, CEO at Polygiene.

Goldwin is based in Tokyo and holds and develops a number of premium brands within Sport and Leisure, THE NORTH FACE among others. They sell and produces products for the Japanese and South Korean markets. These Polygiene treated socks will be sold in the Goldwin web shop, in Goldwin/THE NORTH FACE stores and in Japanese department stores beginning spring 2017.

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