 Poster: A snowHead
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I'm doing some research into some possible new skis to upgrade to and have found a few possibles that look like they hit all the right notes. Some of which are this years Rossignol experience range. I've always understood Rossignol to be a decent ski manufacturer that produce well thought of skis. Certainly, looking on the Skis.com video reviews from the US, they seem to be cracking skis.
Yet there seem to be very few UK stockists. Brighams seems to have all the usual high end, fat waist, big profit margin stock with various independents having a bit more variety, but hardly any seem to be interested in stocking Rossignol.
Is it just a marketing thing? Do Rossi sell enough units in France to not need to promote heavily in the UK?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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All down to the distributor, Rossignol terms may not be as good these days. Depends on what discount offered to retailers on hardware and soft wear (which has lots more profit) whether you can rely on the kit turning up, returns ete. and the credit offered; you buy loads of kit and pay for it so much a month; some distributors terms are not as good for your shop range so you choose the one which will give you the most profit. Not a reflection on quality or greatness of product just marketing, or lack of it.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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shootingmike, The UK is often described as "a boot market". Rossi boots not as popular as Salomon, Head etc so, if you're not stocking the boots, you're unlikely to stock the skis.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Snow and Rock sell Rossignol, but Ellis Brigham don't. It can only be a commercial decision between the distributor and retailer, nothing to do with the quality or popularity of Rossignol skis.
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exactly
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Gone are the days of shops selecting two or three brands and buying the whole range from them, we now cherry pick the best products from each brand that we want to deal with and make up a range that way, on rossignol for example we carry three of their upper end boots as they fill gaps in our range along side the Lange models on the wider version of the same last in different flexes
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What do Rossi make anyway? Lange make their boots, Dynastar their skis, Quicksilver their clothes and Look their bindings.
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frenchst, "you too!" Thought I just had a dodgy pair!
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i think that youll find that Rossignol make their own skis, and as they own Lange/Dynastar/Look and Geze then i guess youd say it was the other way round  not connected with Quicksilver anymore since the management buyout after Quicksilver were losing pots of Dollars....
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iskar, might need to get some of the facts squared up a little
the Rossignol Group consists of rossignol, dynastar, look, Lange et al .....the decent top end boots are all made in the lange factory, they share the same lasts at that end of the market, all the freeride / race models are a lange last and they swap the colours and logos around, the bindings are re badged look bindings and the skis come from a mixture of sources
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