Month: April 2004

ICON Health & Fitness is experiencing some of the same shift in the fitness equipment seen by retailers and manufacturers alike as consumers shift more focus to strength training equipment…

The newly-minted division of Sears has moved quickly to settle a dispute at its El Salvador operation after a number of universities severed licensing contracts with the apparel-maker under pressure from the Workers Rights Consortium, the Fair Labor Assoc

British retailer JJB Sports said it is “satisfied” with its business in its last fiscal year as it turned the corner on improving margins in the back half of the year. But heavy competition in the value clothing category that hurt sales in the last year

Columbia Sportswear is continuing its tactical assault on counterfeiters, and has recently conducted three simultaneous raids on Malaysian Factory Outlet Stores selling copies of its brands. The raids took place at three separate Factory Outlet Stores in

The SGMA released their study on sports participation trends for 2003 which revealed what many vendors and manufacturers have already been witnessing in their sales numbers. The study takes a very detailed look at nearly every form of sport imaginable, an

The Teva brand had its had its best quarter in Deckers company history in Q1 and the company saw UGG sales transcend its usual back-half niche to post a 226% increase in sales for that brand. The expansion of the Teva brand beyond its traditional open-to

Aside from Footstar and Foot Locker and its investors, its tough to find many people that like the deal announced last week that would see the world’s-largest-athletic-specialty-retailer become even larger after acquiring 353 Footaction stores out of bank