Vans has teamed up with The Beatles to release a line of footwear featuring the art from the movie Yellow Submarine…
Year: 2014
Oeko-Tex Expects to Release Online Tool This Summer
OEKO-TEX revealed it is developing an online platform that enables brand providers, manufacturers, and retailers to transparently track and optimally manage the sustainability of their entire supply chain based on relevant performance features…
Hydro Flask Adds Industry Heavyweights to Advisory Board
Hydro Flask recruited two industry heavy weights to its board of directors. The maker of stainless steel containers said Mark Bryden, previously president of VF Corporation’s lucy Activewear, and Jack Gilbert, founder of Mountain Hardwear, have join
Kent International to Build SC Assembly Plant
Kent International Inc., a major supplier of bicycles and accessories to discount and full-line sporting goods retailers, is investing $4.3 million in a new assembly plant in South Carolina that will help Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reach its domestic sourcing g
NICA Hires Suzette Ayotte as New Development Director
The National Interscholastic Cycling Association, which is shepherding development of high-school mountain biking leagues across the country, named Suzette Ayotte as its new development director…
REI Names Kühl as 2013 Vendor Partner of the Year
REI selected Utah-based apparel company Kühl from among 1,300 vendors as its 2013 Vendor Partner of the Year during the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market trade show. Osprey Packs, Rossignol and Darn Tough Vermont were named divisional winners…
OBIT: Former NSGA Chairman Lawrence W. “Scotty” Cummins
NSGA recently learned that Lawrence W. ”Scotty” Cummins, who was a chairman of the board of the National Sporting Goods Association (NSGA) and was instrumental in building the foundation of the Management Conference and Team Dealer Summit, pas
Nearly a Million Photos with Santa Taken at Bass Pro Shops Stores Across the U.S. and Canada
During the 2013 holiday season, more than 920,000 free studio-quality photos were snapped with Santa Claus at Bass Pro Shops stores across the U.S. and Canada…
Blue Heron Communications Partners with Winchester Safes
Blue Heron Communications, a full-service, outdoor-specialty marketing and public relations agency, announces a strategic partnership with Winchester® Safes, manufacturer of a full line of firearm safes and safe accessories…
Dorel to Shutter Pennsylvania Bike Factory in New Restructuring
Dorel Industries Inc. will close its assembly and testing facility in Bedford, PA and layoff 100 employees as part of a global restructuring of its Recreational/Leisure segment announced Thursday morning. The segment owns the Cannondale, Schwinn, GT, Mon
C4 Waterman Acquired by Wenonah Canoe
Executives for Wenonah Canoe Inc. and C4 Waterman announced the merger of the two paddlesports brands Wednesday at Outdoor Retailer Winter Market. Bill Kueper, Vice President, Wenonah Canoe, Inc. and Todd Bradley, President C4 Waterman, Inc. said C4 Water
Electric Names New Sales Staff in Europe
Electric, the California-based maker of watches, sunglasses, snow goggles, helmets and other action sports accessories, has hired a new sales team at its recently consolidated European subsidiary…
SIA and Board Retailers Association Make Partnership Official
The Board Retailers Association (BRA) will hold its board of directors meeting during the SIA Snow Show in Denver next month as part of a new formal partnership between the industry’s two largest trade groups. BRA will also have its own booth on the
Precor Named Exclusive Fitness Partner by Preferred Hotel Group Alliance
Precor has joined the Preferred Hotel Group Alliance Partner Program, giving it exclusive promotional rights as the official recommended and approved vendor of exercise equipment and networked fitness software at more than 650 hotels and resorts in 85 cou
Golf Industry Launches Initiative to Reverse Decline
On the eve of the golf industry's largest trade show, a group of industry leaders presented a plan to more than 1,000 industry members to call on golfers everywhere to “hack” the sport by submitting their ideas to revitalize the game. Since 2004 near
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