Under Armour has ousted Nike as the official outfitter of Old Dominion University Athletics, the university announced Monday. ODU said it signed a five-year partnership giving Under Armour the right to outfit its football and the men's and women'
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Accell North America Sales Decline in 2014
Accell Group N.V. reported its North American revenues declined 9 percent in 2014, as its decision to halt Raleigh sales to mass merchants and integrate its parts and distribution businesses hurt sales…

Spy Inc. Sees Sales Rise 13.2 Percent in Fourth Quarter
Spy Inc. reported strong goggle sales and continued growth in prescription frames helped drive up its fourth quarter sales by 13.2 percent to $9.8 million in the fourth quarter…
TomTom Connects Smart Watches to Nike+
TomTom announced that its range of TomTom Runner and Multi-Sport GPS Sport Watches will now connect to Nike+…
Accell Grows North American Bike Sales Without Mass or IBD Channel
Accell Group N.V. reported its North American bikes sales grew 4 percent in 2014 as sales to multi-sports retailers like REI more than offset a decline in sales to mass marketers and independent bicycle dealer channel, where sales lagged expectations and
Puma Names Head of Global Strategy
Puma appointed Nina Graf-Vlachy as head of global strategy for the strategic projects and said her predecessor Arne Freundt has assumed the position of director global retail and e-commerce…
Loudmouth Awards Green with CEO Title
Loudmouth President Dennis Green has been elevated to the president/CEO role and will spend 2015 exploiting the company's licensing deals with colleges and Major League Baseball…
Eagle Creek Turns 40
Eagle Creek celebrates 40 years of industry firsts and innovation in 2015, 40 years after Steve and Nona Barker started building backpacks in Idyllwild, CA…
Quiksilver Q1 Earnings Delayed By Audit Commitee Probe
Quiksilver Inc. postponed its first quarter earnings release scheduled for March 5 pending an investigation of “a revenue cut-off issue” by company directors…
Smith Sustains Double-Digit Growth Despite Q4 Restructuring
Safilo Sport Products, which consists of the U.S.-based Smith brand, saw sales grow 15.8 percent to €31.8 million in the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2014 even as it was undergoing a major restructuring…
W.L. Gore, L.L.Bean and REI Make Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For List
L.L.Bean edged out rival Recreational Equipment Inc. on Forbes magazine's 2015 100 Best Companies to Work For list. W.L. Gore & Associates ranked 17th, while two other retailers, an investment bank and law firm with ties to the industry made the list
Skullcandy Revenues Grew 34 in Fourth Quarter
Skullcandy Inc. reported net sales in the fourth quarter of 2014 increased 34 percent to $96.8 million from $72.2 million in the same quarter of the prior year. Net sales grew 37 percent in the United States and 27 percent abroad…
National Trails Day Event Registration Open
American Hiking Society urged trail clubs, city, state and federal public agencies, local parks, community groups and outdoor-minded businesses to register their events for this year's National Trails Day online so people can find them in its searcha
Gander Mountain to Open Stores in Texas and Oklahoma
Gander Mountain will open its 20th store in Texas and first store in Oklahoma on Thursday, March 12…
Specialty Snow Sports Channel Foresees Modest Sales Gains
Thanks to good conditions in the Northeast, Midwest and Colorado, snow sports retail sales are likely to approach if not surpass last winter, executives of the nation's most prominent snow sport retailing organizations told The B.O.S.S. Report in re