San Diego Sport Innovators (SDSI) announced the latest graduates of its business accelerator program, which seeks to grow Southern California’s sports and active lifestyle economy…
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Kent Secures Rights to Sell Goodyear Bike Tires and Tubes
Kent International will begin supplying Walmart and Dunham's with Goodyear-branded bicycle tires and tubes this spring thanks to a new licensing deal with The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company…
Ford Displays E-bike Concepts in Barcelona
Ford Motor Company displayed an e-bike developed with Dahon Monday that uses rear sensors to warn cyclists of approaching vehicles. The prototype is the result of a new experiment to study how electric bicycles can work seamlessly with cars and public tra
Fox Factory Reports MTB Sales Grew 2.3 Percent in Q4
Fox Factory Holding Corp.'s mountain biking sales grew just 2.3 percent in the fourth quarter, but the company's CEO said he expects growth to accelerate when the company begins shipping a new fork later this year…
CamelBak Grows Sales 6.2 percent in 2014
CamelBak had net sales of $148.7 million for the year ended Dec. 31, 2014, up 6.2 percent compared to the same period in 2013, Compass Diversified Holdings reported Monday…
Thule Group Partners with Bluesign Technologies
Thule Group has partnered with Bluesign Technologies AG to ensure textile products it uses in its packs, bags and cases adhere have a minimum impact on people and the environments…
Backcountry, Bodybuilder Grew Sales and Margins in 2014
Online retailers Backcountry and Bodybuilding grew sales and operating income in 2014, according to financial results released by Liberty Interactive Corp…
Wearables Fuel Sport Chek’s Impressive Q4 Sales Growth
Wearable technology helped drive up same-store sales at Canada's Sport Chek chain 9.4 percent in the fourth quarter, executives reported last week…
Billabong Returns to Profit in First Half
Billabong International Limited said it returned to profitability in the half-year period ended Dec. 31 and that Billabong and RVCA brands grew sales to the U.S. wholesale channel…
Big 5 Expects Positive Comps in Q1
Big 5 Sporting Goods expects same-store sales to grow in the low-to-mid-digit range in the current quarter thanks to robust sales of winter products in January, strong sales of some non-winter categories and a slowing decline in firearms related sales…
RYU Apparel Signs Lease for Vancouver, BC Flagship Store
RYU Apparel Inc. has signed a lease for a 5,000-square-foot flagship store it plans to open Sept. 1 in Vancouver, BC's premier shopping district…
SCS Global to Promote Higg Index
SCS Global Services (SCS) has joined the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) and will promote its Higg Index, which was created by outdoor brands to measure and improve the sustainability of apparel and footwear supply chains…
REI to Expand MTB Classes in March
REI will launch a greatly expanded offering of mountain biking classes at select stores this spring in another sign of its growing commitment to cycling…
Super Retail Group Shutters Kiwi Chain to Focus on Australia’s Evolving Outdoor Market
Super Retail Group's (SRG), which is Australia's largest sporting goods retailer, began liquidating its three-year-old FCO Fishing-Camping-Outdoors retail chain in New Zealand Jan. 26 as part of a major restructuring of its $500 million-a-year L
Sierra Trading Post to Open Northeast Location This Year
The TJX Companies Inc. plans to open its next two Sierra Trading Post stores in the Northeast after sales exceeded plan at two locations it opened in the Denver area during the fourth quarter…
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