The Bike Cooperative added 15 independent bicycle dealers to its membership in the back half of the year, including eight from the West Coast…
Author: Charlie Lunan
Life Time Fitness Expands Commitment Day to Four-Day Festival
Life Time Fitness has expanded its annual Commitment Day to a four-day Commitment Festival that kicks off Friday, Jan. 1, with a 5K Fun Run in 52 cities…
PMI Acquires Aladdin South America
Pacific Market International (PMI) of Seattle has acquired Aladdin South America, including two ISO-9001 certified manufacturing plants in Brazil, where it plans to manufacture Stanley-, Aladdin- and Migo-branded thermoses and other food and beverage cont
Plano Synergy Acquires Bird Hunting Brands
Plano Synergy Outdoors, which manufactures hunting, fishing and other products for outdoor sportsmen, has acquired the bird hunting brands Zink Calls and Avian-X…
Sports Basement Plans to Add Stores in 2015
Sports Basement of San Francisco plans to open two to three stores in 2015, according to an article appearing in the January edition of Stores, which is published by the National Retail Federation…
Jack Wolfskin Reaches Agreement to Buy Out Chinese Distributor
Jack Wolfskin has reached an agreement to buy out its Chinese distributor and licensee over the next three years to clear the way for a new subsidiary it will establish in the People's Republic of China, or PRC…
Jack Wolfskin to Buy Out Chinese Distributor Amid Flagging Demand
Jack Wolfskin agreed Dec. 24 to buy out its distributor for mainland China, where sales of its products declined 8 percent in the first six months of the year as government austerity policies and a shift away from department stores reduced consumer spendi
Activators to Help Raleigh and Lapierre Dealers Sell E-bikes
Accell North America's Electric Bike Competence Center (EBCC-NA) has assigned two employees to help Raleigh and Lapierre dealers improve sell through of e-bikes introduced to the U.S. market this fall…
BioLite to Debut First Lighting Product at CES
BioLite LLC will debut the its first lighting product at the Consumer Electronics Show next month in Las Vegas…
Hydro Flask Donates $100K to Local Non-Profits
Hydro Flask is donating $100,000 to three Bend, OR-based nonprofits, including Neighbor Impact Head Start, Oregon Adaptive Sports and Oregon Natural Desert Association…
Tubbs Snowshoes Bolsters Partnership with Nonprofit Splore
Tubbs Snowshoes has agreed to supply snowshoes to the non-profit Splore for the next five years in an effort to continue empowering individuals who may otherwise have trouble experiencing winter activities…
NBDA Supplier Scorecards Due Dec. 31
The National Bicycle Dealers Association reminds dealers they have until the end of the day Dec. 31 to submit their NBDA Supplier Scorecard…
DSW Charity Campaign Garners 320,000 Votes
DSW Inc. will donate $75,000 to the National Parkinson Foundation after more than 320,000 people voted in the retailer's Shoe Lovers Care Leave Your Mark campaign…
Holiday Survey Suggests Competitors Gained on Amazon
The average customer satisfaction score for Amazon slipped five points to 83 to tie with QVC for the highest score among the top 100 e-commerce sites measured over the holidays, likely because of increased price competition, according to Answers Corporati
Veldome Shelters Picks up Bike Fixation Stands
Velodome Shelters, a Clifton, NJ manufacturer of bicycle parking shelters and bike racks has begun distributing a line of public bike repair products for the manufacturer, Bike Fixtation of Minneapolis, including the company's new Deluxe Public Work
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