3M launched its 3M Thinsulate Featherless Insulation at Outdoor Retailer Winter Market amid growing concern over the rising cost of down…
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Accell North America Integrates SBS and Raleigh
Accell North America (ANA) has integrated Seattle Bike Supply and Raleigh America to enhance ordering and fulfillment services to, and the profitability of, the independent bicycle dealer network…
Horny Toad Promotes Duron to National Sales Manager
Horny Toad promoted David Duron, who joined the California-based apparel brand in 2008, to national sales manager…
Easton-Bell Sports Hit by Cyber Attack
Easton-Bell Sports, Inc. warned thousands of its e-commerce customers to monitor their credit carefully in coming months in the wake of a hacker attack on its e-commerce sites over the holidays. The company, which owns the Easton, Bell, Riddell, Giro, Bla
Keen Effect Grant Winners Named
Keen awarded $100,000 in grant money to 25 projects that fuel people passion for the outdoors…
Bixi Bike Sharing Parent Files Bankruptcy
PBSC Urban Solutions, which makes bicycles and support equipment for bike share programs in Aspen, San Francisco, Boston, Chattanooga, Chicago, Columbus, Minneapolis, New York and Wasington DC filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday, the Montreal Gazett
Intrawest Commences $300 Million IPO
Intrawest Resorts Holdings, Inc. commenced an initial public offering Tuesday that is expected to raise about $50 million for the operator of seven mountain resorts and $200 million for Fortress Investments, which acquired control of the company in 2006 a
WFSGI and Convey Srl Partner to Fight Roque Websites
The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) has partnered with Convey Srl to begin offering its members a variety of services aimed at combating rogue websites that sell counterfeit goods…
REI Pledges Private Label Will Be 100 Percent Bluesign Compliant by 2018
REI’s Private Brands division, which is the largest source of apparel and equipment sold by the retailer, has committed to using only 100 percent bluesign-certified fabrics by the time it launches its 2018 product lines…
BandO Acquires Performance Textiles
Brand & Oppenheimer Co., Inc. (B&O) has acquired the assets of Performance Textiles, Inc., a leading supplier of high-performance fabrics used by tactical, outdoor, athletic and other brands…
Denver Mayor to Kick off SIA Snow Show
Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock will join SnowSports Industries America (SIA) board members and thousands of industry members to celebrate the upcoming Olympic Winter Games and kick off the 2014 SIA Snow Show in the Colorado Convention Center’s Atri
Amazon to Start Collecting NC Sales Tax Next Month
Amazon has struck a deal to start collecting sales tax Feb. 1 from its customers in North Carolina, according to the News & Observer newspaper of Raleigh…
Nuvinci Beefs up European Sales and Marketing
Fallbrook Technologies, Inc. has added a sales manager in Northern Germany and marketing manager for all of Europe to support growing demand for its Nuvinci 360 transmission and Harmony shifting technologies…
RECALL: 144 Mammut RescYou Devices
Mammut Sports Group Inc. has recalled 144 units of its RescYou crevasse rescue device because the small toothed cam blocking the pull-cord may not lock securely causing reduced efficiency and possibly delaying a rescue…
Freewaters, Cascade Design Partner on Water Education
Freewaters, makers of casual shoes and sandals, has partnered with Therm-a-Rest and Cascade Designs to provide hands-on, real-world lessons on water science and purification for high school students in Ventura County, CA starting this spring…
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