With nine years of digital marketing experience, Brady Stevenson is expected to play a key role in shaping the company’s marketing strategies.
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NRF and Comexposium Expand Retail’s Big Show to Europe
The marriage of NRF Retail’s Big Show and Paris Retail Week to create Retail’s Big Show Europe broadens with the rebranding of the Paris Retail Week annual conference and exhibition beginning in 2025.
Arcus Hunting Appoints Product Development and Category Management Lead
Matt Kinamore, who was most recently at American Outdoor Brands, will reportedly oversee the company’s portfolio across key categories, including hunting and fishing scents, scent elimination, and outdoor accessories.
JD Sports Board Remuneration Committee Chair to Step Down
Suzi Williams, non-executive director and chair of the company’s Remuneration Committee, submitted her intention to step down on November 1, 2024. On October 1, Williams will hand over the Remuneration Committee Chair role to Angela Luger.
Freedom Munitions Shuttering Nevada Operations as Idaho Expansion Continues
The company is consolidating its X-Treme Bullets projectile component production from its Carson City, NV plant into its Lewiston, ID facility. Freedom Munitions expects to close the Carson City site by the end of 2024.
Report: Leisure Footwear, Portable Beverageware Rise to Top of BTS Shopping Lists
Circana said in a media release that this year’s BTS spending is following a pattern similar to last year, but it’s falling short of last year’s performance.
Lazydays Holdings Appoints Interim CEO as John North Exits
former SVP of Operations Ron Fleming is returning to the company and has assumed the role of Interim CEO and joined the Board of Directors on September 14, 2024.
Crunch Franchise to Open in Port Arthur, TX
Crunch, a full-spectrum fitness gym offering weight and cardio equipment, personal training and over 200 fitness classes, is a U.S.-based brand with over ver 400 franchised and corporate-owned fitness clubs worldwide.
EXEC: Nike and Adidas’ China Retail Partner Warns of Fiscal H1 Sales and Profit Decline
The company, which also manages retail operations in China for other “non-principal” brands, including Puma, Converse, Vans, The North Face, Timberland, Asics, Hoka, Skechers, the NBA, and other brand partners, reported that H1 profit is expected to decrease 35 percent year-over-year.
EXEC: New Hibbett Parent JD Sports Names First U.S. Non-Executive Director
Prama Bhatt, a non-executive director on the company’s Board of Directors, joins the Nominations and Remuneration Committees and the Board of JD’s U.S. subsidiary, Genesis Holdings, Inc., effective September 23, 2024.
Rally House House Opens New Stores in New Jersey and Michigan
Rally Willow Ridge Plaza and its newest store in Westland, MI are both open serving customers with locally-inspired team merchandise.
EXEC: Lolë Brands Acquires Garneau, Sugoi and Sombrio Brands
The move to acquire Louis Garneau Sports comes one month after Lolë Brands acquired the Sanuk business from Deckers Brands, a little over a year following its acquisition of Époque Évolution and four years since filing for bankruptcy in Canada.
EXEC: Biden Uses Executive Action to Stymie Temu and Schein Efforts in the U.S.
The actions would also protect U.S. textile and apparel manufacturers, noting the critical role they play in the U.S. defense industrial base and its support of hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect jobs in the United States.
Hoka Parent Deckers Brands to Execute Six-for-One Forward Stock Split
The parent company of the Ugg, Hoka, Teva, Koolaburra, and Ahnu brands reported that its stockholders approved the forward stock split measure during its September 9, 2024 annual meeting.
CNBC/NRF Retail Monitor Sees Strong Clothing, Footwear and Online Increases in August
Thanks to back-to-school, the Clothing, Footwear and Accessories sector soared in August, jumping 11.4 percent year-over-year. The sector that includes Sporting Goods fell 10.8 percent for the same period.
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