Shoe Carnival Posts A Robust Q3 Profit Gain

Shoe Carnival Inc. reported a slight increase in year-over-year earnings in the third quarter as same-store sales grew 0.9 percent and merchandise margins improved 160 basis points. E-commerce sales catapulted over 150 percent to represent 13 percent of sales.

RaceRaves Announces Best Racing Cities In The U.S.

RaceRaves announced the winners of its 2020 “Best Racing Cities in the U.S.” poll. The company’s new guide spotlights the Top 10 large, midsize and small racing cities. Not surprisingly Boston, Chicago and New York City remain a “major” draw.

Levels Raises $12M Seed Funding Round

Levels, a biowearables start-up, announced a $12 million seed round led by a16z, one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital firms whose portfolio includes Airbnb, Facebook, Instagram, Lyft, Pinterest, Slack, Stripe and Waymo.

Brooks Running Sees 49 percent Global Growth In Q3

Brooks Running reported record third-quarter global revenue up 49 percent year-over-year, leading to a 2020 outlook of 27 percent growth. Digital sales, both through brooksrunning.com and retail partners, flexed from less than 35 percent of sales in 2019 to a peak of 82 percent of all sales this past April, and has since stabilized at 42 percent of sales, up 7 points from pre-COVID levels.

Camping World Declares Special Dividend

Camping World Holdings Inc. announced that its Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $1.00 per share on the company’s Class A Common Stock and a cash distribution of 29 cents per common unit on CWGS Enterprises, LLC’s common units.

Nike Launches Nike Unite Retail Concept

Nike Inc. has introduced a new Nike Unite concept focused on local communities. The concept represents its fourth retail specialty concept, joining Nike House of Innovation, Nike Rise and Nike Live. Nike plans to open nine Nike Unite worldwide locations in 2020, including five in the U.S.

Target Posts Robust Q3 Profit Gains

Target Corp. announced its third quarter 2020 financial results, which reflected continued, robust growth in both sales and profitability. Comparable sales grew 20.7 percent.

TJX’s Q3 Surpasses Wall Street Targets

The TJX Companies Inc. reported earnings grew slightly and easily topped Wall Street’s consensus estimate. Overall open-only comp-store sales were down 5 percent versus last year. Comps at Marmaxx (U.S.), including T.J. Maxx, Marshalls and Sierra Trading, were down 10 percent.

Kind Bars Acquired By Mars

Mars Inc. will acquire Kind North America, the maker of Kind bars and one of the country’s largest snack food companies.Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the New York Times cited sources who said the deal values Kind NA at $5 billion.