Author: SGB Media

Topgolf Entertainment Group on Wednesday announced a new venue concept featuring an open, single-floor design.

Led by the Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF), a coalition of champion WSF Athlete Ambassadors, advocates and girls from WSF’s community programs, united Wednesday on Capitol Hill to celebrate the 34th Annual National Girls & Women in Sports Day (NGWSD).

Rad Power Bikes, a Seattle-based ebike brand, closed $25 million in funding led by Vulcan Capital and Durable Capital Partners LP. The funding will support new brick & mortar retail locations around the world, along with expansion of the company’s mobile service and white glove delivery offerings.

Frampton, Quebec-based Esquif Canoes announced this week that David Hadden will join the company in the newly created role of director of business development.

In just its second quarterly earnings report since going public, Peloton Interactive Inc. notched impressive earnings and revenue beat as the company grew its number of connected fitness subscribers 96 percent to 712,005 and its total members to more than 2 million.

Private equity firm Bluestar Alliance LLC (BSA) on Wednesday unveiled its plans to “rebuild Hurley’s core infrastructure and has poised the brand for exceptional growth,” the company said in a press release.

Fjällräven, the Swedish heritage outerwear brand since 1960, will celebrate the grand opening of a new 6,000-square-foot brand center in downtown Denver, CO, this summer. Located on the corner of Platte and 15th Street in the LoHi neighborhood near REI and Wilderness Exchange, the center will offer consumers a community-focused experience with sustainable technical gear […]

Royal Robbins announced a new retail concept with stores opening in Denver and Seattle this summer. The stores will be Royal Robbins’ next-generation design and first retail openings since the company was acquired by Fenix Outdoor in 2018. “Our concept is the result of a progressive new vision for the travel goods retail space to […]

Outdoor Industry Association, (OIA), announced it has partnered with The University of Colorado, Utah State University and Western Colorado University to offer an Outdoor Industry Business Certificate Program in 2020 through their continuing education departments. The online-based and self-paced, non-credit certificates will focus on “OIA’s three-pillar areas of public policy, increasing outdoor participation and sustainable […]

The active lifestyle marketplace began 2020 with a high volume of M&A transactions, but the most notable story didn’t involve a done deal—just one of the highest-profile companies in the industry announcing plans to rightsize its portfolio and potentially target new assets. The January M&A Roundup examines VF’s latest move and asks what’s next?