Georgia DNR Announces Changes To State WMA Program

The Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division today announced that beginning July 1, there will be three less wildlife management areas (WMA) in the state’s program and one WMA will be reduced in size…

Umarex Hires Out Of Bounds For Creative

Umarex USA, a supplier of sporting air guns and high quality small bore firearms, has announced the naming of Out of Bounds Creative as the agency of record for Umarex USA's firearm lines. Out of Bounds is an Ogden, UT-based advertising agency specia

More Than 100 Safari Club Members Visit Capitol Hill

The FishAmerica Foundation, the conservation and research foundation of the American Sportfishing Association, said that grant monies for marine and anadromous sportfish habitat restoration are available for projects in the coastal United States, the Grea

Conservation Leaders Meet With Obama Administration

The President's budget contains both positive and potentially dubious news for sportsmen, according to a release by Ducks Unlimited. Today's budget request calls for increased funding for wetlands and waterfowl habitat programs, but also limits

LaCrosse Footwear Acquires END Footwear

LaCrosse Footwear, Inc. created a newly-formed subsidiary which has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase certain assets of Environmentally Neutral Design Outdoor, Inc., or END Footwear. The new LFI subsidiary will continue to sell footwear und

Puma Q1 Earnings Drop on Slight Sales Decline

PUMA’s worldwide branded sales decreased in currency neutral by 3.1%. In Euro terms, sales are only down 0.5% reaching €737.7 million ($965 mm) versus €741.2 million ($1.11 bn) in last year’s quarter. Net earnings declined 93.8% to €5.6 million ($7.3 mm)

SIA: Snow Sports Market Sales Down 5% for Season

The SIA reported that overall, the snow sports market sales declined 5% in dollars and 3% in units for the 2008/09 season. This season brought a total of $2.82 billion compared to last season’s $2.95 billion in sales. Current season equipment took the hea

Luxottica Sees Q1 Top Line Fall 6.2%

For the first quarter of 2009, Luxottica posted sales of Euro 1.31 billion ($1.72 billion), compared to Euro 1.40 billion ($2.10 billion) for the first quarter of 2008 (down by 6.2% at current exchange rates and by 11.6% at constant exchange rates)…