Judd Feingold of Up East Sales is now part of the Suunto Sales team. Feingold’s territory includes Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Maine. Feingold has been in the New England territory for 7 years and brings plenty of
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Report: Sport Footwear Sales Flattish in 2008
The SportsOneSource Group is projecting that Sport Footwear sales remained relatively flat in fiscal 2008. In comments made during the WSA Financial Conference managed by Susquehanna International Group, the industry market research firm and trade publis
Rapper Tasered at Reebok NBA Party
A number of hip-hop websites and blogs are reporting that Cleveland rapper Kid Cudi had gotten into a verbal altercation with Reebok employees at a company NBA All-Star party, which then escalated into a physical fight in which Cudi was tasered by police.
Phthalates Legislation: What It All Means to the Sporting Goods Industry
With greater clarity finally arriving in the last few days from federal authorities, the sporting goods industry was spared the full brunt of new child safety laws banning products containing certain chemicals starting last Tuesday, February 10…
VF Corp Sees Outdoor and Action Sports Stand Out in Tough Fourth Quarter
Driven by strong growth for The North Face and Vans, VF Corp's Outdoor and Action Sports coalition delivered healthy sales and earnings gains in the fourth quarter. But gains at those brands were not enough to offset weakness at the company's ot
Product Recalls
Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. is recalling about 6,700 Field & Stream dual burner propane-fueled camp stoves that might produce higher-than-expected flames, or ignite unexpectedly, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission…
Sport Supply Fiscal Q2 Income Up Triple-Digits
Revenues for Sport Supply Group slipped slightly for the second quarter ended December 31, but the company sustained growth for the front half of fiscal 2009, with top-line growth hovering around 2% for the period…
Nike, Inc. Making Staff Cuts
Nike Inc. plans to eliminate up to 4% of its nearly 35,000 worldwide workforce as part of a restructuring and cost-cutting initiative. The company called it the “next stage of its category business model execution, which includes the restructuring of its
adidas Sees Currency Risks
In an interview with Bloomberg Television in Wiesbaden, Germany, adidas AG Chief Executive Officer Herbert Hainer said currency fluctuations are the biggest risk for Adidas’s business in 2009. Hainer particularly cited the declining value of the ruble
Jarden Outdoor Solutions Narrows Q4 Loss
Jarden Corporation's Outdoors Solutions division, which includes Pure Fishing, Coleman and the former K2, Inc. businesses, including Rawlings and Marmot, saw its first quarterly sales decline since the acquisition of K2 Sports and Pure Fishing as tho
Sport Chalet Fiscal Q3 Sales Decline 10.3%
Sport Chalet Inc. reported a double-digits decline in sales for the third quarter ended December 28, due primarily to the nation’s economic downturn that led to a much wider net loss for the period…
REI 2008 Net Income Plummets on Tough Fourth Quarter
REI said it plans to eliminate 61 full-time jobs, mostly at its Kent, WA headquarters and Sumner, WA distribution center, due to a “significant business slowdown in the final months of 2008 and continued projected weakness in 2009.”…
GSI Commerce in Transition with Dick’s SG
GSI Commerce wrapped up an eventful fiscal 2008, a year of radical ups and downs that included the largest acquisition in the company’s history, along with the Chapter 11 filing of Linens ‘N Things, one of the company’s top clients…
Adrenalina Launches Board Fight at Pacific Sunwear…
Adrenalina, which has made multiple bids to acquire Pacific Sunwear of California, has nominated a four-member slate to PacSun's board and called for the resignation of PacSun's CEO. In a letter dated Feb. 12, Ilia Lekach, chief executive of Adr
Globe Expects H1 EBITDA Loss
Globe International fired a warning shot to the market, reporting its expects an EBITDA loss for the first half ended Dec. 31, 2008 of approximately A$5.0 million to A$6.0 million. Management said the loss was due primarily to “slowing in business conditi
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