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Speedo and USA Swimming have extended their 20-year partnership through 2012. This unprecedented eight-year extension will enable the two organizations to maximize the sport’s long-term marketing efforts following a surge in popularity resulting from this

Perhaps it was the Red Sox coming back to crush the Yankees in the ALCS, or perhaps it was the renewed vigor he now feels he has to attack the business after his heart bypass surgery two years ago. Whatever the reason, Paul Fireman feels he has the energ

Ingersol Rand, parent company to Kryptonite Locks, took a $10 million write down in conjunction with the BIC pen issue reported last month in SEW_0438. Operating margins for the company’s Safety & Security segment declined from 21.2% of sales in Q3 2003 t

Callaway Golf Company’s efforts to compensate retailers for new lower prices on clubs by shipping additional goods at no charge put a major dent in margins in the third quarter, pushing the company deep into the red for the period even as a new CEO search

Fortune Brands management said the company’s Acushnet golf business, which includes the Footjoy, Cobra, Titleist, and Pinnacle brands, reported third quarter golf sales dipped 2.0% to $269.6 million versus $275.2 million in the year-ago period…

K2 Inc. was reaping the benefits of their marketing initiatives in the SnowSports industry in the company’s third quarter, as sales increased 98.5% to $333.5 million year-on-year and net income jumped almost 300%. KTO shares jumped 6.5% for the week to c

If you pulled a Rip Van Winkle and went to sleep ten years ago and awoke just this last week, you would probably think that you had done so in some sort of bizarro world where VF Corporation, which relied on selling jeans to the value market and intimate

Timberland saw a larger portion of its sales come from the International segment market in the third quarter, thanks in large part to FX rates shifts in currency. The Consumer Direct business — while lagging the growth rate of the Wholesale business – w

Deckers Outdoor Corp. found its third quarter fortunes lined with sheepskin as their UGG brand continued its meteoric growth and DECK pushed net income up more than 1100% on the leveraging of SG&A expenses. Return on Sales came in at more than 10.5% of s

Escalade Sport reported sales for the third quarter increased 13.3% to $61.5 million from $54.3 million in the year-ago period, an increase the company said was due primarily to earlier shipments. Escalade Sports saw net income increase 11% for the quart