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TaylorMade-adidas Golf may owe a fair portion of their recent success to the missteps of neighbor Callaway Golf Company, but the golf division of adidas-Salomon can point to real advances in technology and innovation in both its hardgoods and softgoods bu

A Reuters news story last week that had the industry buzzing about potential Nike acquisitions appears to have been constructed using unrelated comments and quotes from a number of sources and failed to follow up on assertions made by other sources. The

According to local Beijing newspapers, Luen Thai, one of Asia’s largest apparel manufacturers, saw net income drop 4% for the first six months of the 2004 to $13.1 million. The company is currently working on constructing a new 300,000 square foot factory

Sport-Haley, Inc. finally got its financial statements pulled together for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended June 30, pointing to a continued increase in its Ben Hogan apparel business in the premium price market as the primary driver for the compa

JanSport, Inc., which is part of VF Corporation’s Outdoor Coalition, will move its JanSport Equipment business to new offices in San Leandro, CA, bringing it closer to other ODC brands and Mike Egeck, the former president of The North Face who now heads t

Mike Gotfredson founded Road Runner Sports in a garage in Del Mar, CA in 1983, using his direct marketing experience. The company doubled in size nearly every year through 1999. Road Runner Sports sells more technical running shoes than any other retaile

Ever since announcing its interest in acquiring Eddie Bauer Retail stores from Spiegel, it has been apparent that L.L. Bean is interested in expanding its retail presence nationally, and now the retailer has announced that it will be opening between three

The U.S. National Whitewater Center on the Catawba River near Charlotte, NC secured $20 million in funding this past week, bringing the project closer to completion. Project managers now expect to break ground on the 307 acre outdoor recreation facility

Columbia Sportswear Company will make a $15,000 donation to One World Family, an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of South African children impacted by AIDS. The donation will be presented to the organization founders in Capetown, S