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Joe Guglielmetti, recently appointed General Manager of AKU-USA, has announced new company headquarters, warehousing and marketing teams here in the U.S. AKU, which is sold in 27 countries worldwide and a top brand in Italy, is launching its own product

Jay Turkbas, vice president of sales and marketing for Shock Doctor footbeds, has announced the appointments of two new sales organizations in New England and in California…

In anticipation of future growth, WaterMark will consolidate its warehousing and distribution of boats and gear with Patterson Warehousing in Memphis, Tennessee. Memphis, Tennessee is the largest air hub in the world for shipping cargo. It is also the sec

DeFeet recently signed a sponsorship deal with World Cup Ski Racer, Bode Miller. “It’s great to be working with DeFeet on their ski sock line,” Miller said. “They're all about performance, and they’ll build me exactly what I need to win.”

REI CEO Dennis Madsen will be retiring following the company’s annual general meeting at the end of March, 2005. Over the next 10 months he will assist Sally Jewell, current COO, in transitioning to the role of CEO. BOSS caught up with Madsen just before

With all of the stories of great sell-through and amazing consumer response surrounding Keen Footwear, BOSS decided to took a closer look at the company, catching up with Jim van Dine, VP of Sales, in between his latest round of flights. Apparently much

LaFuma is reporting a 29.0% increase in net attributable profit to €1.6 million ($1.9 mm) for the first half of the year on a 1.5% increase in sales – from €80.4 million ($82.0 mm) in the first half last year to €81.6 million ($98.2 mm) for the first six

Chinook Trading has been producing private label footwear for retailers for over a decade now, but has recently decided to launch its own brands in order to build more equity. In charge of the new project is former Kamik Global Marketing VP, Mike Coogan..

Asolo USA has decided to re-organize and relocate Lowe Alpine’s American operations and brand management. The Colorado-based offices will join Asolo N.A. in their headquarters in New Hampshire. As part of the transition process, two of Lowe’s key executi

Deckers CEO Doug Otto provided quite a bit of detail on the Teva brand at the Piper Jaffray Consumer Conference in New York City last week and highlighted the strong performance of Deckers’ Ugg product.Finalizing the purchase of the Teva brand from Mark T

Kellwood CEO Hal Upbin went into real detail about the company’s performance at the Piper Jaffray conference, but glossed over the American Recreation division. He did mention that American Rec. is currently the number two player in the U.S. camping mark

The Netherlands-based trade publication, Bike Europe, is reporting that Specilaized has been handed a €500,000 ($605,000) fine for suddenly ending a distribution agreement with Ets. José Alvarez. The fine is to cover “economic, financial & commercial los