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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

The OIA is quite pleased with the recent presidential proclamation which officially declared June “Great Outdoors Month.” The language used in the document was remarkably similar to much of the language the OIA has been using in its efforts on Capitol Hil

In response to a suit filed by LL Bean earlier in the month, Claria, a spyware software company, has countersued, calling the original Bean motion, “a baseless resort to sham litigation, all part of its unsuccessful litigation strategy.” BOSS reported la

Vail Resorts mountain revenue for Q3 of 2004 was $234.2 million, a $23.4 million, or 11.1%, increase from $210.8 million for the comparable period last year. Lodging revenue for the quarter grew $3.5 million, or 7.5%, to $49.6 million. Resort revenue, the

Last week marked the one-year anniversary of the closing of the Fila acquisition by Sport Brands International LLC, an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Partners, LP. But the company looks very different today that it did just six months ago after a round of

Ashworth saw a $1.0 million after-tax benefit from the sale of its existing distribution center in Carlsbad during the quarter, which added seven cents to the company’s EPS line for the fiscal second quarter ended April 30. Excluding the DC benefit, ASHW

Management at Retail Ventures, Inc. appear to like the way their investments in their DSW Shoe Warehouse division are paying off and look for more upside from improvements in the supply chain and other changes to offset any challenges they have going forw

Variflex seems to be capitalizing on the improving U.S. skateboard market, and posted a solid fiscal third quarter. Sales increased 7.9%, from 21.3 million a year ago, to $23.0 million in the most recent quarter ended April 30. Net income outpaced sales

Fleet Feet, Inc. released its 2003 annual report last week, revealing results for the chain that were described as “solid, but not outstanding” by management, but would have been seen as strong for most other chains in the industry…