GBMI Promotes Von Ruden to Head Diesel Sales

Global Brand Marketing, Inc. has promoted of Steve von Ruden to Vice President of U.S. Sales. In his new position, von Ruden will oversee all aspects of US sales operations for Diesel Footwear and will be based at company headquarters in Santa Barbara, Ca

GPG Honors Tackett Brothers

GRABBER Performance Group (GPG) awarded a cash prize and specially engraved trophy to Tackett Brothers of McKinney, TX for “Rep Group of the Year”. Donaldson & Associates also received awards for “Targeted Product Master” and “New Account Champion” for t

Schutt Sponsors Nike Coach of the Year Clinics

Schutt Sports has signed a two-year deal to become a Presenting Sponsor of the Nike Coach of the Year Clinics. Under the terms of the agreement, Schutt becomes the “official football protective gear” of the clinics.
The 2004 Nike Coach of the Year Clinic

Collegiate Pacific Declares Dividend

Collegiate Pacific's Board of Directors approved and declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.025 per share on the company's common stock for the second quarter of fiscal 2004…

WWW Announces Stock Repurchase Program

Directors of Wolverine World Wide, authorized the repurchase of an additional 2.0 million shares of the Company's common stock through open market or privately negotiated transactions over a two year period. The new
authorization follows similar rep

Jazz Golf Holds Rights Offering

Jazz Golf Equipment will be commencing a rights offering to shareholders. All registered shareholders of Jazz resident in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario will receive one right for each Class A common share held at the record

FESI Takes Interest In Stopping Counterfeit Goods

FESI, the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry, representing in Brussels the interests of some 1,800 European Sporting Goods Manufacturers, attended two European events on the fight against counterfeiting, product piracy and organised crime.

Retail Plays Keep Away with Middle of the Market…

It has been argued of late that the recent increase in the export of white collar jobs — on top of the loss of the U.S. manufacturing job base — may result in a society that lacks a middle class, and is instead dominated by the wealthy and the working p

Epstein Suddenly Departs Fila Parent…

Just days after Liz Claiborne finalized its acquisition of the Enyce brand from Fila, the architect of Fila’s management buyout by Cerberus Capital Management has resigned as president and CEO of the company set up to run the business. Sports Brands Inte

WRC After Lands’ End This Time…

Lands’ End is seeing the same kind of pressure from the Workers Rights Consortium that nearly drove New Era to move their production overseas. WRC conducted an assessment at the company’s Primo Factory in El Salvador, which is a source for much of Lands’