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Tighter inventories and stronger retail sales have led to improving margins for industry apparel and footwear vendors while the hardlines companies continued to lag the total industry numbers for the third quarter ended September. For those companies not

Shares of Forzani Group Ltd. fell 13.1% last week to close at C$16.51 on Friday after Canada’s largest sporting goods retailer reported sharply lower earnings for fiscal third quarter and lowered earnings estimates for the balance of the year…

K2 Inc. is expanding faster than waistlines during the holidays as the sporting goods industry’s leading brand aggregator looked just up the street for an appetizer to hold them over until their next big deal. The company on Wednesday announced that it w

Airwalk’s banker and parent company came up short last week in their bid to have a stay lifted that has so far stymied the parent’s plan to buy the now-bankrupt shoe company out of foreclosure. Congress Financial Corporation, Airwalk International’s seni

Footlocker:  They are starting to see the first of the Nike allocations of AF1, with strong window signing for the black/black release.  Still plenty of black S. Carter and G-unit release on hand.  Nearly all Timberland styles were discounted. Most other styles were 2/$89 or had another cut price.  Most of the I3 Pressure collection […]

The market went wild last week after a number of analysts either initiated coverage or upgraded a number of stocks in the sporting goods industry, sending many companies near or to their 52-week highs. The indices tracked by Sports Executive Weekly on th

Atomic, The Winter Sports Division of Amer Group Plc. has acquired the Volant brand from Huffy Corporation. Under the terms of the agreement signed Monday, Atomic will acquire all patents, trademarks and intellectual property as well as the manufacturing

The apparent softening of the tension between reluctant lovers Nike and Foot Locker has analysts swooning with excitement over the prospect that the industry will go back to the way it used to be. But some of the over-anxious press reports and love-struc

Russell Corporation affirmed its earnings guidance for the fourth quarter and current fiscal year, but said Thursday at its analyst conference in Atlanta that Q4 sales would come in “at the lower end” of their previous guidance of $325 million to $345 mil