The Forzani Group Ltd., Canada’s largest sporting goods retailer and franchisor, cited fires in the British Colombia Province and power outages in Ontario as main contributors to its flat comparable store sales report for the Back-to-School selling period
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Cannondale Shuffles Executive Deck…
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Sport-Haley, Chairman Sued by SEC…
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Women’s Golf Seeing Pink from Rules…
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New Era Brings In Their First Corp Communications Manager
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Ingersoll-Rand Appoints New Kryptonite Business Development Director
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launch a dramatic growth initiative for the Kryptonite business unit. In
his role as Director, Business Development, Portable Security, Down reports
directly to John Evans, Vic
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