Washington Gets it Right on Trails…

Congressmen Tom Petri and John Olver proposed a bill last month that was designed to save the federal Transportation Enhancement Act that funds bicycle and pedestrian paths, rail-to-trails and other quality-of-life transportation projects…

And The Prize Goes To…

Canoe and Kayak magazine has named their Boat Manufacturer, Accessory manufacturer, and Retailer of the year award winners for 2003. This is the 15th annual presentation of these honors, which were voted on by 700 retailers and 650 manufacturers…

Cannondale Appoints Paul Francese As CFO

Cannondale has announced that Paul Francese will be joining the company on October 1st as its new Chief Financial Officer. The hiring of Francese fills the last remaining vacancy in Cannondale's executive team, and comes two months after Bell Sports

Zodiac Performs Despite Weak Dollar

Zodiac beat its operating targets for 2002/03, with organic growth in its Aerospace businesses (+0.7%) and a strong advance in the Marine segment (+7.7%). However, the exceptionally rapid slide in the dollar – down 18% year-on-year – offset some of this g

REI and Black Diamond Team Up For HERA

Black Diamond Equipment announced a partnership with REI, which will take the HERA (Health Empowerment, Research and Advocacy) Ovarian Cancer Climb for Life on the road to six major metropolitan areas this winter…

Prince Appoints Bill Foy As Head of New Division

Prince Sports, Inc. announced the appointment of Bill Foy to the position of Executive Vice-President and General Manager of a newly formed business unit to be called Prince U.S.A. In this new position Foy will be responsible for the commercial success a

Eddie Bauer Helps With 9/11 Memorial

Eddie Bauer and American Forests, the nation's leading nonprofit on the benefits of trees and forests, have reached their goal of raising $500,000 for the Memorial Tree Groves program…

Karbon Lands Deal With RCR…

Schure Sports announced that KARBON is the apparel of choice for the Resorts of the Canadian Rockies. RCR owns and operates seven of the premier resorts in Canada; two in BC, three in Alberta and two in Quebec. They will continue to outfit their ski and s

Pedros and Trek Team Up For EU Distribution

Pedro’s USA and the Trek Bicycle Corporation expanded their partnership to include the greater European continent. Pedro’s products will continue to be available through its existing distributor network that will now include the addition of Trek’s Europe

Huffy Issues Profit Warning on Weaker Q3 Sales

Huffy Corporation announced that sales and earnings for August were below anticipated levels and the company now sees full year sales in the range of $455 million to $460 million and EPS in the 44 cents to 52 cents range. The revised forecast is in sharp