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Lotto Sport Italia will have a new partner for Japan as of January 1st 2004 – Kanematsu Textile Corporation. The licensing contract will have a 3-year duration (01 January 2004 – 31 December 2006) and will be valid throughout Japan…

Outdoor Retailer and Fly-Fishing Retailer announced two additions to their marketing and sales departments. Margie Staley will be OR Summer Market, Winter Market and Fly-Fishing Retailer World Trade Expo’s new Marketing Manager and Marisa Nicholson was

Columbia Sportswear Company reported Q2 net sales increased 22.5%, or 17.8% currency-neutral, to $152.1 million, compared to net sales of $124.2 million for the same period of 2002. Net income grew 25.3% to $9.4 million, versus $7.5 million versus the uy

After careful deliberation, Buck Knives announced the decision to move its intended relocation (first quarter 2004) to Post Falls, Idaho, back to the first quarter of 2005. The revised timeline for moving its operations was to accommodate the complexitie

Rollerblade's sale from Benetton to Tecnica Group S.p.A. has been finalized. Rollerblade joins global sporting goods brands including Tecnica, Dolomite, Lowa, Marker, Nitro, and Nordica. In the new structure, Rollerblade will operate as a stand-alon

In a continuing effort to develop their management team and streamline business practices, Sport Brands International CEO Jon Epstein has named Paul Dudek as VP Business Integration for the company…

Ex Officio recently broadened their sales team to brace for growth in 2004. Three openings in the Midwest, Rocky Mountain States, and Southern territories have made room for some new sales representatives to join the Ex-O team. In addition, two Divisional

VANS shares jumped more than 7% on Friday, recovering a bit to show a 5.2% decline for the week after the company announced fiscal 2003 fourth quarter results that included a $10.5 million pre-tax charge for the termination of a number of skatepark leases

Huffy Corporation chairman and CEO Don Graber pointed to the Gen-X acquisition and new customers in its service business as the key drivers for the sales and earnings growth for the second quarter. That left little positive for the company’s bike and tea

CEO Jim Jannard on the conference call with analysts following the company’s release of second quarter results as he read weather-related newspaper headline after newspaper headline from around the country…

Callaway CEO Ron Drapeau said Thursday that the Top-Flite acquisition is the “preferred solution to help eliminate the losses in the ELY ball business, but “not the only option”. He may have to look at those other options if adidas is able to convince th

The proposed adidas-Salomon acquisition of Top-Flite will do little to further the intentions spelled out by the company’s CEO, Herbert Hainer, in comments to the German magazine, Der Spiegel…