Walking Co. Posts Strong Thanksgiving Weekend Comps

Big Dog Holdings, Inc. reported that The Walking Company saw comparable store sales increase approximately 20% for the three-day Thanksgiving weekend. The retail concept also saw low-double-digit comparable store sales for months of October and November..

Amer to Shutter Wilson Golf Ball Plant

Amer Sports is restructuring its Wilson Golf business, closing the doors on its Tennessee golf ball manufacturing facility, as well as inking a new distribution deal for Japan. These reorganization measures will reduce in total approximately 100 staff pos

Srixon Names New USA President/CEO

SRI Sports Ltd. has appointed Shigeru Furuichi as the new president and CEO of its subsidiary Srixon Sports USA. Furuichi will be succeeding Richard Stamper. Shigeru Furuichi comes into this new role after serving as managing director of Srixon Sports Eu

Pacific Sunwear Names Interim CFO

Pacific Sunwear of California, Inc. has appointed Michael L. Henry, VP and controller, as interim CFO of the company. He replaces Gerald M. Chaney, who has resigned as the company's SVP, CFO and secretary…

Sports Group International Focuses on Tri Market

Sports Group International reports that Dave Reinhart, Vice President, will expand his current client focus to include a specific Cardio Sports initiative, providing executive search expertise to the ‘run-swim-bike’ companies within the sporting goods ind

Famous Footwear Slows Brown Shoe’s Q3 Sales

Brown Shoe Company Inc. reported Q3 net sales decreased 4.6% for the third quarter to $645.5 million from $676.8 million last year. Net earnings were $27.0 million, up slightly from $26.9 million last year. Same-store sales at Famous Footwear declined 6.2

Spalding Appoints Director of Diamond Sports

Spalding has named David J. Coradini as director of Diamond Sports. Coradini will be responsible for all marketing related and product management activities as they pertain to Spalding’s baseball and Dudley softball business…

LIJA Expands Sales Team

LIJA has hired Katherine Sivanish, Shawn Woods, the Burton Agency, and Sava Inc. as sales representatives to help service rapidly expanding demand…

Pacific Sunwear Names Mrkonic to Board

Pacific Sunwear of California, Inc. has appointed George R. Mrkonic to the company's Board of Directors. Mr. Mrkonic is the retired president and vice chairman of Borders Group, Inc., having previously served as a director from 1994 to 2004, vice cha

Summit Golf Brands Acquires Zero Restriction Outerwear

Summit Golf Brands has acquired Zero Restriction Outerwear. Specific terms of the deal were not announced. Zero Restriction joins Fairway & Greene and EP Pro, who, since January 2006, have been owned by Summit Golf Brands, a division of Northbridge Equity

Solstice Outdoor Names Lukich as President

Solstice Outdoor, Inc. has named Jim Lukich as president. Lukich, previously employed at Columbia Sportswear Company for 12 years, worked the past 8 years as National Sales Manager for domestic sales in all product categories. A true leader at the giant

NRF: Black Friday Traffic Increases 4.8%

If there were any doubts that consumers would be shopping in full force over Black Friday, they have finally been put to rest. According to the National Retail Federation's 2007 Black Friday Weekend Survey, conducted by BIGresearch, more than 147 mil

AboutGolf Focuses on RandD with New Facility

AboutGolf plans to expand its research and development facility with the establishment of a state-of-the-art campus in Ottawa Lake, Michigan, approximately 15 miles from its Maumee, Ohio world headquarters…

Quiksilver Names SVP of Marketing

Quiksilver has appointed Greg Perlot as senior vice president of marketing for Quiksilver Brands in the Americas. Mr. Perlot, who has worked closely with Quiksilver in a creative consultancy capacity over the past three years, will now oversee all of Quik