Under the new leadership of Shannon Stowell, President, and Chris Doyle, Director, the Adventure Travel Trade Association has launched a series of new programs designed to promote the adventure travel market and deliver professional support, development, (Read More)
Salomon is taking its sponsorship program one step further in the Chinese market by financing and training the entire Chinese National Alpine Ski team. The idea behind this financial commitment is to “create a hero” for the 1.3 billion person potential ma (Read More)
Armor Holdings has completed the acquisition of Bianchi and Gregory Mountain Products for a total purchase price of $60 million in cash. According to Armor, Bianchi and Gregory will be integrated into the company’s Products Division and they are expected (Read More)
The French apparel company, Eider is stepping up their focus on the U.S. market through several initiatives launched by their North American distributor, Eider N.A., owned by Gene Frederick, the company’s president. Eider N.A. has hired True North Brand g (Read More)
The National Sporting Goods Association last week previewed some of the data from its annual report due out in May. One element of The Sporting Goods Market in the 2005 report, which was prepared by Irwin Broh & Associates, reveals that the average retai (Read More)
The entire snowboard industry is riding an electronics wave recently, culminating with this week’s announcement that Burton and Motorola have inked a deal to produce an iPod/Cell phone enabled jacket, helmet, and beanie which incorporate Bluetooth technol (Read More)
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Norco Products Ltd, announced voluntary recalls of the Adams Trail-a-Bike or Adams Slipstream Bicycle Attachment. The Starter, Folder, Shifter, Shocker, Ultimate Tandem, Deluxe Folder, Me 2 (Read More)
December retail, and the Holiday season in general, was seen as a “mixed bag” by analysts looking for some rhyme or reason behind the numbers that saw retail results all over the place this year. One thing is sure, if you had your own Internet business, (Read More)
With warmer weather putting pressure on apparel and boot sales in December, U.S. retail executives apparently pulled the trigger on pricing to generate lagging Holiday sales this year. After winning the waiting game for consumer dollars last year, U.S. r (Read More)
The Finish Line mitigated any concerns over their Q3 earnings shortfall against analysts’ estimates as management painted a rosier picture for the fourth quarter and the year, raising guidance for Q4 on a strong start in December... (Read More)
Skis Rossignol shares jumped early on Monday after a French newspaper reported that Quiksilver Inc. was making a bid for the company. Rossignol is "a company we are looking at more closely, even though it is not the only possibility", said Bernard Mariett (Read More)
The National Sporting Goods Association last week previewed some of the data from its annual report due out in May. One element of The Sporting Goods Market in the 2005 report, which was prepared by Irwin Broh & Associates, reveals that the average retai (Read More)
Many retailers reported last week that they had lackluster Holiday sales until the post-Christmas business jumped the last week of the year. What was the catalyst? Gift Cards. Major retailers from Wal-Mart to Hibbett’s to The Finish Line noted that rob (Read More)
The Finish Line announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding stock of The Hang Up Shoppes, Inc., for $12 million in cash plus a potential earnout of up to $6 million in cash. The Hang Up Shoppes does busines (Read More)
Federated Department Stores, Inc. reported total sales of $5.708 billion for December, an increase of 99.9% compared to total sales of $2.856 billion in the same period last year when including the acquired May Company stores. On a same-store basis, Feder (Read More)
In preparation for the fall/winter 2006 selling season, Kayland has added two new sales reps to its US sales team. Gary Bryden will represent Kayland in the Northwest, while Brad Eckert will handle sales in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware... (Read More)
West Marine, Inc. reported that net sales for the for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2005 were $124.8 million, a 5.7% increase from net sales of $118.1 million last year. Comparable store sales for the quarter increased 3.9%, compared to a comparab (Read More)
The outdoor and winter sports segments of the sporting goods industry were the pretty girl at the dance in 2004 as private equity firms hovered at trade shows looking for the next opportunity to get into a business that to most internal observers looked l (Read More)
The year again saw two companies emerge as central platforms in the outdoor and winter sports space, joining the ranks of powerhouse brands like Columbia, Timberland, and Salomon in size and importance... (Read More)
The year saw the landscape of sporting goods retail shift dramatically as the industry gained its second legitimate national sporting goods retailer after Dick’s acquired Galyan’s. As they go head-to-head with The Sports Authority in more regions of the (Read More)