Marketing Manager — Mossy Oak

The Human Capital Group, Inc (Retained Executive Search firm) is seeking candidates for an outstanding Atlanta-based opportunity as Marketing Manager – Elements / Sportswear for the Mossy Oak Apparel division of Russell Corporation. This marketing leader

Production Manager — Chisco

Chisco, the leader in sports accessories, needs an experienced Production and Inventory Control Manager. Duties include: Overseeing all aspects of foreign and domestic production, Creating new products, Overseeing Inventory, Negotiating contracts

Mission-ITECH Announces Goalie Mask Recall

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Mission-ITECH Hockey, today announced a voluntary recall of the ITECH Profile 2100, 1100 and 8.0 hockey goalie masks and ITECH RP607 and RP609 goalie mask replacement wires. The metal wire o

Pony Teams With SBI For Testing and RandD

Pony International, LLC, announced a partnership with Sports Biomechanics Inc., [SBI] one of the shoe industry’s premier experts in footwear technology. All testing with SBI will be done at Michigan State University, utilizing the university’s award winni

Kinetic Sports Declines Etonic License

Dan Werremeyer, president of Kinetic Sports Inc., has announced that the board of Kinetic Sports will not renew their license agreement for walking and running shoes with Etonic Worldwide of Waltham, Mass., at the end of 2005. Kinetic originally acquired

Osborne Named Regional Vice President at Prince Sports USA

Doug Fonte, president of Prince Sports, USA announced that Charles Osborn has joined the Prince team as the new regional vice president, Northeast Division of Prince Sports, USA. After nearly 20 years at Wilson Sporting Goods, Osborn has joined Prince Spo

Kohl’s Sees Mays Comps Inch Up 0.2%

Kohl's Corporation reported that sales for the four-week period ended May 28, 2005 increased 10.2% over the four-week period ended May 29, 2004. On a comparable store basis, sales increased 0.2%. For the 17 weeks ended May 28, 2005, total sales were

TSA Looks to be Turning Corner with Q1 Gains…

The Sports Authority has apparently been successful in upgrading the quality of traffic in its stores as management moves to increase its mix of better goods in footwear, apparel, and equipment, and away from the traffic based on price and low-priced merc

Royal Loses its Grip to Lamkin…

Lamkin Corporation purchased the Royal Grip brand of golf grips from Royal Precision. Bob Lamkin, president of Lamkin, said a major reason for the purchase was because of the branding of Royal Grip in the Asian market. Lamkin and Royal Precision were al

The Walking Co. Acquires Footworks…

The Walking Company signed a definitive agreement with Footworks, a division of the privately-held shoe retailer Bianca of Nevada, Inc., to purchase the assets of the division for approximately $10 million. Footworks operates a chain of eight retail store