Vibram FiveFingers announced the details of its continued long-term partnership with Warrior Dash, a leading obstacle race series, for 2015…
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G-III Apparel Announces Two-for-One Stock Split
G-III Apparel Group, Ltd. announced that its board of directors has approved a two-for-one-stock split of the company’s common stock…
Saucony Launches ‘Seeker’ Global Brand Campaign
Saucony launched its largest marketing effort in history – a multi-media global brand campaign that reminds readers, viewers and listeners to seek out their potential through the transformative power of running…
Sherpa Adventure Gear Sponsors 2015 Restore Vision Expedition
Sherpa Adventure Gear has become the sponsor of the 2015 Restore Vision Expedition team that will provide free eye care from May 1-10, 2015 in the remote Upper Gorkha region of Nepal. The 24-person medical expedition…
Patagonia Invests in Natural Textile Treatments
Patagonia has made a strategic investment in Beyond Surface Technologies, a chemical company focused on producing high-performance textile treatments from natural raw materials…
New Balance Signs Robinson Cano
New Balance has signed Robinson Cano, star second basemen of the Seattle Mariners. New Balance will outfit the six-time All-Star both on and off the field. New Balance also partnered with the RC22 Foundation, Cano’s charity…
Dick’s SG Sets Grand Opening for Store in Burlington, IA
Dick's Sporting Goods will be opening its 6th store in Iowa in Burlington. It will also be opening a relocated store this week at The Shoppes at Parma in Parma, OH…
ESPN Film on Sonny Vaccaro Launches Digitally
“Sole Man,” an ESPN film about former sports marketing executive Sonny Vaccaro, will premiere on Apr. 6 as a digital series on Grantland.com…
Rip Curl Hires SVP of Sales and Marketing, NA
Rip Curl promoted Dylan Slater to senior vice president of sales & marketing for North America…
ILWU Delegates Recommend Tentative Agreement
ILWU Coast Longshore Caucus delegates voted Friday to recommend approval of the tentative agreement reached on Feb. 20, 2015, between the union and employers represented by the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA)…
Fila USA’s Revenues Climb Double-Digits in 2014
Fila USA saw revenues jump 29.2 percent in 2014, to $279.2 million from $216.2 million in 2013, according to financial documents from its parent Fila Korea. In an telephone interview with Sports Executive Weekly from China, Jon Epstein, president of Fila
Golf Sees High-Single digit gain in Q4 for Perry Ellis
While its overall business was impacted by the West Coast port slowdown, Perry Ellis International Inc. said its golf apparel segment delivered a high-single digit gain in the fourth quarter…
Farm to Feet to Sponsor FloydFest Music Festival
Farm to Feet, the sock manufacturer, has teamed up with FloydFest as the official sock of the Southern music festival. In support of the partnership, Farm to Feet developed a Floyd Music Festival sock…
Leonard Green Exploring Stake in Bass Pro Shops
Leonard Green & Partners, the Los Angeles buyout firm which already owns Sports Authority Inc., is in advanced talks to acquire a minority stake in Bass Pro Shops, sources told The Wall Street Journal…
Under Armour to Sponsor University of Cincinnati
The University of Cincinnati department of athletics announced a long-term partnership with Under Armour…
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