Dick's Sporting Goods will be opening its 5th store in Washington and 582nd store nationwide on Friday, Sept. 26th at 200 S. Burlington Blvd. in Burlington, WA…
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Gear Co-op Welcomes Todd Klasky as VP of Merchandising
Gear Co-op, the climbing shop located in Costa Mesa, CA that operates gearcoop.com, hired Todd Klasky as its vice president of merchandising. Klasky oversaw the outdoors division at Sport Chalet as senior buyer/divisional merchandising manager…
Sanuk Appoints Holysport Ltd As Distributor In Three Key European Markets
Sanuk appointed Holysport Ltd. as its distributor in Benelux, France and the UK. Based in Cornwall, UK, Holysport will exclusively distribute the brand in these key European markets starting in Spring 2015…
Marty Hanaka Joins Highland Consumer Partners
Highland Consumer Partners, a growth-stage venture capital firm focused on the consumer sector, announced that Marty Hanaka, former CEO of The Sports Authority, joined the firm in August of this year as an operating partner…
Louisville Slugger Developing Omnichannel Platform
Louisville Slugger has partnered with Onestop, an e-commerce solution provider, to manage its back-end e-commerce system and execute a detailed multichannel marketing campaign. The new platform will launch complete with mobile optimization and omnichannel
BSN Sports Acquires Westside Team Sports
BSN Sports has completed the acquisition of Westside Team Sports,LLC. based in Santa Monica, CA. Westside Team Sports, privately owned and operated since 2010, is a leading distributor of team apparel and equipment in southern California…
SFIA Fitness Report: New York City and Chicago Top Fitness List Rankings
New York City and Chicago (host city of SFIA’s 2014 Industry Leaders Summit) were the only U.S. cities ranked in the top ten in each of the four fitness categories tracked according to the 2014 Tracking the Fitness Movement Report published by the S
Wolverine Names New Presidents for Sperry Top-Sider and Keds
Wolverine Worldwide promoted Rick Blackshaw, formerly president of Keds, as president, Sperry Top-Sider. Chris Lindner, former head of marketing for Saucony, was promoted to president, Keds…
Delta Apparel Appoints VP of Sales for M.J. Soffe
Delta Apparel, Inc. announced Elisa Palefsky joined the company as vice president of sales for its M. J. Soffe operating subsidiary. Her former business associations include SPANX and The Coca-Cola Company…
SmartWool Launches Second Fan-Powered Van Tour
SmartWool launched its second, 100-percent crowd-sourced van tour on Sept. 13, after seeing a 500-percent lift in engagement and 30-percent increase in overall fan and follower numbers on its social media channels in the wake of last year's tour…
Adidas Launches The Standard Shop at Foot Locker
Adidas and Foot Locker introduced 'The a Standard,' the first shop-in-shop retail concept within Foot Locker. The a Standard offers premium product from Adidas’ sport performance and style collections, including footwear and apparel…
Saucony and Flottrack Launch SauconyFlo50
Saucony announced the launch of SauconyFlo50, the most comprehensive high school and collegiate cross country ranking platform to date. SauconyFlo50, a partnership between Saucony and Flotrack, the leading source for premium track and field and cross coun
Johnny Manziel Tops NFL Jersey Sales
According to the initial rankings of Dick's Sporting Goods' Jersey Report, Johnny Manziel is by far the top-selling jersey. Overall this season (NFL Draft begins season), nearly 10 percent of all jerseys sold have been Manziel’s No. 2. Thi
Manchester United Attributes Merch Drop to World Cup Attention
Manchester United reported revenues from its Retail, Merchandising, Apparel & Product Licensing (RMA&PL) operations declined 12.3 percent to £9.3 million ($11.7 mm), in the fourth quarter ended June 30. The team blamed the decline on a shift in Nike’
Sports Authority Doubles Down on Yoga
Sports Authority announced the launch of an exclusive yoga lifestyle line, called Bloom. In an interview with Sports Executive Weekly, Stephen Binkley, EVP and chief merchandising officer of Sports Authority, said the retailer a couple years ago began rep
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