The National Retail Federation said retail sales – excluding autos, gas and restaurants – decreased a fraction of a percent over May, but increased 3.3% over June of last year…
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Thomas J. Ryan
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Sports Authority Selects Allurent to Boost Ecommerce
Sports Authority has selected Allurent on Demand to add interactive shopping experiences to their core ecommerce website (www.SportsAuthority.com) and other related brand sites…
Ecco USA Appoints President
Ecco USA appointed Dave Quel to the role of president. Quel assumed the role of acting president in March after Ecco USA's President and CEO Tom Nelson announced plans to retire, effective June 1…
Beck Named CEO of Hilco Consumer Capital.
Hilco Trading, LLC appointed Mitchell C. Berk as CEO of Hilco Consumer Capital…
Sport Chalet Launches Scuba Treasure Hunt
Sport Chalet, Inc. in cooperation with TUSA, Aqua Lung, Mares and Sea Pearls, is inviting SCUBA divers to find one of three sunken treasure bars valued at $5,000, $3,000 and $1,000. The contest ends July 25, 2010…
Champion Launches Athletes’ Creed Campaign
Champion Athleticwear, the National Alliance for Youth Sports and a council of key sports industry leaders are launching an effort to create an Athletes' Creed, a belief system designed to inspire players of all levels to reclaim the pure enjoyment o
Schuylkill Valley Sports Promotes John DeMaria
Schuylkill Valley Sports has promoted John DeMaria to director of apparel and licensed products. DeMaria will continue his duties in purchasing and merchandising all sports apparel for the 18 store chain…
Evogear.com Gains Equity Investment
Evolucion Innovations, Inc., doing business as evogear.com, completed an equity capital offering in order to support its rapidly growing online and retail businesses. The amount of the funding was not disclosed…
Gildan-Prewitt Cuts More Sock Jobs
Gildan-Prewitt company officials announced plans to relocate 30% of its knitting equipment and all its remaining wet processing operations in Fort Payne, AL to Honduras. About 130 of Fort Payne's remaining hosiery workers will lose their jobs by the
Rock Creek Athletics Acquires DeLong Brand
Rock Creek Athletics, based in Grinnell, Iowa, has acquired the varsity award jacket business assets from Daden Group, also based in Grinnell, Iowa, including the DeLong brand…
Billabong to Acquire RVCA
Billabong International Ltd. reached a conditional agreement to acquire California apparel brand RVCA. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Billabong expects RVCA to contribute 2% to Billabong group revenues in the 2010/2011 fiscal year and be neutral to
Asics to Buy Haglöfs For $133M
Asics Corporation has agreed to purchase 100% of Swedish outdoors products company Haglöfs for 1 billion Swedish Krona, or $133.42 million at current exchange. Its product range includes apparel, backpacks, footwear and accessories…
Spyder Donates to Wounded Warriors
Spyder has pledged to raise $1,000 for the Wounded Warrior Project by reaching 10,000 members on their Facebook page by the end of July…
Adidas Sells Almost One Million Jerseys of Spanish Soccer Team
Adidas AG indicated it sold almost one million replica jerseys of the Spanish national team, which won the World Cup on Sunday…
OGIO Signs Italian Distributor
OGIO International announced the addition of Action to Sport (A2S) as the exclusive distributor of packs, motor sports and specialty action sports gear in Italy…
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