Alpha 6 Distributions, which designs, manufactures and distributes value-priced outerwear, has added Judi and Rick Tice, Brian Rice and Kevin Hobday to its team of sales representatives…
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New Hampshire Ski Resorts Report Fourth Best Season on Record
The 2014/15 ski season in New Hampshire will go down as the fourth best season on record, with over 2.57 million visits (alpine, cross-country and tubing) to NH ski areas combined, according to Ski New Hampshire…
Turtle Fur Assigns New Territory to the Downs
Turtle Fur has expanded the responsibility of Randy and Cindi Downs to include the entire territory for the Eastern Great Lakes for the states of Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana…
Fitbit Boosts IPO Price Range
Fitbit, which is set to go public later this week, significantly increased the size of its proposed IPO. At the top of its new price range, the company would have an initial market cap of around $3.89 billion…
REI Acquires Content Creator Adventure Projects
REI has acquired Adventure Project Inc, a Boulder, CO company that has compiled one of the most comprehensive and popular online databases of climbing routes worldwide, an REI spokesperson confirmed…
Assos Expands ProShop Concept in North America
Assos will open three new ProShops across North America with ATA Cycle in Concord, MA, Signature Cycles in Greenwich, CT and West Point Cycles in Vancouver, BC…

Chaco Opens Pop-Up for Deadheads
Chaco is opening its first-ever pop-up retail store in Chicago in concert with the Grateful Dead’s Fare Thee Well shows at Soldier Field. The store will open at Timbuk2’s Bucktown location…
CyMedica Orthopedics Raises $11.5MM Series A Funding Round
CyMedica Orthopedics, Inc., which recently launched the QB1 knee brace and wrap, closed an extension to its Series A financing…
Big City Mountaineers Lands Notable Donations
May was a fruitful month for Big City Mountaineers, which received a 120-acre land donation in Minnesota as well as a $12,000 check from Peyton Manning’s PeyBack Foundation…
CPSC Hearing on Fiscal 2016 Agenda Set for June 24
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission will take input from the public on its agenda and priorities for fiscal year 2016 at a public hearing June 24…
Sweat X Partners with Xenith
Ohio-based Renegade Brands finalized a private label deal with Xenith to bring the its Sweat X gear cleaner into the football market…
Hillsound Outsources Retailer Fulfillment
Hillsound Equipment is outsourcing retailer fulfillment to a 550,000-square-foot warehouse and fulfillment center operated by CDEC Inc. in Quebec…
Nemo Hires Exodus Reps LLC for Mid-Atlantic
Nemo Equipment, Inc. hired Pete Cahill of Exodus Reps LLC to represent the brand in the Mid-Atlantic…
Hudson Bay Co. to Acquire Galeria Kaufhof, Sportarena
Canada-based Hudson's Bay company (HBC) has agreed to acquire Metro's department store group, which includes 16 Sportarena stores, the Galeria Kaufhof chain and its Belgian subsidiary Inno, for €2.825 billion…
Sportsman’s Warehouse to Open Fifth Store in Alaska
Sportsman's Warehouse is expanding its operations to include a new retail location in Juneau, Alaska to open late spring of 2016. It will be the company's fifth in Alaska and…