The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has been leading a broad coalition of sportsmen and conservation groups, including the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation, National Rifle Association and Ducks Unlimited, in an effort to reform the fed
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Nielsen and OIA to Survey Retailers on OR Show
Outdoor Retailer and Outdoor Industry Association will launch a four-week online survey to gather retailer's suggestions on improving the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market trade show…
Puma Acquires Stake in Dobotex
Puma AG will take a majority stake in Dutch company Dobotex as of January 1, 2009. In a brief statement, the company, based in Herzogenaurach, Germany, did not indicate the size of the stake or the terms of the deal…
Confluence Hires CFO, IT Director
Confluence Watersports has appointed Jim Berwick as VP and CFO and Kelly Hemphill as director of IT. Berwick is overseeing the areas of finance, IT, distribution and logistics, and customer service. He has more than 20 years of consumer products experienc
Reebok, AstroTurf Partner Up on Performance Study
Reebok has partnered with GeneralSports Venue, the exclusive U.S. licensee of the AstroTurf brand of synthetic sports turf products, to study the interaction between athletic footwear and field surfaces for athletes…
Co-Founder Sullivan Named Cloudveil President
Cloudveil named Co-Founder Stephen Sullivan president of the company following the resignation of Co-Founder and President Brian Cousins. Cousins leaves Cloudveil after helping to complete its integration with parent company Spyder Active Sports to pursue
Adidas Buys Sensor Company
Physic Ventures announced that adidas International, Inc. has acquired Textronics, Inc. a developer of wearable sensors for use in fitness monitoring…
Eddie Bauer, The Walking Company to Carry Ahnu
Ahnu Footwear has formed two new retail partnerships that will send the brand past the 800-retailer milestone in spring 2009. Both The Walking Company and Eddie Bauer will begin carrying Ahnu…
Daiwa Seiko Acquires Fourteen Golf
Daiwa Seiko Inc has acquired the entire share capital of Japanese golf club manufacturer, Fourteen Golf Inc. Best known for its wedges and hybrids, Fourteen Golf has been designing clubs for major manufacturers such as Titleist and Wilson for nearly 30 y
SRAM Cycling Fund Makes First Donation
The SRAM Cycling Fund has made a $200,000 contribution to the Safe Routes to School National Partnership. This is the first award made by SRAM's Cycling Fund that was created on Sept. 30, 2008. During the next five years, the Fund plans to award $10
Bally Total Fitness Files for Chapter 11
Bally Total Fitness Corporation filed for voluntary Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Bally intends to use the Chapter 11 process to significantly reduce debt from its balance sheet while
Marc Ecko Looking to Buy MMA Properties
According to iguillotine.com, Marc Ecko Enterprises is the leading bidder for ProElite, Inc., which produces MMA shows and owns the EliteXC MMA brand. The article claims MEE hopes to inherit ProElite’s television contracts with both CBS and Showtime…
Is This Really Christmas Spirit?
When SportsOneSource reported in late October that adidas planned to cut costs by implementing a hiring freeze and scrubbing plans for year-end parties, the brain trust at Sole Technologies, manufacturers of Etnies, Emerica and eS footwear, among other br
Burton Relocates Brands to Vermont
Burton has begun transitioning The Program, which includes snowboard brands Forum, Special Blend and Foursquare, from its Irvine, CA offices to Burton’s Vermont headquarters. The company said the transition will be complete by early February and will allo
Collective Brands Gets Bump from Saucony and Sperry Top-Sider in Q3
The star for Collective Brands in the third quarter was its Stride Rite Group division, which grew sales on a pro forma basis by 11%, driven largely by double-digit increases in the International, Saucony and Sperry Top-Sider businesses…
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