At its annual meeting, Billabong’s new CEO Neil Fiske outlined a seven-point turnaround plan, which includes rebuilding the company’s global brands and sorting emerging brands, finetuning merchandising strategies with fewer styles, and integra
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Safilo Group Appoints Global Commercial Director
Safilo Group, the Italian parent of Smith Optics, has appointed Henri Blomqvist to the newly established role of global commercial director. He reports to Safilo Group CEO Luisa Delgado and will oversee all commercial wholesale operations worldwide…
Zumiez Co-Founder to Speak at Agenda Emerge
Tom Campion, co-founder of Zumiez as well as the Campion Foundation, will speak at the second installment of Agenda Emerge, the brand building conference…
Cross-Border Spending Lifts U.S. Retailers
Black Friday saw the greatest spike of the year in international shopping activity, with cross-border spending at U.S. retailers more than quadrupling (+330 percent) compared to the average shopping day in 2013, according to data released by…
Flip Flop Shops to Expand in the Caribbean
Flip Flop Shops, the franchisor, announced a new Caribbean business opportunity for the master franchise rights throughout the region, including three already established shops in St. Thomas, St. Maarten and Curacao…
Rider Sandals Dispatches Marketing Manager to US
Brazil’s Rider Sandals said its marketing manager Ricardo Mohr will now spend half his time working from Rider’s U.S. offices in Orlando, FL…
Light and Motion to Move to Larger Space in January
Light & Motion will relocate to a refurbished helicopter repair depot that will provide twice as much space for its vertically integrated manufacturing operations…
Yamaha Marine Group Announced Appointments
Yamaha Marine Group announced the appointment of two new management team members…
Gregory Gets New Marketing Director
Gregory Mountain Products has hired Colleen Nipkow as marketing director. Nipkow will collaborate with the global product and sales teams to lead campaigns that support the brand’s continued market growth…
Moncler Shares Soar in IPO Debut
Share prices of Moncler, the Italian maker of ski and fashion apparel, jumped more than 40 percent in initial trading on the Italian stock market…
Gander Mountain Coming to Middle Tennesse
Gander Mountain is expanding their network of outdoor specialty stores with a new location in Mt. Juliet, TN set to open in the spring of 2014…
Vans Appoints Director of Apparel, National Accounts,
Sandy Schwarzenbach, formerly VP sales, teen and sporting good chains for North America for Quiksilver and DC at Quiksilver Inc., has joined Vans as director of apparel, national accounts, according to Shop-eat-surf.com…
RG Barry Explores Possible Sale
R.G. Barry Corporation reported that it has entered into a non-disclosure and standstill agreement with Mill Road Capital Management LLC in regards to the PE firm's potential bid to acquire the company. R.G. Barry owns Dearfoams slippers as well as B
SIA Snow Show to Again Feature BlueBird Social Zone
Transworld Business is sponsoring the BlueBird Social Zone at the 2014 SIA Snow Show in Denver next month. The Zone will host seminars covering brand building through social media, digital story telling, Facebook tactics and more as well as provide a Wi-F
Virus Action Sport to Clothe Canadian Ski Patrol
Virus Action Sport Performance has been selected to provide compression apparel to the Canadian Ski Patrol to aid in performance and recovery for their members…
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