Pacific Sunwear Names Weiss to Board

Pacific Sunwear of California, Inc. announced the appointment of Michael Weiss to the company's Board of Directors. Mr. Weiss spent 23 years at Limited Brands where he was most recently CEO of Express, a 1,000-store division of Limited Brands. Mr. We

Urban Outfitters Announces 2-for-1 Stock Split

Urban Outfitters, Inc. announced a two-for-one split of its common stock. This split will be made in the form of a stock dividend of one share of its common stock for each share outstanding. The additional shares issued as a result of the stock split will

Columbia Seizes 80,000 Counterfeits in July

Columbia Sportswear Company has been leading an aggressive campaign to eradicate counterfeiting of their products in several key markets. Columbia worked with local authorities in China, Vietnam, and Australia to seize products that included apparel and a

NRF: Back-To-College Spending Up 33.8%

Though college students will wait until later this month to hit the books, they’ve been hitting the stores all summer long to prepare for their return to campus. The third annual NRF 2005 Back-to-College Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey, conducted b

Giannulli Withdraws Mossimo Bid

Mossimo Giannulli, founder, Chairman of the Board and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Mossimo, is withdrawing his proposal to acquire all outstanding shares of the Company not owned by him at $4.00 per share. Giannulli said that while he remains interested

Head NV Gets Q2 Lift from Winter Sports, Property Sale…

Head N.V. looked to the Winter Sports business in the second quarter to reverse the negative sales trend of the first quarter, but the total sales increase for the period was not enough to bring the year-to-date revenue line into positive growth territory

RECALL: Rear Wheel Hubs

Ritchey Design is recalling roughly 2,000 WCS – Protocol, Carbon, DS, DS Aero, and Girder rear wheels manufactured under license from American Classic Inc. American Classic voluntarily recalled about 2,850 of their road and mountain bike whe

Volcom Gets Balanced Gender Growth…

Volcom, Inc. saw much of its second quarter growth from significantly larger orders from Pacific Sunwear, its largest customer. The order increases began in the second half of 2004, and the company expects the back half of the is year to be somewhat more