Rebel Sports H1 Income Slips on Slight Sales Gain…

Rebel Sports, Australia’s largest sporting goods retailer, issued a preliminary sales report in January for the first half of 2004-05 (See SEW_0506). In the company’s more recent, fully audited first half financial release, Rebels Sports reported a 4.4% s

PacSun Issues Corrections Due to Lease Accounting

Pacific Sunwear announced that it will correct its accounting for leases after the company's review of the matter and after discussion by management and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the company with Deloitte & Touche, LLP, its ind

Billabong Sees H1 Profit Growth Outpace Sales Gains…

Billabong International, Ltd. saw net profit rise 73% from A$41 million ($28.2 mm) last year to A$70 million ($51.4 mm) for the first half of the 2004/05 fiscal year while EPS lifted 70% to 34 cents per share. Total sales rose 37% to A$419 million ($307.5

Ed Andrew Returns to NiteRider as New CEO

Ed Andrew, who was President of NiteRider from January 1996 to December 1999, has returned to the company as the new CEO. Ed left the company on very good terms in 1999 to help launch a small start-up company with a product concept, a small amount of set-

Ruff Wear Expands U.S. Sales Force

Ruff Wear is expanding its sales force in North America to meet the needs of customers in both the outdoor retail and specialty pet markets. The new sales representatives augment the sales force currently in place in the US. Fifteen independent sales repr

Mountain Hardwear Names New Marketing Director

Mountain Hardwear announced that Phyllis Grove has been named to the position of Marketing Director. Grove will oversee marketing efforts for the company including strategy, branding, advertising, web, retailer coop programs, consumer and trade promotions

Unifi Sells Irish Facilities for $37 million

Unifi has entered into three separate contracts that provide for the sale of substantially all of the plant, property and equipment associated with the Company's European manufacturing operations, which ceased October 31, 2004…

US E-Commerce Sales Up 4.7% for Q4

The Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce announced that the estimate of U.S. retail e-commerce sales for the fourth quarter of 2004, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, was $18.4 billi

Spiegel to Reorganize Around Eddie Bauer

Spiegel has proposed to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York a plan in which the business will be reorganized around the Eddie Bauer division of the company, establishing a new parent company, Eddie Bauer Holdings, Inc. Eddie Ba

Accell Group’s Sales Increase 18%; Income Climbs 42%

Accell Group N.V. realised a 38% rise in net earnings per share in 2004. Net profit came in at €13.0 million ($16.2 mm), up 42% from €9.2 million ($10.4 mm) in 2003. Turnover was up 18% at €341.1 million ($424.3 mm), from €289.6 million ($327.9 mm) in 200