Easton-Bell Sports has created a new organization that centralizes product development, design, engineering, and product costing across the company's flagship brands – Easton, Bell, Giro and Riddell. Hugh Hamill has been appointed senior vice preside
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FuelBelt Appoints Hartford Sales Group as its West Coast Rep
FuelBelt Inc. has hired The Hartford Sales Group as its new sales representative team for the west coast…
Ridell Launches Helmet Trade-in Program
Riddell will offer $50 off the catalog purchase price of any Riddell Revolution family (Riddell Revolution, Riddell Revolution Speed, Riddell Revolution IQ and Riddell 360) adult helmet for the trade-in of any VSR-4 adult helmet…
Sherbrook SBK Sport Appoints Exclusive Investment Bank
Sherbrook SBK Sport Corp, the hockey stick maker, has signed an exclusive investment banking mandate with Notre-Dame Capital Inc. According to the agreement, NDC as an exempt market dealer will raise on a best efforts basis a maximum of $2.5 million in pr
Combat Sports to Sponsor NAHL
Combat Sports Inc. will become the exclusive supplier of one-piece sticks, shafts, blades, gloves and pants to the North American Hockey League (NAHL) commencing in the 2010-2011 inaugural season…
Easton-Bell Sports Posts Q1 Loss Despite Strong Bike Products Performance
Easton-Bell Sports Holdings reported its fifth consecutive quarter of revenue growth for the first fiscal quarter ended April 2 as strong results from the company’s bicycle products pushed company revenues up 4.8 percent versus the year-ago period..
Timberland Shares Tumble on First Quarter Profit Shortfall, Increased Costs
The Timberland Company, Inc. reported another solid quarter of top-line growth but first quarter profits fell well short of Wall Street's estimates due to higher product costs. TBL shares fell 27.7 percent last week to close at $32.67 on Friday…
Johnson Outdoors Fiscal Q2 Propelled By Resurgent Marine Electronics Business
Johnson Outdoors Inc. reported record sales and earnings in the second quarter ended April 1 as dealers loaded up on its trolling motors, fish finders and other marine electronics…
Weyco’s Q1 Impacted by Bogs Acquisition
Weyco Group Inc.'s earnings slid 12.8 percent in the first quarter, to $3.4 million, or 30 cents a share, dragged down in part by acquisition of The Combs Co., owner of the Bogs and Rafters footwear brands. Sales were up 6.7 percent at $65.1 million.
Garmin Fitness, Outdoor Up in Q1
Garmin Ltd. reported net sales of its Outdoor segment reached $66.5 million during the first quarter ended March 26, up 11.9 percent from a year earlier, while sales in its Fitness segment jumped 30.0 percent to $56.4 million…
Avalanche Claims Mountain Hardwear Athlete
Ski Mountaineer Kip Garre and his girlfriend Allison Kreutzen were killed April 26 in an avalanche at about 11,000 feet while climbing the Split Couloir, a steep gulley on Split Mountain in California’s eastern Sierra Mountains…
New Balance Becomes Footwear Sponsor for MLB Umpires
New Balance announced that it will be the official on-field footwear provider of Major League Baseball Umpires…
Fox Factory’s Mountain Biking OEM Sales Up 18.2 Percent in Q1
Fox Factory, Inc.'s net sales reached $42.8 million in the first quarter ended March 31, up 31.0 percent from $32.7 million in the year earlier quarter as sales of suspension systems to mountain biking and off-road vehicle manufacturers rebounded. OE
Denver Area Chamber Honors Ouray Sportswear
Ouray Sportswear was named the 2011 Small Business of the Year today by the South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce…
Human -powered Recreation Generates 87,000 Jobs in Arizona
More than 87,000 Arizona jobs and $371 million in state tax revenues are supported by “human-powered recreation” such as climbing, hiking, mountain biking and camping in Arizona, according to a study released by the Access Fund, the national o
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