Payless to Acquire Collective

Payless ShoeSource inked a deal to acquire Collective International, a licensing platform that manages the Airwalk, Vision Street Wear, Lamar, Sims, LTD, genetic, Dukes, Rage, Ultra-Wheels and Skate Attack brands. When the deal closes, Collective will bec

K2 Grabs Snow Sports Market Share in Q4…

K2 Inc. appears to be the only publicly reporting Snow Sports company to see any up-side in the 2006-07 winter season. The company reported solid top-line and bottom line growth during the fourth quarter with these results primarily driven by winter sport

G-III Apparel Group Prices Secondary Offering

G-III Apparel Group, Ltd., an outerwear and sportswear manufacturer, priced an offering of 4,500,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $20 per share. Of these shares, 1,621,000 shares will be sold by the company and 2,879,000 shares w

Golf Town Sees 15% Annual Sales Increase

Golf Town saw 2006 sales increase 14.8% to CA$220.1 million ($194.1 mm) from CA$191.7 million ($158.4 mm) last year. The increase was due to the addition of three new stores in 2005 and four new stores in 2006 for a total of 28 as at December 31, 2006 as

LL Bean Tops $1.5 Billion in Fiscal 2006

L.L.Bean reported record annual net sales of $1.54 billion for the 2006 fiscal year ending February 25, 2007, a 4.6% increase over 2005. E-commerce grew almost 10% and emerged as the company's dominant sales channel for the year. The company also an

Target Sees 5.7% February Comps Gain

Target Corporation saw February sales increase 10.7% to $4.13 billion from $3.73 billion for the comparable period last year. On this same basis, same store sales increased 5.7%…

Ross Stores February Comps Climb 1%

Ross Stores, Inc. sales increased 7% to $395 million for the four weeks ended March 3, 2007, from $368 million for the four weeks ended March 4, 2006. Comparable store sales for the month increased 1% over the same period in the prior year…

Kohl’s Sees 4.4% February Comp Gain

Kohl's Corporation reported February sales for the four-week period ended March 3, 2007 increased 12.8% over the prior year. On a comparable store basis, sales increased 4.4%…

BJ’s February Comps Improve 3.0%

BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. saw February comparable store sales increase 3.0%, including a benefit of 0.9% from the sales of gasoline and a negative impact of 0.4% dure to eh absence of pharmacy sales. Total sales increased 7.2% to $601.7 million from

Neiman Marcus Posts 6.7% February Comps Gain

Neiman Marcus, Inc. saw total revenues increase 8.2% to $305 million for February 2007, up from $282 million during last year's month. Comparable Revenues increased 6.7% to $301 million from $282 million last year…

Canada Goose Hires Two New Sales Agencies

Canada Goose/Metro Sportswear Ltd. hired Cascade Associates as its sales agency in the Northwest U.S.A including Alaska and Meridian Sports Inc. as its sales agency in the Midwest U.S.A.

Yakima Unveils Carbon Neutral Initiative

Yakima unveiled “Planet Payback,” a company-wide initiative focused on offsetting the carbon footprint of all operations, products and their distribution, as well as Yakima’s field marketing team, “Road Warriors.” “Planet Payback” will launch at Canoecopi