Delta Kayaks, has hired Ted Keyes as its new sales representative for Western USA…
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Big Agnes Names Mystery Mountain as Sales Agency for Western Canada
Big Agnes Inc., maker of sleeping bags, pads and tents, added Mystery Mountain Enterprises, Inc. to its sales team. Mystery Mountain will manage sales of Big Agnes products and Helinox trekking poles and camp furniture in Western Canada…
Saucony Appoints Marketing Agency
Saucony has named Minneapolis-based Olson as its advertising agency of record. Olson will handle the brand's advertising, digital, social media, content, connection-planning, and strategy…
Fleet Feet Sees Double-Digit Comp Growth in Nine Months
Fleet Feet Sports reported sales in the first nine months of the year reached $100 million, a 13 percent increase over the prior year. Comparable-store sales grew 12 percent…
Tilly’s Lowers Forecasts After Disappointing Third Quarter
Tilly’s, Inc. lowered its comp store and earnings forecasts after comp store growth fell well below expectations in the third quarter and Hurricane Sandy forced the temporary closure of 17 of its stores in the Eastern United States…
DeMarini Sports Launches Apparel Line
DeMarini, makers of baseball, fastpitch and slowpitch bats, is introducing a full line of men’s, women’s and youth apparel for baseball and softball players. The new line of DeMarini Apparel will be available at select online retailers beginni
Stevens Pass Becomes First Winter Resort to Open in Washington
Stevens Pass officially opened at noon Thursday, making it the first winter resort to open in Washington for the 2012/13 season…
Superstorm Sandy Clips Early Holiday Spending
Spending in most of the key holiday categories for the first two weeks of the retail month of November was down on a year-over-year basis, likely reflecting the impact of Superstorm Sandy, according to a SpendingPulse report released Tuesday by MasterCard
ISPO Munich Adds Exhibitor Space
ISPO Munich, which will take place in February, said it will experience yet another increase in net exhibit space of close to two percent compared to the same period last year, to more than 104,500 square meters. The coming year’s event has drawn a
DSW Lifts FY Guidance on Above-Plan Q3
DSW Inc. reported net income, adjusted for one-time items, reached $46.6 million, or $1.02 per share, in the third quarter, up 17.1 percent from $39.8 million, or 88 cents, a year ago. Wall Street’s consensus estimate was 89 cents a share…
Brown Shoe Raises FY View, Vows to Avoid Holiday Promotions
Brown Shoe Company, Inc. raised its EPS guidance for the year as robust back-to-school sales at Famous Footwear, healthy sales at its Contemporary Fashion and Healthy Living brand portfolios, and early benefits from its portfolio realignment strategy supp
Interbike to Enable Dealers to Invite Cyclists to Interbike
Interbike plans to announce the details behind a new initiative to allow bicycle enthusiasts access to the long time trade show. Access for bicycle enthusiasts will be granted through a new retailer invitation program that will be unveiled Nov. 26, 2012..
European Pedelec Industry Hails Rulilng by European Parliment
The European Parliament voted Tuesday for a clear separation between active and passive transport in a move hailed by the European Cyclists' Federation (ECF), which had been lobbying for such a ruling to keep pedelec bikes from being regulated as mot
Lululemon Settles Yoga Patent Lawsuits
Lululemon Athletica, Calvin Klein, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of PVH Corp., and G-III Apparel Group, Ltd., a Calvin Klein, Inc. licensee for Calvin Klein Performance, have entered into a settlement agreement that will resolve the pending design paten
Nordstrom Partners With New Balance to Aid Kids
Nordstrom, New Balance and Shoes That Fit have come together to bring more than 8,100 children in communities around the U.S. new shoes. The annual Nordstrom Holiday Giving Tree program begins…