The North Face has announced this winter’s venues for The North Face Park and Pipe Open Series (PPOS), including: Copper Mountain, CO (Dec. 8-9); Whistler Blackcomb, BC, Canada (Jan. 14-17); Waterville Valley, NH (Feb. 23); and Northstar California
Category: Outdoor
Frankenstorm Closes Stores, Opens Ski Areas
Frankenstorm closed many stores Monday and Tuesday along the Eastern Seaboard from North Carolina north to Connecticut, but also delivered more than a foot of snow in the southern Appalachians. The snow will enable some ski areas to open weeks earlier tha
Feds Seize Counterfeit San Francisco Giants Apparel
Agents with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seized nearly 1,200 items of counterfeit MLB clothing being offered for sale by vendors on San Francisco streets Monday following the San Francisco Giant’s sweep of the World Series, accordi
BSN Sports Acquires Hayden’s Sport Center
BSN Sports announced the acquisition of Montgomery, IL-based Hayden’s Sport Center, the leading independent sporting goods team distributor in the state of Illinois…
Meijer and Crocs Execs Named to RAMA Board of Directors
The Retail Advertising and Marketing Association (RAMA), a division of The National Retail Federation, named Kevin Brown, group vice president, and chief marketing officer at Meijer Inc. as chairman of its board of directors. Andrew Davison, chief marketi
Scheel’s Amplifies Social Media Presence with In-store Photo Booth
Scheels is harvesting a social media bonanza from a new kiosk it installed at its Sandy, UT store that enables customers to take pictures of themselves against a variety of backgrounds using augmented reality kiosk and then share them via e-mail…
Apple to Carry Oakley’s New Heads-Up Display Goggle
Oakley, Inc. unveiled a new snow goggle called Airwave that integrates a heads-up display developed by Recon Instruments, with GPS, Bluetooth and a host of onboard sensors. Oakley will sell the goggle direct as well as through select retailers at resort l
Bergans Sponsors Banff Mountain Film Tour
Bergans of Norway has signed on as a major partner of the 9th annual Banff Mountain Film Festival Radical Reels Tour, a traveling film festival of the best high-adrenaline films from the 2012 Banff Mountain Film Festival. Bergans is also…
Watches, Eyewear to Sustain Sales of GPS Devices
Despite the hype around the decline of PNDs and the rise of smartphone applications, there is a long-term future for dedicated GPS devices, according to a new report from ABI Research. Total GPS device revenues are forecast to grow from $6.5 billion in 20
Weyco Group’s Bogs Sales Surge on Acquisition of Canadian Distributor
Weyco Group, Inc. said sales of Bogs footwear increased 46 percent in the third quarter, thanks in part to its acquisition of the outdoor footwear brand's Canadian distributor during the period…
New Balance Canada Names Agency of Record
New Balance Canada has named Arnold Toronto its agency of record. Arnold Worldwide of Boston has been the global creative agency of record for New Balance since June 2010…
Body Weight Training Emerging Trend in Fitness Survey
The old expression “everything old is new again” rings true for the upcoming year’s trends in fitness, according to a new survey released by the American College of Sports Medicine. In ACSM’s annual worldwide survey of fitness tren
Luxottica’s North American Results Exceed Expectations in Q3
Luxottica Group’s net sales reached €1.78 billion ($2.23 bb) in the third quarter, up 6.7 percent in currency neutral (c-n) terms. The Italian eyewear giant, which owns the Oakley and Ray-Ban eyewear brands, said results exceeded expectations
Luxottica Fired on All Cylinders in Third Quarter
Luxottica Group, recently profiled on 60 Minutes for its unrivaled pricing power in the prescription eyewear market, reported record free cash flow of €271 million ($339 mm) in the third quarter ended Sept. 30 thanks to strong sales and margin growt
Door Growth, Supply Chain Fix Boost Native and Costa Sales 8 Percent in Third Quarter
Revenues at the Cross Optical Group (COG), which owns the Costa and Native eyewear brands, increased 8.0 percent to $19.5 million in the third quarter, according to parent company A.T. Cross Company. The performance helped offset declining sales at the Cr
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