BSN Sports, Inc. announced it acquired the assets of Holiday Sporting Goods, located in New Iberia, Louisiana. Holiday brings 30 years of market experience serving school and team customers in Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida. The Holiday team will comp
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Polartec Donates $10,000 and 1,200 Custom Vest to BCM
Polartec, LLC donated $10,000 and 1,200 custom zip-neck tops made from Polartec Classic 100 fleece to Big City Mountaineers (BCM)…
Marmot Moves into New Digs in Sonoma County
Marmot Mountain, LLC, has relocated their worldwide headquarters to an expansive new facility in Rohnert Park, CA, after 22 years of successful business operations in nearby Santa Rosa…
Balega Intl Launches Outdoor Division
Balega International has launched Balega Outdoor to service the outdoor specialty retailer and consumer with their product line of technical performance socks…
Happy Feet Plus Opens Ninth Store
Happy Feet Plus announced the opening of their ninth shoe store on Florida’s West Coast in South Tampa…
JJB Sports Appoints Beverley Williams as Interim CEO
JJB Sports PLC, the troubled U.K. sporting goods chain, announced the appointment of Beverley Williams as chief executive officer on an interim basis. She replaces Keith Jones, who resigned last Friday…
Supply Chain Problems to Curtail Native’s Growth in 2012
The once fast growing Native sunglasses brand will see flat sales this year due to supply chain issues that caused fill rates to plummet in the second quarter for a new line aimed at mountain athletes, the company’s parent company reported last week
Raleigh Props up Accell in Q2 As Rain, Euro Crisis Dampen Demand
Accell Group SpA of the Netherlands reported earnings at its Bicycle, Parts and Accessories (BP&A) segment, excluding acquisitions, fell 18 percent as the dour economic outlook and unseasonably wet weather dampened demand for non-sport bikes in its native
EMU Australia Appoints CEO for Americas
EMU Australia appointed Scott Sible as CEO of North America. Sible joins the company with an experience of 25 years in the footwear and apparel business. Before joining EMU, Sible retired from Wolverine World Wide as president of Merrell in 2010…
Leadville Trail 100 MTB Race Draws Nearly 2,000 Riders
Nearly 2,000 riders have registered to participate in the Leadville Trail 100 Mountain Bike Race, an ultra-distance mountain bike race scheduled for Aug. 11.
Foreign Markets Sustain Luxottica’s Growth Amid Euro Storm
Optical giant Luxottica Group SpA said its Oakley and Ray-Ban brands continued to grow at double-digit rates in the second quarter, propelled by strong growth across most key markets outside its native Italy and neighboring Spain…
Cabela’s Q2 Profits Climb on 4.7 Percent Comp Gain
Cabela's Inc. reported second-quarter earnings jumped 56.2 percent to $33.9 million, or 47 cents a share, compared to $21.7 million, or 31 cents, a year ago. For the quarter, total revenue increased 11.6 percent to $627.3 million…
Montana Fly Company Welcomes Comb Enterprises to Sales Force
Montana Fly Company has partnered with Frank Smethurst and David Allen at sales representative group Comb Enterprises to drive sales in the Southern Rockies region…
Accell Group Q2 Earnings Fall as Rain, Dour Consumers Prompt Discounts
Accell Group N.V. reported sales of €445.6 million ($578 mm) in the first half of 2012, up 19 percent compared with a year earlier thanks largely to acquisitions. On an organic basis, sales rose 2 percent, but net income fell 15 percent as the compa
Aktiesport Shop-in-shops Now in 11 Scapino Stores
Macintosh Retail Group has installed Aktiesport shops in 11 of its Scapino stores as part of a strategic alliance announced with the online discounter of sporting goods in May. The alliance calls for rolling out Atkiesport shop-in-shops in a large number
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