With early results in from retailers and analysts across the market it looks like the 2011 holiday shopping season got off to a fast and early start. Enticed by deep door-buster discounts, shoppers hit the stores in greater numbers earlier than ever this
Category: Outdoor
PDC Hosts 2nd Annual Athletic and Outdoor Industry Event Dec. 6
The Portland Development Commission will host the 2nd Annual Athletic and Outdoor Industry celebration at Union Pine on Dec. 6…
Brown Shoe Lowers Fiscal Year EPS Guidance; Will Shutter Retail Doors…
Brown Shoe Co. lowered its EPS guidance for the current year due to plans to exit some of its wholesale brands, IT implementation expenses, and eroding sales trends at retail. The company also revealed plans to shutter about 13 percent of its Famous Footw
City Sports Adds Two to Management Team
City Sports appointed Debi Binder to vice president of marketing and Dana Klein to director of e-commerce, adding strength to the corporate team behind the burgeoning Boston-based retail brand that has achieved substantial growth in 2011…
NSGA Creates New Industry All-Star Awards Program…
The National Sporting Goods Association (NSGA) has created a new way for the industry to recognize outstanding accomplishments and contributions with the launch of its All-Star Awards program. The All-Star Awards program is meant to recognize the most out
OBIT: Richard E. Adler, Adler Sporting Goods…
Richard E. Adler, owner of Adler Sporting Goods in Cleveland, has passed away at the age of 79…
Converse Announces Collaboration for World AIDS Day
Converse Inc. announced the limited-edition José Parlá for Converse (PRODUCT)RED Chuck Taylor All Star shoe launching on World AIDS Day – Dec. 1, 2011. A painter, widely acclaimed in the art world, Parlá's collaboration…
MEC Awards More than $600,000 in Grants
Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) named the fall recipients of its community grants program, with 58 community-based environmental and outdoor recreation projects awarded a total of $604,389. These grants are announced twice each year, with over $1.3 million
ComScore: Cyber Monday’s Revenues Ahead 22 Percent
ComScore reported holiday season U.S. retail e-commerce spending for the first 28 days of the November – December 2011 holiday season. For the holiday season-to-date, $15 billion has been spent online, marking a 15-percent increase versus the correspondin
Performance Bicycle Joins Bikes Belong
Performance Bicycle has joined Bikes Belong, the national coalition of bicycle retailers and suppliers dedicated to putting more people on bikes more often. Additionally, Performance Bicycle CEO, David Pruitt, will serve on the Bikes Belong Board of Direc
Keeper Sports Appoints New Manager for Surf Line
Keeper Sports Products, LLC, based in Oceanside CA, has appointed Patrick Dugan as account executive and the new head of it's surf line, California Board Company (CBC)…
Salomon Names Full U.S. Alpine Category Manager
Salomon has appointed Jake Fuller to the position of Salomon USA Alpine product category manager…
Mizuno Golf to Offer Free Online Shipping
Mizuno USA will be offering on-line consumers free shipping on all orders over $150 from their MizunoGolf.com website. This deal applies only to Mizuno's high performance lineup of soft goods, including golf apparel, gloves, bags, and accessories…
Asics Signs World Champion Freestyle Wrestler
Asics America signed American World Champion freestyle wrestler Jordan Burroughs. Most recently, Burroughs earned Gold at the 2011 Pan America Games in Guadalajara, Mexico at 74 kilograms (163 pounds)…
City Sports Raises $10K for Breast Cancer Research
City Sports raised $10,000 to benefit the Tufts Medical Center Breast Cancer Research Fund, the result of a successful October social media campaign which generated awareness for the cause via the brand's official Facebook page…
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