Category: Outdoor

OIA and Outdoor Retailer Enter 15-Year Pact

January 23, 2008 SGB Executive SGB Update

Outdoor Industry Association and Nielsen Business Media (NBM), parent company of Outdoor Retailer, have entered a 15-year strategic alliance that will boost efforts to ensure the long term success and growth of the $289 billion outdoor industry. Outdoor R

prAna Introduces Independent Sales Reps

January 23, 2008 SGB Executive SGB Update

For the first time in 14 years, prAna is announcing a restructure of its sales team to include independent outside sales reps dedicated to serving 30 states in five regions. While new to prAna, these veteran industry professionals have years of experience

Puma Extends Ghana Football Association Deal

January 22, 2008 SGB Update

PUMA and the Ghana Football Association (GFA) entered a multi-year extension of their successful partnership through the 2014 FIFA World Cup. PUMA will be the Official Supplier of The Black Stars and all its associated teams including the Men’s ‘A’, ‘B’,

Gramicci Names Sales Director for Europe

January 22, 2008 SGB Update

Gramicci named Christian Vogel as sales director for Europe. Vogel, 30, has held similar sales positions in Europe with other leading suppliers of outdoor apparel and accessories, most recently as director of European sales for Easton-Bell Sports…

Brunswick Corp.’s Mackey to Retire

January 22, 2008 SGB Update

Brunswick Corporation announced that Patrick C. Mackey, 61, will retire from the company March 1 after more than seven years of service. Mackey is president of the Mercury Marine Group, chief operating officer of Brunswick's Marine businesses and a B

Texas’s Rooster Andrews Passes Away

January 22, 2008 SGB Update

William “Rooster” Andrews, owner of the popular sporting goods chain that bore his name in Texas, has passed away at the age of 84. His last store closed last year, but the chain once boasted four locations across Austin, annual sales of $5 million, and

Gramicci Hires Reality TV Star as Designer

January 21, 2008 SGB Update

Gramicci has hired Fiji Survivor' contestant Michelle Yi as an assistant designer. In addition to appearing on the CBS reality show, the competitive climber studied design at the University of Cincinnati. Yi, 24, established a reputation for style at

Is the Bloom Finally Coming Off the Industry Rose?

January 21, 2008 SGB Update

If analysts and investors planning to attend the annual January investor conferences last week were looking for a few tidbits of information to give them some advance information of the health of the public companies presenting, they didn’t have to wait l

Skechers Sees Mammoth Opp for Cali…

January 21, 2008 SGB Update

Skechers reported that its biggest customer was itself, with owned-retail accounting for approximately 20% of total sales through its more than 180 company-owned stores. International is also a large business for the company, pegged at about 20%…

Perry Ellis Sees Life on the Beach and the Links…

January 21, 2008 SGB Update

Perry Ellis said its Nike Swim business is running up more than 35% as the 2008 swim season gets underway and has “continuous growth opportunities,” heading into the Beijing Olympics, according to comments made by Oscar Feldenkreis, president and COO of P

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