Singing Rock Expands

Singing Rock office team expands with 2 new employees.Vojtech Dvorak will be joining the team as the world wide brand manager, and Jan Novotny joins product development as sourcing manager. Vojtech's area will cover grafic work, shop displays, sales

Edwin Watts Golf Closes ReCap Deal…

Wellspring Capital Management LLC, a New York-based private equity investment firm and majority shareholder of The Hockey Company since 1997, has reportedly taken a majority stake in Edwin Watts Golf. Terms of the deal were not disclosed…

Cold Sports Distribution Inc. Fouded

Bruce Caslowitz and Blaise Rosenthal have formed Cold Sports Distribution Inc. Bruce has an experienced role in snowboarding as sales coordinator and Blaise is the founder of Millennium Three and a professional snowboarder…

Athlete’s Foot Targets Greece

The Athlete's Foot has formalized an agreement with Veto S.A. of Athens, Greece to become The Athlete's Foot's master franchisee for Greece. The company projects multiple store openings over the length of the 10-year agreement in an effort

Dragon Brings In New Reps

Dragon Optical Is proud to announce the addition of new territorial reps to our team. All the new reps bring exceptional experience and relationships with their retailers to Dragon…

Lass Joins Dragon Optics

Dragon Optical has announced the addition of Christian Lass to our sales staff. Lass, a long time veteran of the action sports world, will manage all domestic Bike and Motocross accounts and the respective regional reps…

Join The OIA For Breakfast at OR

Kick off Outdoor Retailer Winter Market by joining OIA for breakfast and learning about the latest research on the outdoor consumer. This premier event will take place on Friday, January 30th at 7:30 am at the Marriot across the street from the Salt Palac

adidas Inks Deals with Wizards’ Arenas

adidas announces that it has reached a multi-year partnership agreement with Gilbert Arenas, the 2002-03 NBA Most Improved Player Award winner and Washington Wizard point guard. Terms of the deal were not disclosed…

NRF: November Retail Sales Rise 4.8% Versus Last Year

According to U.S. Commerce Department data, November retail sales in the GAFS category, which includes most general merchandise categories, increased 4.8% from the same period last year and rose 0.6% from October. Sales in the sporting goods, hobby, book

Puma Launches New Concept Store In Silicon Valley

PUMA announced the latest addition to their North American retail family, capping of a year of intense expansion. The capitol of Silicon Valley will welcome a PUMA concept store to the Valley Fair Mall on December 12th. The roughly 10,000 square foot Spo

InterBike Badge Program Raises $50,000

­Having made the final tally on the funds received through Interbike's new Exhibitor Badge Program, show organizers are proud to announce that the newly instated program was successful in generating $50,000 to benefit the America Bikes campaign…

Puma Signs Deal with Formula One Team

PUMA AG and BMW WilliamsF1 Team have announced that they have signed a multi-year contract for PUMA AG to become the official supplier of footwear, teamwear and fireproof racewear to the BMW WilliamsF1 Team…

Spiegel Granted Additional Time to File Audited Financials

The Spiegel Group announced that the U.S. District Court in Chicago entered an Order on December 4, 2003, granting relief in response to the company's motion to modify the Amended Partial Final Judgment and Order of Permanent Injunction and Other Equ