Category: Sports/Fitness

Implus Appoints VP of Strategic Account Sales

February 23, 2011 SGB Update

Implus Footcare named Ken Linden as their vice president of strategic account sales. Prior to joining Implus, Linden spent the past 16 years as vice president of strategic account sales at Adidas, where he was named sales manager of the year on three diff

Rawlings Introducing Performance Apparel

February 18, 2011 SGB Update

Rawlings, a division of Jarden Team Sports, is launching a line of performance apparel. According to a report in the St. Louis Dispatch, a baseball apparel line was rolled out in January at Modell's Sporting Goods, Hibbett Sports and Sport Chalet. S

Outdoor Companies Back BLM Wild Lands Policy

February 18, 2011 SGB Update

Citing the need for “balance in federal land management and the role public and wild lands play in supporting jobs across the American economy,” The Conservation Alliance (Alliance), Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) and companies they represent sent a l

Research Group Raises Questions About 90% Theory

February 18, 2011 SGB Update

Following a widely discussed report by Mexican officals and numerous US publications claiming that 90% of guns used my Mexican drug cartels originated in the United States, independent research group STRATFOR has issued a study that raises major questions

Jarden Has Recouped Rossignol Investment

February 18, 2011 SGB Update

Jarden Corp. has recouped its original minority investment in Rossignol, the French ski brand spun off at a loss by Quiksilver in 2008, Jarden Chairman and CEO Martin Franklin told analysts this week..

U.S. Consumers Sustain Spending in January

February 17, 2011 SGB Update

January marked the seventh straight month of retail sales gains, although sales by sporting goods, hobby, book and music stores decreased 1.3% on a seasonally adjusted month-to-month basis and increased 0.4% on an unadjusted year-over-year basis, accordin

Cabela’s Q4 Comps Climb 7.3%

February 17, 2011 SGB Update

Cabela's Inc. reported that on a like calendar basis, adjusted for divestitures, total revenue during the fourth quarter increased 8.4% to $934 million. Retail store revenue increased 11.4% to $479 million; direct revenue increased 0.5% to $386 milli

Compass Diversified Holdings CEO Takes Leave of Absence

February 17, 2011 SGB Update

Compass Diversified Holdings, the equity owner of Fox Racing Shox and Liberty Safe, announced that Joe Massoud, its chief executive officer, has requested, and the Board has approved, a leave of absence to focus his attention on an informal regulatory inq

Polarmax Names Agency and Rep of the Year

February 17, 2011 SGB Update

Longworth Industries, parent company of Polarmax, XGO, and AYG 365's branded technical base layers, named Robb Sports its Agency of the Year, and Patti Fisher as its Rep of the Year for 2010…

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