Escalade Sports, a maker of recreational sporting goods, has partnered with Sean Gearty & Associates (SG&A) to represent their vast portfolio of brands and products in the North East Region.

As we continue to grow our business, it is essential that we stay focused on providing our customers with first-class customer service – partnering with Sean and his team is the next natural step in that direction for us, said Dave Fetherman, President – Sports.  SG&A not only has the experience in the categories where we compete, they also share our passionate commitment to help our customers grow their business, which makes them a perfect fit, continued Fetherman.

Sean Gearty Associates bring over 60 years of collective selling experience to the relationship in the Sporting Goods and Games categories and will allow Escalade to provide an additional level of service to existing accounts as well as develop relationships with new accounts.  Key accounts for Sean Gearty and his two key associates Bruce Bennett and Gary Malone include Dick’s Sporting Goods, Modell’s Sporting Goods, Toy’s “R” Us, BJs Wholesale Club and Olympia Sports.

We are very excited to be partnering with Escalade Sports; they are multi-category market leaders with domestically managed inventory capabilities which will help us provide our customers with the brands they want to carry as well as excellent service.  Escalade also compliments the current brands we support – Saris Cycling Products, Nash Manufacturing, Huffy Bicycles, Jakks Pacific, O2 Cool and Cressi, said Sean Gearty.

Escalade Sports, headquartered in Evansville, IN since 1927, is a global manufacturer and distributor of sporting goods and leisure time activity games and a category leader in Table Tennis with the Stiga® and Ping-Pong® brands, a leader in the darting category driven by the Accudart® and Unicorn® brands, a leader in sports training equipment including residential in-ground basketball goal systems under the Goalrilla®, Goaliath® and Silverback® brands and a leader in premium playground play-sets with the Woodplay ® and Childlife ® brands.