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Vans Names Lance Eddy as Director of Sales
Vans promoted Lance Eddy to director of sales, overseeing the core footwear channel. Eddy began his career with Vans in 1997 as a sales rep for specialty accounts…
Fits Ambassador Completes First Winter Thru-hike of PCT
Fits, a maker of socks, said its ambassador Justin Lichter completed the first ever winter thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail on March 1…
Soxxy Sponsors Snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis
Soxxy, the performance-fashion sock brand, announced a sponsorship deal with gold medal snowboarder, Lindsey Jacobellis.
Vasque to Sponsor Chuckanut 50K
Vasque has signed on as the footwear sponsor of the Chuckanut 50K in Fairhaven, WA…
Brown Shoe Realigns Reportable Segments
Brown Shoe Company is realigning its reportable segments following the sale of Shoes.com in December. The new segments are Famous Footwear and Brand Portfolio…
Quiksilver Postpones Q1 Earnings Release Pending Investigation
Quiksilver Inc. postponed the release of its first quarter earnings that had been scheduled for Thursday after management brought “a revenue cut-off issue” to the attention of its Audit Committee…
LaserMax Appoints New Sales Director
LaserMax, producer of laser sighting and illumination tools for firearms, appointed Shari-Lynn Fix as director of distribution and international sales…
San Diego Accelerator Graduates New Class
San Diego Sport Innovators (SDSI) announced the latest graduates of its business accelerator program, which seeks to grow Southern California’s sports and active lifestyle economy…
Iconix’s Q4 Revenues Increase 7 Percent
Iconix Brand Group reported fourth-quarter revenues rose 6.8 percent to $112.4 million…
Big 5 Expects Positive Comps in Q1
Big 5 Sporting Goods expects same-store sales to grow in the low-to-mid-digit range in the current quarter thanks to robust sales of winter products in January, strong sales of some non-winter categories and a slowing decline in firearms related sales…
L.L.Bean Lands Atop Stella Benchmark in Fourth Quarter
L.L.Bean provided the best overall customer service in fiscal fourth quarter 2014, topping the first quarterly release of Stella Benchmarks…
Scott Sports Renews Sponsorshp of High School MTB League
Scott Sports renewed Wednesday its sponsorship of the Utah High School Cycling League for the 2015 season mountain bike racing season…
Adidas Football Signs Top Prospects
Adidas announced partnerships with 16 of the top NFL prospects including quarterback Brett Hundley of UCLA, wide receivers DeVante Parker of Louisville, Kevin White of West Virginia, Dorial Green-Beckham of Missouri, Phillip Dorsett of Miami (FL.), Tyler
Big 5’s Quarter-to-Date Same-Store Sales Up
Big 5 Sporting Goods reported same-store sales have increased in the low-mid-single-digit range since the beginning of the year as a low double-digit increase in January was offset by a low single-digit decline in February that the retailer attributed to
REI Begins Selling German-made Ghost Bikes
Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) has begun selling German-made Ghost bicycles exclusively in the United States as part of its previously disclosed deal with Accell North America…
