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TJX Co.’s Name New EVP, CMO

The TJX Companies, Inc. named John Gilbert as Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer. John Gilbert most recently served as Vice President for Marketing at Dunkin' Donuts, where he was responsible for all marketing functions, including bran

New Balance Sponsors Winter X Games

After debuting New Balance’s NB Zip footwear at the 2006 Summer X Games, New Balance is back in extreme action with
official gold-level sponsorship of the 2007 Winter X Games in Aspen, where the brand’s latest models of NB Zip footwear will be featured on

SIA Names Retailers and Reps of the Year

During day two of SIA.07, SIA presented the winners of the 2007 SIA SnowSports Retailer of the Year, 2007 SIA Canadian SnowSports Retailer of the Year and 2007 SIA Canadian SnowSports Rep of the Year…

New Balance Partners with W.L. Gore

Boston-based New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. entered a new strategic partnership with W.L. Gore & Associates, the maker of GORE-TEX fabrics. The partnership comes as New Balance launches its Outdoor initiative at the Winter Outdoor Retailer show later thi

Brunswick Shuffles Management

Brunswick Corporation streamlined their organizational structure to advance the integration of its marine operations. Under the new structure, the company said that the heads of its boat divisions will report directly to Brunswick Chairman and Chief Execu

Regional Outdoor Magazines Form Alliance

Outdoor Adventure Media, LLC has announced a partnership consisting of five outdoor sports magazines throughout the United States. The partnership of independent outdoor sports and adventure travel magazines will consist of Adventure Sports Journal, Blue

Asics Opens Running Specialty Store in Tokyo

ASICS Corporation will open its first-ever running specialty store worldwide on February 11, offering a full line of running footwear, apparel and accessories for beginners to performance runners. ASICS Store Tokyo will open exactly a week before Tokyo Ma

Nike Launches New AF25 Marketing Campaign

Nike launched its new marketing campaign, The Second Coming: Our Game, Our Time” to introduce the new Air Force 25. The new advertising spot will debut on MTV. The campaign will also feature two unique music collaborations, out-of-home in six markets, ver

Smartwool Announces Latest Round of Advocacy Grants

SmartWool Corporation announced the latest round of grant recipients from the SmartWool Advocacy Program, which includes the SmartWool Advocacy Fund and the SmartWool Breast Cancer Fund. This round of grants is our largest so far with $113,000 distributed

Kelty Inks Partnership with Glass McClure

Kelty will partner with Sacramento-based Glass McClure in a 2007 redesign of their print and online advertising campaigns. Glass McClure will work with Kelty to redesign their website, develop a comprehensive ad inventory, and bolster a web outreach campa

Pacific Cycle Joins Bikes Belong

Pacific Cycle has joined Bikes Belong, the national coalition of more than 350 bicycle suppliers and retailers working together to put more people on bicycles more often.

Hot Chillys Signs Deal with CenterStone

Hot Chillys is now LIVE on CenterStone’s B2B Sales Order Management solution, iVendix. Hot Chillys’ dealers and sales reps will be able to place their pre-season orders and all their re-orders through this Web-enabled B2B tool. Dealers will also be able

Callaway Expects Ficsal 2006 Sales and Earnings to Climb

Callaway Golf Company net sales are expected to be approximately $1.018 billion, with corresponding fully
diluted earnings per share ranging from 33 cents to 35 cents. Excluding certain charges, pro forma fully diluted earnings per share is expected to ra

CW-X Enters Australia and New Zealand Markets

CW-X has expanded into Australia and New Zealand. It's part of the New York-based Wacoal Sports Science Corp.'s (WSSC) international growth plan targeting English-speaking countries. Last year the company made a successful launch into the Canadi