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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

Pizzazz Moves to New, Bigger Offices

Pizzazz Performance Wear has opened a new corporate office and warehouse facility to accommodate increased product demands. The new facility has more than triple the warehousing capacity of the previous warehouse…

Buzz Off Taps Hemmerling to Head Private Label Initiative

Buzz Off Insect Shield is implementing a new strategic business initiative focusing on private label manufacturing. Rick Hemmerling, former president of ExOfficio outdoor and travel apparel, has signed on to help assemble and lead the Seattle-based team.

Timberland Named to Fortune’s ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’

The Timberland Company was ranked 78th among the “100 Best Companies to Work For” by FORTUNE magazine. The company cited its commitment to employees and the communities in which they work and live as helping to gain this recognition every year since the

Kobe Has Top Selling Jersey in the NBA

The Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant has the most popular jersey in the NBA, moving up three spots from the end of last season, according to the NBA's Most Popular Jersey List. Bryant, who had the most popular jersey during the 2002-03 season, regaine

Brine Names Kohler as General Manager

Brine has hired Dale Kohler as the new General Manager for Brine, Corp. In this role, Kohler will oversee Brine's day to day operations as well as finance, sales, marketing IT, and product development…