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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
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
Conservation Alliance’s ‘Ads for Earth’ Raises over $200,000
The Conservation Alliance “Ads for the Earth” benefit auction raised $205,210.40, all of which will go into the group’s fund to support organizations working to protect wild places throughout North America…
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
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.
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…
Crocs Signs NFL and NHL Licenses
Crocs, Inc. has signed licensing agreements with both the National Football League and the National Hockey League. Both licenses apply to both Crocs footwear to its recently-acquired Jibbitz business. The NFL deal allows Crocs to license agreed logos for
Malden Files for Chapter 11 to Facilitate Sale of Company
Malden Mills Industries, Inc.'s board of directors has unanimously voted to approve the sale of the Company to Gordon Brothers Group of Boston, Massachusetts for $44 million. Malden Mills will continue normal manufacturing operations at both its fac
Two adidas and Reebok Footwear Factories Shut Doors
Two Korean-owned, Indonesia-based factories, PT Dong Joe Indonesia and PT Spotec, which produced footwear for adidas and Reebok, closed last year following financial difficulties and the owners leaving the country, according to sources at adidas. Both sup
China Footwear Factories Sue Over EU Anti-Dumping Tariff
According to the China People's Daily, the official government-controlled news service of mainland China, a group of five Chinese shoemakers have sued the European Union over the recently imposed 16.5% anti-dumping tariff on China manufactured footw
