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Warm Weather, Promotional Environment Dents Duluth Trading Co.
The outdoor and workwear retailer says it will continue its expansion plans despite forecasting lower sales and profit for the fourth quarter.
Vail Sees Strong Pre-Season Snow Sports Retail Sales
The resort company, which owns 200 specialty retail stores, saw its margins rise from those stores during pre-season sales, suggesting it largely skirted, if not benefitted from, recent retail bankruptcies.
Peak Resorts Sees Strong Start To Winter
Following the lead of larger ski resorts, the company’s new multi-resort pass program is proving successful, despite last year’s poor winter in the Northeast.
Aisle Talk, Week Of December 5
Top headlines from the active lifestyle industry you may have missed this week.
Lululemon Defies Critics With Higher Margins
The yoga brand and retailer is proving it can sustain premium pricing in a crowded athleisure field.
Coleman Secures Review To Lower Duty Rates
The General Accounting Office confirmed it will review how the Foreign Trade Zone Board reviews applications involving textile imports, marking a victory for Coleman’s efforts to launch a new line of Made-in-USA life preservers.
Brands Offer Retailers A Cut Of DTC Sales
Can revenue-and-data-sharing programs build better relationships?
Action Sports Retail Gets A Boost, But Zumiez CEO Remains Cautious
Similar to its action sports retail peers, Zumiez reported an unexpected boost in same-store sales for its fiscal third quarter, but CEO Rick Brooks isn’t ready to start the holiday party just yet.
Aisle Talk, Week Of November 28
Top headlines from the active lifestyle industry you may have missed this week.
By The Numbers, Week Of November 28
The leading figures from this week’s news in the active lifestyle space.
Is There A Bottom For GoPro?
It’s not been a good year for the action-camera category leader, which most recently laid off 15 percent of its workforce and will part ways with its president by the end of the year.
Tilly’s Surprises In Q3 With Jump In Store Traffic
The West Coast action sports retailer credited new product assortments and better local marketing efforts as the top drivers, but also likely benefitted from competitor exits. Stock jumped nearly 35 percent.
Can Hi-Tec Sports Make It As A Licensed Brand?
Cherokee Global Brands’ proposed deal to buy Hi-Tec Sports for $98.5 million will most significantly include selling off the outdoor footwear brand’s wholesale operations to licensed partners.
Has The Paddlesports Industry Found Its New Home?
Two big paddlesports industry playmakers have secured September 12-14, 2017 in Madison, WI at the Alliant Energy Center to host a new Paddlesports Retailer show.
Online, Mobile Sales Outperform On Black Friday
More online shopping, less in-store shopping — that was an easy prediction to make for the kickoff to the 2016 holiday shopping season. Just how big the shift came in surprised even the experts.
