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Dick’s Outperforms, But Gives Caution To Q4
While it’s gained a competitive advantage in the marketplace following other store closures, the nation’s largest sporting goods retailer gave a conservative fourth-quarter outlook that fell below Wall Street’s targets.

Outdoor Retailer Backwoods Files For Bankruptcy
With 10 locations across Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Colorado, the retailer faced declining sales amid competition from online and big-box stores as well as pressure from a slew of other bankruptcies in the space.

Sport Chek Continues Impressive Run
Canada’s largest sporting goods chain sustained its impressive same-store sales growth in the third quarter ended October 1, despite currency headwinds and lackluster sales in Canada’s oil patch.

Aisle Talk, Week of November 7
Top headlines from the active lifestyle industry you may have missed this week.

By The Numbers, Week Of November 7
The leading figures from this week’s news in the active lifestyle space.

Ammo, Firearms And Acquisitions Fuel Big Gains At Vista Outdoor
Strong sales of firearms and ammunition enabled the company to more than double profits in its most recent quarter, despite deeper discounting at its Outdoor Products segment.

Outdoor Retailer, SIA Wrangle Over Trade-Show Schedule
Officials with both organizations have been in communication, but have yet to come to an agreement on how best to schedule the trade-show calendar.

Warm September Clips Zalando’s Growth Rate
Winter apparel and footwear brands did not get much help from Europe in the third quarter, according to the continent’s largest online fashion retailer.

Crocs Improves Bottom Line, But Sales Woes Continue
The squishy-shoe brand greatly improved its bottom line loss in the third quarter 2016, but its sales slipped and were on the lower end of guidance.

Last Year’s Warm Winter Comes Home To Roost At Bogs
Retailers pulled back orders going into the cold-weather season as they worked through last year’s leftover inventory, but sell throughs and at-once orders for Bogs are starting to pick up.

New Adidas CEO Makes Reebok Turnaround His First Mandate
Kasper Rorsted revealed a major restructuring at Reebok, a commitment to sell Adidas TaylorMade by the close of the year, and only some tweaks to the Adidas brand.

Dorel Sports Sees IBDs Pushing Q4 Deliveries Into 2017
With U.S. bike inventories still above normal, Cannondale, GT and Schwinn dealers are expected to delay their model year 2018 deliveries by at least a quarter.

GoPro Blames Bad Q3 On Production Issues; Predicts Return To Profit
Even if GoPro gets past its manufacturing issues, can its new suite of hardware and software re-ignite the action-camera category?

Aisle Talk, Week Of October 31
Top headlines from the active lifestyle industry you may have missed this week.

By The Numbers, Week Of October 31
The leading figures from this week’s news in the active lifestyle space.