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.
Puma Gains Boost From Its Celebrity
Sales in the third quarter came in higher than expected, boosted by the success of lifestyle shoes promoted by pop-star Rihanna and British model Cara Delevingne.
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.
Iconix Trims Guidance Due To SEC Investigation Costs
Sales for Starter and Danskin declined due to changes in its contract with Walmart, but the premium Starter Black Label brand is seeing gains.
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?
Callaway Golf Takes Advantage Of Nike’s Exit
Callaway hired Nike’s former senior director of golf-ball innovation, while reporting better-than-expected third-quarter results.
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.
Growing Summer Visits Cut Intrawest’s Losses
Rising visits for hiking, biking and other summer mountain outdoor activities is helping the highly seasonal business of ski resorts cut losses during the warm-weather months.
Flat Sales, Rosy Outlook At Fox Factory’s Bicycle Segment
Company executives expect bike manufacturers to buy more of its Fox forks and shocks and Race Face and Easton components, despite a slowdown in the dealer market.
Can Fitbit Keep Up The Pace?
Officials cited challenges in the Asia-Pacific region, some softening of demand and production issues with the new Flex 2 wristband for a weak year-end outlook.
Gaiam And Heelys Drive Sequential Brands’ Q3
Although the company beat and met Wall Street’s top- and bottom-line expectations for the quarter, investors pounced on weaker full-year earnings projections.
