Adams Golf Profits Quadruple on 5% Sales Decline
Adams Golf said that while sales slipped 5% in the first quarter, it ended the period with more than three times the open orders as a year earlier – largely because specialty retailers boosted orders amid limited availability from other vendors…
Gear For Sports Enters High School Market
Gear For Sports, the supplier in the U.S. of customized sportswear for the collegiate market place, is now servicing the high school market…
Warnaco Announces Share Repurchase Program
The Warnaco Group, Inc., the parent of Speedo, announced that its Board of Directors approved a new multi-year five million share repurchase program…
Phoenix Footwear’s Q1 Sales Slide 3%
Phoenix Footwear Group, Inc. earned $440,000, or 5 cents per share, in the first quarter, rebounding from a loss of $3.0 million for the first quarter of 2009…
USA Football Awards $1 Million in Grants
USA Football says it will award $1 million in equipment grants for youth leagues, middle schools and high schools…
Wilson Sporting Goods’ Ohio Facility Facing OHSA Fines
The Wilson Sporting Goods factory in Ada, OH, is facing over $37,000 in fines over safety violations…
Wells Fargo Extends $225M Cabela’s Loan 18 Months
Cabela’s Incorporated said Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. renewed its $225.0 million commitment under an outstanding series of variable funding notes issued by Cabela's Credit Card Master Note Trust. The commitment is for 18 months…
Lululemon athletica Boosts Stake in Australian Venture
Lululemon athletica inc. increased its equity interest in its Australian joint venture partner, New Harbour Yoga Pty Ltd., from 13% to 80.3%. The deal marks lululemon's increasing commitment to the market where it operates nine stores and four showro
Nautilus Losses Halved in Q1 on 18.6% Sales Decline
Nautilus, Inc. released unaudited results showing losses narrowed by more than half in the first quarter ended March 31, 2010 despite an 18.6% decline in sales…
Boulder Creative Agency Hires adidas Exec
Sid Factor Seven, a product and creative agency in Boulder, CO, named Max Milverstedt to the newly created position of VP of Marketing and Product Strategy. Milverstedt left adidas Group in Portland and has relocated to Boulder to head up the new division
Stein Mart Appoints Belk Exec Director of Stores
Stein Mart Inc. has appointed a former Belk Inc. executive as senior vice president and director of stores. Gary Pierce has worked for Belk since 1993, most recently as senior vice president and director of stores for its central and northern divisions…
Orange 21 Sees 15% Q1 Revenue Gain
Orange 21 Inc., which owns Spy Optics, reported sales climbed 15.3% in the three months ended March 31, to $8.3 million from $7.4 million a year ago…
Dorel Plans to Triple Custom Cycling Apparel Sales by 2015
Dorel Industries Inc. said it expects to triple its sales of custom cycling apparel for teams in the next five years with help from a new design, manufacturing and distribution center it opened Wednesday in the Metro-Vancouver area…
Easton-Bell’s Q1 Sales Up 5% on Resurging Team Segment
Easton-Bell Sports Inc. said net sales for the first quarter ended April 3 rose 5.0% to $194.1 million on an 8.8% rise in team sports sales and 4.4% decline in action sports sales on a constant currency basis. Operating income rose 18.0% compared to the f
The Merino Co. Adds Apparel Unit
The Merino Company (TMC), which provides supply chain management services to retailers and apparel brands, has launched TMC Apparel to focus on providing natural fibre, merino garment solutions to leading apparel retailers in Australasia…
