SGB Executive

Loki and Mountain Sprouts Team Up

LOKI USA and Mountain Sprouts have teamed up to bring LOKI's patented LOKI Mitt and LOKI Face Shield technology to children's outerwear, effectively solving every parents ongoing winter struggle to keep mitts from being lost.
By cleverly design

SGI’s Reinhart Awarded CPC Designation

Sports Group International announced that the National Association of Personnel Services has awarded Dave Reinhart, SGI vice president, with the designation of Certified Personnel Consultant. Reinhart, who joined SGI six years ago after more than 15 years

StrideLite Wins BrandNew Award

StrideLite was awarded the ISPO BrandNew Award for 2006 for their Jimbo Jacket. The Jury, 18 international sports experts, met in Munich to consider 171 companies from 25 countries. Judges viewed, and tested all products and were, “amazed by the high qual

Spyder Forms Adventure Racing Team

Spyder Active Sports signed a major sponsorship in the adventure race realm by forming Team Spyder. The three athletes, Travis Macy, Danelle Ballengee, and Dave Mackey, were ranked second in the world competing together as a pro team in 2004.

Ashworth Explores Strategic Options; Warns of Q4 Net Loss

Ashworth, Inc. announced that with the help of Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin, it will assess its position in the market and evaluate a wide range of strategies and alternatives to increase future shareholder value. The company also gave guidance for Q4 wi

Report: Web Traffic Spikes on Cyber Monday

Akamai Technologies released data from its Net Usage Index for Retail, which chronicles real-time traffic to online shopping sites during yesterday's “Cyber Monday.” The Akamai Index recorded that in North America, people were visiting retail sites y

Horny Toad Takes a new Approach to Money Back Guarantee

Horny Toad is so confident in the fit, style and fabrics of their 2006 men’s collection, that they’re backing it with a special guarantee. Wear any new Horny Toad men’s piece three times – and if you don’t get a word of praise for your stylish new gear, t

National Textile Center Receives Funding Boost

The U.S. Congress appropriated $13 million to support the National Textile Center (NTC). The funding is for research designed to make the U.S. textile industry more
competitive globally and is included in the Fiscal Year 2006 Science, State, Justice, Comm

Scott USA Inks Sponsorship Deal with Ford Women’s Cycling Team

Scott USA will become the bicycle, apparel and footwear sponsor to the Ford Women's Cycling Team. The 2006 roster includes Kelli Emmett, Sara Bresnick-Zocchi, Kathy Sherwin and Melanie Meyers with Chris Davidson and Chris Magerl as management and tec

Everlast Chairman and CEO, George Horowitz, Passes Away

Everlast Worldwide, Inc announced that George Q Horowitz, the company's chairman and CEO passed away yesterday after a brave and courageous fight with kidney cancer. George Horowitz, born March 22, 1950, became CEO and Chairman of Everlast Worldwide

Budris Departs Veltec

After nearly a decade with Veltec Sports, 30-year cycling industry veteran Al Budris has left Veltec to start his own consulting firm, Alpha Sports Associates…

Rasa Libre Ends Its Run

Deluxe Distribution's Jim Thiebaud announced the end to skateboard brand Rasa Libre in a press release, noting that “no single reason or even a bunch of reasons” could be pointed to for blame, but rather that sometimes, “it comes down to a bunch of f

CITA Releases Embargoes

Franklin L. Lavin, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, released a statement on the decision by the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements to end further consideration of 24 requests for safeguard action on imports from Chi

China Cracks Down on Golf Counterfeits

The U.S. Golf Manufacturers Anti-Counterfeiting Working Group, which is comprised of Acushnet Company, Callaway Golf, Cleveland Golf, MacGregor Golf, Nike, PING and TaylorMade-adidas Golf, announced that the Chinese government has launched a major new off

Unifi Hires Lehman Brothers to Explore ‘Strategic Alternatives’

Unifi filed a statement with the SEC informing stockholders that it is continuing its previously announced initiative to explore strategic alternatives to improve shareholder value. The company has engaged Lehman Brothers to provide financial advisory ser