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Representatives from the National Wildlife Federation, Colorado Government, The Central Wilderness Coalition and Outdoor Industry Association all gathered in Denver this past week to voice concerns about the changes in the roadless policies in federal for

For years Eastern Mountain Sports has been quietly doing business through its 84 stores in the Northeast and Colorado, in fact some would argue, almost too quietly. Over the past few years EMS has been described as “lacking oomph,” or “aimless” without a

Ed Stack, chairman and CEO of Dick's Sporting Goods, also spent some time with investors at the Goldman Sachs conference, again reiterating that the retailer will continue its goal of achieving 15% of total sales coming from private label. Stack see

The Forzani Group Ltd. saw flat operating earnings for the fiscal second quarter ended August 1 on lower sales and improved margins resulting from cleaner inventories, more closeout sales, and sales from private label products…

G-III fought a slowing sport fashion market and finished their fiscal 2005 Q2 with a net loss of $1.7 million, or a loss of 23 cents per share, compared to net income of $2.7 million or 37 cents per share in theyear-ago period…

At first glance the Ashworth bottom line numbers for their fiscal third quarter ended July 31 would have you concerned about the health of the business. However, a $3.0 million pre-tax charge related to a tentative settlement of a five-year-old securitie

Over the past few years, EMS has been described as “lacking oomph,” or “aimless” without a CEO or GMM, but the company still produced respectable results with an estimated $180 million in sales in 2003. Late last year, Will Manzer came on-board as the com

Cutter & Buck took a big hit in the Golf specialty channel in their fiscal first quarter ended July 31, but pointed to new moves being made to reverse the declining trend. Jim Grundberg, who held product marketing positions at both Callaway and TaylorMade

Quiksilver beat earnings estimates for the fiscal third quarter ended July 31, posting diluted EPS of 32 cents for the period against analysts expectations for 29 cents a share, thanks in large part to a nice improvement in gross margin, continued sales s

Industry retailers continued their momentum in building a stronger bottom line in the second quarter, again easily outpacing the growth in the sales line for the period. Even after stripping out the benefits of acquisitions and excluding the impact of in

Riddell Sports Group has acquired a new impact monitoring system called the Head Impact Telemetry System, or HIT System(TM), from Lebanon, NH, based Simbex LLC. The acquisition will enable Riddell to continue to be the technology leader in protective equi

Ryders Eyewear has appointed Mitch Heiner to the position of US Sales Manager. Heiner will be managing all sales responsibilities for the current 15 Ryders Eyewear US markets as well as leading the charge into new territories. He will be based in Misson

GoLite renewed their agreement to remain one of the major sponsors of Adventure Sports magazine's Mobile Tour next year. RFA Media is expanding the Mobile Tour to stop at over 100 events in 2005.This year's highly successful Tour is traveling to

The Forzani Group Ltd. reported net earnings for the fiscal sesond quarter ended August 1 were C$2.6 million, or 8 cents per diluted share, versus C$3.9 million, or 12 cents per diluted share, in the year-ago period. FGL took a four cents write-down of a

Quiksilver, Inc. reported that consolidated revenues for the fiscal third quarter ended July 31, 2004 increased 34% to $337.9 million from consolidated revenues of $251.5 million in fiscal Q3 2003. Consolidated net income for Q3 increased 64% to $19.5 mil