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Champagne Left Bauer Nike on a Mission, Until…

The Rockingham County, New Hampshire Superior Court on granted a preliminary injunction preventing former Bauer Nike Hockey employee Gaetan Champagne from “working on any aspect of skate research and development at Mission Hockey for six months from the d

Petzl Leads the Pack in High Tech

Petzl has been awarded the INOVIS STAR award for leadership in business commerce automation from INOVIS Corp – a business commerce software company based in Atlanta. Using INOVIS Software, Petzl's IT department has created an original EDI (Electronic

WSI Files For Chapter 11…

WSI Manufacturing has filed for bankruptcy after a patent infringement lawsuit decision was made in Oklahoma. The determined that WSI’s acts in this case were willful, and awarded the defendants $600,000, but the judge in the case stated that he was consi

Buck Knives Promotes Toporek-Cox To VP of Marketing

With pride and a sense of renewed commitment, Buck Knives announces the promotion of Veronica Toporek-Cox to Vice President of Marketing. With a solid 14 years of experience in marketing and the outdoor industry, this is the second promotion for Toporek-

Bell Canoe Lands New Plant

Construction of the new Bell Canoe Works facility is scheduled to begin in October 2003. The new plant will incorporate all composite and Royalex® manufacturing, boat and accessory warehousing, shipping, and administrative functions. The facility is expec

Amazon.com Works With Retailers On New Sporting Goods Site…

Amazon.com launched its new Sporting Goods store a destination offering a selection across dozens of sports. Amazon.com has teamed with leading sporting goods merchants to offer more than 3,000 brands covering more than 50 sports, from archery to basketb

Toys ‘R Us Enters The Sporting Goods Market

Toysrus.com today introduced a new sporting goods e-commerce site, “Sportsrus.com,” which will offer something for the entire family — all in one easy and convenient location. The site will carry over 30,000 items ranging from authentic sporting goods to

Ride Holds Art Contest For Snowboard Design…

Ride Snowboards and ArtLink Steamboat present “Snowboard Art 2.” This is a Graphics Competition in Steamboat Springs this February 2004. The Grand Prize Winner will receive a whopping $1000 cash prize AND have their winning design printed on their very ow

REI In Store Pick-Up Beats Expectations

Recreational Equipment Inc. announced that nearly one-fourth of all of REI.com and REI-OUTLET.com orders are now delivered to stores through the recently launched REI Store Pickup service…

No Trickle Down Yet at Retail…

The National Retail Federation last week that they expect holiday retail sales this year to be up 5.7% to $217.4 billion, but this doesn’t seem to be seeping down into the hiring in the retail/wholesale sector…

Isabel Stings, But Doesn’t Bite…

As Hurricane Isabel tore through the Mid-Atlantic states last week, it reportedly had mixed results on sporting goods vendors and retailers. There was even a small hint of a silver lining in the dark clouds for at least one retailer that opened a new sto

PONY Loses Some Juice…

Earlier last week Pony parent company, GBMI, announced that they would be teaming up with publisher Kashy Kaledi to launch a new lifestyle magazine called Juice, but the company was forced to pull the name after it was discovered that the name has already

SBI Lays Out Fila Reorganization…

Fila plans to eliminate roughly 29% of positions worldwide as new parent Sports Brand International embarks on a “strategic reorganization of the Fila brand. Jon Epstein, CEO of SBI said Friday that the reorganization was designed to achieve global effi