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Last week BOSS reported that Salt Lake City representatives were making a sales call to VNU in an attempt to convince the company to keep the Outdoor Retailer trade show in its current location. The city presented its plan to expand The Salt Palace Conven

Two separate ‘top Italian boot brands’ are making their presence known in the U.S. market with new marketing initiatives and a new U.S. subsidiary. Aku hails from Montebelluna, Italy, while Zamberlan is headquartered in Pievebelvicino, Italy…

With Wal-Mart as one of its largest customers, Pacific Cycle has announced that they will comply with the retailer’s RFID mandate, which calls for RFID source tagging on each case shipped. Since each case shipped from Pacific contains a single unit, Pacif

In a move designed to cement its place in the Chinese sports apparel manufacturing before WTO quotas are lifted (SEW_0424), Yue Yuen has formed a joint venture with Luen Thai Holdings, a privately held fashion apparel manufacturing company. The new compan

At the OR winter market Trango introduced one of the first major innovations in the climbing hardware market since advent of the double axle cam (BOSS_0405). The new product effectively doubled the useful range of a standard cam, but due to technical diff

According to The State of Retailing Online 7.0, a Shop.org study conducted by Forrester Research, 2003 online retail sales improved 51% to $114 billion, surpassing all industry expectations. All online product categories experienced strong growth with onl

Following its recent and ongoing global re-branding strategy, Hi-Tec Sports has appointed Tony Linford as the new Group Marketing Director. He will be replacing Paul Stratta who is leaving to work in consultancy…

Princeton Tec will sponsor for the fourth year, the Colorado Outward Bound Relay, one of the largest annual fundraising events for Outward Bound West. The 24 hour, 170 miles team relay race will take place on Friday through Saturday, September 24th – 25th

Vans, Inc. announced late Friday that it had settled a class action suit related to its merger with a subsidiary of VF Corporation.. VFC in late April agreed to acquire the venerable skate brand in a $396 million deal. Vans will roll up under VF’s Outdo

Colorado Ski Country USA is reporting that there were 11.2 million skier visits in the Centennial State in the 2003-04 ski season, a 3.4% decrease over last year. The trade organization saw many of the same patterns that Vail Resorts reported in their Q3

When Gander Mountain debuted its IPO in April BOSS quipped that the management there should send some flowers to Ed Stack and his team for helping create the impression of a strong opportunity in sporting goods retail stocks. Well, we think the Cabela’s

L.L. Bean’s seems to have won the latest battle in its war against pop-up advertising. In spite of claims by Claria that Atkins Nutritionals and Gevalia Kaffee never took out ads designed to appear on Bean’s site, the two companies have decided to settle

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in favor of The Nautilus Group Inc. in its suit against ICON Heath & Fitness, Inc. by affirming the grant of a preliminary injunction as previously granted by the Federal District Court. As

Petzl has hired Eric Wynn as Communications Manager. In his new position, Eric will be responsible for public relations, copywriting, translating and providing Web content. He will work closely with headquarters in France to help ensure that Petzl communi

Zamberlan USA has appointed Mike Burns as Eastern Sales Manager. Burns will also serve as sales rep for the mid-atlantic territory. Burns has spent well over 30 years in the outdoor industry, with positions as National Sales Manager at Patagonia, Inc., Di