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American Outdoor Brands Slashes Outlook On Weak Gun Sales

American Outdoor Brands Corporation, the parent of Smith & Wesson, M&P and Thompson/Center Arms, again reduced its guidance for the year due to ongoing challenges in firearms. The revision came while the company reported poor third-quarter results that generally came in line with guidance.

Duluth Holdings Posts Q3 Loss On Retail Expansion Costs

Duluth Holdings, the parent of Duluth Trading, reported a loss in the third quarter due to the costs of its aggressive store expansion but the store openings helped revenues run up 25.0 percent in the period.

Delta Apparel Sees Further Stabilization In Q4

Delta Apparel reported earnings in its fiscal fourth quarter declined slightly due to the sale of its Junkfood business, but continued to see underlying improvement in most of its core businesses.

Holiday Selling Starts Off With A Bang

According to reports from the National Retail Federation (NRF), Adobe and ComScore, sales surged ahead from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, providing a heap of  optimism for the rest of the holiday selling season. Not surprisingly, online purchases again strongly led the gains and smartphones expanded as a key driver of transactions.

Maurice Sporting Goods’ Trip To Bankruptcy Court

In court papers, Maurice Sporting Goods blamed challenges consolidating its U.S. distribution centers, debt taken on from recent acquisitions and the spate of bankruptcies in the sporting goods industry as the reasons for its bankruptcy filing.

Wall Street Reacts: Dicks Q3

For the analyst community, Dick’s issuance of a poor outlook for 2018 indicates that the industry’s return to healthy, full-price selling will take longer than expected.

Sport Chek’s Weak Sales Continue, Management Upbeat On Prospects

“There are aspects of the business we are pleased with and others that require attention,” said Stephen Wetmore, CEO and president of Canadian Tire, the owner of FGL Sports, of the business on his company’s third quarter conference call. “However, everything we look at is providing upside potential.”

Dick’s Sees Margin Pressures Lingering Well Into 2018

Said Ed Stack, CEO, on a conference call with analysts, “With excess inventory still in the supply chain, broadened distribution strategies from some key vendors and a lack of newness and innovation, the fourth quarter and 2018 will continue to be promotional and pressure margins from last-year levels.”

SGB Q&A: Casey Sheahan, CEO, Simms Fishing Products

The former CEO of Patagonia and president of Keen talks about his passion for the sport of fishing, a wide array of growth opportunities he plans to pursue at Simms, and his commitment to conservation and driving more people to the sport of fishing.