Dick’s SG Ends 2014 With a Rally
Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc. began 2014 on a weak note due to struggling golf and hunting categories but a more aggressive marketing stance and some merchandising tweaks helped the sporting goods retailing giant close the year with a winning quarter..
DuPont and Adidas Sign Trademark License Agreement
DuPont Protection Technologies (DuPont) and Adidas Group North America signed a multi-year trademark license agreement for the use of the DuPont Kevlar and Dare Bigger trademarks in football cleats…
Aetrex Sells HandW Division to Orthotic Holdings
Aetrex Worldwide Inc. has sold its Apex Foot Health & Wellness division to Orthotic Holdings Inc. and does business as Apex Foot Heath Industries LLC…
RECALL: Flow Snowboard Bindings
About 10,400 units of Flow 2014 Flite-series snowboard bindings were recalled. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, a pin can disengage and cause the binding to open, posing a fall hazard…
Columbia Sportswear Names Bryan Timm President
Columbia Sportswear Company promoted Bryan Timm to president and COO and named Joe Boyle to the newly-created position of vice president of merchandising and design for the Columbia brand as part of a major management restructuring aimed at supporting gro
PeopleForBikes Releases Initial U.S. Bicycling Participation Benchmarking Report
Approximately one in three Americans over the age of two rode a bicycle at least one day in the past year, according to a first of its kind study PeopleForBikes commissioned to…
Polar Partners with MyFitnessPal
Polar, the maker of heart rate sensors, training apps, wearable sports devices and activity trackers, has partnered with MyFitnessPal…
Boot Barn Prices Secondary Offering
Boot Barn Holdings, Inc. priced its secondary offering of 5.42 million shares of the company's common stock at a price of $23.50 per share…
Golf Galaxy Sets Grand Opening For Relocated Store in Columbus, OH
Golf Galaxy will open its relocated store in Columbus, OH during a grand opening celebration on…
Pensole Pensole Footwear Design Academy Raises $4MM in Funding
Pensole Footwear Design Academy, based in Portland, OR, raised $4 million in partnership with San Francisco-based Rooy Inc…
SOLS Raises $11.1M Series B Funding
SOLS, a developer of mass customized 3D printed footwear, completed an $11.1 million Series B funding round to boost its consumer product pipeline…
Weyco’s Q4 Revenues Jump 21 Percent
Weyco Group, Inc., the parent of Bogs, reported net sales for the fourth quarter of 2014 were $95.3 million, an increase of 21 percent from 2013 net sales of $78.5 million.. Bogs wholesale revenues surged 69 percent…
Fox Factory Reports MTB Sales Grew 2.3 Percent in Q4
Fox Factory Holding Corp.'s mountain biking sales grew just 2.3 percent in the fourth quarter, but the company's CEO said he expects growth to accelerate when the company begins shipping a new fork later this year…
Thule Group Partners with Bluesign Technologies
Thule Group has partnered with Bluesign Technologies AG to ensure textile products it uses in its packs, bags and cases adhere have a minimum impact on people and the environments…
Asics America Surpasses $1 Billion Target in 2014
Asics America Group, which includes the U.S., Brazil, Canada and Mexico, announced that it surpassed $1 billion in net sales for the first time in 2014. Sales reached $1.1 billion, up 14.9 percent year on year.
