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City Sports to Open Store in Wayne, PA

City Sports announced that its 20th national retail store will open in Wayne, PA on Saturday, Nov. 5 at 309 East Lancaster Avenue. The Wayne location joins City Sports' two existing metro Philadelphia shops, which include the downtown Walnut Street

NASGW Announces Industry Award Winners

Leupold and Stevens, Birchwood Casey, Hornady Manufacturing and Sturm Ruger Company were this year’s Industry Awards recipients from The National Association Of Sporting Goods Wholesalers (NASGW)…

Sturm Ruger Beefs Up Sales Team

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. announced several senior level appointments to the sales staff, effective immediately. Randell Pence, former executive director of sales, will be relocating to the greater Nashville, TN area to fulfill duties as newly appointe

Rocket Dog Appoints European Manager

Rocket Dog Brands, LLC appointed Derek Bowen as managing director, Europe where he will be based out of the RDBI Ltd office in Elstree. He was most recently from Wolverine Worldwide where he acted as the Northern Europe sales director, Heritage Brands Gro

Dr. Scholl’s Opens First Stores

As part of its continuing success in re-imagining the brand, Dr. Scholl's Shoes celebrated fall with the grand openings of its first retail stores. On Oct. 17, three stores opened in Las Vegas, Ellenton, FL, and San Marcos, TX…

Bakers Footwear’s Comps Nudge Up 1.0 Percent in Q3

Bakers Footwear Group, Inc. reported sales for the third quarter were $40.2 million, decreasing 0.9 percent from $40.6 million a year ago. Comparable store sales increased 1.0 percent, compared to a comparable store sales increase of 5.9% for the third qu

SportHill Promotes New Public Relations Director

SportHill announced that Dempsi Filipek has been promoted to director of public pelations. Filipek is currently in charge of product development and wlll retain those duties in addition to directing the company’s public relations…

RECALL: Under Armour Chin Straps

About 541,000 Under Armour Defender Chin Straps are being recalled. The metal snap that connects the chin strap to the helmet has sharp edges, posing a laceration hazard when the user's metal snap comes into contact with another player. Under Armour

Chinese Raids Yield 25,000 Counterfieted Golf Products

The U.S. Golf Manufacturers Anti-Counterfeiting Working Group announced today the completion of multiple strategic raids on China-based counterfeiting operations, where the group worked with local law enforcement officials to seize over 25,000 counterfeit

Warnaco Swimwear Q3 Revenues Climb 7.2 Percent

Warnaco Group's swimwear segment, which includes Speedo as well as the Calvin Klein swimwear collection, reported sales grew 7.2 percent to $39.3 million from $36.7 million. In constant dollars, sales were up 5.0 percent. The segment showed an operat

Hanesbrands Income Surges 48 Percent

HanesBrands, the parent of Champion, Gear for Sports and Hanes, reported third-quarter earnings growth of 44 percent on record margins and a 5 percent sales increase…