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Smartwool Restructures Marketing Management

SmartWool has restructured its Marketing Department with Carol Davidson taking the reins as Creative Director and Gardner Flanigan promoted to Marketing Director. SmartWool has created the new Creative Director position and evolved the Marketing Director

Puma Shares Rise On PPR Takoever Rumours

Shares in Puma rose almost 10% on Thursday on market talk the French group, PPR could launch a bid for the German sportswear group. PPR reportedly has plenty of firepower to make medium or large acquisitions. At the end of 2006 PPR had roughly 1.5 billion

Peregrine Distribution Inks Deal with OTB

Peregrine Distribution Services has signed its newest client, OTB (Over the Beach) Boots, based in Scituate, MA, manufacturer’s of a new line of specialized boots for the outdoors. Peregrine will provide warehousing, order fulfillment and customer service

adidas to Consolidate Distribution in Spartanburg, SC

The adidas Group will consolidate the adidas brand’s apparel distribution center in Hebron, Ky., its footwear distribution center in Spartanburg, S.C., and the Reebok brand’s apparel distribution center in Memphis, Tenn., and its footwear distribution cen

Stride Rite Sees More Keds Weakness Fiscal Q1…

The Stride Rite Corporation saw continued weakness in the Keds business cut into gains elsewhere for the company’s fiscal first quarter ended March 2. Net income growth still outpaced sales growth by a wide margin for the quarter, due in large part to a

Outdoor Apparel Thrives Through Slow Winter…

Apparel has quickly become the driving force behind sales growth for most outdoor retailers, whether big box or specialty. The softgoods category speaks to consumers from nearly all disciplines and even the customer who has never spent a week hiking the A

Dynacraft Bikes Recall

The CPSC and Dynacraft BSC Inc., of American Canyon, Calif. are recalling about 32,000 Triax PK7 and Vertical PK7 Bicycles. The bicycles were manufactured by Shun Lu Bicycle Company of Guangdong, China…