Vittoria Extends Pro Deals to Shop Teams
Vittoria Industries North America Inc. has begun offering pro deal discounts on its tires and tubes as well as 3T and Selle Italia products it distributes to local cycling teams across the United States…
Nike’s Directors to Retire
Nike Inc. announced Douglas G. Houser and Orin C. Smith have decided to retire from the Nike board of directors and not stand for re-election at the annual meeting of shareholders in September 2015…
Fitbit Shares Surge 48 Percent in Market Debut
Fitbit streaked past its initial public offering price in its New York Stock Exchange debut Thursday. Shares began trading under the FIT ticker symbol at $30.40, more than 50 percent above the initial public offering price…
Riddell Launches Smarter Football Commitment Initiative
Riddell has launched an equipment grant as part of its Smarter Football Commitment that calls on players, coaches, parents and fans to take an active role in supporting safe play in the sport of football…
House Narrowly Passes TPA Trade Bill
The U.S. House of Representatives last Thursday took the first step toward resuscitating the White House’s trade agenda by passing legislation granting President Obama fast-track authority to negotiate a mammoth Pacific trade deal…
Kwik Goal Wins Rights to Distribute Uhlsport Goalkeeper Products in US
Kwik Goal, Ltd. has become the exclusive distributor of Uhlsport’s premium goalkeeper products and other soccer equipment (e.g. balls, shin guards, etc.) in the U.S. effective immediately…
Alpha 6 Distributions Expands Sales Force
Alpha 6 Distributions, which designs, manufactures and distributes value-priced outerwear, has added Judi and Rick Tice, Brian Rice and Kevin Hobday to its team of sales representatives…
Chaco Opens Pop-Up for Deadheads
Chaco is opening its first-ever pop-up retail store in Chicago in concert with the Grateful Dead’s Fare Thee Well shows at Soldier Field. The store will open at Timbuk2’s Bucktown location…
CyMedica Orthopedics Raises $11.5MM Series A Funding Round
CyMedica Orthopedics, Inc., which recently launched the QB1 knee brace and wrap, closed an extension to its Series A financing…
Big City Mountaineers Lands Notable Donations
May was a fruitful month for Big City Mountaineers, which received a 120-acre land donation in Minnesota as well as a $12,000 check from Peyton Manning’s PeyBack Foundation…
CPSC Hearing on Fiscal 2016 Agenda Set for June 24
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission will take input from the public on its agenda and priorities for fiscal year 2016 at a public hearing June 24…
New Hampshire Ski Resorts Report Fourth Best Season on Record
The 2014/15 ski season in New Hampshire will go down as the fourth best season on record, with over 2.57 million visits (alpine, cross-country and tubing) to NH ski areas combined, according to Ski New Hampshire…
Turtle Fur Assigns New Territory to the Downs
Turtle Fur has expanded the responsibility of Randy and Cindi Downs to include the entire territory for the Eastern Great Lakes for the states of Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana…
Fitbit Boosts IPO Price Range
Fitbit, which is set to go public later this week, significantly increased the size of its proposed IPO. At the top of its new price range, the company would have an initial market cap of around $3.89 billion…
REI Acquires Content Creator Adventure Projects
REI has acquired Adventure Project Inc, a Boulder, CO company that has compiled one of the most comprehensive and popular online databases of climbing routes worldwide, an REI spokesperson confirmed…
