Lotto Hires New Marketing and Communications Director
The Lotto Sport Italia Marketing & Communication Office has hired a new Director. Edoardo Artaldi, the former director has decided to take a step in a new professional direction. His role has been recently filled by Alberto Landi, now Italian Sports brand
Perry Ellis Sees Flat Q3; Swim Disappoints
Perry Ellis International, Inc. reported total revenue for the third quarter ended October 31, 2004 of $160.7 million, compared to $159.5 million reported for the same period last year. Net income for the third quarter was $7.2 million, or 72 cents per f
Jetboil Receives International Media Awards
Jetboil Inc. is winning more recognition and awards from top national media outlets. This week, Jetboil receives high honors from gear and technology experts at Outside, Men's Journal, Popular Science, and TIME magazines. The kudos follows endorsemen
Dick’’s SG Q3 Hurt by Galyan’s Integration Costs…
Dick's Sporting Goods provided a bit more color on the integration costs and efforts associated with its August acquisition of Galyan’s, a merger that will somewhat surprisingly cause the closure of more Dick’s stores than Galyan’s doors. The retail
Knight Steps Down as Nike, Inc. CEO; Market Speculates on Company Future…
The sporting goods industry has had a few days to absorb the news last week that Phil Knight, Nike, Inc. co-founder, chairman, president and CEO, was stepping down from the president and CEO role at the end of the year. He will remain chairman of the Boa
Foot Locker Gets Champs and Lady Lift in Q3; Europe Starts to Improve in Q4…
Foot Locker, Inc. saw improving results in some of its U.S. businesses in the third quarter, thanks primarily to Nike, while the company starts to see some improvement in its Europe business. Total sales increased due primarily to the addition of roughly
Genesco Again Gets Journeys and Hat World Help to Counter Jarman Drag…
Genesco Inc. again counted on its Hat world acquisition to grow profits for the third quarter ended October, as the operating profit boost from the specialty retailer acquired in April helped push net income up more than 28% for the period. Top-line sale
Sport Supply Group Sees Upside in New Strategy…
Sport Supply Group is starting to see some results in its turnaround efforts after divesting itself of its team dealer operations a year ago and selling the ATEC business to Wilson Team Sports in February of this year. The move to become more of a servic
Famous Footwear Again the Shining Star at Brown Shoe Company in Q3…
Brown Shoe Company saw continued challenges in certain parts of their Wholesale business and weakness at Naturalizer Retail offset nice operating profit gains at Famous Footwear in the fiscal third quarter ended October 30. BWS beat EPS estimates by a pe
Sport-Haley Looks to Go Private; Fiscal Q1 Loss Widens Despite Sales Gain…
Shares of Sport-Haley, Inc. jumped nearly 21% for the week to close at $4.83 on Friday after the company’s Board of Directors authorized chairman Ron Norick to start negotiations with potential investment banking partners to explore the potential strategi
Golfsmith Expands Management Team; Q3 Hurt by Slowdown in Play…
Golfsmith International Holdings, Inc. reported net revenues for the third quarter ended October 2 increased 3.9% to $73.9 million compared with $71.1 million in the same period of the prior fiscal year. Same-store sales decreased 7.9% in Q3 compared to a
GI Joe’s Sell Equity Stake to Finance Growth…
G.I. Joe’s Sports & Auto Stores has received $11.5 million in equity financing through a deal inked last week with Nogales Investors, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm. The bulk of the financing will be used to finance expansion in the Northwest, w
Dynacraft Hit with $1.4 Million Fine for Recall Delay…
Dynacraft Industries Inc. will have to pay the piper for delaying to report problems with its mountain bikes, agreeing last week to pay $1.4 million to settle allegations that they incompletely and belatedly informed the Consumer Product Safety Commission
Wolverine Sues to Protect Moc Patents…
Wolverine World Wide has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Harbor Footwear and Kohl’s for allegedly violating Merrell design patents on three separate models – The Jungle Moc, Jungle Slide and Winter Moc. Harbor Footwear and Kohl's are sell
Some Johnson Outdoors Investors Get Hot Over Buy-Back Plan…
Quarterly conference calls with financial analysts are usually rather muted, and the most excitement usually experienced is a double-digit sales increase, but tempers flared among investors at Johnson Outdoors’ Q4 call on Thursday as management attempted
