SGB Outdoor

Pop Warner Test Yields Promising Concussion Reduction Results

January 28, 2015 SGB Update

Following positive results from a 2014 season-long pilot study testing Unequal supplemental head padding, Pop Warner Little Scholars Executive Director Jon Butler announced Pop Warner is planning to conduct a larger study with more Pop Warner teams and pl

IPC Beverage Group Adds Board Member

January 28, 2015 SGB Update

IPC Beverage Group, makers of the vitamin-enriched ice bar EnergIce, said Dave Howard, the former New York Mets and Madison Square Garden Sports senior executive, has joined its board of directors…

Vista Outdoors Fiscal Q3 Sales Off 3 Percent

January 28, 2015 SGB Update

Vista Outdoor Inc., which will be spun off next month in an IPO, generated sales of $507 million in the third quarter ended Dec. 28, 2014, down 3 percent from the prior-year quarter. The decline was attributed to…

REI to Build Flagship Store in Washington D.C.

January 28, 2015 SGB Update

REI will open a 51,000-square-foot flagship store in the NoMa neighborhood of Washington D.C. in late 2016. The store will mark REI's fifth location in the metro area, where the retailing cooperative already service more than 281,000 REI members…

Carhartt to Open First Detroit Store

January 28, 2015 SGB Update

Carhartt plans to bring its first Carhartt-owned retail store to Detroit. After a lengthy real estate search, Carhartt has signed a long-term lease for a three-story, 51,000 square foot building in Midtown Detroit…

Igloo Renews as FLW Sponsor

January 27, 2015 SGB Update

Igloo Products Corp. renewed its partnership with FLW, the world’s largest tournament-fishing organization. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed…

EB Sport Group To Distribute P90X Products at Retail

January 27, 2015 SGB Update

EB Sport Group has partnered with Beachbody, LLC to launch a full range of its P90X branded products at retail to help fitness enthusiasts realize their goals. The products range from strength-building body weight exercise equipment to warm-up and recover

Ironman Forms Women’s Board

January 27, 2015 SGB Update

Ironman and Life Time announced the appointment of 12 women to its founding Women For Tri board of advisors…

Skins Launches Satire-Laced Campaign Ridiculing FIFA

January 27, 2015 SGB Update

Skins, the maker of compression wear that has tied its brand to reforming professional sports, launched a satire-laced campaign for reforming FIFA this week by declaring its ''official'' non-sponsorship of football’s governing bo

Adidas Group Again Top Employer in Germany and China

January 27, 2015 SGB Update

The Adidas Group has again been recognized as an employer of choice in Germany and China. The German magazine Focus has this year again named the Adidas Group as the Top Employer in Germany. The Group thus maintains its top ranking in the category '&

Capita Super Corporation Announces New Factory

January 27, 2015 SGB Update

The Capita Super Corporation, the Seattle-based maker of snowboards and skateboards, announced that it is constructing The Mothership, describing it as “the most progressive snowboard production facility in the world.” Located on 7 acres in Feistritz a.d.