<p>Nordstrom, Inc. announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire HauteLook, Inc., a leader in the online private sale marketplace…</p>
<p>Brown Shoe Co., the parent of Famous Footwear, has acquired American Sporting Goods Corp., the parent of Avia, Ryka, AND1 and other athletic footwear brands. The purchase prices was $145 million in cash plus assumed net debt. ASG Chief Executive Officer J</p>
<p>Asics Corp. will begin sales hiking shoes across Europe as early as next year, according to the Nikkei newswire service. Asics will offer footwear designed in cooperation with Haglofs, a Swedish outdoor products maker acquired last year…</p>
<p>Eddie Bauer has been recognized at the J.D. Power and Associates Customer Service Roundtable in Las Vegas as a J.D. Power 2011 Customer Service Champion – one of only 40 companies to have earned this distinction this year…</p>
<p>Compass Diversified Holdings, the equity owner of Fox Racing Shox and Liberty Safe, announced that Joe Massoud, its chief executive officer, has requested, and the Board has approved, a leave of absence to focus his attention on an informal regulatory inq</p>
<p>La Jolla Group announced the creation of a multi-faceted, internal Marketing division that will help streamline best practices across the company's youth lifestyle brands, including O'Neill, Rusty, Metal Mulisha, True Love & False Idols, In God&</p>
<p>Golfsmith International, Inc. plans to expand its reach into Australia and New Zealand in a new alliance aimed at growing its key proprietary brands that include MacGregor, Lynx and Maggie Lane. The licensing and distribution partnership with Walkinshaw </p>
<p>Longworth Industries, parent company of Polarmax, XGO, and AYG 365's branded technical base layers, named Robb Sports its Agency of the Year, and Patti Fisher as its Rep of the Year for 2010…</p>
<p>Legacy Athletic Apparel, LLC., a development-stage company that designs and manufactures athletic shoes and apparel, announced the recent closing of its reverse merger into Mondial Ventures Inc., with Mondial being the surviving entity… </p>
<p>Amer Sports said it would begin buying back up to 1 million shares of its own shares for an executive compensation plan as authorized by its board of directors at the company's annual general meeting March 10, 2010…</p>
<p>Etnies has teamed up with the Maleku tribe and La Reserva foundation in Costa Rica as part of the action sports brand's new Buy a Shoe, Plant a Tree project. For every pair of Jameson 2 Eco shoes sold, Etnies will plant one tree in what will become t</p>
<p>Occupancy at more than a dozen major western mountain destinations rose 5.8% in January 2011 compared to the previous January, well below the 9.4% pace for the August through January period. Rates, meanwhile, remained flat, indicating revenues may fall sh</p>
<p>In response to stiff opposition in the House, The Conservation Alliance (Alliance), Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) and companies they represent sent a letter to members of the House Natural Resources Committee supporting the Bureau of Land Management&</p>
<p>OIA VantagePoint™, The Official Research of the Outdoor Industry™, will discuss trends that drove sales of Outdoor Apparel in 2010 during a special Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) Outdoor University® educational webinar scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 17,</p>
<p>Birkenstock USA has beefed up its sales force by hiring six new territory managers and four new field service representatives. The company said it added the positions to sustain double-digit sales growth seen last year…</p>