<p>Utah Governor Gary R. Herbert, who has not been particularly sympathetic to the interests of the outdoor recreation industry, attended the ribbon cutting ceremony Friday for Gregory Mountain Products new headquarters on the Black Diamond campus in Hollada</p>
<p>Hans van Vliet of Shimano joins the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) committee of the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry…</p>
<p>Dodger Industries , the team sports apparel company based in Eldora, Iowa, has gone out of business. The company announced plans to close its Iowa and North Carolina operations, laying off 10 workers in Eldora and 95 workers in a factory in Clinton, N.C.,</p>
<p>Broadening its reach into the athletic footwear market, Brown Shoe Company Inc. last week announced that it acquired privately-held athletic shoe-maker American Sporting Goods Corp. The purchase price was $145 million in cash plus the assumption of approx</p>
<p>Slammed by heavy promotions to clear excess toning models, Skechers USA's earnings tumbled 88.5% in the fourth quarter, to $3.2 million, or 7 cents a share….</p>
<p>Iconix Brand Group said Starter, Danskin Now and OP, its exclusive brands at Wal-Mart, continued to find steady growth at the discount giant in the fourth quarter and should add to those gains in 2011. Starter itself achieved new records for sales in a si</p>
<p>K-Swiss Inc. widened its loss for the fourth quarter to $20.6 million, or 58 cents a share, from $12.5 million, or 36 cents, a year earlier. But revenues increased 1.5% to $42.7 million, the company’s first quarterly gain in more than four years…</p>
<p>Puma AG reported sales in the fourth quarter increased 16.1% currency-adjusted and 28.2% in euro terms, reaching €623.4 million ($848 mm). All regions contributed positively to the performance, led by the Americas region. But the German footwear gi</p>
<p>Earnings at Jarden Corporation’s Outdoor Segment rose dramatically on a nearly 17% increase in sales in the fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31, 2010 as charges related to acquisitions fell off dramatically…</p>
<p>Canadian golf retailer Golf Town, Inc. will establish a group of golf superstores in Massachusetts this year to mark its first expansion in the U.S, according to a recent report in The Boston Globe…</p>
<p>Lululemon Athletica will complete the purchase of the building in Kitsilano, Vancouver, where its corporate headquarters is housed. The move will enable the retailer to settle in the community where it started…</p>
<p>Smith & Wesson management spoke at the recent Cowen and Co. Aerospace/Defense Conference about key growth initiatives following a fiscal second quarter that saw top and bottom lines fall considerably on declining gun sales and a significant write-down rel</p>
<p>Kneissl, an Austrian maker of bicycles, skis, tennis racquets, apparel and accessories filed for bankruptcy Feb. 8 after its majority owner in Saudi Arabia did not meet a court deadline to inject more capital into the company, according to several media r</p>
<p>Cabela’s Inc. reported improved merchandise margins, increasing revenues and lower impairment charges in the fourth quarter ended Jan. 1 drove profit up more than 14% against a year -ago period that slumped on steep charges and liquidation costs…</p>
<p>In a ruling that could have wide-ranging implications, REI must take responsibility for an allegedly defective fork that caused a Novara bicycle to collapse in 2007 and left a woman with permanent injuries, a Washington appeals court ruled last week…</p>
