<p>While continuing to be rooted in performance and on-the-field product, Under Armour is looking to bring in more fashion to encourage people to wear its apparel for more casual purposes…</p>
<p>When it was outsourced to GSI Commerce, fitness was the largest part of Dick's Sporting Good's e-commerce business. Since bringing e-commerce in house, the retailer is now seeing much more broader-based gains…</p>
<p>Genesco Inc.'s management, speaking last week at the C.L. King conference, elaborated on the “very close partnership” it has formed with Nike in pursuing the team business through its new Lids Team Sports division…</p>
<p>Fresh off of an impressive Q2 that saw improvement in all three business segments, Crocs continues to focus on new product launches to drive growth. Speaking at Credit Suisse Group's conference, CFO Russ Hammer confirmed that new products were the pr</p>
<p>Pacific Sunwear is moving toward more fashion and away from bare basics to appeal to young women’s increasingly sophisticated buying habits and better compete in a much more crowded teen market with the likes of Abercrombie & Fitch, American Eagle, </p>
<p>Sales by sporting goods, hobby, book and music stores improved 3.9% for August, significantly better than 0.4% increase for overall retail sales, according to estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau…</p>
<p>Interbike, a unit of Nielsen Expositions, was expected to announce as early as Friday that it plans to move the nation’s largest bicycling trade show from Las Vegas back to Anaheim, CA next year. The show will also be moved up to early August in 20</p>
<p>Zumiez Inc. last week hiked its third-quarter earnings outlook to a range of 25 cents to 27 cents a share from 21 cents to 24 cents a share previously forecast due to better than expected sales and product margins. Comps are expected to rise in a high sin</p>
<p>The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) recently announced that it has awarded GLOCK, Inc. an unrestricted open market competitive firm-fixed-price Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) multiple-award contract…</p>
<p>At Volcom, management focused most of the strategic initiatives on the long-term, with CFO Doug Collier opening his presentation at the Goldman Sachs Retail Conference by introducing the company’s “550/50/15” plan…</p>
<p>Collective Brands Inc. (PSS) does not see its Payless business rebounding anytime soon in lower-income urban neighborhoods due to high unemployment, CEO Matt Rubel told analysts at the Goldman Sachs Retail Conference last week… </p>
<p>The Coleman Co. recalled 50,000 of its WaterBeam 4D Water-Activated Floating Spotlights made in China because the lens assembly can come apart from the main housing, the U.S. Product Safety Commission announced…</p>
<p>As part of a previously announced management realignment, Canadian Tire will record a one-time pre-tax charge of approximately CN$15 million in fiscal Q3 for severance costs associated with the departure of some senior managers and employees The flow thro</p>
<p>Following up on a second quarter where earnings nearly doubled despite struggling Direct sales, management for Cabela’s said the company will continue to focus on the “core” hunt/fish/camp customers while focusing less on non-core custom</p>
<p>Columbia Sportswear’s (COLM) focus on growing top line sales in coming years will get a major test in the fourth quarter when it launches its OmniHeat products with a global advertising campaign…</p>