<p>Demetri Coupounas, president of Boulder-based GoLite, is glad that America's elite warriors have adopted the company's lightweight sports gear for battle. But it's not as though he went after the business. GoLite generally doesn't </p>
<p>Although Reebok International Ltd. saw its profits rise smartly in 2002, the salary and bonus of chairman and chief executive Paul Fireman remained roughly the same at about $3.08 million, according to a proxy filed Monday to the Securities and Exchang</p>
<p>VNU Sports Group announced they will change the 2004 Outdoor Retailer Winter Market show dates to run from Friday, January 30th through Monday, February 2nd, 2004. Winter Market’s 2004 dates had originally been scheduled for January 29th-February 1st. T</p>
<p>K2 Inc. announced late Monday that certain consents and approvals related to the proposed merger with Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc. have been obtained, including the consent of Major League Baseball, eliminating a final hurdle for K2's propos</p>
<p>Rick Oleksyk has teed up to take command at Pride Golf Products Division, a Gaithersburg subsidiary of Pride/Softspikes Inc. Formerly known as Softspikes Inc., the manufacturer of plastic golf cleats merged in January with Pride Manufacturing Inc., a Gu</p>
<p>Kmart Corporation reported total sales for the 52 weeks ended January 29, 2003 totaled $30.76 billion, compared with $36.15 billion in fiscal 2001. On a same-store basis, sales declined 10.1% in fiscal 2002 from the previous year. Kmart reported a net l</p>
<p>Callaway Golf Company announced that it has signed a licensing agreement with the National Hockey League to manufacture and sell golf products bearing the logos of the NHL and its teams. The multiyear agreement applies to Callaway Golf products and putter</p>
<p>Cannondale announced the results of separate auctions of its bicycle and motorsports divisions. The auctions for the assets of both divisions were conducted under Section 363 of the United States Bankruptcy Code at the Company's Bethel, Connecticut </p>
<p>The Forzani Group Ltd. announced retail system sales (corporate and franchised stores) for the fiscal year ended February 2nd, 2003 increased 20.2% to $1.053 billion compared with $876.4 million for the year ended January 27th, 2002. Net earnings for the</p>
<p>Converse has reportedly canceled a conference call to discuss its planned $86 million Initial Public Offering. The IPO has been delayed to “uncertain global conditions” and stock market uncertainties over the start of the war in Iraq…</p>
<p>The strategy to reduce its exposure at Foot Locker caused U.S. fiscal Q3 footwear revenues to slip and U.S. footwear futures to be move lower, but Nike says sell-through of Nike footwear remains robust and long-term prospects look promising…</p>
<p>It wasn’t long ago that the Vans skateparks represented a revolutionary approach to marketing the brand to the extreme sports crowd. The concept was once the envy of the industry – a marketing concept that pays for itself and eventually becomes a profit</p>
<p>Consumers may cut back on spending on the traditional “big ticket” items this spring but fewer expect to cut into their Apparel and Footwear purchases…</p>
<p>Even as eBay attempts to make inroads into the sporting goods market with its close alliance with SGMA International and The Super Show’s Financial Day program, it seems that the online auction “e-tailer” has also given rise to opportunists that sell stol</p>
<p>The SEC continues to make moves on company executives that have allegedly misused corporate funds or reported false revenues or profits…</p>
