<p>Hot Topic, Inc. announced net sales for fiscal August 2003 increased 31% to $61.5 million from net sales of $46.8 million for fiscal August 2002. Same store sales for the four weeks ended August 30, 2003 increased by 11.8% compared to the corresponding fo</p>
<p>DuPont Textiles & Interiors (DTI), has announced that it will be called INVISTA(TM) effective immediately. The name change represents the company's next step toward separating from its parent company and crystallizing its distinct, independent corpor</p>
<p>Value City Department Stores announced total sales for the four weeks ended August 30, 2003, increased 8.7% to $205.1 million from $188.7 million for the four weeks ended August 31, 2002. The company's same store sales increased 4.2% for the four wee</p>
<p>Pentland Brands plc, parent company of Ellesse International, has appointed Maria Stefan as President of Ellesse, USA. Maria will be responsible for the re-launch of the brand in the United States as a premium Italian sportswear label built on the herit</p>
<p>Nike, Inc. has completed the acquisition of Converse, Inc. Under the final terms of the transaction, originally announced on July 9, 2003, Nike Inc. purchased 100% of the equity shares for approximately $305 million…</p>
<p>GoLite and Eastern Mountain Sports have joined forces in the sport of adventure racing, introducing Team GoLite/EMS at the 2003 Subaru Primal QuestÒ adventure race this weekend in Lake Tahoe, California…</p>
<p>the Sierra Club celebrates a News and Documentary Emmy awarded to<i> Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film.</i> Last night at Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City, the National Academy of Television<br />
Arts & Sciences honored the first public television program</p>
<p>The Elder-Beerman Stores Corp. announced that The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. has proposed a combination of the two companies. Bon-Ton indicated that it is prepared to sign a merger agreement that would provide all Elder-Beerman shareholders with $7.00 in cash f</p>
<p>According to a National Sporting Goods Association Market Survey, retail sales of athletic footwear slipped 4.4% during the six-month period, October 2002 through March 2003. Sales for the six-month reporting period were $6.24 billion versus $6.52 billion</p>
<p>Target Corporation reported that its net retail sales for the four weeks ended August 30, 2003 increased 12.4 percent to $3.632 billion from $3.231 billion for the four-week period ended August 31, 2002. Comparable-store sales increased 5.7% from fiscal A</p>
<p>Federated Department Stores, Inc. reported total sales of $1.078 billion for the four weeks ended August 30, 2003, a decrease of 0.6% from total sales of $1.084 billion in the same period last year. On a same-store basis, Federated's August sales wer</p>
<p>Meditibet is a registered association located in Munich Germany. It was founded in 2000 and as a NGO (Non Government Organization) with the aim to provide basic medical care in regions with Tibetan culture. Their most important goal is to support and to p</p>
<p>Late business boosts the success of Cold As Ice, Inc. in their continuing effort to pioneer new ground for women's snowboard apparel. The company found itself happily asking, “who turned on the snowboarding faucet again”? After several quarters of th</p>
<p>Varsity Brands, Inc. has reached an agreement to settle two purported class action lawsuits that were filed in Delaware and Tennessee against the company, its board of directors and Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. The lawsuits challenged the proposed merge</p>
<p>Rawlings Sporting Goods, a division of K2 Inc. has entered into a new five year agreement with Major League Baseball naming Rawlings the exclusive “Official Baseball” of the Minor Leagues… </p>
