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As the entire Northeast turned white under a blanket of snow last weekend, retailers from the fashion, electronics, and sporting goods sectors were reporting a disappointing outcome for the second biggest shopping weekend of the year. But outdoor retail a

Dillard's has amended and extended its senior secured revolving credit facility. The amendments include an increase to the amount of the facility to $1 billion from the previous amount of $400 million…

Singing Rock office team expands with 2 new employees.Vojtech Dvorak will be joining the team as the world wide brand manager, and Jan Novotny joins product development as sourcing manager. Vojtech's area will cover grafic work, shop displays, sales

Bruce Caslowitz and Blaise Rosenthal have formed Cold Sports Distribution Inc. Bruce has an experienced role in snowboarding as sales coordinator and Blaise is the founder of Millennium Three and a professional snowboarder…

Dragon Optical Is proud to announce the addition of new territorial reps to our team. All the new reps bring exceptional experience and relationships with their retailers to Dragon…

Dragon Optical has announced the addition of Christian Lass to our sales staff. Lass, a long time veteran of the action sports world, will manage all domestic Bike and Motocross accounts and the respective regional reps…

Global Brand Marketing, Inc. has promoted of Steve von Ruden to Vice President of U.S. Sales. In his new position, von Ruden will oversee all aspects of US sales operations for Diesel Footwear and will be based at company headquarters in Santa Barbara, Ca

The Stride Rite Corporation announced a new licensing partnership with H.H. Brown Shoe Company, Inc. to develop, market and sell an exclusive line of children's footwear under the Born name. The license agreement, which will run through March 2007, c

Simon Lessing announced today that he will race on Cervélo bikes. Simon will be making the transition to Ironman in 2004 and may also race the Olympic Triathlon next summer…

Deep Distribution is proud to announce partnership with Beck(y), the accessories line that turns used skateboards into fashion-forward, usable bags…

A Colorado State Court jury in Denver found a subsidiary of Brown Shoe Company partially responsible for alleged environmental impacts on a neighborhood near a former Brown plant…

Gildan Activewear Inc. has announced that it has purchased an 18 million square foot tract of land in the Dominican Republic and that it plans to construct a state-of-the-art knitting, bleaching and cutting facility on this site. The
land purchased by Gil

Pacific Sunwear of California Inc. reported that total sales for the four weeks of November of fiscal 2003 were $84.3 million, an increase of 22.4% over total sales of $68.9 million for the four weeks of November of fiscal 2002. Company same-store sales

Gottschalks November 2003 same store sales were even with November 2002. Total sales for November decreased 2.3% to $67.1 million from $68.7 million in the prior year. For the year-to-date, same store sales decreased 1.7%, while total sales decreased 4.

Stage Stores total sales for the four-week period
ended November 29, increased 34.6% to $96.1 million from $71.4 million in the prior year. With the acquisition of Peebles Inc. on November 4, 2003, sales for the current year November period include sales