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The Mammut Sports Group AG has a new Brand Manager for its mountain sports brand, Mammut. Jürgen Schütte started working at the head office in Switzerland on the 1st of July. Mr Schütte comes from the K2 Sports Europe Group where he worked for 13 years in

Volcom announced the close of its initial public offering of 4,687,500 shares of common stock at a price of $19.00 per share and the simultaneous close of the underwriters' over-allotment option to purchase an additional 703,125 shares of common stoc

JJB Sports reported that total Group revenues, including health clubs, for the 22 weeks ended 3 July 2005 were down 8.9% from the comparative period last year and included a 9.4% decline in comparable store sales. JJB said the results were affected by th

After a rather tepid presentation of some arguably outstanding results on their earnings conference call on Monday (SEW_0526), Nike management on Tuesday took some of their biggest investors and some influential analysts through their detailed plans for t

The Stride Rite Corporation got little help on the top line from most of its core brands for the fiscal second quarter ended June 3. But improving margins at Keds helped push total GM higher, nearly offsetting the increase in operating expenses for the pe

Nautilus Inc., in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a voluntary repair recall of about 10,000 Nautilus NT 1020 Exercise Benches. The company is requesting that consumers stop using the exercise benches immediately an

Dolphin Limited Partnership I, L.P., a private investment partnership that together with an affiliate hold about 4% of Class A common stock of Johnson Outdoors Inc., has not gone quietly into that good night in their efforts to pressure the JOUT board and

The Stride Rite Corporation reported financial net sales for the second quarter of fiscal 2005 decreased 3% to $159.6 million from $165.0 million in the comparable quarter in fiscal 2004. Operating income in the second quarter of 2005 was $18.2 million, a

The Monthly Retail Trade Survey, prepared by the U.S. Census Bureau, reported sales in sporting goods stores of $2.61 billion (preliminary) for the month of April, up 13.3% from the $2.3 billion in April 2004. The increase follows a 5.0% increase in March

Amer Sports has appointed Juha Pinomaa as president of Suunto Oy effective September 1, 2005. Juha has made an extensive career in Nokia Mobile Phones, where he has during the past 17 years held several executive positions in general management, internati

Arc’Teryx awarded Rocky Mountain-based Downing & Associates with its annual award for best North American rep group. The sales team of Mike Downing, Jeremy Hensel, and Brandon Carlile were recognized for their outstanding performance and presented with a

Eddie Bauer emerged from the Spiegel, Inc. Chapter 11 reorganization process under its newly formed parent company, Eddie Bauer Holdings, Inc. After nearly 35 years, the retailer is once again fully independent following over two years of reorganization a

“Having the world's biggest sporting event take place in our home market is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Herbert Hainer, CEO of adidas-Salomon AG told journalists at the adidas World Cup Day. “adidas is ready for the World Cup, and for 2006 we