SGB Update Apparel
Kari Sigerson and Miranda Morrison Leave Sigerson Morrison
Kari Sigerson and Miranda Morrison, who founded the Sigerson Morrison footwear company in 1991 – and its lower-priced offshoot, Belle Sigerson Morrison, in 2004 – have parted ways with the company…
Academy Sports to Open First Store in Atlanta
Academy Sports + Outdoors announced that it will debut its first store in the Atlanta area on Friday, April 1. The store will be the fourth in Georgia fo the Katy, Texas-based retailer…
Aldila’s Fourth Quarter Sales Fall Double-Digits
Aldila, Inc. reported net sales for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31 fell 18.7% to $12.0 million from $14.7 million a year ago as weakness in the company’s Composite division dropped the fourth quarter below the company’s full-year trend…
RECALL: Diving Masks
Undersea Systems International Inc., dba Ocean Technology Systems, of Santa Ana, CA. is recalling 1,700 Guardian full-face diving masks in the United States and 80 in Canada in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Safety Commission and Health Canada…
AFFTA Adds Bennett to Board
AFFTA President, Randi Swisher, announced that Andrew Bennett, owner and operator of Deneki Outdoors, has been appointed to the organization's Board of Directors…
Altrec Launches Online Outlet Store
Altrec.com Outdoors launch its online Outlet site – outlet.altrec.com, which promises deals on products from over 200 of the top outdoor performance brands…
Power Balance Resolves Advertising Dispute
Power Balance LLC announced that it has entered into an agreement to resolve a recent advertising-related class action lawsuit, Batungbacal v. Power Balance LLC et al., which was filed in a federal district court in California on Jan. 4, 2011. Under the
MTI Adventurewear Sold to Lili and Gordon Colby
Lili and Gordon Colby disclosed that they acquired MTI Adventurewear in February after a decade of running the company for the Takashina family. Neither party disclosed the price paid for the company, which makes personal flotation devices, or PFDs…
Golf Town Opens Five New Stores in New England
Golf Town rolled into the United States Thursday by opening five new stores totaling 100,000-square-feet in the Boston area. Canada's largest golf retailer and the second largest in the world, completed its $25 million U.S. market expansion with new
Snipers Lacrosse Partners with Flow Society
Flow Society, the lacrosse apparel company, will sponsor a series of summer camps run by Snipers Lacrosse. In addition, Snipers Lacrosse has licensed its iconic scope logo for production of gear to be sold nationally in Dick's Sporting Goods, Sports
IMBA Adds Yeti, SRAM Execs to Board
IMBA's board of directors has added Chris Conroy, president and general manager of Yet Cycles and David Zimberoff, global marketing director for SRAM, to its board of directors…
City Sports Relaunches PL Line
City Sports announced the official re-launch of CS by City Sports, the company's proprietary line of performance apparel…
Finish Line Sees Modest Q4 Profit Gain on 4% Comp Gain
The Finish Line, Inc. reported fourth-quarter sales increased 2.7% to $384.6 million from $374.5 million a year ago. Comps increased 4.0% on top of an increase of 10.0% for the same period a year ago. Excluding special items, earnings from continuing oper
Etnies To Open First European Store
Etnies, the action sports footwear brand, announced plans to open its first stand-alone retail store in Europe. the store will officially open on March 31 in Kingston Upon Thames in the U.K…
Cascade Designs Partners with Operation USA to Provide Disaster Relief to Japanese
Cascade Designs, Inc. has donated mattresses, water reservoirs and dry storage bags to Operation USA, which is assisting up to 4,000 citizens in the aftermath of the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan…
