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Fleet Feet Boasts 17.5% Comp Gain in 2006

Fleet Feet recorded 19.9% growth in sales in 2006 surpassing $63 million in revenue compared to $52 million in 2005. Comp-store sales were up 17.5% on top of the 16.1% increase posted in 2005. The franchisor expects to add 7 more franchisees this year…

K2, Inc. Grabs Snow Sports Market Share in Fourth Quarter…

K2 Inc. appears to be the only publicly reporting snow sports company to see any up-side in the 2006-07 winter season. The company reported solid top-line and bottom line growth during the fourth quarter with these results primarily driven by winter sport

Payless to Acquire Collective

Payless ShoeSource inked a deal to acquire Collective International, a licensing platform that manages the Airwalk, Vision Street Wear, Lamar, Sims, LTD, genetic, Dukes, Rage, Ultra-Wheels and Skate Attack brands. When the deal closes, Collective will bec

K2 Grabs Snow Sports Market Share in Q4…

K2 Inc. appears to be the only publicly reporting Snow Sports company to see any up-side in the 2006-07 winter season. The company reported solid top-line and bottom line growth during the fourth quarter with these results primarily driven by winter sport

Heely’s Rolls Through First Quarter in Public Eye…

Heely's, Inc. ended its first quarter as a public company at the same time as it ended its first fiscal year, all the while reporting triple-digit growth for sales and earnings for both periods. Sales grew both within the U.S. and without, with domes

Franklin Sports Underwrites SGMA Show Fees

Access to SGMA Spring Market is extended free of charge to all attendees registering through March 31, thanks to Franklin Sports, which is underwriting this month’s attendee registration fees – a savings of $50 per attendee…

NBA Sees Record All-Star Sales

The NBA said that on-site retail merchandise sales during All-Star 2007 in Las Vegas increased by 54% versus the prior sales record set in Los Angeles in 2004…

Life Fitness Inks iPod Deal

Life Fitness, a division of Brunswick Corporation, said it plans to offer seamless integration with Apple Inc.’s iPod players in several of its upcoming products…

Nau Open For Business

Nau Inc., an environmentally friendly outdoor apparel company from Portland, is finally open for business. After years of preparation and development, the outdoor company launched its e-commerce Web site last week, and announced plans to open four retail

G-III Apparel Group Prices Secondary Offering

G-III Apparel Group, Ltd., an outerwear and sportswear manufacturer, priced an offering of 4,500,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $20 per share. Of these shares, 1,621,000 shares will be sold by the company and 2,879,000 shares w

Golf Town Sees 15% Annual Sales Increase

Golf Town saw 2006 sales increase 14.8% to CA$220.1 million ($194.1 mm) from CA$191.7 million ($158.4 mm) last year. The increase was due to the addition of three new stores in 2005 and four new stores in 2006 for a total of 28 as at December 31, 2006 as

Umbro’s U.S. Business Disappoints

Umbro said its U.S. business has underperformed significantly in 2006 due to weakness at Foot Locker. Overall, sales in the U.S. were down 63.1%…

LL Bean Tops $1.5 Billion in Fiscal 2006

L.L.Bean reported record annual net sales of $1.54 billion for the 2006 fiscal year ending February 25, 2007, a 4.6% increase over 2005. E-commerce grew almost 10% and emerged as the company's dominant sales channel for the year. The company also an

The Buckle February Comps Climb 4.5%

The Buckle, Inc. net sales for the four-week fiscal month ended March 3, 2007 increased 10.4% to $37.7 million from net sales of $34.1 million for the prior year four-week fiscal month ended February 25, 2006. Comparable store net sales, for stores open a