Smith Optics Awarded REI 2009 Vendor Partner of the Year
Smith Optics was awards the REI 2009 vendor Partner of the Year award at Outdoor Retailer Winter Market 2010. The annual awards program, established in 1993, recognizes three key vendors and one overall vendor for efforts that have built a strategic and s
“Pretty Straight” Design Wins Project OR Contest
Faith Anderson, a design student from Philadelphia University, was named the winner of the 2010 Outdoor Retailer Winter Market Project OR…
Kobe, LeBron Continue to Top NBA Jersey Sales
Midway through the 2010 NBA season, the Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant retained his spot atop the league’s Most Popular Jerseys list, based on sales figures at the NBA Store in New York City and NBAStore.com…
Montana Judge Denies Motion in Louisville Slugger Case
A Montana district court has denied a motion by lawyers for Louisville Slugger to throw out a jury verdict that found the company liable for a 2003 baseball player’s death…
Yue Yuen Sees Sales Stabilizing in 2010 Despite 3.4% Q1 Decline
Hong Kong-based Yue Yuen Industrial (Holdings) Limited said Sales in the first quarter of 2010, or the three months ended December 2009, declined by 3.4% year-on-year to approximately US$1.31 billion. However, the company said it saw stable business from
Major RECALL on Fitness Trainer
In a recall implemented by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, along with Johnson Health Tech North America, Inc., nearly 18,000 Horizon Fitness and LIVESTRONG fitness elliptical trainers will be pulled from the market…
Steyr Arms Acquires Merkel
Steyr Arms has acquired Merkel USA. Once merged, the two companies will be headquartered in a facility in Trussville, AL, complete with gunsmithing facilities and an underground testing range…
EMC Sports, Acquires Soffe Accessory Business
EMC Sports, Inc., a division of Eric McCrite Co., has recently acquired the Soffe Accessory business, patents and licenses from New Balance. Soffe’s patented hair and sleeve scrunchies are sold by major retailers and team dealers…
U.S. May Remove Sleeping Bags from GSP
Citing a surge of imports from Bangladesh, Exxel Outdoors, Inc. has persuaded the Obama Administration to consider removing synthetic filled sleeping bags from the list of products enjoying duty-free entry into the U.S. under the Generalized System of Pre
Outdoor Retailer Winter Market 2010 Retains Energy
Outdoor Retailer Winter Market is still the place to go for anyone doing business in the outdoor and active lifestyle markets. Many attendees that spoke with The B.O.S.S. Report speculated that traffic at last week’s OR Winter Market was down slight
“Pretty Straight” Design Wins Project OR Contest
Faith Anderson, a design student from Philadelphia University, was named the winner of the 2010 Outdoor Retailer Winter Market Project OR. Anderson's insulated outerwear jacket, “Pretty Straight,” reflected the design brief's charge to build a f
Intrawest Negotiations Continue
The Whistler-Blackcomb ski resort could be auctioned off next month in the midst of hosting the Winter Olympic Games as part of foreclosure proceedings against the hedge fund that bought its parent company…
OR Winter Market: Fall 2010 Outdoor Footwear Shines in Surging Categories
With continued strength in trail running as well as a pickup in the hiking category as consumers adopted a “back to basics” mentality during the recession, footwear has been more than holding its own during the recession…
Advance Bookings Stall at Western Ski Resorts
Overall occupancy at mountain resort destinations still lags behind last year, according to the most recent report released by the Mountain Travel Research Program (MTRiP) and based on reservation activity as of Dec. 31, 2009. Lodging reservations taken i
Delta Apparel’s Q2 Revenues Jump 24%
Delta Apparel, Inc. said sales for the three months ended Dec. 26, were a record $91.2 million, an increase of 24.3% from the prior year second quarter. The sales expansion was driven by organic growth of 16.6% and the net sales contributed by its headwea
