SGB Update

OGIO EVP Harlan Gardiner announced the appointment of Luke Edgar to the newly created position of director of sales/Packs and Duffels Division. Edgar was most recently at Atomic Snowboarding USA as its director of sales and general manager…

The Athlete’s Foot Stores, LLC gained approval last week for the results of its January 13 auction of roughly 60 store leases. DJM Asset Management was designated to pick up the most leases with 19 leases acquired for $367,000. PGAF Acquisition was next

SGMA International released its annual state of the industry report at the Super Show in Orlando, Fla. highlighting some key trends and pointing out several challenges the industry will face in the coming year. According to SGMA’s calculations the vendor/

KEEN Footwear announced late Friday the promotion of Jim Van Dine to president of the company, effective immediately. Van Dine, who has served as VP/GM of the company for the last six months, will report to Angel Martinez, vice-chairman and CEO. The two

In an abrupt change of plans that has left many Yakima employees surprised, WaterMark announced that it will relocate all of its remaining operations to Portland, Oregon by September 30, 2005. The existing leased Arcata facility will be vacated by year-e

HEAD/Penn Racquet Sports welcomes Megan Costello as the new Communications Manager effective February 1, 2005. Prior to joining the HEAD/Penn team, Costello served as a Marketing Manager for the tennis division of Volkl. Jennifer Parker, HEAD/Penn’s form

Swany® will introduce its new line of performance gloves at
the upcoming SIA show in Las Vegas, NV. The new line has been re-engineered to offer gloves with
innovative styles combined with new colors inspired by European and American
tastes…

Callaway Golf Company believes that discount programs put in place to reduce inventories of their Woods at retail have helped bring that inventory to a level commensurate with their market share in the category. The company also pointed to an improving G

Groupe Rossignol finished the first nine months of its fiscal year with sales on the negative side of flat, with a 0.5% decline to €394.2 million ($498.6 mm) compared to €396.0 million ($456.0 mm) last year. On a currency neutral basis, this translated to

In a sudden change of corporate spending plans, nearly $1 million originally allocated towards a 2005 Keen Footwear advertising campaign have been set aside for contributions to a variety of non-profit organizations that are important to the company and i

Groupe Rossignol finished the first nine months of its fiscal year with sales on the negative side of flat, with a 0.5% decline to €394.2 million ($498.6 mm) compared to €396.0 million ($456.0 mm) last year. On a currency neutral basis, this translated to