SGB Update

adidas starts 2004 with a year-long $50 million brand campaign that, according to the company, “…Brings to life the attitude adidas shares with athletes around the world — the desire to push yourself further, to surpass limits, to break new ground…”

The SIA.04 SnowSports Show wrapped up Thursday, January 29, at Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, and the phrase unanimously echoed throughout the hall was, “the best show in years”. Celebrating its 50th anniversary this season, SnowSports Indus

Obermeyer has announced the winners of this winter’s retail competition, which included categories for in-store displays and on-line clinic participation. Retailers from around the country submitted their most successful displays from the past year to be

Collegiate Pacific reported it's operating results for its three and six month periods ended December 31, 2003. The First half of the year showed net sales increased 23% to $10.2 million, operating profits increased 85%, pretax profits increased 183%

Reebok International president and chief operating officer Jay Margolis announces the appointment of Dennis Baldwin as the chief marketing officer for the Reebok brand. Baldwin, who had been the brand's senior vice president of global footwear since

The record cold temperatures in much of the country in January, coupled with clearance sales and gift card redemptions, had a considerable warming effect on retail sales for the month as retailers posted surprisingly strong results to close out the retail

The May Department Stores Company announced the retirement of two senior executives and the promotion of two other executives. Clarence O. (Bud) Reynolds, chairman of Lord & Taylor, and Kenneth L. Wilkerson, chairman of Hecht's/Strawbridge's, wi

K-Swiss is finally seeing a diversification in its Classics business as Foot Locker starts to represent less of the overall business while Europe and other International regions are estimated to become as much as 50% of sales as they start to represent mo

Amer Group's net sales in fourth quarter inched up 0.6% to €267.6 million ($318.7 mm) from €266.1 million ($214.3 mm) in the year-ago period. Excluding foreign currency exchange fluctuations, Amer Group sales would have increased 8.1%…

The Timberland Company reported that the total International business has exceeded a half billion dollars for the year to 40% of total sales and the brand drafted off of favorable winter weather in the Northeast U.S. in Q4 to post double-digit gains world

Johnson Outdoors has resolved an inquiry by the European Commission into trade practices in their ScubaPro/UWATEC diving division and has also been able to secure a restraining order to keep a former employee from going to work for a competitor…

Wolverine World Wide said that the Merrell business “had another phenomenal year” with sales for 2003 growing 20%, exceeding the company’s 15% growth plan for the brand for the year. Fourth quarter sales for the brand were described as growing at a “slig

Martin Coles has resigned as president of the Reebok Brand, citing personal reasons for his decision. Jay Margolis, president and COO of Reebok International Ltd., has assumed the daily responsibilities of leading the Reebok brand…