SGB Update

Shares at VF Corporation, the parent company of The North Face, Eastpak and Jansport, dropped 8.8% for the week to close at $35.23 on Friday after the company issued a rather dim view of its prospects for the second quarter…

Quiksilver is capitalizing on its own retail stores, a premium brand message and lifestyle image at home to navigate through the negative retail environment as it benefits from a weaker dollar to post higher sales and margins in Europe.

SPORTS EXECUTIVE WEEKLY last week had a chance to take a sneak peek at the new GBMI incarnation of the Pony brand at the recent FFANY show in NYC. Some product will be available for late Holiday delivery with a full launch in spring of 2004.

Ashworth is capitalizing on its license for the Callaway brand, but price pressure from competitors and a soft retail environment has caused the company to cut prices on its basic product in the 8% to 10% range in the second quarter to fuel at-once busine

The Hockey Company Holdings Inc., which will be the new Canadian public entity that owns the CCM, JOFA and KOHO brands, has priced its Initial Public Offering of 4.5 million common shares at CN $16.00 per share. The offering is not available for sale in

Canada’s largest sporting goods retailer, had to rely on its franchise stores to provide positive comp store growth in its fiscal 2004 first quarter. The Forzani Group Ltd. said comps at franchise stores jumped 11.1% for the period, while the corporate-o

The Commerce Department reported on Thursday that April orders for goods manufactured in the U.S. saw their largest decline in more than a year, falling 2.9% to $320.0 billion for the month. Economists were expecting a 1.8% decline.

Senators Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), two U.S. senators that rarely agree on anything, introduced legislation last week demanding a ban on all imports from Myanmar, the former Burma. The action comes on the heels of the May 30 deta

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. reported net sales for the four-week period ending May 30, 2003, of $18.953 billion, an increase of 10.0% over the $17.231 billion in the similar period in the prior year. Sales for the seventeen-week period were $77.322 billion, an

Sears, Roebuck and Co. announced that comparable domestic store revenues decreased 1.9% for the four weeks ended May 31, 2003. Total domestic store revenues were $2.18 billion in May 2003, compared with $2.21 billion for the four weeks ended June 1, 2002