SGB Update

Centric Brands Names President Of Asia Division

Centric Brands, LLC. announced that Marc Compagnon had joined the company as president of Centric Brands Asia. He was at Li & Fung for more than 20 years in executive and advisory roles.

Altar’d State Announces Chief Marketing Officer And Two Key Promotions

Altar’d State, the women’s fashion retailer with 156 locations in the U.S., hired Cristina Ceresoli as chief marketing officer of Altar’d State, AS Revival and Tullabee. It also promoted Dana Seguin to brand president of Arula and Nicole Sewall to senior vice president of Vow’d.

Helen of Troy Acquires Curlsmith Hair Products

Helen of Troy Limited announced that one of its subsidiaries has acquired Recipe Products Ltd., parent of the Curlsmith prestige haircare product range for curly and wavy hair.

Blue Goji Acquires Interactive Fitness Holdings

Based in Austin, TX, Blue Goji announced that it had acquired the assets and intellectual property of health and wellness technology company Interactive Fitness Holdings (IFH). Through this acquisition, Blue Goji will manage Expresso and CyberCycle exercise bikes.

OrthoLite Hires Chief Brand Officer

OrthoLite, which just launched Cirql recyclable and compostable midsole foam, hired Kristin Kohler Burrows as chief brand officer. Burrows previously worked for Converse, Keds, Adidas, Fila and G.H. Bass and was most recently a management consultant in the Consumer and Retail Group at Alvarez & Marsal.

Golf Rounds Played Decline 14 Percent In March

Golf Datatech’s National Rounds Played Report for March shows that U.S. rounds were down 14.3 percent in the month and down 7.5 percent year-to-date year-over-year.

Google Bundles Fitbit And Pixel For First Time

For the first time, Google is offering bundles with its Pixel products where a Fitbit wearable can be purchased with the latest-gen phone at the same time, according to 9to5Google.

LifeLabs Secures $6M Series Seed 3 Funding

Materials science company LifeLabs announced a $6 million Series Seed 3 financing round led by Asia Green Fund, bringing total funding to $13.8 million.

Mother’s Day Spending To Reach Record High

Mother’s Day spending is expected to total $31.7 billion this year, up $3.6 billion from 2021’s record spending, according to the annual consumer survey released by the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics. Approximately 84 percent of U.S. adults are expected to celebrate Mother’s Day.

Core Health & Fitness Acquires Wexer

Core Health & Fitness LLC announced that it has acquired Wexer Holding LLC, a specialist in digital health and fitness offerings. Financial terms of the transaction weren’t disclosed.