SGB Update Sports & Fitness
Peak Sports Discontinues 1,000 Chinese Dealers
Peak Sport Products Co., Ltd has slashed its number of distributors in China by 1,076, or nearly 14 percent, since last year as it tries to rein in an inventory glut…
Warnaco’s Swimwear Group Shrinks Q3 Loss
Warnaco Group reported revenues in its Swimwear Group, which is largely Speedo, grew 6.7 percent in the third quarter, to $42.0 million from $39.3 million in the same period a year ago…
Skins Compression Sues UCI Over Doping Scandal
Swiss-based leading performance sportswear company Skins Compression has sued the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) seeking $2 million in damages related to alleged mismanagement and poor handling of the Lance Armstrong doping scandal. Skins has pledged
Bass Pro Shop Coming to Tallahassee
Bass Pro Shops will open a 70,000-square-foot Bass Pro Shops Outpost store in Tallahassee, FL. The new store will be located in the Fallschase Development at the intersection of Mahan and Buck Lake Roads in Tallahassee and is targeted to open in 2013…
Dick’s SG Debuts Adventure Packages
Dick's Sporting Goods announced the details of its first-ever “Adventures of a Lifetime” promotion, which offers customers the opportunity to purchase exclusive, one-of-a-kind adventure packages featuring gear from Burton, KÖPPEN, Marmot,
OIA Lecture Series to Feature The North Face’s Aaron Carpenter
Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) announced that The North Face Vice President of Marketing Aaron Carpenter is coming to the University of Colorado Boulder campus on Monday, Nov. 12, to give a presentation about the company’s unique approach to…
Liberty Interactive’s E-Commerce Margins Halved in Third Quarter
Liberty Interactive Group said income as a percentage of revenue dropped by more than half in the quarter and nine months ended Sept. 30 at its e-commerce segment, which includes Backcountry.com, Bodybuilding.com and several other businesses…
Reebok-CCM Hockey Clashes with Bauer Over Hockey Helmet
Reebok-CCM Hockey in a press release said “stray comments” from Bauer’s CEO, Kevin Davis, and misinterpretations by some news outlets have created a misimpression that Bauer’s RE-AKT helmet is the only helmet that reduces rotational accelerati
Pearl Izumi Athlete Cameron Dye Renews Two-Year Contract
Boulder, CO-based Pearl Izumi announced Olympic-distance triathlete Cameron Dye has signed an additional two-year contract as a Pearl Izumi sponsored athlete.
Phoenix Footwear’s Earnings Improve in Q3
Phoenix Footwear, the parent of Trotters and SoftWalk, reported net income for the third quarter improved to $267,000, or 3 cents per share, compared to earnings of $73,000, or 1 cent, per share during the third quarter of fiscal 2011…
Nautilus Q3 Profitability Improves
Nautilus, Inc. reported sales for the third quarter 2012 totaled $38.1 million, an increase of 1.7 percent compared to net sales of $37.4 million for the same quarter in 2011…
Groupe Go Sport Again Buoyed by Courir in Third Quarter
Revenues at Groupe Go Sport, the third largest retailer of sporting goods in France, increase 4.0 percent to €189.2 million ($237 mm) in the third quarter. Same-store sales rose 4.9 percent in currency-neutral terms, according to Rallye, the French
Buckle’s October Comps Up 3.8 Percent
The Buckle, Inc. announced that comparable store net sales, for stores open at least one year, for the four-week period ended Oct. 27 increased 3.8 percent from comparable store net sales for the four-week period ended Oct. 29, 2011…
Factory Design Labs Launches Web/Software Development Arm
Factory Design Labs, a full-service agency delivering digital and traditional advertising solutions, has formed Factory Code Labs, an agile software development group focused on the creation of web and software solutions anchored by Protosite, the company
Lids Sports Group Unit Agrees to Acquire 12 Stores from Fanatics
The LIDS retail division, a multi-channel business unit of Indianapolis-based LIDS Sports Group, has reached an agreement with Florida-based Fanatics, Inc. to purchase 12 brick-and-mortar retail stores, comprised of…
