SGB Update Sports & Fitness
Under Armour’s Sponsorship Expenses Double in 2010
Under Armour Inc.'s sponsorship obligations totaled $167 million at the end of 2010, nearly double the $78 million spent in 2009, according to its just-released annual report…
RECALL: BOB Jogging Strollers
BOB Trailers Inc. is recalling hundreds of thousands of jogging strollers in the United States and Canada because of a strangulation hazard…
Implus Appoints VP of Strategic Account Sales
Implus Footcare named Ken Linden as their vice president of strategic account sales. Prior to joining Implus, Linden spent the past 16 years as vice president of strategic account sales at Adidas, where he was named sales manager of the year on three diff
Chaco Launches Chacousa.com
Chaco has launched a new, highly interactive web site at www.Chacousa.com…
Cabela’s Inc. Sees Retail Strength, Strong Margins Drive Q4 Profit Growth
Cabela’s Inc. reported improved merchandise margins, increasing revenues and lower impairment charges in the fourth quarter ended Jan. 1 drove profit up more than 14% against a year -ago period that slumped on steep charges and liquidation costs…
OR Winter Market Backcountry Hardgoods Review Part II
The relentless march toward lighter, stronger, faster continues in the backcountry equipment market as evidenced by products exhibited at last month’s Outdoor Retailer Winter Market…
Big 5 Signs on as LA Marathon Sponsor
Big 5 Sporting Goods has signed on as a sponsor of the Honda LA Marathon presented by K-Swiss…
Compass Diversified’s CEO Take Leave to Deal with Investigation
Compass Diversified Holdings, which owns Fox Racing Shox and several industrial companies, said its CEO Joe Massoud has requested, and the Board has approved, a leave of absence to focus his attention on an informal regulatory inquiry that Mr. Massoud has
Rawlings Introducing Performance Apparel
Rawlings, a division of Jarden Team Sports, is launching a line of performance apparel. According to a report in the St. Louis Dispatch, a baseball apparel line was rolled out in January at Modell's Sporting Goods, Hibbett Sports and Sport Chalet. S
Billabong First-Half Profit Declines Despite 16% Sales Gain
Billabong International Ltd. said first-half net profit fell 18% to 57.2 million Australian dollars (US$57.9 million), in part due to the strength of Australian dollar against the U.S. dollar and euro…
Outdoor Companies Back BLM Wild Lands Policy
Citing the need for “balance in federal land management and the role public and wild lands play in supporting jobs across the American economy,” The Conservation Alliance (Alliance), Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) and companies they represent sent a l
Research Group Raises Questions About 90% Theory
Following a widely discussed report by Mexican officals and numerous US publications claiming that 90% of guns used my Mexican drug cartels originated in the United States, independent research group STRATFOR has issued a study that raises major questions
Jarden Has Recouped Rossignol Investment
Jarden Corp. has recouped its original minority investment in Rossignol, the French ski brand spun off at a loss by Quiksilver in 2008, Jarden Chairman and CEO Martin Franklin told analysts this week..
U.S. Consumers Sustain Spending in January
January marked the seventh straight month of retail sales gains, although sales by sporting goods, hobby, book and music stores decreased 1.3% on a seasonally adjusted month-to-month basis and increased 0.4% on an unadjusted year-over-year basis, accordin
Cabela’s Q4 Comps Climb 7.3%
Cabela's Inc. reported that on a like calendar basis, adjusted for divestitures, total revenue during the fourth quarter increased 8.4% to $934 million. Retail store revenue increased 11.4% to $479 million; direct revenue increased 0.5% to $386 milli
