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GE Capital Confirms $100M Billabong Loan

GE Capital confirmed it is administering a $100 million multi-currency revolving credit facility for Billabong International that closed in December…

Stoner-Andrews Adds Rep

Stoner-Andrews Inc., the rep agency based in Shelburne, VT, added Jason Giroux as the seventh member of its team…

Shock Doctor Appoints VP of Sales for Insoles

Shock Doctor Sports has hired footwear and outdoor veteran Bill Kendall, who will be joining the company as the new vice president of sales for Insoles, specialty and outdoor. He was most recently director of sales for the Polarmax…

Sojitz GMC Acquires Asian Rights to Admiral Brand

Sojitz General Merchandise Corporation (Sojitz GMC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sojitz Corporation, acquired trademark rights to England’s Admiral casual fashion brand for five regions in East Asia (China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and South Korea

Wenonah Canoe Adds C4 Waterman to its Paddlesportfolio

Executives for Wenonah Canoe Inc. and C4 Waterman announced their merger last week in a deal that catapults one of the world's oldest founder-owned paddlesports companies into the rapidly growing SUP market…

Ebay Enterprise Q4 Revenues Grow Double-Digits

EBay Inc. reported that mobile users accounted for 40 percent of its new users and accounts in 2013 and generated $35 billion in sales for its merchant partners and brands, up 88 percent from 2012….

NOCSAE Approves Revised Football Helmet Standard

The National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) board of directors has approved the development of a revised football helmet standard that will require helmets to limit certain concussion causing forces…

Palladin Consumer Retail Partners Acquires KT Health, LLC

Palladin Consumer Retail Partners, LLC has acquired KT Health, LLC, the leading producer of kinesiology tape and related sports medicine products in the retail market. KT Tape is the most widely distributed kinesiology tape brand in the U.S., sold in 22,0