Mammut Sports Group USA today announced another double-digit increase in its North America business for the first half of 2010 and with winter 10/11 pre-orders up 35% over winter 09/10, the company is anticipating another strong finish. Summer 2011 p...(read all)

Oboz -- the' True to the Trail' footwear manufacturer based in Bozeman, Montana --has hired Abby Lee to its customer service team serving retailers and consumers. Oboz retailers can reach Lee at abby@obozfootwear.com. Lee, who hails from Trempealea...(read all)

Unifi, Inc. is seeking stockholder approval at its 2010 annual meeting of an authorization enabling its board of directors to affect a one-for-three reverse stock split of its common stock.  "Given the recent performance of our stock and...(read all)

Australian-based Globe International announced today that it has turned the tide on several years of poor financial performance with a $1.3 million profit for the year ended June 30, 2009. This marks the first time since the year ended June 30, 2007...(read all)

After spending the last eight years as the East Coast Sales Manager for Alpinestars, Brian Sanders was recently named National Sales Manager for Irvine, California-based …Lost Clothing. According to the company press release, in his new positi...(read all)

Leisure Trends' Outdoor RetailTRAK? reports that July core outdoor retail sales totaled $405M, a solid 7% gain across all three channels and the largest July in at least a decade. Specialty stores, with $159M at retail, increased 5% over July 2009 an...(read all)

Tifosi Optics, Inc. is the number one brand in the Run Specialty Sunglass Category and the number one brand in the Cycling Specialty Sunglass Category, in units sold, according to Leisure Trends Group RetailTRAK? point-of-sale (POS) retail sales trac...(read all)

Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) has appointed Simcoe County-local Melanie Sander as the manager of its new Barrie store in Ontario, Canada. In her new role, Melanie will be tasked with hiring approximately 40 local outdoor enthusiasts as senior and f...(read all)

Skechers announced that an independent review board said that Skechers' Shape-ups advertising claims are accurate, truthful and "prepared with a due sense of social responsibility to consumers and society." In a related development, Skeche...(read all)

The North Face and Jansport will move their headquarters operations from San Leandro, CA to Alameda, CA in fall 2011, the Oakland Tribune reported. The two companies, both units of VF Corp., will move from an office park in San Leandro to new buildi...(read all)

Gregory Mountain Products launched its sixth and seventh language- and region-specific web sites, adding sites tailored to the Canadian and French Canadian markets.   The new web sites join Gregory sites designed for the United States, Japan, C...(read all)

Garmin Ltd. is voluntarily recalling approximately 1.25 million Nüvi personal navigation devices, 796,000 of which were sold in the United States, due to  batteries manufactured by a third-party supplier within a defined date code range and...(read all)

Nautilus Inc. sold a Virginia warehouse and manufacturing operation for $2.1 million, the company disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fitness equipment company sold the plant Aug. 19 to Quinton Commercial Fitness L...(read all)

L.L. Bean is disputing a ruling that it owes the State of Ohio $210,770 for a Commercial Activity Tax (CAT), the Dayton Daily News reported. Ohio State Tax Commissioner Richard Levin ruled this month that the Maine-based outdoor retailer owed the t...(read all)

Fontana Sports of Wisconsin York has completed a redesign of its website to increase web performance and refresh the look and feel of the site. "We worked with Fontana Sports to update the E-Commerce site, which we launched a few years ago, wit...(read all)