Although brands presenting at this month’s Outdoor Retailer Winter Market were excited to show their fall ’17 collections, execs weren’t shy about expressing what the industry needs to do better....
Matt Priest, president and CEO of the FDRA, said in November that his organization believes that the nixing of the TPP could be the end of an unprecedented opportunity to not only lower production expenses but also slash end costs to consumers and create more...
aylor will spearhead the re-release of the Reebok Classic Freestyle Hi, the first fitness sneaker that was specifically designed for women....
Champs Sports unveiled its exclusive Secure the Bag Timberland boot in a collaboration with Grammy-nominated artist DJ Khaled. The boot is the final reveal within the partnership that rolled out earlier this month, commencing with the Secure the Bag retro video game launch. The branded boot is...
The shoe is a winter boot that merges the upper of the Nike Dunk, the tooling and outsole of the SFB Jungle Boot and the heel cage of the Air Huarache, balances the designer’s aesthetic with winter-ready design features and the basketball, skateboarding and street...
Jerry Turner, the legendary president of Brooks in the 1960s and 1970s and most recently head of American Sporting Goods, has come out of retirement to launch Turner Footwear, a collection of performance running and workout footwear....
“It won’t make people that happy if the price of tennis shoes goes up, if the price of clothing goes up and if the price of motor vehicles goes up,” said Donald Grimes, an economist at the University of Michigan. “That contradicts the idea of...
This 12-nation agreement involved key markets for the U.S. footwear industry, including Vietnam and Japan, and would have saved U.S. footwear companies and consumers more than half a billion dollars a year. FDRA will continue to support efforts for U.S. bilateral free trade agreements...
Sales by quarter: Q1 (+5%), Q2 (+6%), Q3 (+2%), and Q4 (-1%). The shift in the second half is due almost entirely to the void that was created by The Sports Authority and Sport Chalet bankruptcies. The greatest impact came in Q4, when both retailers...
FDRA's online survey shows this holiday season, casual/retro sneakers are the top category people are looking to buy (36% of men and 21% of women). At 44%, Amazon is the top destination of holiday shoe shoppers. 36% of respondents said they were going to spend...