For the fourth consecutive year, U.S. business-to-business (B2B) commercial channel revenue increased. Sales in 2015 grew 2.1 percent to more than $72 billion, according to The NPD Group’s Distributor and Reseller Tracking Services. From 2012 to 2015, the U.S. B2B commercial channel market increased...
Haglöfs, the Swedish outdoor brand, withdrew its Grym hiking boot from stores after Greenpeace found high levels of the fluorocarbon PFOA in the boot in its latest review of outdoor products. ...
More than 4,000 basketball coaches across the country will lace up their sneakers with their suits during Coaches vs. Cancer Suits and Sneakers Awareness Week to demonstrate their support for this worthy cause. ...
For the full year 2015, net revenues increased 28 percent to $3.96 billion compared with $3.08 billion in the prior year and compared with the company's prior outlook of $3.91 billion. Operating income grew 15 percent to $409 million in 2015 compared with $354...
Asics will be encouraging consumers from Feb. 1 to Feb. 15 through social media to head to an Asics retail location to try on a pair of its new FuzeX shoes. Consumers uploading a "shoefie" to Instagram or Twitter...
In 2011, Hsu founded the brand CCILU and successfully launched the brand in Japan receiving tremendous popularity. Its products combine states of the art performance technology with innovative, fashionable, fun, cool, and sexy design, to produce unique commercial “everyday” footwear. The brand’s signature style AMAZON...
With one of its biggest partners shrinking the number of stores it operates, Under Armour (UA - Get Report) is making an aggressive bid this year to control its own future. The Baltimore, Maryland- based athletic wear brand will open a whopping 200 stores in...
Iconix Brand Group Inc. has adopted a short-term shareholder rights plan, or poison pill plan, to protect the interests of the company and its shareholders in the event of a takeover. The company said its board adopted the plan “in light of recent activity in...
Saucony will deepen its commitment to elite athlete development with the signing of 2004 Olympian Tim Broe as program director of the newly-created Saucony Elite Athlete Development Team. The long-term partnership with Broe, a 10-time USA National Champion and recipient of the 2015 Boston Globe...
More than 1-in-5 consumers purchased or browsed for products online via a mobile device when holiday shopping for themselves or others, according to global information company The NPD Group. That number was double among Millennial consumers, between the ages of 18 and 34....