Seventy-five-year old Columbia Sportswear has grown into an apparel behemoth, making products that weather storms of the meteorological variety. It’s stayed that way by withstanding those that brew in the retail industry....
The court in Dhaka issued the warrants for Delwar Hossain and his wife Mahmuda Akter over the blaze in 2012 at the Tazreen factory, where workers stitched clothes for Western retailers....
Footwear exports reached $7.9 billion as of the middle of December, a rise of nearly 15 per cent against the corresponding period last year, according to the General Department of Customs. Currently, around 1,100 companies are involved in footwear production in the country, employing 720,000...
For footwear the athletes will slip into Nike high tops in a chukka boot style that features a one-piece 'Flyknit' knitted construction in wool, for a combination of warmth and lightness. Patriotic details abound, from the slogans embroidered inside the pockets and printed onto insoles...
Blackstone Group LP invested $200 million in Crocs Inc., taking two board seats and a 13 percent equity stake in the Niwot-based shoemaker, company officials announced Sunday night. Shares of Crocs jumped more than 20 percent on Monday as a result of the news....
Shares of footwear retailer Brown Shoe Co. Inc. (BWS) reached a 52-week high of $27.72 on Dec 20. Adjusted earnings per share of 63 cents almost doubled from 33 cents reported in the prior-quarter on the back of improved performance in every category....
Beginning this spring, Finish Line became the exclusive athletic footwear partner of Macy's. Finish Line executives have said they expect the partnership to boost sales by about 30 percent -- about $350 million to the company's $1.4 billion yearly sales. The partnership, announced last year,...
"The reality is that these incidents are only going to increase," said Paul Lipman, CEO of Redwood City security firm Total Defense. "It's a result of the increasing connectivity of everything we touch."...
The to-do trade list includes a Baucus-Hatch draft renewal of expired fast-track trade and potential ratification of the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade agreement linking the United States to 11 other nations, including Japan. Another pending trade deal with the European Union, the Transatlantic...
That values the deal at $1.2 billion, or about $2.2 billion including debt, New York-based Jones said today in a statement. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of next year and will take the company private....