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11 Mar Under Armour Opens Digital Headquarters In Austin

Posted at 15:44h in Home, Latest News

Under Armour opened its first-ever Connected Fitness digital headquarters in downtown Austin, TX. Located in a new commercial development near the restored City of Austin...

10 Mar Havaianas U.S. Expansion Fuels Alpargatas Q4 Growth

Posted at 09:33h in Economic news, Home, Latest News

Alpargatas reported strong sales of its Havaianas flip flops in the United States and Europe continued to offset declining sales in Latin America in the...

10 Mar Nike+ Adds Support for Garmin, TomTom Running Watches

Posted at 08:46h in Home, Latest News, Retail

Nike announced collaborations fitness wearable makers, providing deeper integration of the Nike+ running app with select partner apps for athletes and casual runners around the...

09 Mar Saucony Joins Rod Dixon to Fight Obesity

Posted at 15:24h in Home, Latest News, Retail

At the 1983 New York City Marathon, New Zealand Olympian and Saucony athlete Rod Dixon overcame a two-and-a-half-minute deficit with 10km to go to run...

09 Mar W.L. Gore, L.L.Bean and REI Make Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For List

Posted at 11:47h in Home, Latest News

L.L.Bean edged out rival Recreational Equipment Inc. on Forbes magazine's 2015 100 Best Companies to Work For list. W.L. Gore & Associates ranked 17th, while...

06 Mar Foot Locker’s Q4 Comps Jump 10 Percent

Posted at 10:18h in Economic news, Home, Latest News

Foot Locker, Inc. reported fourth-quarter earnings rose 18.0 percent to $146 million, or $1.01 a share, easily eclipsing Wall Street's target. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring...

05 Mar Amber Road Acquires ecVision

Posted at 15:08h in Home, Latest News, Sourcing

Amber Road (NYSE: AMBR), a leading provider of global trade management (GTM) solutions, announced that it has acquired ecVision, a cloud-based provider of global sourcing...

05 Mar Nike Appoints GM of Global Footwear

Posted at 09:33h in Home, Latest News, Retail

Nike, Inc. plans to appoint Michael Spillane as VP and GM of global footwear. effective June 1, 2015. In this new role, Spillane will...

05 Mar Puma Names Head of Global Strategy

Posted at 09:30h in Home, Latest News, Retail

Puma appointed Nina Graf-Vlachy as head of global strategy for the strategic projects and said her predecessor Arne Freundt has assumed the position of director...

04 Mar Under Armour Appoints Kip Fulks President of Footwear and Innovation

Posted at 15:16h in Home, Latest News, Retail

Under Armour Inc. said Kip J. Fulks, one of the original founders of Under Armour and formerly the company’s chief operating officer and president of...