REI reported a $102 million bottom-line improvement Monday in its 2025 results, but the recovery faces an immediate challenge: the REI Union has called for a national boycott of the retailer’s biggest sales event of the year. Plus, REI’s financials from 2019 to 2025.
Doug Palladini, the former Vans global president who joined the children’s apparel giant Carter’s in 2025, has exited the company effective immediately. Carter’s named Build-A-Bear’s Sharon Price John CEO.
Columbia CEO Tim Boyle details the hunt for $80 million in tariff refunds and warns of Middle East war disruptions, even as a positive fall order book points to a U.S. wholesale recovery in the second half of 2026.
This upcoming webinar session is all about tackling wholesale pain points. The panel will dig into practical ways to ditch clunky processes and show you how digital tools can make things way more efficient, all while pulling your team and your retail partners onto the same page.
Bringing nearly 20 years of experience in trade events and brand management, Mathiasen will lead the show’s transition to Minneapolis this August as the organization undergoes significant strategic changes.
“These changes are meant to make the company less complex and more responsive,” Nike EVP and COO Venkatesh Alagirisamy said in a memo to employees Thursday.
Mervin Manufacturing, the snow company behind Lib Tech and GNU, has been acquired by Eugene-based Spring Capital Group. In an interview with SESO, CEO Anthony DeRocco reveals how this “patient capital” deal preserves U.S. manufacturing and what the move means for the future of the brands after a challenging winter season.
We assembled a panel of independent retailers who will share their personal journeys, their learning curves, and the specific ways they are integrating AI to make their businesses more efficient.
In his new role, Scott Werth will lead the company’s sales team of more than 7,000 employees across 42 states.
SESO has confirmed that John Lacy, who started at Burton answering customer service calls and rose to CEO during his nearly 29-year tenure, is departing the world’s largest snowboard-focused company.
“We’re bringing fun, loud, branded product to an industry that needs it. Our target customer is the high school and college-age kid that doesn’t want to look like their dad or mom. Ironically, their dad and mom wore almost the same looks from Rusty back in the day,” said North America Sales Manager Aaron Griffiths.
Hansen was a legendary surfboard shaper, tandem surfing champion, early investor in Ocean Pacific, and founder of Hansen Surfboards, which has grown into one of the most high-profile and high-volume surf shops in the country.
