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Mountain Equipment Company’s Chris Speyer on Becoming an Owner and Go Forward Plans

The Canadian retailer will start producing some private label products domestically under its new ownership group led by Ontario manufacturer Tim Gu, and including former REI exec Speyer and MEC...

Surf Industry Vets Make Retail Play in Hawaii and Florida

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Natural Selection, X Games and Snow League Are Leading an Action Sports Event Boom – Why Now?

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Keen COO Talks Tariff Pricing, Zero China Exposure, and More

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Helly Hansen Plans Outlined by Soon-To-Be Owner Kontoor

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REI Reports Revenue Decline, Net Loss in 2023 Review

REI Co-op confirmed its revenue declined in 2023 in a financial recap of a year that saw the outdoor retailer shed hundreds of employees in response to a challenging environment.…

News April 30, 2024

Amer Sports Sells ENVE Composites to PV3 Investments

Amer Sports, parent company to Salomon, Arc’teryx, Atomic, and other brands, announced Tuesday that it has sold its ENVE Composites brand to PV3, a Utah-based private investment firm whose owners…

News April 30, 2024

Retailers Are Putting the “Special” Back in Specialty Retail Via Private Label

We talk to the owners of Val Surf, Jack's, Quiet Storm and Spyder about their extensive private label strategies, which helps them control pricing, distribution, turnaround times and more.

Executive Edition April 30, 2024

Columbia Sportswear Co. Q1 Meets Expectations

Though every brand in the Columbia Sportswear Company portfolio except Mountain Hardwear saw a decline in revenue, total company results were in line with expectations, according to CEO Tim Boyle.…

News April 29, 2024

Retailers, Brands, and Resorts Review Snow Season

“For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it will your heart survive.” So wrote the poet Rainer Maria Rilke in the early 20th century.…

News April 29, 2024