Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced the federal government will begin measuring and quantifying the ecoomic impact of the outdoor recreation economy when calculating gross domestic product. Jewell, who served as CEO for REI before ...
Toad&Co has added Scott Whipps to its senior management team as vice president of sales, effective March 28, 2016. In his new role, Whipps will lead the strategic development, management and execution of global sales for Toad&Co. ...
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Yakima Products Inc. named Jason McGibbon as its vice president of sales, while Chris Sautter was appointed as the brand’s first product development center director. As vice president of sales, Jason McGibbon is responsible for ...
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The redesigned 2017 Ram Power Wagon has been unveiled at the Chicago Auto Show. This is a rugged off-road pickup truck from Ram and comes with new exterior and with a range of upgrades. The 2017 Ram Power Wagon is based on Ram 2500 ...
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Members of the Ghana Association of Chinese Societies on Monday presented Christmas gifts to children at the Kumasi Children's Home, a state-run orphanage in Ghana's second largest city Kumasi. The gifts included LED TV sets, tower fans, ...
Nautilus Inc., a maker of home fitness equipment, promoted Jeff Collins to vice president, general manager retail. In his new role, Collins will continue leading the company’s strategic initiative to grow the retail channel ...
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Yoko Ono poses with her work, To See the Sky, at her solo show in Beijing. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] The 82-year-old conceptual artist and singer Yoko Ono was in Beijing late last week for her exhibition Golden Ladders, which is ...
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St. Martin Tower marks a huge step forward in the development of the Frankfurt office scene, both in terms of the architecture and the lighting solution. This is where LED luminaires from Zumtobel systematically provide coordinated light at ...
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L.L.Bean Inc. will open its third Ohio store in fall of 2016 at The Kenwood Collection, a mixed-use development located adjacent to the Kenwood Mall in Kenwood, OH, just outside of Cincinnati. The 15,000 square-foot store will feature an ...
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Edelrid North America, the newly established North American distributorship for the global Edelrid brand, has hired Blair Williams as director of sales and marketing and Paul Nanawa as director of operations. Williams and Nanawa are both ...
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The Taiwan government has passed draft amendments to the Civil Aviation Act to regulate drones, pending parliamentary approval. Local governments will be responsible for regulating drones up to 15kg and those above the weight level will be ...
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Vista Outdoor Inc., a global designer, manufacturer and marketer of products in the outdoor sports and recreation markets, has appointed active lifestyle agency Backbone Media as its agency of record for communications strategy and public ...
Team Sportia Ab of Sweden and its majority owner SGN Sportia of Finland have joined Sport 2000 International, greatly extending the reach of Europe's second largest buying group for sporting goods retailers in the Nordic countries. Team ...
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361 Degrees International Limited, which sells sporting goods through more than 7,400 franchised retail outlets in China, reported sales reached RMB2.2 billion in the six months ended 30 June, up grew 5.7 percent compared with the first ...
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A trend of 24-hour bookstores has emerged in the country since last summer, when Beijing shop Sanlian started to keep its doors open all the time. While the traditional book business has been hit in many countries owing to the rise of ...