Parks, lakes and rivers around the country will be alive with the sounds of drummers pounding out furious beats and racers vigorously urging their dragon boats across the water to celebrate the traditional Dragon Boat Festival (duanwujie). ...
Tags: Dragon Boat Festival, one of the country's oldest festivals
More than 40 percent of independent bicycle dealers report stronger Black Friday sales this year than in 2011, according to research firm Leisure Trends Group. Leisure Trends broke out the IBD data for BRAIN from a broader survey of ...
Tags: bicycle, IBD data, Black Friday, sporting goods, footwear
The Grinch stole Argentina's bike market this year, but the industry hopes the spirit of Christmas softens the government's stance and import laws are softened in time for the holidays, the traditional start of the Argentine bike season. ...
Tags: Argentina's bike market, consumer products, import requirements
German carmaker Audi has unveiled special edition for its A1 three-door and A1 Sportback, named the Amplified in Europe. The new edition models, based on the Ambition line, comprise an amplified red line for which the body is painted in ...
Apparel retailing is one of the sectors to be hit the hardest by the US economic slowdown of the last four years, as a result of US consumers holding back on spending the way they used to do before 2008. Which is the reason all the more ...
China - Robert Juliat's Hong Kong distributor, Pacific Lighting (HK) reports an extremely healthy market across the region with a bumper crop of Robert Juliat sales over the last quarter. "The increased appetite for Robert Juliat profiles ...
Dick's Sporting Goods, the largest U.S. based full-line sporting goods retailer, invites the community of Oklahoma City to celebrate the opening of the retailers' four new stores in the Oklahoma City metro area with a three-day grand ...
Tags: Dick's, full-line sporting goods retailer, four new stores
GOLDWIN Inc. announced that its high performance compression wear brand, 'C3fit' will be available for purchase at sporting goods retailer 'Paragon Sports' in New York City starting this November. In addition, C3fit will be launching its ...
Tags: GOLDWIN, compression wear, C3fit, sporting goods retailer
Benson Group, UK's privately owned carton printers, partnered with the young designers at P4CK, the UK-based packaging innovators to create innovative pack design CarryBar. The CarryBar, P4CK's new drinks carrier, was launched during the ...
Tags: carton printers, designers, packaging innovators, drinks carrier, patent
This year’s Australian International Sourcing Fair (AISF), co-located with the China Chamber of Clothing & Textiles, is all about making business easier. Bigger than ever before with more products in each category and many previous ...
Tags: Sourcing Fair, Clothing, textiles, home wares, sporting gear products
I'd guess that for most of us, it's the $25,000 price tag standing in the way of owning Sony's new 84-inch XBR-84X900: It's one of the first so-called Ultra HD TVs sporting four times the number of pixels (3840x 2160) as current 1080p ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, sony
adidas NEO Label has appointed global phenomenon and POP/R&B superstar Justin Bieber as its style icon. To celebrate this partnership, teens worldwide can hunt down the superstar's exclusively customized NEO gold sneakers online in a bid to ...
Tags: adidas, Justin Bieber, gold sneakers
ESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — November 20, 2012 — AATCC, the Association of Textile, Apparel, & Materials Professionals, announces the 2013 Materials Poster Competition, and invites students from around the globe studying ...
Tags: Sports Materials, Materials Research Poster Competition
GE Lighting will acquire Albeo Technologies, an LED fixture manufacturer. GE hopes to offer a more complete LED solution with this acquisition. GE Lighting has signed an agreement to acquire Albeo Technologies, an LED fixture manufacturer ...
My friend and colleague Ray Keener makes a good point in this?BR&IN?blog post?from last week when he asks the question, "Are flat bike sales for the past 35 years a good thing or a bad thing?" Among other things, Keener points out that ...
Tags: flat bike sales, new bikes