For years bordering on decades, we’ve wrung our hands over the issue of increasing participation. There’ve been programs and research and money spent. Maybe without those programs things would be worse. But so far, they don’t seem to have moved the needle the way we want. We’ve got financial, demographic, and climatic factors in the […]
Increasing Snowsports Participation: Are We Asking the Right Questions? Read More »
“At the end of the second quarter of Fiscal 2018, we successfully launched our e-commerce website,” Hibbett Sports (HS) tells us in their 10-K for the year ended February 2nd. This isn’t news. I wrote about it last October when I discussed their quarterly results. If you’re not already familiar with HS, you might review
Hibbett Sports: Annual Results and Omni-Channel Progress After a Remarkably Late Start. Read More »
The title of the press release is “Authentic Brands Group Acquires Volcom.” Well, not exactly. The Authentic Brands Group (ABG) press release goes on: “…ABG has taken a minority stake in Liberated Brands, the newly-formed operating company for Volcom. Todd Hymel and Volcom’s current management team have taken the majority stake in Liberated Brands and
Volcom Sold by Kering to Authentic Brands Group, Kind Of. Read More »
Let’s go right to something Zumiez CEO Rick Brooks says at the end of the conference call on their results. “…our goals [is to] continue to grow the profitability of the business from [an] operating profit perspective. Now of course if we have recession we’ll go backwards and we’ll see competitors go away across the
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Globe reported growth in revenue and income for the six months ended December 31 though, as usual, they don’t give us much information on how they did it. I’ll tell you what I can glean from the public documents. All numbers in Australian dollars of course.
Thanks to Their Australasia Segment, Globe Has a Solid Six Months Read More »
I don’t cover Big 5 every quarter. However, their 10K for the year ended December 30, 2018 requires some discussion. They seem to be flailing in the emerging retail environment and seem reluctant to respond to all the changes. They are betting that their old strategy will continue to work. It appears I’m not the
Concern with sustainability is hardly new to us. As an industry, active outdoor has increased its focus on the environment and the impact of climate change for years. I think it’s in our DNA to believe that’s the right thing to do. That doesn’t mean we aren’t aware of the impact on what we sell
The Evolution of Sustainability and Implications for your Business Model Read More »
You know, this is getting boring. So boring, though in a good way, that I think I’ve just used the same title for two quarterly reviews. For the quarter that ended December 31, VF revenues were up 8% to $3.9 billion compared to the same quarter the previous year. They got to that amount from
Ho Hum. Another Solid Quarter: VF Corporation Read More »
There is a certain level of irony in my having left the Outdoor Retailer/Snow Show in Denver last Friday as the temperature was approaching 60 degrees and come home to Seattle where, today- so far (still coming down hard)- there’s three plus inches of snow on the ground and the temperature isn’t projected to get
Trade Shows in General, Denver, SIA, ShopTalk, and Other Random Musings Read More »
Last Wednesday Shopko, a general merchandise retailer with 333 stores, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. On January 17th, SGB Media published an article on Shopko and the filing by Thomas J. Ryan with the title, “Shopko Becomes Latest Casualty Of Online Disruption.” I took umbrage at the suggestion that online disruption was the primary cause
What Caused Shopko to File for Bankruptcy? Two Parts to the Puzzle. Read More »