Sports News and Press Releases about Outdoor Industry Business
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December 9, 2020
REI Elevates Product Standards To Fight Climate Change And Advance Equity
REI is upgrading product standards together with its more than 1,000 brand partners to advance more sustainable and inclusive business practices. By 2030, all products on its shelves will have a preferred attribute so that every purchase at REI supports a more equitable planet. SGB Media
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December 8, 2020
Pocket Outdoor of Boulder raises additional $5.27M
Pocket Outdoor Media LLC raised $5 million more within its Series A round, bringing its total funds raised in the round to just less than $16.5 million, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday. The funds came from an additional 22 people and groups, bringing...
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December 8, 2020
Everest Gets A Growth Spurt As China, Nepal Revise Official Elevation Upward
The world's highest peak just grew a couple of feet overnight — on paper, at least. After years of fraught discussion and surveying work, China and Nepal announced a revision to the elevation of Mount Everest: Officials say the summit now stands precisely at 8,848.86 meters, or 29,031.69 feet above...
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December 4, 2020
Dick’s join coalition to combat the sale of fraudulent goods
The Buy Safe America Coalition announced new members – Dick’s Sporting Goods, HP Inc., OpSec Security and Rite Aid. Inside Outdoor
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December 4, 2020
Todd Spaletto tapped to lead new Dick’s Sporting Goods outdoor concept stores
The former group president of Wolverine Worldwide and global president of The North Face will lead the sporting goods company's expansion into specialty outdoor retail. SNEWS
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December 3, 2020
Amazon and YETI File Joint Lawsuit Against Counterfeiters
Amazon and YETI Coolers, LLC. jointly filed a lawsuit against two US-based individuals, Michael White and Karen White of San Diego, California, for counterfeiting YETI’s products. The defendants attempted to offer the infringing products in Amazon’s store, violating Amazon’s policies, YETI’s intellectual property rights, and the law. Amazon closed their...
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December 1, 2020
RV Shipments Projected to Eclipse 500,000 Units in 2021
Wholesale RV shipments are forecasted to gain nearly 20% to 502,582 units in 2021 after totaling 423,628 units in 2020. The new projection sees total shipments ranging between 490,300 and 515,400 units with the most likely year-end total reaching 502,582 units by the end of next year, an 18.7% increase...
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December 1, 2020
Surfline, Surfing’s Biggest Media Platform, Drops Into Massive Pile of Cash
A deep-pocketed venture capital firm, The Chernin Group, just plunked $30 million into Surfline, a media company that focuses on surfing coverage and live wave and weather forecasts for surfers. The money will be used in part to improve Surfline's technology arm, which powers the proprietary swell and weather modeling...
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November 25, 2020
Biden taps John Kerry for presidential climate envoy
John Kerry's first big task as climate czar will be helping the U.S. rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement, which Kerry himself helped architect. Another important task is rolling back dozens of anti-environmental regulations enacted by the Trump administration over the last four years, including many that reduced limits on fossil...
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November 25, 2020
Dick’s SG To Test New Outdoor Concept
Dick’s Sporting Goods confirmed it will be testing a new outdoors-themed concept, called Public Lands, with two locations set to open in former Field & Stream stores in 2021. The company plans to test the Public Lands concept with one opening planned for August 2021 and the second for October....
