Good news if you run a sporting goods store: People are spending money on bats and balls again!
Onetime Loughner friend Zachary Osler explained how he worked at a sporting goods store where Loughner bought the handgun used in the shooting.
Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. engages as a sporting goods retailer, which offers a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment, apparel and footwear in a specialty store environment.
In April fund manager Laura Geritz spent five days in Chile and Argentina touring a hospital, a port operator, a grocery store and a sporting goods retailer.
Sam drove to nearby Canton, where he visited a sporting-goods store and purchased a twelve-gauge shotgun.
"Robert was scarred by L.A. Gear, " recalls Michael Rubin, chief of Global Sports, a Web sporting goods retailer.
"It is a game of couples, of partners, of love and community, " says Morris Zadok, 62, owner of a sporting-goods store dedicated largely to matkot and regarded as one of the sport's leading advocates.
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Asics evolved into a general sporting goods maker, selling skiing, baseball, swimming and golf products, and scored notable success with its running shoes, putting out a well-regarded line of high-end trainers and racing shoes.
An indifferent student, Mr Reagan had hoped only for a job selling sporting goods and summers lounging round as a local lifeguard.
While preparing for the trip, he walked into a San Antonio sporting goods store to buy some equipment, and struck up a conversation with a woman who was there buying hiking boots.
Mukhtiar Singh, a Sikh with a trademark passion for sports, ran two successful sporting goods stores in Indonesia and in 1969 opened a small buying office in Singapore to be closer to regional distributors.
The national championship in Lake Lewisville had over a dozen sponsors, including sporting-goods retailer Cabela's Inc. and BoatU.S., an association of boat owners.
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That has helped raise rugby's profile: a study by America's Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association (SGMA) found that between 2007 and 2009 (the latest year for which data is available), it was the fastest-growing team sport in the country, outpacing rivals such as lacrosse and hockey.
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About 39 million Americans ride at least six times a year, according to the National Sporting Goods Association.
However, a product I work with (a specific alloy) had a patent granted for its use in sporting goods.
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But several other top sporting-goods brands have a different reason to fret.
Subtract the patronage checks and you still have a pretax margin of 4.5%, almost double that of Sports Authority, a publicly traded U.S. sporting goods chain.
The adidas Group is one of the global leaders within the sporting goods industry, offering a broad range of products around the core brands: adidas, Reebok, TaylorMade, Rockport and Reebok-CCM Hockey.
But we might already have a way to stop it with a common item you can find in any sporting goods store: paintballs.
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Commerce Department figures show that sporting-goods stores registered only a slight decline in sales during the recession and that their sales have been growing at a significantly faster pace than those of other stores during the recovery.
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It's all business as they prepare for a major retail launch at upscale department stores and sporting goods stores.
Dick's Sporting Goods Chief Edward W. Stack bought out his father, Dick Stack, when Dick's Sporting Goods was two stores and more of a bait-and-tackle shop reflecting his father's fishing passion.
Among other things, the sporting goods market should expand this year amid a healthier economy, less discounting and industry specific events like the World Cup, wrote HSBC in a report in late March.
But Nike, for instance, has a broad product line which includes everything from shoes to apparel to sporting goods, which in turn allows them stronger negotiating power with retailers.
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In the No. 1 spot for a second consecutive year is the Washington-based retailer known for its sporting goods, outdoor gear and apparel.
European sporting-goods companies give him free shoes and helmets, and a Romanian mineral-water company sponsors his cycling team, but that's about it.
The Sporting Goods Manufacturing Association reported that 1.2 million Americans participated in a traditional triathlon in 2009, up 51% in two years.
Large sporting goods retailers are hoping that Nike's new uniforms will lead to a spike in sales.
What has investors running for the exits is Chairman Michael Levy's expansion into Europe and on-line sales of sporting goods--just the sort of aggressive brand-building they lavishly cheered a few months ago.
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