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25 Years of Fitness
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25 Years of Fitness: Vintage photos -- equipment
Jul 28, 2009 SNEWS is celebrating its 25th anniversary and we're including the fitness industry in the party. Photos? You betcha. We gathered up photos from the past 20 to 30 years of stores, people and equipment, as well as promotional brochures and even a couple of newspaper clippings. See some of the equipment developed over the years... Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all 25 Years of Fitness articles |
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25 Years of Fitness: Vintage photos -- manufacturers
Jul 28, 2009 SNEWS is celebrating its 25th anniversary and we're including the fitness industry in the party. Photos? You betcha. We gathered up photos from the past 20 to 30 years of stores, people and equipment, as well as promotional brochures and even a couple of newspaper clippings. See what the industry's manufacturers had to share... Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all 25 Years of Fitness articles |
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25 Years of Fitness: Vintage photos -- people
Jul 28, 2009 SNEWS is celebrating its 25th anniversary and we're including the fitness industry in the party. Photos? You betcha. We gathered up photos from the past 20 to 30 years of stores, people and equipment, as well as promotional brochures and even a couple of newspaper clippings. See a few of the faces that have been a part of the industry... Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all 25 Years of Fitness articles |
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25 Years of Fitness: Vintage photos -- retailers
Jul 28, 2009 SNEWS is celebrating its 25th anniversary and we're including the fitness industry in the party. Photos? You betcha. We gathered up photos from the past 20 to 30 years of stores, people and equipment, as well as promotional brochures and even a couple of newspaper clippings. See what the industry's retailers had to share... Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all 25 Years of Fitness articles |
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25 Years of Fitness -- 2009 magazine table of contents photo IDs
Jul 27, 2009 Curious who is who among the photos on the SNEWS Fitness 2009 magazine Table of Contents on page 1? Take a look here to find out! (P.S. Sniggers allowed.) Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all 25 Years of Fitness articles |
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Business Tools & Advice
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Rethinking Retail: Hardware goes glam in San Francisco. Your windows can too.
Jul 29, 2009 Who ever thought toilet plungers, garbage cans and weed whackers could be sexy? A hardware store in San Francisco makes it so with colorful, creative, eye-catching window displays that bring passersby to a grinding halt. "The concept is to get people to stop and look," said Noelle Nicks, Cole Hardware's visual merchandiser. The goal, she says, is "to get people to come in even if they had no intent of buying something," noting hardware stores are shopping destinations. Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all Business Tools & Advice articles |
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See-through supply chains -- putting corporate responsibilty online
Jan 14, 2008 Performance apparel manufacturers that make green claims take a lot of heat. Brands that take a strong stand seem to make other manufacturers and consumers want to poke holes in all that green goodness. It's only fair. Anyone can make vague green claims (it's called "greenwashing"), so brands that are truly making efforts to be sustainable keep looking for ways to be transparent, to communicate with customers about the entire supply chain, and create a dialogue about ever-changing manufacturing ethics. These three brands have taken their story to the most accessible platform of all -- the Web... Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all Business Tools & Advice articles |
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Web Extras: Passion Marketing -- How to design your own program
Aug 6, 2005 Follow the simple steps outlined to define a passion marketing program that suits you and your company's values. Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all Business Tools & Advice articles |
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History
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25 Years of Fitness: Vintage photos -- manufacturers
Jul 28, 2009 SNEWS is celebrating its 25th anniversary and we're including the fitness industry in the party. Photos? You betcha. We gathered up photos from the past 20 to 30 years of stores, people and equipment, as well as promotional brochures and even a couple of newspaper clippings. See what the industry's manufacturers had to share... Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all History articles |
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25 Years of Fitness -- 2009 magazine table of contents photo IDs
Jul 27, 2009 Curious who is who among the photos on the SNEWS Fitness 2009 magazine Table of Contents on page 1? Take a look here to find out! (P.S. Sniggers allowed.) Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all History articles |
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25 Years of Fitness profiles -- Manufacturers
Jul 27, 2009 A silver anniversary is nothing to gloss over, and the fitness industry has plenty to celebrate -- yes, even in times of adversity and economic hardship. Take a moment to realize it is indeed very youthful as far as industries go, and then just look at all it has accomplished in the last 25 years. We sought out stories and insights from leaders who were around 25 years ago, asking them varied questions about their roots in the industry, influential moments and products, as well as the future of specialty fitness and the industry as a whole. See what these manufacturers had to say about the growth of the industry... Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all History articles |
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25 Years of Fitness profiles -- Retailers
Jul 27, 2009 A silver anniversary is nothing to gloss over, and the fitness industry has plenty to celebrate -- yes, even in times of adversity and economic hardship. Take a moment to realize it is indeed very youthful as far as industries go, and then just look at all it has accomplished in the last 25 years. We sought out stories and insights from leaders who were around 25 years ago, asking them varied questions about their roots in the industry, influential moments and products, as well as the future of specialty fitness and the industry as a whole. See what these retailers had to say about the growth of the industry... Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all History articles |
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25 Years of Fitness profiles -- Retired / Out of Industry / Others
Jul 27, 2009 A silver anniversary is nothing to gloss over, and the fitness industry has plenty to celebrate -- yes, even in times of adversity and economic hardship. Take a moment to realize it is indeed very youthful as far as industries go, and then just look at all it has accomplished in the last 25 years. We sought out stories and insights from leaders who were around 25 years ago, asking them varied questions about their roots in the industry, influential moments and products, as well as the future of specialty fitness and the industry as a whole. See what these retailers and manufacturers, who have since left the industry or are on the outer periphery, had to say about the growth of the industry... Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all History articles |
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Magazine Article Index
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Treasure trove of information revealed by SNEWS Fitness magazine Article Index
Jan 16, 2009 Have you ever thought, “I know SNEWS® wrote an article on (insert topic of interest here), but what issue was that in?” Guess no more! Use this index to find any article printed in past GearTrends® magazines (now called SNEWS® magazine as of the 2008 issue), FitBiz or eFitBiz by SNEWS® publications. Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all Magazine Article Index articles |
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Product Trends & Design
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Sleeping bag manufacturers provide technical and durable features at a reasonable price point.
Jul 6, 2009 In the SNEWS Outdoor 2009 Magazine, our coverage of the hardgoods market included a trends and product report on tents and packs debuting for the spring 2010 season. Below, is the latest on the sleeping bags segment that was not included in the magazine. As with tents and backpacks, weight remains a key selling point for sleeping bags. Keep your eyes peeled for new collections, as well as updates to lines that have sold well for the past few years. Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all Product Trends & Design articles |
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SNEWS Readers' Choice: Our readers pick their top 25 products of the last quarter-century
Jun 22, 2009 Game-changing, pioneering, inventive -- all are ideal words to describe the innovative products that helped fuel the development and growth of the outdoor industry over the last 25 years. To celebrate our 25th anniversary, we at SNEWS® compiled a list of gear, apparel and footwear from the editors' archives at SNEWS. Then we turned to an industry vote to decide the top 25, presented here as the SNEWS Readers' Choice (the top 10 appear in our printed magazine, and will be revealed online on July 1, 2009 when our digital version of the magazine goes live). For the stories behind these groundbreaking products, we talked to the companies that created the industry's most recognized products still in use today. Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all Product Trends & Design articles |
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Web Extra -- Performance Compression: Stretching the Limits
Jan 19, 2009 Web Extra: Seven companies are as of January 2009 the primary players in the United States although with the burgeoning exposure and interest -- and the market potential -- others are dabbling at similar garments... Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all Product Trends & Design articles |
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Web Extras: A-Trainers, all -- What exists currently from a variety of manufacturers
Jul 16, 2007 Now that the A-Trainer category/evolution has been lit up, the leaders are going to struggle to make noise about why its product is better. Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all Product Trends & Design articles |
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Web Extras: The Science Behind the Chug-Chug of A-Train Equipment
Jul 16, 2007 No published, peer-reviewed studies exist that fully analyze the energy expenditure and biomechanics of any single A-Trainer, nor are there any comparative studies available. The equipment is just too new for those kinds of studies to exist. Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all Product Trends & Design articles |
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Special Features
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SNEWS Power Players: Meet 10 of the industry’s most influential people and find out what makes them tick
Jan 20, 2010 Insight and inspiration provide an edge that everybody can use in today’s business climate. That is the driving force behind the SNEWS Power Players -- an honor that acknowledges outdoor industry leaders for varied accomplishments in different industry sectors. Meet the new class of 10 for 2010. Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all Special Features articles |
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Young Guns: Peek into the minds of designers whose innovative ideas are changing the industry
Jul 6, 2009 What will outdoor gear look like in the future? Peek into the minds of these designers whose innovative ideas are changing the industry. Originally published in the SNEWS Outdoor Summer '09 magazine, this special web feature includes two additional profiles of designers Tae Kim and Alan Yiu, as well as expanded coverage from each designer -- Hanna Boone, Josh Guyot, Ian Iverson, and Chris Miksovsky -- voicing his or her perspective on the outdoor industry's future. Also, look into the world of Project OR and its influence on student designers in a special added feature. Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all Special Features articles |
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Another 15 Power Players to keep your eye on in '09
Jan 20, 2009 In addition to the 10 Power Players named in our SNEWS Winter Outdoor magazine for 2009, SNEWS has also named 15 Power Players to "keep your eye on" in 2009. Keep in mind that the SNEWS Power Players list will become an annual honor -- one we hope is anticipated and will keep the industry talking. Make sure you stay abreast of SNEWS, so when we ask for nominations in late 2009 for the SNEWS 2010 Power Players list, your choice gets noticed. Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all Special Features articles |
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2009 SNEWS Power Players: Learn from insights, advice and inspiration from 10 outdoor industry leaders.
Jan 19, 2009 Insight and inspiration provide an edge that everybody can use in these economic times. Both can be found by listening to people who have become business leaders. And that is the driving force behind the launch of the SNEWS Power Players -- an honor that will acknowledge outdoor industry leaders for varied accomplishments in different industry sectors. Inside these pages and on our website, contemplate their words to discover useful advice, tap into your own motivation, or find humorous and wise ways to overcome challenges. Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all Special Features articles |
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Friend or Foe -- Will Amazon.com help or hurt the outdoor industry?
Jan 16, 2009 Three years ago, when Rich Hill was vice president of sales at Patagonia, he wanted nothing to do with Amazon. The online mega-retailer would send bright-eyed representatives to pitch him at the Patagonia booth during the Outdoor Retailer trade shows. These were not your typical outdoor industry sales reps. They were kids who knew more about Silicon Valley than the Yosemite Valley, and as far as an industry vet and brand-savvy player like Hill was concerned, they had no future in the quickly evolving landscape of the outdoors and of online retail. Furthermore, the overriding image of Amazon in the outdoor industry was one that was no better than a virtual flea market. It had no place in the specialty retail sweet-spot where techie outdoor gear garners high margins and loyal customers. How times change.... Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all Special Features articles |
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SNEWS Outdoor Winter 2010 web extras: GoLite’s Kim Coupounas offers 15 steps toward being sustainable
Jan 25, 2010 The winter 2010 issue of SNEWS keeps on giving with this web extra focused on 15 steps that GoLite -- and other companies can implement too -- to achieve its sustainability objectives. Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all Other articles |
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SNEWS Outdoor Winter 2010 web extras: SNEWSictionary
Jan 22, 2010 The creation of new words is moving as fast as technology. Take a look at these definition ideas that are making the rounds. Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all Other articles |
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SNEWS Outdoor Winter 2010 web extras: In search of the perfect laptop bag
Jan 22, 2010 In the fall of 2009, we asked more than 30 well-travelled executives from all walks of the outdoor industry to reveal their favorite laptop bags. And whoa-boy did we hit a nerve when we queried about the “one coveted feature you have not found yet in a laptop bag.” Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all Other articles |
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Web Extras: How another industry’s women proved they were the boss
Jul 12, 2007 It was 1993. Carolyn Cooke, then in sales at Merrell Footwear, said she felt like a “lonely little girl” wandering around the outdoor industry shows and company hallways. It seemed unfathomable that she was the only woman in this industry, but she sometimes felt as if that was the case. The following spring she met a couple of other women in the outdoor industry who would tell her about women working at various companies. “Oh, you’ve got to meet so-and-so," they'd say, but Cooke really wasn't sure how to go about meeting others who were also breaking ground in the outdoor market Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all Other articles |
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Industry Trailblazers: From the late 1950s to 1970s, a new group of industry pioneers made their mark on outdoor retail and manufacturing.
Jan 9, 2007 Inspired by the post-World War II generation of trailblazing outdoor gear and apparel creators, a new pool of design, manufacturing and retail talent emerged between the late 1950s and late 1970s. To a person, this second generation of pioneers strove to create unique gear and make the public more aware of the joy of outdoor pursuits. Either by coincidence or luck, their work was aided by three important national developments... Read Story | Comment on this story | Go to all Other articles |
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Orthosole insoles Mar 15, 2010 Choosing the right aftermarket insole is tricky. Orthosole came up with the cool concept of making a modular insole to suit a variety of activities and types of footwear. Read Review | Comment on this review | Go to all Product Reviews |
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Hoist V6 Personal Pulley Gym Mar 8, 2010 Hoist V6 Personal Pulley Gym fits into a relatively small space and allows you to everything from toning to strength training to serious weightlifting. Read Review | Comment on this review | Go to all Product Reviews |
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Ruffwear Sunshower jacket Mar 1, 2010 The Ruffwear Sunshower jacket keeps your pooch dry when you don't want a wet dog in the house or the car, not to mention on the couch or your lap. Read Review | Comment on this review | Go to all Product Reviews |
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ESCHLER e3: FLASH coldblack® Aug 14, 2009 The new FLASH fabric which utilizes the coldblack® technology by Schoeller. It allows dark textiles to no longer absorb, but reflect heat. Thus, coldblack® reduces heat build-up and provides reliable protection from UV-rays. Read Complete New Product Listing | Go to the GearTrends New Product Marketplace |
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Ariel 65 Mar 1, 2010 The Osprey Ariel 65 is an ideal size for a variety of backpacking adventures. With added features like J- Panel access, Stow-on-the- Go™ trekking pole attachment and an improved suspension technology, this backpack remains the #1 choice for adventurers of all calibers. Superb women's custom fit is achieved through torso specific sizing, and contoured women's harness and hipbelt. Colors available: Seaside, Salsa Read Complete New Product Listing | Go to the GearTrends New Product Marketplace |
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Raptor 6 Mar 1, 2010 The Osprey Raptor 6 is great for that after work spin on the local single track. It will carry all your essentials, including basic bike tools and a stretch woven front pocket will carry an extra layer. * 2-liter HydraForm™ Reservoir Included Read Complete New Product Listing | Go to the GearTrends New Product Marketplace |
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