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Article Thumbnail SNEWS Youth Team: Buying motivation
Jan 10, 2011
Everybody wants to know what influences and motivates millennials to open their wallets. So we asked our SNEWS Youth Advisory & Reporting Team (YART) and a few Outdoor Nation (ON) Ambassadors for a short story in our SNEWS Winter 2011 magazine to tell us what affects their decisions about products or brands. Here you’ll read expanded answers.
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Article Thumbnail SNEWS Outdoor Summer 2010 web extras: Hoka One One embraces the anti-barefoot shoe
Check out this expanded magazine extra from the SNEWS Outdoor Summer 2010 issue about Hoka One One's take on footwear design.
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Article Thumbnail SNEWS Outdoor Summer 2010 web extras: What’s ahead for sleeping pads in 2011
Check out this expanded magazine extra from the SNEWS Outdoor Summer 2010 issue on sleeping pad trends for 2011.
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Article Thumbnail 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.
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Article Thumbnail 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.
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Article Thumbnail 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...
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Article Thumbnail 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.
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Article Thumbnail 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.
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Article Thumbnail Web Extras: Are you doing enough exercise for your bones?
Jul 15, 2007
There are all kinds of devices these days that can be clipped on waists, legs, wrists and arms, not to mention ones a person stands on or holds, that are designed to tell somebody something about what's going on inside their body.
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Article Thumbnail Web Extras: Disaster planning – Are you Prepared?
Jul 5, 2006
Are You Prepared? -- A quiz excerpted from the Open For Business Toolkit: 10 questions you should answer …
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Dads wanted: Piggyback Rider® forming JoePro Ambassador Team
May 16, 2012
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Dash for Cash is back in Freeport, June 2
May 16, 2012
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Evolv Footwear Adds Caraway and Co. as Reps in Southern California, Ar
May 16, 2012
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Exotac Announces New Partnership with Drosselmeyer Design Group
May 16, 2012
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Footbalance Taps Diverse Experience of Robinson Outdoor Group to Drive
May 16, 2012
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Merchandising makeover: Fly fishing superstore revamps while integrating concept build-out
May 16, 2012
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Smart move, SmartWool: Company to offer running apparel, sports bras
May 16, 2012
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Dick’s Sporting Goods reports strong first quarter
May 15, 2012
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Jan 25, 2012
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