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Article Thumbnail Did you hear?... Fitness pioneer Augie Nieto on The Today Show
Dec 29, 2006
Fitness pioneer Augie Nieto took his continuing campaign to raise funds to find a cure for Lou Gehrig’s disease to NBC’s Today Show Dec. 28 with a short segment as a part of the national show’s Christmas week series called “Today’s Real Heroes.”
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Article Thumbnail Did you hear?... MBA students win grant for run shoe mileage-tracking device
Dec 29, 2006
Proving that great ideas can come from anywhere, two MBA students enrolled in Babson College located in Wellesley, Mass., have received an $11,500 grant from the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) and the Lemelson Foundations to commercially develop their Stridekick running shoe tracking device.
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Article Thumbnail Fitness financials: Bally completes additional sale/leaseback transactions, reports annual meeting results, plus Nike, Cybex, Amer Sports, Finish Line, Wal-Mart
Dec 29, 2006
Fitness financials: Bally completes additional sale/leaseback transactions, reports annual meeting results. Nike Q2 surges on strong worldwide sales. Ryan Beck & Co. remains confident in Cybex. Amer Sports exercise of 2002 and 2003 warrants, offers 2004 stock options. Finish Line reports Q3 loss. Wal-Mart releases early Dec sales forecast.
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Article Thumbnail Nautilus sues Keys for alleged indoor cycle infringement
Dec 26, 2006
A complaint filed Dec. 22 in the U.S. District Court, District of Colorado, Nautilus Inc. alleges Keys Fitness has infringed several patents owned by Nautilus related to indoor exercise bikes.
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Article Thumbnail Did you hear?... Eating right, exercise resolutions not just for New Year
Dec 23, 2006
Although the public seems to focus on January New Year's resolutions as the time when most declare they will get in shape, a recent study showed that women make that resolve at least four times a year.
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Article Thumbnail Did you hear?... Nautilus to move fitness R&D; to Washington state, relocates apparel
Dec 20, 2006
In a move to beef up communication, cut costs, and improve product development across its brands, Nautilus has announced it will close its Louisville, Colo., fitness equipment product development arm and move staff there to corporate headquarters in Vancouver, Wash.
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Article Thumbnail SNEWS® Live: Augie Nieto, Life Fitness founder, strives to create a legacy in his quest to find a cure for ALS (Part 2)
Dec 18, 2006
After spending 28 years living his dream of business and personal success, a diagnosis of ALS left Augie Nieto, one of the founders of today’s modern fitness industry, reeling: Why me, was his question. But waiting to die is not with Nieto is all about. Within months he recruited stars, athletes and other fitness industry leaders to kick off Augie’s Quest to raise funds and awareness and to find a cure.
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Article Thumbnail The SNEWS® team wishes happy sugar-plum dreams to all!
Dec 18, 2006
`Tis the season … and we at SNEWS® and GearTrends® hope you and yours have a great Christmas and a safe and festive New Year. (And if you already celebrated Hanukkah, we hope it was merry and bright.) We will be taking off from Dec. 23 and will return Jan. 2. So don’t you be looking for an emailed SNEWS® News Digest until after the New Year. We will be spending time with family, neighbors and friends, getting outside to play, and generally enjoying a healthy and fit holiday – and we hope you will be too!
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Article Thumbnail Fitness financials: Deloitte Research predicts solid holiday season for retail, plus Nautilus, Nike
Dec 18, 2006
Deloitte Research: Increase in wages, low energy prices position market for solid holiday season. Analysts weigh in on Nautilus. Nike promotes four to vice presidents.
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Article Thumbnail Withering interest prompts ispo to revamp summer show to “sports & style”
Dec 15, 2006
A decline in the number of exhibitors and attendees at the summer ispo show has prompted organizers to go in a different direction, leaving behind the attempt to cover all major sports by category and instead allowing the event to evolve into one with a focus on fashion and softgoods. Now to be called “ispo sport & style,” the show will highlight segments that cross the lines between different sport categories, with an emphasis on apparel and footwear, and its ispovision segment will focus on the high-end style of such sports as golf, cricket and polo. Any attempt to represent outdoor as a separate community will be dropped other than how it and its brands cross-over into fashion and footwear.
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