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Article Thumbnail Outdoor financials: Quiksilver's Q3 profit plummets 53 percent, plus Forzani Group
Sep 9, 2009
Quiksilver said its third-quarter profit fell 53 percent as a drop in revenue offset its effort to cut costs, and Forzani Group swung to a quarterly loss.
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Article Thumbnail Patagonia ends marketing and sales relationship with SIGG after BPA news
Sep 7, 2009
Patagonia has informed SNEWS® that it has ended its co-branding and co-marketing relationship with SIGG as a direct result of the news first published by SNEWS on Aug. 19 that SIGG knew its bottles were lined with an epoxy coating that contained BPA prior to August 2008.
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Article Thumbnail Did you hear?…American execs work longer hours than foreign counterparts
Sep 7, 2009
Americans work a lot, probably too much, especially compared to the rest of the world. With Labor Day upon us, SNEWS® thought these results from a recent survey would enlighten: 61 percent of business leaders in the United States work 10 hours or more per day, while only 52 percent of business leaders in other countries put in this long of a day, according to a summer report from NFI Research.
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Article Thumbnail Nominate your SNEWS Power Players for 2010
Sep 7, 2009
The SNEWS® Power Players -- they are people who are innovative, inspirational, visionary, distinguished, compassionate, mentors. They are influencers of an industry and people, have uncommon power and thought, and quite typically, they are extraordinarily humble. Ten Power Players were named in 2009 in our first awards. You nominated them. Now, it's time for another set of outdoor industry SNEWS Power Players to step forward in 2010...but who they are is up to you.
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FTC again targeting violators of 17-year-old green marketing guidelines
Sep 4, 2009
The worst blow is the one you don’t see coming. Just ask Chris Gubera, president of Adventure Medical Kits. Gubera told SNEWS® he felt blindsided when his company was among those that got tangled in the Federal Trade Commission’s renewed efforts to enforce its 17-year-old guidelines for environmentally friendly product claims. On June 9, the FTC reported that AMK was violating FTC guidelines by labeling Fresh Bath Body Wipes as biodegradable, which is when the FTC also went after K-Mart Corp. and Dyna-E International.
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Article Thumbnail Did you hear?... Caddell & Chapman files class action complaint against SIGG
Sep 4, 2009
SNEWS® has obtained a copy of a class action complaint filed on Aug. 28 in the United States District Court, Western District of Kentucky, against SIGG. The complaint, brought by Caddell & Chapman of Houston, Texas, seeks “to represent a nationwide class of consumers who purchased SIGG reusable aluminum bottles that unbeknownst to them contain BPA” and alleges that the plaintiffs and the class they represent “paid more for SIGG bottles than other available alternatives because they believed SIGG’s representations that their bottles were BPA-free.”
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Article Thumbnail Business Solutions Forum: How do I deliver bad news well?
Sep 2, 2009
Q. I'm sure I'm not alone with this problem these days, but I have some bad news to deliver to my employees. My customers and suppliers will not be too pleased either. Do you have any tips on how best to deliver bad news?
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Article Thumbnail Reader Vibe: Familiarity and comfort in a climbing gym far from home
Sep 2, 2009
According to Google Maps, my local climbing gym is approximately 6.3 kilometers from my apartment. I'll have to walk two miles and take two buses to get there. Oh yeah...and cross a military checkpoint. As I walked through Beit Sahour today with sweat trickling down my back in the early-morning 90 degree heat, the Palestinian soldiers shifted their assault rifles, eyeing me dispassionately and the thought occurred to me that I might be off my rocker...
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Article Thumbnail Outdoor financials: Gander Mountain's Q2 loss widens, plus Amer Sports, Collective Brands
Sep 2, 2009
Gander Mountain's Q2 loss widens. Amer Sports prepares for share offering; considers Mavic sale. Collective Brands' Q2 sales down 8 percent.
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Laken disclosed BPA in liners to those who asked
Aug 31, 2009
In the Aug. 19, 2009, SNEWS® article, "Aluminum bottles you are selling may NOT be BPA-free," we stated, "At no time prior to this article did either SIGG or Laken admit or deny their linings contained BPA to the consumers…" Laken, which has been leading the push for transparency and BPA standards in bottles since early 2009, subsequently contacted SNEWS with proof that it did, in fact, disclose that its liners contained BPA to retailers who asked, beginning as early as April 2008.
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High Sierra Adds Kyle Kilcherman As Director of Sales - Sporting Goods
Dec 15, 2011
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