Running Insight - August, 2008
KC’s Elite Feet has a new home
Don and Leslie Nottberg, owners of Elite Feet of Kansas City, have moved to a bigger space. The Nottbergs have been in the specialty run store business for 28 years and recently traded up to a 2900 square foot location in the same shopping center as ...
Peel Sports launches accessory brand
Two west coast entrepreneurs backed by two Chinese factory owners have launched Peel Sports, a specialty accessory company with an emphasis on designed products. Industry veterans Brock Reed and Tom Lukens launched Peel earlier this year. The nam...
UK Gear launches Extreme Climate Training Shoes
UK Gear has introduced two extreme climate training shoes developed in conjunction with the British Army. The PT 03 Desert was tested in Afghanistan and is a tough, sandproof running shoe. The shoe comes with detachable gaiters and a heat-resistant g...
Going for the Green: Eco-Conscious Races
The buzz about the greening of the running industry often focuses on materials and product innovation. That’s understandable. It’s where the wow factor is. But increasingly, those on the event side of the business, in the form of road race organizers...
Regular retail is biting the big one
July sales figures dipped by .1 percent in July, led by a sharp drop in automobile sales, according to the Commerce Department, which also indicated sales were weak at restaurants, health care stores and sporting goods shops. The drop in sales wa...
Not Every Frog Is A Prince: Can You Recognize The Princes (And Princesses) And Lead Them To Success? – Part 5
We are concluding our series on Leading and Motivating Staff with the solutions to the Situational Leadership case studies introduced in Part 4. For those of you who are tuning in just now, here is a brief summary of what we covered in the previous i...
Running Shorts
There are certain days when running store owners would like to “blow up” their stores. Well Mike Shuman of Shu’s Idaho Running Company blew up his logo by working with a company called Inflatable 2000. Shuman plans to use the blow up logo at events a...
Salomon, Nokia combine on consumer promotion
Salomon is teaming up with Nokia to provide runners with a new high-tech way to track their running adventures and share them with the world. The Salomon XT Challenge awards a pair of Salomon XT Wings and a Nokia Nseries Smartphone to runners who dr...
The Athletes Foot parent restructures debt; CEO resigns
NexCen brands and its subsidiaries have completed a restructuring of its bank credit facility by agreeing to amended and restated borrowing security and related agreements with BTMU Capital Corp. The amended and restated agreements replace all th...
IRRA rolls out vendor program for The Running Event
The IRRA is working with Formula4Media to help drive traffic to vendors’ booths during The Running Event this November, and help exhibitors write orders at the show if that is their goal. This new promotion is available to all exhibitors that are ...
Moving Comfort: What’s Down The Road
Perhaps no brand has done more to educate and innovate when it comes to the sports bra market than Moving Comfort has. The brand, which introduced the industry’s first women’s-specific running shorts in 1977, has built a niche as a go-to sports bra b...
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