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Brociety.com has gone dark and sold its snowboard inventory to rival one-deal-at-a-time e-trailer WhiskeyMilitia.com. The companies said Brociety's narrow focus on snowboarding failed to draw enough customers...(9/2/2010)
* * * Forty-four million people participated in backyard,car and RV camping in the United States in 2009, nearly one million more participants than in the previous high of 1996, according to the 2010 Special Report on Camping, released by The Coleman Company Inc. and The Outdoor Foundation...(9/2/2010)
* * * The Timberland Company is escalating its green marketing activities with the launch of its biggest and most environmentally-focused marketing campaign yet -- Nature Needs Heroes. The campaign employs outdoor imagery and light-hearted humor to help convey the notion that...(9/2/2010)
* * * Quiksilver, Inc. has amended and extended its existing asset-based line of credit in the Americas region under substantially better terms, the company said Thursday...(9/2/2010)
* * * Stein Mart, Inc. said comparable store sales for the fiscal period ended August 28, 2010 climbed 8.5% due to a clearance event which accelerated revenue into the last weekend of the month...
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* * * The Buckle, Inc. said that comparable store net sales for the four-week period ended Aug. 28, 2010 decreased 3.5% from comparable store net sales for the same four-week period ended 2009...(9/2/2010)
* * * Snow+Rock has acquired Runners Need, the leading specialist running retailer in London, for an undisclosed sum...
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* * * The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. said comparable store sales for the four weeks ended August 28, 2010 decreased 4.6%. Total sales for the four weeks decreased 5.0% to $187.2 million compared with $197.0 million for the prior year period...
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* * * Costco Wholesale Corporation reported sales of $5.9 billion for the month of August, an increase of 9% from $5.4 billion in the same four-week period last year...(9/2/2010)
* * * Cotton futures prices rose to their highest levels since 1995 on concern that supplies will fall short amid rising demand from Asia...
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