The O’Melveny attorney and Co-Chair of the Sports Industry Group address some of the crucial issues that still must be addressed in the wake of the NCAA’s recent decision to allow student-athletes to benefit from the name, image and likeness in 2021.
Jared Robins, president of NoSweat, says the start-up is aiming to raise $1.5 million in Series A funding by the end of 2020. Performance, safety and hygiene are the pillars of the Minneapolis company. NoSweat makes performance headwear liners that you can peel and stick inside your headwear. The company is focusing on R&D and becoming a performance brand tied to its name.
Angelo Ng, who spent more than 18 years working for Levi Strauss in a variety of roles and nearly four years at Nike, has been hired by Wolverine Worldwide as the company’s first-ever Chief Merchant Officer. He is being charged with developing a merchandising growth strategy and innovation roadmap for Wolverine’s dozen brands, which include Merrell, Sperry and Saucony. He has three-year objectives but believes consumers will begin to see some of the changes by Summer 2020. We discuss these topic...
Jeff Garabedian, head of global performance running apparel for New Balance, discusses the brand’s third year as the race’s official footwear and apparel sponsor. He also touches on trail running, the use of reflectives in running apparel and the brand’s overall approach to its key race properties, which also include the London Marathon, Nagoya, Japan Women’s Marathon and Shanghai, China Half Marathon.
Monica Eaton-Cardone, the COO and Co-Founder of Chargebacks911 and Chief Information Officer of Global Risk Technologies, discusses security and fraud issues that may face retailers during the Holiday 2019 season, six days shorter than in 2018, and what measures specialty retailers should take to reduce chargeback and fraud losses during their most important selling period of the year.
Ed Schauder, who heads the sports law practice for Phillips Nizer in New York, talks about the far-reaching impact of possible legislation like California’s “Fair Pay to Play” Act on the future of collegiate sports and licensing. He has more than 30 years year experience in the sports and entertainment space, creating programs to protect and market intellectual property and negotiating licensing and corporate sponsorships and endorsement pacts.
Sky Outfitters, started by college student Keaton Hendricks, is selling socks, beanies and scarves. And the three-year old Indiana company, which follows a similar business strategy similar to Bombas, wants to help the nation’s less fortunate in homeless shelters in the process.
Sam Garzon, the founder and CEO of Miami-based UnoZero, says the young company’s name was inspired by all the soccer greats who have worn the number 10 on the pitch. Everyone from Pele and Zidane to Totti.
Mike Cosentino, founder and CEO of Big Peach Running Co., a seven-door run specialty retail chain based in Atlanta, made a bold move in August 2018, purchasing a 33-foot vehicle from a company in Marietta, GA that specializes in food trucks. He architected and fabricated his six-figure purchase himself before getting “Big Peach On Wheels” on the road to serve as a mobile, on-site store at schools, races and corporations across Georgia.
After nearly two decades in the business, Mary Steinebrunner is still in love with the protective footwear industry. And she’s always thinking about what might come next for her company, which shoes workers worldwide in food processing plants, on oil rigs and in the wild for weekend warriors and dairy farmers alike.
Irvin digs into the compression garment market and CEP’s role in advancing the category.
The NFL veteran says the menswear brands featured in his new “Back of the House” retail store and pop-up shops will allow customers to create their own aesthetic and sense of style.
The Rafter Club is embracing the creativity of basketball kicks and merging it into Italian-sourced dress shoes and boots. The brand wants to elevate basketball viewing culture to another level focused more on leather couches and scotch and less on beers at the sports bar.
Catching up with RIA Executive Director Terry Schalow, Nike’s Scott Gravatt, 361’s Ike Avalear, New Balance’s Tom Carleo, Altra’s Todd Dalhausser and Big Peach Running Co. owner Mike Cosentino.
Serving Boston’s diverse running community to Dan Fitzgerald is more about overdelivering services and less about simply selling stuff. The Heartbreak Hill Running Co. Co-Founder and president weighs in on the run specialty market, Beantown’s running scene and expansion for his current three-door specialty chain.
Catching up with athletes Jenny Simpson, Jake Wightman, VP of Running Tom Carleo and designers Drew Nyssen and Drew Spieth during New Balance’s global FuelCell launch in Brooklyn, NY.
The 31-year-old leader of the family-owned footwear company talks ‘Made in the USA,’ sustainability and the Buford, GA firm’s recent deals with J. Crew and Target.
Jesserer talks sock and what the Statesville, NC company is doing to keep its edge in performance and continue making products in the USA.
The former longtime Nike executive discusses how the Needham, MA company helps footwear and apparel firms address product counterfeiting, diversion/grey market and global logistics issues.
Sports & Fitness Industry Association CEO Tom Cove weighs in on current climate in Washington, D.C., the status of the PHIT Act and the debate over e-sports.
Marathoner and CEP senior executive Luke Rowe talks compression socks.
Shoe Dog and former Catholic priest Tom Adams talks tech and the real need to replace the centuries-old shoelace.
DeMarini executives Josh Stenzler, a sports advanced innovation engineer, and Aaron Gillette, associate marketing manager, talk baseball bats and the uniqueness of the brand’s new 2020 Gattaca BBCOR bat.
San Antonio Shoemakers CEO Nancy Richardson talks about the casual, comfort footwear market and domestic manufacturing. Music from https://filmmusic.io: "Werq" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
CEO of RIP-IT addresses face mask protection for female softball players. Music from filmmusic.io: "Werq" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) License: CC(creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
The CEO of Icybreeze talks about the wonder of a portable cooling solution. Music from filmmusic.io: "Werq" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) License: CC(creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Director of product development for Star Micronics discusses world of retail point-of-sale and customer engagement. Music from https://filmmusic.io: "Werq" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
VP of Sales for 2UNDR goes beneath the surface to detail the men’s performance underwear market.
The president and director of the United Inventors Association talks strategies for young creators.
Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America's Matt Priest looks ahead to issues facing the industry in 2019.
