Jeff Miller, who was instrumental in the growth of family owned team dealer Scholastic Sports Sales in Manlius, New York and served on the NSGA Board of Directors, unexpectedly passed away on December 19, 2024. Miller was 69.
DOWNERS GROVE, ILLINOIS (December 19, 2024) – According to the US Census Bureau’s Monthly Retail Trade Report, sales for sporting goods stores during the month of October reached $4.6 billion, representing a decrease of 3.5 percent versus the prior year. Information for November will be available next month. Important side note: As a reminder, in … Continued
Working for people active in sports was more appealing to Rusty Saunders than the action of working on Wall Street. Saunders, who spent 60-plus years in the industry and was inducted into the Sporting Goods Industry Hall of Fame in 2013, passed away on December 8.
Bill Battle translated his success on the football field as a player and coach into a game-changing impact in the licensing of collegiate products. Battle’s legacy led to his induction into the Sporting Goods Industry Hall of Fame in 2016 and NSGA was saddened to hear about Battle’s passing on November 27 after a battle with cancer. Battle was 82.
The Merchants Payments Coalition (MPC) testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, January 19 that rising credit card “swipe” fees cost small businesses and their customers billions of dollars each year and called for passage of the Credit Card Competition Act (CCCA) to bring the fees under control.
Craig W. Koenig, who served the National Sporting Goods Association (NSGA) as Board Chairman, passed away on November 16. Koenig was 81.
DOWNERS GROVE, ILLINOIS (October 21, 2024) – According to the US Census Bureau’s Monthly Retail Trade Report, sales for sporting goods stores during the month of August reached $5.5 billion, representing a decrease of 5.3 percent versus the prior year. Information for September will be available next month. Important side note: As a reminder, in … Continued
The holiday season is quickly approaching and the National Sporting Goods Association (NSGA) has been keeping note of various 2024 holiday sales growth forecasts released by multiple organizations.
Wintersteiger, Inc., announced that the Phenix Project sales agency has been appointed as the new sales representatives for Wintersteiger Sports and Bootdoc Hotronic in the Great Lakes Territory, effective January 1, 2025.
The Merchants Payments Coalition welcomed the announcement that the U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Visa alleging that some of its debit card practices are anticompetitive and violate federal antitrust law.
