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Denver, CO - SnowSports Industries America (SIA) is reporting a six-year attendance high for its annual Snow Show recently held for the first time at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Jan. 28-31, 2010. The sold-out Snow Show attracted 18,932 attendees and featured over 3,100 booths representing 845 snow sports brands, including 125 new exhibitors.
McLean, VA - According to the SnowSports Industries America (SIA) Retail Audit Report released this week, Snow Sports market sales reached $2.26 billion in January with a .4% gain in dollars sold compared with August through January last season.
Park City, UT - Generations of men and boys have drooled at posters of Lange girls adorning ski shop, college dorm and bedroom walls. Continuing this tradition, the ski boot maker has announced this year's winners of its Local Lange Girl contest.
Boulder, CO - Most people know that Alpine sports fans ring cowbells to support the skiers and snowboarders. And some may know the reason behind that tradition - it's just hard to make noise clapping in mittens and gloves - but with this Olympics being the first in history to benefit from new technologies like the iPhone App Store, the cowbell has taken a new form.
Waltham, MA - After 39 years of serving skiers and snowboarders across southern New England, Waltham, Mass.-basedSki Market is closing its doors for good. The company's going-out-of-business sale is now underway at all seven Ski Market stores located in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Denver, CO - SnowSports Industries America's (SIA) inaugural Snow Show in Denver brought together media, athletes, personalities and politicians, along with ski and snowboard equipment suppliers and buyers, to the halls of the Colorado Convention Center last week to mull over the latest equipment and apparel trends. After years in Las Vegas, finding their way around a new city and convention hall took a little practice for longtime attendees of the giant ski and snowboard industry trade show, but it was hard to resist the friendly city that holds the number spot for urban snow sports purchases.
McLean, VA - According to SnowSports Industries America's (SIA) latest Retail Audit, ski and snowboard equipment and apparel holiday sales showed modest gains over last season's holiday sales, but a healthy snowstorm and atypically cold temperatures in the South drove stronger sales for that region that carried the ball for the industry overall.
Reno, NV - Nanotechnology seems a daunting subject, but for mechanical engineering students at the University of Nevada, Reno, it has taken on a real world approach – in Ski Building 101.
Provo, UT - A plethora of ski and snowboard related applications written for the iPhone and iPod Touch are hitting the market this season, including a new free ad-supported offering called iSki from Utah-based Apptime.
Boulder, CO - After years in development, Boulder's Backcountry Access has finally shipped its long-awaited Tracker2 avalanche beacon, the successor to the popular Tracker DTS. Concurrently, the Boulder-based firm has also released a simplified, and less costly, avalanche airbag system.
McLean, VA - Overall ski and snowboard equipment, apparel and accessory sales from August to November were about even with those from August to November 2008, but equipment sales slowed significantly. Conservative buying trends the previous year, however, left many retailers selling through their inventories earlier in the season this year.
McLean, VA - According to the SnowSports Industries America (SIA) Retail Audit Report released Wednesday, the 2009-10 ski and snowboard equipment buying season is well underway and sales results from August to October were healthy, particularly in apparel and accessories.
Sunnyvale, CA - BerrySki has launched the first Blackberry application that not only uses the handheld device's GPS capabilities to show your location on a ski area's trail map, but also to log details of your day on the slopes.
Burlington, VT - Burton on Friday unveiled the U.S. Snowboard Team Uniforms for the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics. This February, as the U.S. Snowboard Team steps onto the world's stage in Vancouver, they will wear key hallmarks of the Burton brand and the snowboard culture featuring Gore-Tex technology.
Vail, CO - Skiset, Europe's largest ski and snowboard rental company, has expanded to North America and plans to have over 70 stores at major ski resorts in the United States and Canada for the 2009-10 winter ski season.
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