{"id":360,"date":"2011-06-22T07:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/2011\/06\/specialty-apparel-companies-in-the-news\/"},"modified":"2011-06-22T07:52:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T11:52:00","slug":"specialty-apparel-companies-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2011\/06\/specialty-apparel-companies-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Specialty Apparel Companies in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\"><span style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\">Hat World Inc. has acquired sporting goods retailer Buckeye Corner. Buckeye Corner operates BuckeyCorner.com, four retail locations in the Columbus, OH area, a catalog business and specializes in sports apparel, accessories and novelties officially licensed by Ohio State University.<\/span><span style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\">Hat World is a unit of Genesco Inc. and was acquired in 2004. The company is continuously growing. This is its fourth acquisition since May 2010. In September of last year, Hat World bought Anaconda Sports Inc., a sporting goods dealer that operates an e-retail site and direct mail catalog business. Earlier last year, the retailer acquired Sports Avenue, which operates 13 e-commerce sites and 46 stores, and Brand Athletics Inc., a team apparel and equipment dealer, custom screen printer and embroidery operator. In November 2010 Genesco acquired Impact Sports in Madison, WI, and Great Plains Sports in St. Paul, MN in 2009 and put under control of Hat World.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\">Contstantly acquiring smaller companies and opening new stores all the time, Genesco reported over 2,300 retail footwear and headwear stores in operation at the end of its last fiscal year. For more information on companies such as Hat World, Buckeye Corner and Genesco visit Chain Store Guide&#8217;s databases of<strong><em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/c-75-apparel-specialty-stores.aspx\">Apparel Specialty Stores and Department Stores<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(for shoe retailers).<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">To find out more about<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/c-75-apparel-specialty-stores.aspx\">\u00a0<em>Apparel Specialty Stores<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">and\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/c-79-department-stores.aspx\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Department Stores<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0visit\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/\">www.chainstoreguide.com<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"float: left; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-right: 1em; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: left;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retailvoice.net\/profile\/NatashaPerry\" style=\"clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"107\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/static_content\/mailblast\/natasha-headshot.jpg\" style=\"cursor: move;\" width=\"83\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\">Natasha Perry,<br \/>Research Editor<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong>Natasha Perry\u00a0<\/strong><em>Research Editor<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Natasha has held several management positions in the apparel industry. She received her bachelor\u2019s degree in Marketing Management from FL Southern College.<\/p>\n<p>Please\u00a0<\/span><\/span><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/mailto:nperry@csgis.com\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">contact her<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/u><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0if you have questions or comments.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hat World Inc. has acquired sporting goods retailer Buckeye Corner. Buckeye Corner operates BuckeyCorner.com, four retail locations in the Columbus, OH area, a catalog business and specializes in sports apparel, accessories and novelties officially licensed by Ohio State University. Hat World is a unit of Genesco Inc. and was acquired in 2004. The company is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2011\/06\/specialty-apparel-companies-in-the-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Specialty Apparel Companies in the News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[6,5],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apparel-department","tag-csg-old","tag-insight","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}