Board Retailers Association (BRA) is a non-profit trade association representing almost 500 action sport retailers in the surf, skate, snow, wake, kite, and wind industry with over 3,000 storefronts across the country.
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- Location:
- Wilmington, NC, 28403
- Phone:
- 910-509-0109
Events
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- Retail Survivor Series
Surf Expo, August 2009, Orange Coun...
Wednesday, August 19 at 9:00am
Board Retailers Association (BRA)
Roy Turner at Surf Expo turned me onto this interesting read about company or manufacturer stores versus independently owned specialty shops...
After trouble in 2008 with the NSSA pulling out and then returning to membership in Surfing America, the organization is once again plagued with dissention...
According to The Wall Street Journal, retailers are reporting some encouraging trends from October as they head into the holiday shopping season. Sales during the month, traditionally a time of fall clearance, were better than expected for many retailers, according to analysts’ estimates. ...
Retailer Survivor Series Tools for Succeeding in Today’s Economy BRA Retail Certification Program The Board Retailers Association (BRA) is hosting two Retailer Survivor Series one day prior to the opening of the Surf Expo trade show on January 13, 2010 and the ASR trade show on February 2, 2010. ...
According to Forrester Research Inc., online holiday sales are expected to rise 8 percent. Will any of this trickle down to online specialty shops in the action sports industry? That is yet to be determined...
THE American government reported on Thursday October 29th that gross domestic product rose at an annualised rate of 3.5% in the third quarter compared with the second. This was the first increase since the second quarter of 2008...
CIT Group plans to file for bankruptcy in New York as soon as Sunday night or early Monday. CIT is poised to enter bankruptcy with enough creditor support to approve its reorganization plan and shorten its stay in Chapter 11...
Sports Authority announced Wednesday that Doug Morton, 59, will be retiring as chief executive. Morton, who has been with the sporting-goods retailer for 22 years, will remain as chairman...
The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Board of Directors met this month and announced some changes to professional surfing effective 2010. Among the top changes include moving to a one-world rating system and decreasing the number of ASP World surfers on tour from 45 to 32...
As reported by CA Apparel News. Retailers are responding to the recession by keeping inventories lean, renegotiating their leases, and using technology to boost efficiency and maintain cash flow...
While Holiday Sales are expected to drop 1% in 2009, it is still a marked improvement from the 3.4% drop in 2008. Hopefully the smaller decline in holiday sales is an indication that retail sales have bottomed out and the market is slowly stabilizing, if not recovering...
Congratulations to BRA Co-Chairs D. Nachnani of Coastal Edge and Duke Edukas of Surfside Sports (and his partner Paul Burnett) for winning the Breakthrough Retailer of the Year and Men’s Retailer of the Year at the SIMA Image Awards in Cabo last week. ...
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/surfexpo?e We, the undersigned core skate shops have come together for the purpose of petitioning skate and shoe manufacturers to attend the upcoming Surf Expo tradeshow, January 14 -16, 2010, in Orlando, Florida at the Orange County Convention Center...
The Small Business Administration issued year-end figures for fiscal 2009, and the numbers aren’t pretty. About 25,000 fewer entrepreneurs received SBA loans, and the dollar value of those loans plunged 27%. ...
Some retailers could be forced to lay off workers or close stores unless Congress moves quickly to pass “net operating loss carryback” tax legislation that would give them the cash they need to buy inventory for this year’s holiday season. “Bec...
