Accelerating from 2024’s 2.0% improvement, total hardgoods sales increased 3.1% last year to $112,240 million from $108,842 million, led by the largest companies, with eight of the top 10 posting sales growth.

With Maggie Gauger’s surprise departure to rival Lululemon, Athleta’s chief marketing officer, Erika Everett, will take the reins on an interim basis until the company finds a permanent successor, according to a company internal memo viewed by Bloomberg.

Now that most Holiday merchandise has arrived in stores and warehouses, imports at U.S. container ports dipped 1% in Aug. to 2.30 million Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units, according to the NRF and Hackett Associates’ Global Port Tracker report.

The Federal Trade Commission prompted Gildan and S&S Holdings to remove exclusive pricing terms from their partnership agreement after a review found that S&S’s contract with GIL prohibited it from offering similar pricing and discounts to competitors.

Los Angeles Police arrested Wassem Saman, owner of Shoes n Shoes, with $1 million worth of goods allegedly stolen from BNSF and Union Pacific Railroad train property.