All Rocky Brands articles
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ArticleRocky Brands’ Q4 sales drop 9.3% due to unexpected headwinds
Rocky Brands reported sales of $126.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2023, down by 9.3 percent compared to the year-earlier but still an improvement on the previous quarter and the slowest rate of sales decline for the year. Sales were down by 6 percent when service brand sales, divested ...
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News briefsRocky Brands’ CFO departs
Sarah O’Connor, SVP, CFO, and Treasurer for Ohio-based Rocky Brands, has resigned. O’Connor had only officially taken over the post in March this year. Tom Robertson, the company’s COO who served as CFO from March 2017 until February, will re-assume CFO duties until a permanent successor is identified. O’Connor’s departure ...
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News briefsRocky Brands sees business positioned for H2 improvement
Despite experiencing strong sell-throughs at several major U.S. wholesale accounts, U.S. footwear company Rocky Brands reported a 38 percent decline in Q2 sales to $99.8 million from $162.0 million for the period ended June 30. Wholesale segment revenues declined by 45.5 percent to $71.5 million and fell by 3.6 percent ...
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ArticleRocky Brands posts gross margin improvement despite loss
Helped by product price increases in 2022 and lower logistics costs, Rocky Brands improved its Q1 gross margin by 200 basis points to 39.6 percent. But the Georgia Boot parent reported a 69 percent decline in operating income to $4,155,000 against $13,197,000 for the period ended March 31. The Q1 ...
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ArticleAnalysis: More than half of the outdoor stocks make gains in Q1
Our Q1 Outdoor Index includes the revenue and profit development of 37 major outdoor companies.
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ArticleAfter an 18% decline in Q4, Rocky Brands expects sales to drop 7-9% in 2023
Rocky Brands expects sales to decline by about 7 to 9 percent in 2023 to $560-570 million from the $615.5 million seen in 2022, as it pointed to continued economic uncertainty after posting an 18.0 percent decline in revenues in the fourth quarter of 2022. “With the outlook for the ...
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News briefsNew CFO and COO at Rocky Brands
Rocky Brands, mother of Durango and Georgia brands among others, has hired Sarah O’Connor as senior vice president, chief financial officer, and treasurer. O’Connor will officially join the company in mid-March. At that time Tom Robertson, who has served as Rocky Brands chief financial officer and treasurer since March 2017, ...
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ArticleRocky Brands lowers FY revenue outlook
Despite reporting steady or strong sales from its portfolio of footwear brands during the third quarter, Rocky Brands has lowered its FY revenue outlook due to a difficult, year-over-year sales comparison in the fourth quarter. Through nine months, the parent of the Durango and Georgia brands, among others, had a ...
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ArticleRugged outdoor footwear market rebounds in 2021
After a disappointing 2020, impacted adversely by the global pandemic, the global branded outdoor shoe market returned to growth last year. Worldwide rugged outdoor footwear sales climbed 28 percent higher to $6,756 million in U.S. dollars in 2021, based on research conducted by the Outdoor Industry Compass in partnership with Sporting Goods Intelligence.
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News briefsRocky Brands has a COO
U.S. footwear company Rocky Brands, Inc. announced that its CFO, Tom Robertson, has been promoted to the newly created position of chief operating officer, responsible for overseeing business operations. Robertson, who is also currently the executive VP of the company, joined Rocky Brands in 2016 as a senior financial analyst ...
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ArticleAnalysis: Global outdoor stock index falls by double-digits again in Q3
According to the latest Outdoor Industry Compass quarterly study of 37 select stocks which sell products into the outdoor recreation market, the segment Index fell by a double-digit percentage for a third consecutive period but by less than in the first (-17.84%) or second (-21.18%) quarters. Only four stocks – ...
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News briefsRocky Brands sells overshoe brand
Rocky Brands has sold Neos Overshoe to the tool and equipment manufacturer SureWerx, at undisclosed terms. Along with The Original Muck Boot Company, Xtratuf, Servus and Ranger, Neos Overshoe was part of Honeywell’s footwear business, which Rocky Brands acquired in March 2021. In March of this year, SureWerx made another ...
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News briefsRocky Brands’ margins hurt by cost pressures
Rocky Brands suffered a significant decline in second-quarter gross margin to 33.2 percent from 37.4 percent in the year-ago quarter due to higher products and inbound freight costs coupled with higher logistics expenses. Despite the negative impacts, the company said it did not experience any noticeable sales slowdown related to ...
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ArticleRocky Brands almost doubles Q1 net sales driven by strong wholesale performance
U.S. footwear company Rocky Brands’ sales for the three months to March 31 rose 90.5 percent year on year to $167.0 million. The figure includes $64.0 million in net revenue from the company’s Boston Group, compared with $6.5 million in the same period last year. The Boston group includes The ...
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ArticleOutdoor and bike industry stocks fall nearly 18% in Q1
Our quarterly analysis of the outdoor stock market shows a 17.84 percent sequential decline in the average stock prices of 31 public companies primarily involved in the outdoor and bicycle sectors between Jan. 1 and March 31. Broader market conditions weighed on the sector, which had posted stock price increases ...
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ArticleRocky Brands targets savings as Q4 net sales soar
U.S. footwear company Rocky Brands said it is targeting cost savings and synergies after integrating Honeywell International’s performance and lifestyle footwear business last year as it reported a 93.4 percent surge in fourth-quarter net sales. The company, which called the $230m acquisition “transformational”, said sales for the three months to ...
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ArticleInventory overload affects Rocky Brands’ Q3
In the period ended Sep. 30, U.S. footwear company Rocky Brands reported “temporary fulfillment challenges” and a doubling in operating costs to $44.2 million. The increase in expenses was driven primarily by integrating the brands The Original Muck Boot Company, Xtratuf, Servus, NEOS and Ranger acquired in March for $230 ...
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ArticleNew acquisitions help Rocky Brands stride forward in Q2
Rocky Brands reported a 60 percent rise in second-quarter earnings as incremental sales from Muck Boot, XTRATUF, Servus, Neo and Ranger brands acquired from Honeywell in March made a healthy contribution to revenues. Net income rose to $3.89 million from $2.44 million in the three months to June 30 as ...
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ArticleOutdoor company stocks continue to gain ground in Q2
From the first quarter to the second quarter of 2021, the 32 outdoor stocks we track were up 13.82 percent. Neither the bike nor the retail companies had a major impact here, but rather a few of the large groups such as Anta Sports, Vista Outdoor and American Outdoor Brands, ...
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News briefsHoneywell acquisitions fuel Rocky Brands’ fishing and outdoor business
At Baird’s virtual 2021 Global Consumer, Technology Services Conference, Rocky Brands said the addition of the Muck , Xtratuf , Servus , Neos and Ranger brands is pushing the company further into the fishing category and the booming outdoor market in general. Rocky Brands ...
