Nitches Inc., parent company of NAP Inc., a $100 million innerwear firm, is expanding its intimates, sleepwear and loungewear businesses to include retail with the acquisition of Backwoods Equipment ...

Austin-based Backwoods, a retailer of outdoors equipment and clothing which has a store in Fort Worth, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy citing competitive pressures from online and big-box ...

Although his new role is still being defined, Neptune Mountaineering founder Gary Neptune will still be allowed to walk around the store barefoot, as is his custom, according to the store’s new owner.

Dynamic Earth, a community-based outdoor store founded in 2002 by Matt O'Reilly, was purchased today by Backwoods, a family-owned outdoor retail company with corporate offices in Austin, Tex.