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Cabela’s, a cross-channel retailer of hunting, fishing and outdoor gear, plans to hire up to 250 full-time, part-time and seasonal employees to staff its new Charleston, W.Va. store scheduled to open this summer. This will be Cabela’s second retail store in West Virginia. It will showcase thousands of quality products, including hunting, fishing, camping and other outdoor gear, as well as outdoor clothing, gifts and furnishings.

The Business Journal Ellen Brothers, president of American Girl, and only the second person to lead the Middleton company since it was founded in 1986, will retire later this year. See all your followed company news on your personalized dashboard. To access the full benefits of bizWatch and receive a weekly email with aggregated news on all the companies you are following, please provide your email address below. Sign Up Now You must have a bizjournals account to follow a company. Please Log In or Register. Read More at Related: Manufacturing, Retailing & Restaurants, Middleton, Dane County Tweet <

Bonobos, a brand that sells men’s clothing online, has raised $16.4 million led by retail giant Nordstrom, with Accel Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners participating. In addition to the funding, Nordstrom will now sell Bonobos clothing at a number of its stores and on Nordstrom.com. The deal with Nordstrom will be the first time the brand is available in-store and online outside Bonobos.com and the company’s New York City headquarters’ showroom store.

Minneapolis -- A Thursday report in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune said that Best Buy’s investigations into former CEO Brian Dunn’s personal conduct includes allegations of an inappropriate relationship with a female employee. According to the newspaper, Dunn is said to have used company resources in the course of the relationship. It quoted an unnamed source as saying “the company is investigating multiple complaints that Dunn behaved inappropriately with a female subordinate.” Best Buy announced Tuesday that Dunn had resigned.

Bonobos, a brand that sells custom fit mens clothing online, has raised $16.4 million led by retail giant Nordstrom, with Accel Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners participating. This brings the company’s total funding to nearly $40 million. In addition to the funding, Nordstrom will now sell Bonobos clothing at a number of its stores and on Nordstrom.com. The news was originally reported by the New York Times. Bonobos is best known for launching an online site to help men find better-fitting pants. The company debuted in 2007 with their signature pants, and eventually expanded to offer

Apple Inc. and publishers Penguin and Macmillan have decided to fight U.S. government charges that they conspired to fix the prices of e-books, even as three other publishers agreed to a settlement aimed at lowering prices for consumers. The Justice Department accused Apple of colluding with five publishers as the Silicon Valley giant was launching its iPad in early 2010 and was seeking to break up Amazon's low-cost dominance in the digital book market.

Scandinavian-based Casall, Europe's premium fitness apparel line for more than 30 years and one of the world's first companies to design fashionable fitness apparel specifically for women, has launched in the U.S. with a robust online presence for consumers. "Casall's functional styles are designed to inspire people to perform their best, look their best and feel their best," says U.S. General Manager Morgan Bayer. "This is what we like to call our Total Wellness Lifestyle."

(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The nation's largest specialty golf retailer will swing into the Baltimore market just in time for the golf season. The newest Golfsmith location provides area golfers with an unrivaled golf retail experience. The 22,000 square foot facility is Golfsmith's first Maryland store and one of the largest specialty golf stores in the state, offering golfers the ability to try out equipment right inside one of four indoor, high-tech hitting simulators, or on an indoor putting green. Golfers of all levels can also sharpen their skills with a biometric, video-recorded golf lesson taught by a certified GolfTEC

Wal-Mart has postponed its previously announced store openings in Washington, D.C., according to The Washington Post. Initially six stores were slated to open by the end of 2012. Now the company doesn't plan to open its first store in the city until the end of 2013. The retailer faced resistance from activists and opponents, eventually leading to the extended timeline. Only one of the six planned stores will open by the end of 2013.