A survey by the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association (SGMA) shows that 83.5 percent of its members are expecting a further increase in their domestic sales, while only 61.2 percent predict that their sales abroad will go up. The SGMA points out that the sporting goods market underperformed the rest of the economy in the U.S. during the 2008-09 recession, but grew more than the gross domestic product in both of the last two years. The American sporting goods industry's revenues declined by 3.2 percent in 2008 and by 4.3 percent in 2009. They then rose by 3.0 percent in 2010 and by 4.2 percent in 2011. They reached a total of $77.3 billion at the wholesale level in the past year.

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