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News briefsAnta Sports provides Q1 update
Chinese group Anta Sports, which sells the Anta, Fila, Descente and Kolon Sport brands, has updated its Q1 results. The company said Anta branded sales rose by a mid-single digit in the period that ended March 31. Q1 Fila brand sales increased by a high single digit. Meanwhile, year-over-year retail ...
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ArticleIrving invests in sneaker marketplace Kicks Crew
Kicks Crew, a global sneaker and apparel e-commerce platform founded in 2013 and based in Los Angeles, California, has secured international basketball athlete, artist and actor Kyrie Irving as an investor. The athlete, sponsored by Chinese sporting goods brand Anta and also serving as the brand’s Chief ...
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News briefsAnta Sports provides Q3 operational update
The Chinese company Anta Sports disclosed some details on its Q3 results for its brands except for its joint venture ownership of Amer Sports Corp. Anta brand sales rose by high-single digits during the period ended Sep. 30. Meanwhile, year-over-year Fila brand sales increased by a low-teens percentage. Retail sales ...
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AnalysisMarket Analysis: The athletic footwear market 2022
Our annual summary of the athletic footwear market brings you the global revenue of 25 companies and compares how 2022 shaped up against 2021.
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News briefsAnta signs sustainable business initiative at SDG summit
Chinese sportswear maker Anta Group announced that it has signed the “Business in Action—Sustainable Industrial Development Commitments” during the Second United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit, the highest-level United Nations summit in the field of sustainable development, which was held on Sept. 18-19 in New York. Furthermore, Anta Group’s ...
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ArticleAnta Sports gets H1 sales lift from all segments, brands
Anta Sports Products Ltd. achieved a 32 percent increase in H1 operating profit to 7,623 million yuan renminbi (€1.02bn) for the six months ended June 30. Gross margin improved by 130 basis points to 63.3 percent from 62.0 percent, while profit attributable to shareholders increased by 40 percent to RMB ...
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News briefsFila pushes sales at Anta Sports, all brands with strong performances
Second-quarter sales were up for all brands at Anta Sports Products Ltd. The Anta brand generated high-single-digit, year-over-year sales growth, while the Fila brand posted high-teens positive, year-over-year sales growth for the period. Retail sales of all other brands sold by the group were up 70 to 75 percent. For ...
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News briefsIrving is Anta’s new Chief Creative Officer, signs 5-year deal
A month ago, we wondered if Kyrie Irving had signed a deal with Chinese sporting goods manufacturer Anta. Now we have clarity, as it has been announced that the Dallas Mavericks guard has agreed to a five-year shoe deal with the brand. A statement from Anta says Irving’s signature shoes ...
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News briefsHas Anta signed Kyrie Irving?
Talksole has posted a photo on Instagram that swirls the rumor mill around Kyrie Irving, whose contract with Nike was terminated last November after public statements related to anti-Semitism. In the said photo, the NBA player is wearing a black pair of the Shock Wave Pro 5 shoes of the ...
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News briefsAnta Rus opens flagship store in Moscow
Anta Rus, the Russian distributor of Chinese sporting goods company Anta Sports, has launched a 360-sqm store in Moscow, which the company said is going to serve as the flagship for the brand on the local market. The outlet is the biggest mono-brand Anta store not only in Russia but ...
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Infographics & DataChinese consumer preferences
McKinsey sees a Chinese market with “robust underlying demand.” But what leads to consumers’ preference for local over international brands?
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Infographics & DataAnnual advertising expenses 2021
These exclusive, yearly charts shows advertising expenses for 13 major global sportswear brands for the year 2021 and their year-on-year change.
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News briefsFila returns to growth in China
After a weak first half in which premium brand Fila suffered from zero-Covid closures in China, retail sales grew in the low teens year-on-year in the third quarter. Anta Sports, which co-owns the brand in China through a joint venture with Fila Korea, said in an update that Fila outperformed ...
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ArticleMarket Analysis: The sports apparel market
This is an exclusive, yearly statistic available only to subscribers of SGI Europe. It includes revenue and market-share development, as well as a regional breakdown, of the major global sports apparel brands.
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Infographics & DataInternational sports apparel market 2020
This chart shows the revenues, growth and market share of the top 26 sports apparel brands in 2020 vs. 2019. The chart and data can be downloaded. This is exclusive data and analysis for Premium Members.
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Infographics & DataThe largest athletic footwear brands 2020
This chart shows the revenue development of the top 24 athletic footwear brands brands in 2020 vs 2019. The chart and data can be downloaded. This is exclusive data and analysis for Premium Members.
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ArticleAnta's sales go up by 55.5%, profits more than double in H1
Anta Sports Products saw revenues jump by 55.5 percent to 22,812 million yuan renminbi (€2,999m-$3,524m) in the six months ended June 30, supported by strong growth in all brands and benefiting from the easing of Covid-19 restrictions. Like other Chinese sports companies, Anta has also seen demand boosted amid government-backed ...
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Anta joins the list of the most valuable apparel brands
Anta and Asos joined the list of the world’s ten most “valuable” apparel brands outside the luxury goods sector in the 2021 edition of Kantar’s annual BrandZ report, based on financial performance as well as market data and consumer surveys. As a whole, the category gained 53 percent in value ...
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Anta launches a running shoe with a higher midsole resilience
Anta Sports Products has collaborated with Teknor Apex on the development of a midsole incorporating a new TPE (thermoplastic elastomer), which the partner companies have called Monprene. The research and development phase focused on the creation of a material that could offer not just cushioning properties but also optimal rebound ...
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Anta and the WWF agree to international partnership
The Anta Group has announced a new agreement with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) that commits both parties to jointly invest more resources on sustainable environmental development, to drive the sustainability transformation of the textile industry and enhance biodiversity conservation. Based on a three-year collaboration framework, the two ...
