Consumer insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 67
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Activinstinct, the British online sporting goods retailer, said today that...
Activinstinct, the British online sporting goods retailer, said today that its customers in the U.K. have ordered nearly 40 percent more than a year ago so far into the month of July, indicating that the London Olympics may be boosting the business. Including sales to foreign customers, orders are up ...
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Italy's largest sporting goods retailer, Cisalfa Sport, has nothing to...
Italy's largest sporting goods retailer, Cisalfa Sport, has nothing to say yet about a possible change in its ownership structure. Meanwhile, the company reports a 4.9 percent drop in its revenues to €370 million for the financial year ended last February, excluding the revenues from Intersport Italia, which is controlled ...
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The sell-in figures for the outdoor trade in Europe were...
The sell-in figures for the outdoor trade in Europe were still quite positive in 2011, according to the first indications from the European Outdoor Group's research panel, with interesting differences from one country to the other. However, according to the NPD's consumer panel, the European outdoor market fell by 1 ...
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Peak Sport Products issued a profit warning, saying that it...
Peak Sport Products issued a profit warning, saying that it expects full-year net profit to drop considerably against the previous year. The Chinese sportswear firm attributed the decline to the challenging economic conditions in its domestic market and an industry-wide inventory correction. The company added that it is still in ...
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Patagonia's sales have doubled since 2008 to reach $540 million...
Patagonia's sales have doubled since 2008 to reach $540 million for the financial year ended last April, or 30 percent more than in the previous year, according to a report in The Seattle Times, and its profits have tripled in the same period. After 14 openings in the past year, ...
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Direct Golf UK lifted its sales by 23 percent for...
Direct Golf UK lifted its sales by 23 percent for the first half ended last March. Entirely privately owned, Direct Golf has 21 stores across the U.K., after four openings between 2011 and 2012. It also has an online shopping platform and an online TV platform, Direct Golf TV. Improved ...
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A new study by Indescat indicates that 46 percent of...
A new study by Indescat indicates that 46 percent of the Spanish people practice sports regularly. The total reaches 63 percent of the population if occasional participants are added to the count.
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A survey by the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association (SGMA) shows...
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 ...
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While Britain's manufacturing output is on the slide, New Balance...
While Britain's manufacturing output is on the slide, New Balance stuck to its production of about 1.2 million pairs of footwear at its U.K. plant last year. The company said that this commitment had strongly contributed to growing consumer demand: New Balance's sales across Europe jumped by about 25 percent last year ...
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According to Emota, the European E-Commerce and Mail Order Trade...
According to Emota, the European E-Commerce and Mail Order Trade Association, European e-commerce outpaced the North American e-tail business last year. In 2011, the European online market grew by 19 percent and reached a total retail turnover of €246 billion, compared with €237 billion in the U.S. and Canada. Emota ...
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The International Cotton Advisory Council, an intergovernmental group, thinks that...
The International Cotton Advisory Council, an intergovernmental group, thinks that cotton prices will stay low because of high inventories for the next year. The council says that cotton stocks should rise by 43 percent to 13.3 million tons in the year that ends July 31, and should grow by another ...
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Finansavisen, a Norwegian newspaper, reports that inventories have been piling...
Finansavisen, a Norwegian newspaper, reports that inventories have been piling up at Bergans because of the outdoor brand's relatively weak growth in its own market last year. As reported in our previous issue, Bergans' turnover jumped by more than 8 percent to nearly 700 million Norwegian kroner (€92.9m-$116.0m) last year, ...
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The new consumer panel set up by the Dutch sports...
The new consumer panel set up by the Dutch sports industry shows that the consumption of sports products in the Netherlands jumped by 5 percent in the first quarter of this year. This came after a paltry year in which the Dutch sports market is estimated to have shrunk by ...
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Three months of excellent growth in the Swedish sporting goods...
Three months of excellent growth in the Swedish sporting goods industry, which made up for a decline in the market last year, came to an end in April as sales took a negative turn. According to HUI Research, April sales decreased by 5.5 percent when compared with the same month last year. ...
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JD Sports Fashion reported modest sales increases on a same-store...
JD Sports Fashion reported modest sales increases on a same-store basis for the 19 weeks ended on June 9. They were up by 1.2 percent in its sports stores and by 3.0 percent in its fashion stores, but gross margins continued to be under pressure as anticipated. The British retailer ...
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Heelys got a big $1.2 million boost in its first-quarter...
Heelys got a big $1.2 million boost in its first-quarter sales compared with one year ago, reaching a level of $6.1 million for the period. They grew by $482,000 to $1.7 million in the U.S. They were up by $686,000 to $5.1 million elsewhere, mainly because of higher sales in ...
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Gross margins increased by 2.3 percentage points to 33.8 percent...
Gross margins increased by 2.3 percentage points to 33.8 percent at Easton-Bell in the first quarter of 2012, thanks to lower closeout sales and higher average selling prices associated with product innovation and productivity gains. With total sales rising by 6.3 percent to $203.4 million for the period, adjusted operating ...
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Cybex International's sales rose by 20.2 percent to $37.3 million...
Cybex International's sales rose by 20.2 percent to $37.3 million in the first quarter, driven by a 60 percent jump in sales of treadmills following the launch of new models. Sales grew by 14 percent to $25.1 million in North America and by 34 percent to $12.1 million in the ...
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A total of 7.6 million people were registered at 7,304...
A total of 7.6 million people were registered at 7,304 fitness clubs in Germany by the end of last year. Out of those, more than 7.22 million were members of clubs measuring more than 200 square meters, up from 7.05 million at the end of 2010 and 5.18 million at ...
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Nautilus saw its net income soar by 57 percent to...
Nautilus saw its net income soar by 57 percent to $2.5 million for the first quarter ended March 31, as revenues rose by 6 percent to $51.3 million and the gross margin improved by 0.9 percentage points to 46.6 percent. The direct distribution segment delivered 11.5 percent higher revenues of ...
