All Financial Results articles – Page 82
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ArticleXXL bounces back
It seems that there is light at the end of the tunnel for XXL ASA, after many quarters stuck in a downward spiral. To turn the business around, the leading Nordic sports retailer has been taking drastic steps such as cutting costs, clearing inventory and searching for new “sustainable” sources ...
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Yue Yuen's plants generated 19% less revenues in June
Yue Yuen Industrial reported a 10.6 percent drop to $724.6 in its turnover in June, as compared to the same month a year ago. The company pointed out that its retail segment, represented by Pou Sheng, saw its sales increase by about 3 percent to $314.4 million, which would imply ...
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Macron posts 15.6% sales growth and moves to a new green HQ.
Macron, the Italian specialist in team sports jerseys, posted consolidated revenues of €113.1 million in 2019, which represented a 15.6 percent increase as compared to the previous year and the third consecutive year of double-digit sales growth. Ebitda rose by 16 percent to €15 million. The Italian sportswear company, based ...
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Forum Sport posts its first sales decline in eight years
Forum Sport has posted its first decline in annual sales since 2012. The Spanish sporting goods retailer’s revenues amounted to €124.7 million in the financial year ended on Jan. 31, down by 0.9 percent from €125.8 in the previous year. After a record sales increase of 200 percent on Black ...
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Strong recovery and an award for Polygiene
Polygiene is recovering strongly, thanks to its anti-viral technology. In a preliminary statement, the Swedish company indicates that its sales grew by 37 percent in the second quarter, keeping the gross margin at around 70 percent and generating breakeven operating results, compared with a loss of 4.2 million Swedish kronor ...
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ArticleOnline sales support Kathmandu and Rip Curl
Kathmandu Holdings told investors that it expects a 30 percent drop in adjusted Ebitda for the current financial year, in spite of strong online sales during the recent corona-related retail lockdowns in Australia and double-digit sales increases overall after its stores reopened. While it is still more than half way ...
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ArticleJD reports strong gains, but wants to pay less rent
While reporting record results for the financial year ended on Feb. 1, JD Sports Fashion indicated that it will slow down the pace of new store openings, making them partly dependent on the “rental realism” of landlords. The increasingly international sports and outdoor retailer based in the U.K. reported a ...
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Decathlon and Sprinter grow in Spain
Decathlon has reported sales growth of 2.9 percent in Spain to €1,952 million, including VAT, for 2019. Sales over the internet went up by 17 percent to €136 million in the country. The number of stores increased by six to a total of 171. Meanwhile, after checking the public record, ...
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ArticleAnalysis: Digital accelerates at Nike after a poor quarter
Nike has decided to accelerate the digital development of its “consumer-direct offence” program after suffering a 36 percent currency-neutral drop in group revenues for the fourth quarter of its financial year, ended May 31. The rate of decline would have been steeper without the fruits of its earlier investments in ...
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Goldwin’s new forecast highlights Covid-19’s impact
Goldwin, which also controls The North Face’s trademark in Japan and has a stake in Woolrich International, has issued its outlook for the full year ending in March 2021. It forecasts that revenues will decline by about 23 percent from the previous year to 75,000 million yen (€624.7m-$688.0m). The Japanese ...
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Kinnevik sells shares in improving Zalando
Kinnevik, which is Zalando’s biggest shareholder, has sold 10.6 million shares in Zalando to institutional investors, reducing its stake from 26 percent stake to 21.3 percent and taking advantage of a recent increase in the e-tailer’s share price. The announcement came just before Zalando said that it will post significantly ...
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Kappa lifts China Dongxiang’s sales, despite the pandemic
The recent introduction of a direct-franchise model, designed to ensure a sufficient supply of products in the stores through bulk orders of merchandise, lifted the Chinese sports company’s revenues, which were up by 12.6 percent on a comparable basis in the new financial year ended on March 31, reaching 1,841 ...
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ArticleSport 2000 helps retail members through the corona crisis
The coronavirus crisis has shown that buying groups can perform some useful services for their members besides handling relations between retailers and their suppliers. While continuing to work on new store concepts, Sport 2000 International has been helping many of its retail members, who run 3,950 stores in 23 countries, ...
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News briefsXXL expects a sales rebound of 25-30%
Mentioning a “strong” spring/summer season for sports retail in the Nordic markets following the Covid-19 situation, XXL ASA said it now expects an increase in its revenues of 25 to 30 percent for the second quarter ending on June 30, as compared to the year-ago period, which could generate an ...
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Boardriders sees it credit rating lowered
Standard & Poor’s has downgraded Boardriders’ debt rating to CCC+ from B- after the company reported that it recorded “severely negative” Ebitda on 40 percent lower revenues for the second quarter ended on April 30, indicating that it may need additional liquidity to meet its obligations. Ebitda is expected to ...
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ArticleAccell benefits from a strong bike market
The post-Covid bike market is going strong in Europe, as indicated by a business updated released by Accell Group, although it seems that the boom is mostly affecting bicycles used for transportation rather than sport, as indicated also by a recent report by the NPD Group on the bike market ...
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Lululemon suffered less than its peers
Despite strong gains in e-commerce, store closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic weighed on Lululemon Athletica’s sales, affecting its quarterly performance and sending the vertically integrated yoga apparel maker’s sales down by about 7 percent. Financial analysts had anticipated that the company would book sales of nearly $700 million for ...
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Zumiez has weathered the corona crisis relatively well
Zumiez has reported a 35.3 percent dip in its global sales for the first quarter ended on May 2, but indicated that the rate of decline has slowed in subsequent weeks. On May 2, only 9 percent of its 719 stores in North America, Europe and Australia were open. By ...
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Decathlon grew by 26.4% in Germany in 2019
Correcting a German press report, the German subsidiary of Decathlon indicates that its net sales went up by 26.4 percent to €654 million in 2019. Online sales accounted for more than 20 percent of the French retailer’s sales in the country. Decathlon opened 16 stores in Germany in the course ...
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Tradeinn on track for another stellar year
Pandemic or not, Tradeinn continues to grow. For the first five months of 2020, the Spanish sports e-tailer exceeded €100 million in sales – more than half of last year’s total of €188 million. Its objective for the whole of 2020 – according to the founder and chief executive, David ...