Financial Results – Page 123
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Real Madrid has overhauled Manchester United in Forbes' annual ranking...
Real Madrid has overhauled Manchester United in Forbes' annual ranking as the most valuable football team in the world. It is the first time since Forbes began tracking the value of soccer teams, in 2004, that Manchester United has not topped the ranking. The value of Real has surged by ...
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A.T. Cross continued to grow in the first quarter of...
A.T. Cross continued to grow in the first quarter of 2013, with sales up by 5.9 percent to $44.4 million compared with the first quarter of 2012. This was driven by a 9.1 percent increase to $23.8 million for its Cross Optical Group (COG), which runs the Costa and Native ...
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Wintersteiger, the leading manufacturer of ski maintenance and storing solutions...
Wintersteiger, the leading manufacturer of ski maintenance and storing solutions as well as of other types of machinery, has posted record sales for the third year in a row. Total sales soared from €101.8 million in 2011 to €126.2 million in 2012. The significant sales increase came substantially from the ...
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Halfords Group registered a decline in cycling revenues on a...
Halfords Group registered a decline in cycling revenues on a same-store basis of 8.8 percent for the 11-week period ended March 29. For the 52-week period ended March 29, cycling sales were off by 0.6 percent. The group's total revenues increased by 1.7 percent over the last quarter. In the full ...
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Sequential Brands Group, the company that acquired Heelys a few...
Sequential Brands Group, the company that acquired Heelys a few weeks ago, reported a net loss attributable to common stockholders of $7.35 million for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2012, bigger than the $3.4 million loss it had in the same quarter the previous year. Licensing and other revenues ...
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The Spanish sporting goods market fell by 5 percent to...
The Spanish sporting goods market fell by 5 percent to €3.7 billion in 2012, according to a Spanish market research company, Dbk, leading to a further concentration of the retail network around the buying groups and the integrated retail chains. The five major retail players, led by Décathlon, already controlled ...
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The French sporting goods market grew by 3 percent to...
The French sporting goods market grew by 3 percent to €9.6 billion in 2012, according to the French sporting goods retailers' federation (FPS), but specialty sporting goods retailers raised their own sales by 4 percent. Most of the growth took place in the first half of the year. The NPD ...
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French people like running. According to a study by Kantar...
French people like running. According to a study by Kantar Media and Uniteam Active, conducted for a French bank, Caisse d'Epargne, around 5.9 million French people aged over 15 - 3.9 million men and 2 million women - run either regularly or occasionally. Of them, 1.5 million took part in ...
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BBW Marketing Dr. Vossen and Valido, two market research companies,...
BBW Marketing Dr. Vossen and Valido, two market research companies, have released a report on the evolution of e-bikes in Germany. The study is called “Konsumwelt 2013: E-Bikes” (“World Consumption of E-bikes, 2013”). One of the findings is that the German bicycle market is currently doing well mainly because of e-bikes, ...
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The Snowsports Industries America (SIA) federation reports that winter sports...
The Snowsports Industries America (SIA) federation reports that winter sports sales in the U.S. were up by 2 percent from August through February compared with the same period the previous year. Retail sales of winter sports products reached $3.1 billion, of which $1.7 billion was generated by specialty shops. This ...
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The Swedish sporting goods industry posted a slight decline in...
The Swedish sporting goods industry posted a slight decline in sales of 0.6 percent in February when compared to the same month last year
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Taiwan's exports of bicycles declined by 1.1% to 4.33 million...
Taiwan's exports of bicycles declined by 1.1% to 4.33 million units in 2012, but they generated 8.7 percent higher revenues of US$1.8 billion
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The upheavals in the Chinese sports market, as reported elsewhere...
The upheavals in the Chinese sports market, as reported elsewhere in this issue, have also slashed the turnover of Exceed, the company that sells the Xidelong brand. Its sales shrank by 27.5 percent to 2,383.5 million yuan renminbi (€298.5m-$383.2m) for the full year and the situation deteriorated markedly in the ...
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The Mammut Sports Group raised its sales by 10.3 percent...
The Mammut Sports Group raised its sales by 10.3 percent to 232.5 million Swiss francs (€190.8m-$244.9m) in 2012, with an increase of 8.4 percent in local currencies and excluding the effect of acquisitions, according to its parent company, Conzzeta Group. The highest growth rates were recorded in the Asian region ...
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Li & Fung saw its sales increase by a mere...
Li & Fung saw its sales increase by a mere 1.0 percent to $20.2 billion in 2012. In the trading unit, which accounts for 70 percent of the total turnover, sales fell by 12 percent in Europe but grew by 5 percent in the U.S., with an 8 percent overall ...
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Yue Yuen, the leading manufacturer of sports footwear, saw its...
Yue Yuen, the leading manufacturer of sports footwear, saw its sales increase by 3.6 percent to about $7,297 million for the full fiscal year until the end of September. The company's shoe manufacturing business lifted its turnover by just 1.5 percent to $5,074 million, with a decline of 4.9 percent ...
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In 2012, total sales of Hervis Sports, the Austrian sporting...
In 2012, total sales of Hervis Sports, the Austrian sporting goods retail chain, decreased slightly by 2 percent to €441 million even though it opened three more doors, including the first one in Germany in autumn. The subsidiary of the Spar food chain says the declining turnover is a result ...
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Giant reports 13 percent higher consolidated sales of 53.5 billion...
Giant reports 13 percent higher consolidated sales of 53.5 billion New Taiwanese dollars (€1.4bn-$1.8bn) for its last financial year. Europe represented 27 percent of the total turnover, North America 22 percent, Asia-Pacific 40 percent and the rest of the world 11 percent. The Taiwanese bike company plans to open a ...
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Globeride, the Japanese company formerly called Daiwa Seiko, reported operating...
Globeride, the Japanese company formerly called Daiwa Seiko, reported operating income of 4.6 billion yen (€36.6m-$47.8m) on sales of ¥45.3 billion (€360.4m-$470.9m) for the nine months ended last Dec. 31. For the full financial year, it's still budgeting an operating profit of ¥2.5 billion (€19.9m-$25.9m) and a net profit of ...
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Ecco reckons that it became the world's fourth biggest brand...
Ecco reckons that it became the world's fourth biggest brand of golf shoes in 2012. Its Golf Street line won several awards. The shutdown of Ecco's manufacturing facilities in Thailand, due to the autumn 2011 floods, did not prevent the company from raising its total revenues by 13.7 percent last ...
