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ArticleA bullish European surf industry honors Frederic Basse
Surfboards, wetsuits and other hardware items in the surf sector have recorded growth rates of between 20 and 40 percent during the current post-Covid year, according to the European Surf Industry Manufacturers Association (EuroSIMA). Speaking at the annual EuroSIMA Surf Summit in Hossegor, on the French Basque coast, Jean-Louis Rodrigues, ...
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ArticleSport 2000 is market leader in Austria for the first time
Presenting the results of a large nationwide study by the market research company Regio Plan. Holger Schwarting, CEO of Sport 2000 Austria, confirmed that his cooperative was able to secure market leadership in Austria for the first time in 2020 with a market share of 33.6 percent, followed by Intersport ...
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ArticlePE firm to acquire NPD Group
The private equity firm Hellman & Friedman (H&F) will soon be entering into a binding and exclusive agreement to purchase the NPD Group, once the latter’s employee-works council has been lawfully notified and consulted. Founded in 1966 and headquartered in Port Washington, New York, NPD claims to be the world’s ...
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ArticleNPD: The world market was flat or down 4% in 2020
It’s all a matter of defining the scope of the sporting goods market. The NPD Group’s annual Global Sport Market Estimate shows that it remained flat at €429 billion in the 2020 pandemic year, after continued increases since 2009. The NPD study points out that it would have fallen by ...
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New Ipsos/WEF study on exercising in 29 countries
A study by Ipsos and the World Economic Forum shows that people in 29 countries spend on average 6.1 hours per week on exercise or sports. Rates are hardly uniform within the cohort, however. The least active people appear to be Brazilians, spending three hours per day, whereas the ...
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ArticleIndustry stocks fell by 8.3% in Q3
The stock market valuation of the sporting goods sector fell by 8.3 percent on average between June 30 and Sept. 30 of this year, after rising by 10.9 percent during the first quarter and by 25.6 percent during the second quarter. In contrast with previous quarters, the sector performed less ...
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ArticlePromising tennis sales in Europe for H1 2021
According to Sports Marketing Surveys (SMS), sales of tennis racquets and strings for the first half of this year rose in all eight of Europe’s major tennis markets: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the U.K. Year-on-year growth in volume (45.3%) outpaced growth in value (40.7%), with ...
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Article7 out of 10 Austrians are physically active, outdoor sports most popular
As part of a representative study conducted by the digital market and research institute Marketagent.com, the retail chain Hervis Sports researched the athletic habits of Austrians and wanted to know whether and what impact Covid-19 has had on their sports behavior. Hervis is one of the largest specialist sports ...
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Global participation in tennis is on the rise
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has just released the “ITF Global Tennis Report 2021,” which shows a positive outlook for tennis compared to the 2019 report, despite the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. The 2021 report indicates that there are now more than 87.2 million players in the 41 nations ...
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Small Q2 drop in an expanded Norwegian market
After registering a jump of 24.97 percent in the first quarter, due especially to very good weather conditions, the major sporting goods retail chains booked a drop of 3.93 percent in the second quarter as compared to the same period of last year, due in part to store closures. Many ...
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NPD: Double-digit growth in Europe in H1
After rising by only 2 percent in the first quarter, the consumption of sports apparel and footwear jumped by 30 percent in the second quarter and by 15.5 percent in the first six months of 2021 in the five main European countries – Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the U.K. ...
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The Swedish sports market grew by 4.5% in Q2, driven by e-commerce
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ArticleGfK observes more reluctant consumer behavior in Germany
In its latest consumer survey for Germany, GfK has identified more cautious behavior among German consumers. Both economic and income expectations show moderate declines – caused by a noticeable increase in prices and inflation and by once again rising Covid-19 infection rates. However, the propensity to buy is likely to ...
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German e-commerce grows strongly, marketplaces on the rise
Figures published for the second quarter of 2021 by the German e-commerce and mail order trade association, BEVH, show an unbroken overall trend toward e-commerce and the use of online marketplaces for all types of goods in Germany, even though restrictions on brick-and-mortar retailing have been eased. After a strong ...
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ArticleA 13% rise in bike sales limits the Austrian sports market’s drop to 1%
Pointing to the strongly diverging business development for Austrian retailers (depending on location and product range focus), the national Association of Sporting Goods Manufacturers and Suppliers (VSSÖ) provided a first summary for the full year 2020 and the winter season Q4, 2020, and Q1, 2021. According to the association, total ...
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European gyms felt the pinch in 2020, but EuropeActive is optimistic
European fitness clubs were forced to shut down during multiple lockdown periods in 2020, in some cases for between 40 and 50 percent of the operational days, and this caused a major dip in attendance after decades of continuous growth. According to a new report by EuropeActive, compiled as usual ...
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ArticleSporting goods stocks jumped by 26.65% in Q2
The average share price of the sporting goods sector grew by 26.65 percent between March 31 and June 30, accelerating from the 10.9 percent growth recorded in the first three months of this year. As usual, the public companies in this sector scored much better than all the major stock ...
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ArticleThe Swedish sports market recovers after a 2.9% drop in 2020
The Swedish sporting goods market fell by 2.9 percent in terms of offline and online retail sales in 2020, but it made a strong recovery in the first quarter of 2021 with a growth of 15.0 percent, according to the Sportindex, a new quarterly report compiled by the Swedish sporting ...
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ArticleCovid has created many new young and female runners
Running has been one of the sports that have benefited the most from the Covid-19 pandemic, along with golf, cycling, home fitness, surfing, hiking and a variety of other outdoor sports. According to a global survey of 3,961 current runners, 28.76 of them started to run during the pandemic, Questioned ...
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ArticleFESI report indicates a recovery in the sports goods sector
A new survey conduct in April by the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) indicates that most sporting goods companies are now “on their way to recovery;” despite the difficulties they have been going through over the last 12 months. The picture is, however, quite diversified. The outdoor ...
