Market Statistics – Page 8
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ArticleReport ranks Lululemon and Adidas highest for avoidance of forced labor
Of the 37 companies examined by KnowTheChain, the ten footwear or apparel companies that are most conscientious in terms of supply-chain labor policy, scored on a scale of zero to 100, are: Lululemon (89), Adidas (86), PVH (74), Gap (70), Primark (69), Nike (62), VF (62), Puma (58), H&M (55) ...
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Wildberries: Extended work holiday boosts the market in Russia
Sales of sporting goods on Wildberries’ website jumped by 111 percent as compared to the year-ago period after Russia President Vladimir Putin backed a proposal by the head of Russia’s health watchdog to introduce a 10-day no-work holiday from May 1 to 11 to help prevent a surge in new ...
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ArticleOnline sports retailing will grow by 13% a year, Signa Sports United estimates
A new report issued by Signa Sports United (SSU) and compiled in cooperation with the Boston Consulting Group predicts that global sports participation will grow from 2.5 billion to 3.5 billion people by 2025, and that online sale of sporting goods will continue to increase overproportionately. It could be used ...
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Stores remain closed in Germany, will reopen in France
Sporting goods stores and other so-called “non-essential” physical retail operations are re-opening in all the major European countries except in Germany. They are set to open again in France on May 19. They have been rising sharply in England and Wales since they were allowed to open again on April ...
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Big jumps in Chinese production and consumption
China’s gross domestic product jumped year-on-year at an unprecedented rate of 18.3 percent in the first quarter of 2021. It had declined by 6.8 percent in the first quarter of 2020, due to the coronavirus outbreak. On a sequential basis, the country’s GDP moved up by 0.6 percent from the ...
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ArticleNPD sees the European market down by 8% in 2020
Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the market for sports clothing and footwear fell by 8 percent to €28.3 billion in the five major European countries in 2020, according to revised estimates made available to us by the NPD Group. A previous, preliminary estimate by the market research company had set ...
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ArticleAlpine skiing fell by 15% globally in 2019/20
The 2018/19 ski season turned out to be the best one in the new millennium, according to the annual Snow Report by Laurent Vanat. The 2019/20 season was the worst one since the year 2000 because it was brutally interrupted by the onset of the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to ...
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The latest statistics and forecasts for online retailing
In 2020, the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic led revenues from e-commerce to exceed the €100 billion threshold for the first time in the German-speaking countries of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, according to BEVH, the German E-Commerce and Distance Selling Trade Association. Orders averaging €1,000 were placed by customers in ...
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Nike remains the world’s most valuable apparel brand
Nike has been awarded the title of the world’s most valuable apparel brand for the seventh consecutive year, despite a 12.5 percent drop in brand value to $30.4 billion, according to the Brand Finance Apparel 50 2021 report. Although Nike’s sales took a hit last year due to the pandemic, ...
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ArticleVietnam becomes more self-sufficient in footwear design and components
Lefaso, Vietnam’s Leather, Footwear and Handbags Association, expects its industry to achieve exports of more than $20 billion this year after suffering from a decline last year due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on supply chains, consumption and trade. They could double in three to four years’ time ...
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ArticleConsumers are ready to spend more, despite the lockdowns
German consumers are known to be keen on saving money when there is an economic crisis. Faced with what they call the “Corona crisis,” they have saved an estimated €230 billion since March 2020, when the crisis began, but they are said to be eager to spend more again once ...
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ArticleSporting goods industry stocks rose by 10.9% in Q1 2021
Confirming the resilience of our industry, the average stock market value of 38 selected public companies in the sporting goods sector advanced by 10.9 percent in the first three months of 2021. Comparatively, the main stock indices grew by only between 2.4 percent and 8.5 percent over the period.
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Europe’s sports sponsorship market falls by 9%
The total value of Europe’s sponsorship market dropped by 23 percent across all industries last year, marking the first time it has declined in almost a decade, a new report from the European Sponsorship Association (ESA) in cooperation with Nielsen Sports has revealed. The drop was a consequence of the ...
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French ski industry in critical state
The French sporting goods industry association, Union Sport & Cycle (USC), plans to ask the French government for a specific aid package for the country’s ski sector, whose total losses for the current season are estimated at about €1 billion - without including those of the skilift and cable car ...
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ArticleThe Norwegian market grew by over 7% in 2020
Norway has the highest per capita consumption for sporting goods in Europe, and it grew strongly last year – in spite or because of the coronavirus epidemic – in contrast with an overall sales decline estimated at around 10 percent in the five major European countries. One main reason was ...
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Soft anti-Covid restrictions boost sales of winter sports items in Russia
After a slump in sales at the beginning of the current autumn/winter season, sales of products for winter sports in Russia have proven to be strong in January and February thanks to abundant snow and weak quarantine restrictions, allowing all ski facilities to continue to operate in contrast with ...
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ArticleNPD: The European market fell by 10% in 2020, with running down 3%
We apologize for a mistake made in an article yesterday about the running market in Germany and the four other major European countries. We run the article here again with a different first paragraph: According to NPD, the total European market for athletic footwear and apparel suffered an overall decline ...
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Lululemon establishes a Global Wellbeing Index
Lululemon has released its first Global Wellbeing Report, a survey that benchmarks the state of wellbeing worldwide with an inaugural Global Wellbeing Index. Lululemon commissioned an online survey managed by Edelman Data & Intelligence. The survey was conducted between Nov. 13 and Dec. 1, 2020 in ten countries, including Canada, ...
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ArticleMcKinsey + WFSGI: Winners and losers in a market that fell by 7% in 2020
Performing better than general apparel and other consumer goods sectors, the global sporting goods market declined by around 7 percent to around €285 million in 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a preliminary estimate made by McKinsey & Co. in a webinar hosted by the World Federation of ...
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Grim indicators from GfK for the U.K.
British consumption registered a small uptick in December, especially in the distressed clothing sector, although online sales were reportedly not as buoyant as expected. However, the U.K.’s official exit from the European Union on Dec. 31 and a new extended coronavirus lockdown have apparently created a “perfect storm” that contributed ...
