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Thule Group reported net income of 308 million Swedish kronor...
Thule Group reported net income of 308 million Swedish kronor (€32.2m-$35.7m) in the second quarter ended June 30, up from SEK 238 million in the previous year. Sales increased by 6.3 percent to SEK 1,795 million (€187.7m-$207.8m) and the operating margin improved by 1.3 percentage points to 23.2 percent. In ...
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Uhlsport reports an 11 percent sales increase for the first...
Uhlsport reports an 11 percent sales increase for the first half of this year, driven by a 46 percent jump for its handball brand, Kempa. In Germany, where Uhlsport has been delivering a large selection of items and colors within 24 hours, sales grew by 18.5 percent, followed by lower ...
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BSI, the German Sports Goods Manufacturers Association, presented a study...
BSI, the German Sports Goods Manufacturers Association, presented a study on watersports at the recent OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen, which we have covered widely in The Outdoor Industry Compass. BSI questioned online 250 men and 250 women who purchased a watersports product in sporting goods stores in the last 12 ...
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Fila Korea reports a 22 percent drop in total revenues...
Fila Korea reports a 22 percent drop in total revenues to 168.2 billion won (€132.4m-$146.8m) for the first quarter ended March 31. Royalty income from its licensees in Asia and Europe was more or less flat, but sales fell by 17 percent in Korea to KRW 65.5 billion (€51.6m-$57.2m), and ...
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The demand for jerseys of the Icelandic national football team,...
The demand for jerseys of the Icelandic national football team, which has been sponsored by Errea since 2002, went up unexpectedly by 1,800 percent before the match in which the team lost against France in the quarterfinals of the current European championships. According to various media, the Italian producer of ...
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The global branded athletic footwear market rose by 6.3 percent...
The global branded athletic footwear market rose by 6.3 percent in terms of the sell-in in U.S. dollars in 2015, according to an annual study by Sporting Goods Intelligence. Sales increased by 11.1 percent in the U.S. They rose by only 3.3 percent in dollars in the rest of ...
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Global sales of sports apparel were basically flat last year...
Global sales of sports apparel were basically flat last year in terms of U.S. dollars at $75.6 billion, according to Sporting Goods Intelligence. They went up by 5 percent in the U.S., but the higher value of the dollar resulted in a 6 percent drop in the rest of the ...
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Hudson's Bay Co. (HBC), the Canadian-based group that acquired Galeria...
Hudson's Bay Co. (HBC), the Canadian-based group that acquired Galeria Kaufhof from the Metro AG group for €2.82 billion including debt last June, has reported a sales increase of 59.4 percent to 3.3 billion Canadian dollars (€2,288.8m-$2,576.0m) in the first quarter of 2016, as compared to the same period of the ...
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Woolrich Europe saw internet sales increase by 70 percent during...
Woolrich Europe saw internet sales increase by 70 percent during the past year, and the company expects a 60 percent jump in 2016. The company registered a 4 percent sales increase in the first quarter and forecasts a 10 percent increase for the year. The sales increase is also being ...
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After record sales in the first three months of 2016,...
After record sales in the first three months of 2016, April presented a setback for sporting goods sales in Sweden, reducing the cumulative growth of the market to 2.5 percent for the first four months of the year. The year started well, with January's sporting goods sales rising by 15.0 ...
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Forum Sport, one of the major Spanish sporting goods retail...
Forum Sport, one of the major Spanish sporting goods retail chains, raised its sales by 5.0 percent to €112.5 million in 2015, a year in which it opened four new stores and closed one. Profits more than doubled to €4.57 million. Sales have been rising for three years in a ...
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Goldwin raised its sales by 4 percent to 59.7 billion...
Goldwin raised its sales by 4 percent to 59.7 billion yen (€487.9m-$545.1m) in the fiscal year ended March 31, but comprehensive net income fell by 79 percent to ¥1,130 million (€9.2m-$10.3m). The gross margin expanded by 2.1 percentage points to 44.2 percent. Excluding foreign currency adjustments and other charges, net ...
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Li Ning Company reports that orders from franchised distributors at...
Li Ning Company reports that orders from franchised distributors at its trade fair held in March, for deliveries in the fourth quarter, moved up at a high single-digit rate compared with the same period in 2015. The increase was driven by low single-digit growth in footwear and a rise at ...
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Intersport Austria continues to perform well, reporting a 10 percent...
Intersport Austria continues to perform well, reporting a 10 percent increase in sales for the first half of its financial year through to the end of March. As in the past year, it was probably aided by ongoing problems at Sport Eybl under the ownership of Sports Direct International. Aside ...
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Wintersteiger's sports segment raised its sales by more than 5...
Wintersteiger's sports segment raised its sales by more than 5 percent last year, reaching a record level, thanks to the strength of the U.S. dollar and the Swiss franc, combined with the adoption of its latest ski maintenance equipment at large projects in Austria and South Tyrol. The segment represents ...
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The acquisition of Camelbak and Jimmy Styx boosted sales and...
The acquisition of Camelbak and Jimmy Styx boosted sales and profits at Vista Outdoor in the fourth quarter ended March 31. Vista reported a 26 percent increase in total revenues to $612.3 million and a 135 percent jump in net profit to $37.3 million for the period. Organically, sales were ...
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Fitbit performed better than expected in the first quarter ended...
Fitbit performed better than expected in the first quarter ended March 31 with sales rising by 50 percent to $336.7 million, boosted by the new Alta and Blaze models. Sales rose by 33 percent in the U.S., by 113 percent in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and by 142 ...
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Skullcandy reported a net loss of $4.9 million on one...
Skullcandy reported a net loss of $4.9 million on one percent higher sales of $46.3 million for the first quarter, blaming the ongoing clean-up of its distribution in China. Sales increased by 4 percent in the U.S. They declined by 3 percent in the rest of the world, in spite ...
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Giant Bicycle doubled its net profit to 916.7 million Taiwan...
Giant Bicycle doubled its net profit to 916.7 million Taiwan dollars (€24.8m-$28.1m) in the first quarter because of a one-time charge of TWD 655 million (€17.8m-$20.1m) taken last year that was not repeated. Revenues slid by 2 percent to TWD 14.4 billion (€389.8m-$441.2m) and the gross margin dropped by 1.4 ...
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Globeride suffered a 79 percent drop in net income to...
Globeride suffered a 79 percent drop in net income to 859 million yen (€7.0m-$7.9m) for the financial year ended last March 31, although its sales went up by 7 percent to ¥79.02 billion (€640.4m-$725.0m). For the current financial year, the former Daiwa Seiko is predicting an operating profit of ¥3.7 ...
