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The Swiss love sports
According to a new study by the Federal Office of Sport, the number of Swiss residents aged 15 or older who never participate in physical activity is down to 16 percent, one of the lowest percentages in Europe. Only Finland and Sweden can boast a better performance, with rates of ...
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Italy registers booming bike sales
Bicycle sales in Italy have jumped by 60 percent since bicycle shops reopened after the lockdown on May 6, as compared to the same period of 2019. According to data released on June 9 by Ancma (Associazione Nazionale Ciclo Motociclo Accessori), the sector’s trade association, Italians bought 540,000 units in ...
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Giant’s Q1 results are hit by the pandemic
Giant saw its revenues in the first quarter decline by 9.3 percent on an annualized basis to $444.5 million. The net income before taxes dropped by 16.9 percent to $27.4 million. Sales of e-bikes and traditional bikes in many European countries were hit by strict shutdowns in connection with the ...
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Apparel brands may lose 20% of their value
The brand value of the world’s 500 biggest companies might lose up to an estimated $1 trillion as a result of the coronavirus crisis, according the “Brand Finance Global 500 2020” survey. Brand Finance, whose surveys aim at creating a link between marketing and finance, also conducted a Covid-19 impact ...
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According to an annual report from Observatorio Cetelem, sporting goods...
According to an annual report from Observatorio Cetelem, sporting goods emerged as the Spanish sector with the most total customers and the greatest percentage growth in 2019. All sectors but one (leisure items) saw growth last year, but the percentage of Spanish consumers purchasing sporting goods climbed seven points to ...
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A Pinterest 100 report has revealed that customers will emphasize...
A Pinterest 100 report has revealed that customers will emphasize environmentally friendly products and '90s designs in 2020. The report compared search queries on its platform from August 2017 to July 2018 with queries from August 2018 to July 2019 and from the data predicts the 100 trends that should ...
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Decathlon has again come in first in an annual ranking...
Decathlon has again come in first in an annual ranking of the world’s 500 largest retailers in any sector compiled by OC&C Strategy Consultants. The French-based sporting goods retailers has placed in the top 10 every year since the first edition of the index. Second and third place went to ...
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After a redesign of its online store in May 2018,...
After a redesign of its online store in May 2018, Golfino, the golfwear specialist based in Hamburg, has been named this year’s best online store for golf in Germany by the German institute for service quality. The main feature of Golfino’s site is a new shopping system, which runs on ...
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Brands like Canada Goose and Arc'teryx get a halo effect...
Brands like Canada Goose and Arc’teryx get a halo effect by promoting the Canadian manufacture of their products. According to a survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), there is significant demand for Canadian-made products abroad. The Canadian branch of the London-based “professional services network” surveyed 3,521 consumers in Australia, France, Germany, ...
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Sports Marketing Surveys, the U.K.-based market-research firm, and The Bicycle...
Sports Marketing Surveys, the U.K.-based market-research firm, and The Bicycle Association (BA) of Great Britain, the national trade group, have begun releasing data from their current study of the cycling market in the U.K. Sales for the first half of 2019 were down by 4.8 percent in volume but by ...
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Original Buff, the main entity of the Buff group, rounded...
Original Buff, the main entity of the Buff group, rounded off its most recent fiscal year, ended April 30, with sales of €38.4 million, up by 8 percent from 2017. The Barcelona-based group's consolidated sales, subsidiaries included, moved some six million units worldwide and brought in €48.5 million, up by ...
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The world's rugged outdoor footwear market rose by 6.8 percent...
The world’s rugged outdoor footwear market rose by 6.8 percent to €5.15 billion in 2018 in terms of dollars, according to an annual survey of key vendors conducted by the Outdoor Industry Compass in collaboration with Sporting Goods Intelligence. It rose by an estimated 6.1 percent in the U.S. and ...
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In 2021, online advertising will represent for the first time...
In 2021, online advertising will represent for the first time in history more than half of total ad spending. According to Zenith’s Advertising Expenditure Forecasts, web advertising will account for 52 percent of global ad spending, as compared to 44 percent in 2018 and a projected 47 percent in 2019. ...
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Running event participation is declining. According to an international study...
Running event participation is declining. According to an international study by RunRepeat, participation peaked in 2016, with a total of 9.1 million race results. By 2018, it had fallen to 7.9 million results, for a drop of 13 percent. In the long term, however, between 1986 and 2018, race participation ...
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In France's mountain areas, the use of collective accommodation for...
In France’s mountain areas, the use of collective accommodation for tourists declined by 0.5 percent in the first quarter of the year as compared to the first quarter of 2018, according to data from France’s National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE), reported by sport-guide.com. The number of French ...
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Based on a survey of more than 2,500 top managers...
Based on a survey of more than 2,500 top managers conducted by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Adidas is regarded as the 10th most innovative company in the world. Alphabet, parent company of Google, ranked first, followed by Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, Netflix, IBM, Facebook and Tesla. Adidas 10th place ...
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Global sports sponsorship is expected to grow by 4 percent...
Global sports sponsorship is expected to grow by 4 percent this year and to hit £35 billion (€40.5bn-$45.5bn), according to recent research by Two Circles. The experts of the London-based sports marketing agency said that growth is being registered despite concerns in Europe about marketing restrictions on gambling firms, which ...
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The Swiss sporting goods market fell by 3.5 percent in...
The Swiss sporting goods market fell by 3.5 percent in 2018, according to GfK, after the small recovery that it had recorded in the previous year, but online sales went up by 30 percent. Sales of winter sports products fell by 12 percent because of unseasonable weather conditions in December ...
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The major Chinese sports brands have issued preliminary figures indicating...
The major Chinese sports brands have issued preliminary figures indicating the market is not slowing down. Anta Sports Products said that sales under its own brand rose at a low-teen rate in the first quarter, while those of other branded products distributed or licensed in China went up by between ...
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E-bike sales in Germany jumped by 36 percent in 2018...
E-bike sales in Germany jumped by 36 percent in 2018 as compared to 2017, reaching 980,000 units sold. This means that one out of every four bicycles sold in the country was an e-bike. These figures, among others, were contained in the latest report of the Zweirad-Industrie-Verband (ZIV), the German ...
