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Hervis Sport booked a 5.2 percent sales increase to €493...
Hervis Sport booked a 5.2 percent sales increase to €493 million last year, with a 5.2 percent rise in its domestic Austrian market. The retailer, which belongs to Spar Österreich, operates also in Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania and the Czech Republic. The growth was partly due to the opening ...
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A 50 percent increase in sales of e-bikes, especially in...
A 50 percent increase in sales of e-bikes, especially in Europe, could not prevent Giant Manufacturing Co. from posting a drop of 5.57 percent in its global revenues to 53.09 billion Taiwan dollars (€1.64bn-$1.75bn). The major factor was a 20 percent decline in its bike sales in China, which are ...
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Giant is not the only Taiwanese bike company to be...
Giant is not the only Taiwanese bike company to be suffering from international competition. Merida's total sales outside Taiwan declined in volume by 26.9 percent to 1,601,623 units last year, according to Bike Europe, with a drop of 20.18 percent to 866,976 unit in the volume exported from Taiwan.
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Rubber prices shot up from a low of $1.50 per...
Rubber prices shot up from a low of $1.50 per kilo last September to $2.50 this past January, forcing suppliers of rubber soles to raise their own prices by a minimum of 10 percent. Among other factors, the price hike was due to floods in Thailand late last year, increases ...
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Berkshire Hathaway reports that sales of its apparel and footwear...
Berkshire Hathaway reports that sales of its apparel and footwear brands, which include Russell Athletics and Brooks, declined by 1.9 percent last year. This was equivalent to $81 million, reflecting lower footwear sales and a divestment by Fruit of the Loom in 2015, the investment group notes in its annual ...
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Sports Direct International (SDI) continues to believe that the devaluation...
Sports Direct International (SDI) continues to believe that the devaluation of the euro against the dollar will impact its gross margin, the British sports retailer said in a statement last week, in response to queries about currency hedging. The group said its euro to dollar exchange rate is hedged at ...
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Sportamore, the Swedish online sports retailer, reports that its sales...
Sportamore, the Swedish online sports retailer, reports that its sales soared by 29 percent to 701.6 million Swedish kronor (€73.5m-$78.4m) last year. The group achieved an operating profit (Ebitda) of SEK 19.5 million (€2.0m-$2.2m), while the figure was negative at SEK 36.4 million in 2015. Ebitda became profitable in Sweden ...
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Airesis, the Swiss holding company that owns majority stakes in...
Airesis, the Swiss holding company that owns majority stakes in Le Coq Sportif and the Movement Group, reports that the French brand's sales increased by 7 percent to €108 million last year, up from €101 million in 2015. This was slightly below the earlier forecast of about €111 million, which ...
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The integration of Oakley into Luxottica's wholesale operations allowed the...
The integration of Oakley into Luxottica's wholesale operations allowed the group to improve its operating margins, but the management has indicated that a sales turnaround for the brand is not expected until the second half of this year. The measures taken at Oakley and other improvements in efficiency led the ...
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Yonex' growth slowed down in the third quarter to Dec....
Yonex' growth slowed down in the third quarter to Dec. 31 as its sales rose by only 5 percent to 13.9 billion yen (€114.3m-$121.0m), due in large part to the deceleration of the Japanese economy. Currency pressure hurt the company's results in North America and Europe. The gross margin fell ...
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Goldwin booked a 13 percent rise in comprehensive net income...
Goldwin booked a 13 percent rise in comprehensive net income to 1,513 million yen (€12.4m-$13.2m) in the third quarter ended Dec. 31. Excluding special items, net earnings would have more than doubled to ¥4,099 million (€33.7m-$35.7m), due in particular to a gross margin that improved by 2.6 percentage points to 51.2 ...
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Descente turned around to a net comprehensive profit of 1,993...
Descente turned around to a net comprehensive profit of 1,993 million yen (€16.4m-$17.4m) in the third quarter ended Dec. 31 from a loss of 591 million in the year-earlier period, but excluding extraordinary items in both periods, there was a drop in net income of 27 percent to ¥1,498 million (€12.3m-$13.0m). ...
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Iconix Brands Group, owner of Umbro, Danskin, Starter, Pony and...
Iconix Brands Group, owner of Umbro, Danskin, Starter, Pony and other brands, saw its licensing revenues decline on a comparable basis by 7 percent to around $87.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2016 and by 2 percent to $368.5 million for the full year. The company suffered a higher ...
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According to preliminary data from NPD, the consumption of sports...
According to preliminary data from NPD, the consumption of sports shoes and apparel grew by around 3 percent in volume and 4 percent in value during the rolling 12-month period ended last September in the five major European markets. Among the drivers, NPD mentions sales of women-specific products, which rose ...
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Figures for the sale of sporting goods in Sweden presented...
Figures for the sale of sporting goods in Sweden presented by HUI Research show that January was one of the worst months in recent history. While retail sales as a whole increased by 2.6 percent in the country, sales of sporting goods fell by 10.6 percent as compared to the ...
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According to a survey conducted by a Norwegian organization, Norsk...
According to a survey conducted by a Norwegian organization, Norsk Friluftsliv, four out of ten Norwegians were not planning on going skiing this winter. When the last survey was conducted two years ago, 55 percent stated that they had been skiing during the winter or had plans to do so. ...
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Wolverine Worldwide reported a relatively strong fourth quarter, as the...
Wolverine Worldwide reported a relatively strong fourth quarter, as the footwear group's turnover was off by 2.9 percent to $729.6 million but its underlying sales inched up by 0.1 percent, despite an unfavorable retail environment. The U.S. group behind Merrell, Saucony and several other brands raised its adjusted operating margin ...
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Volcom saw its sales rise at its directly operated stores...
Volcom saw its sales rise at its directly operated stores in 2016, but the brand's overall revenues continued to decline, said its parent company, Kering, which also owns Puma. The action sports brand represented the bulk of the “Other Sport & Lifestyle Brands” segment in Kering's accounts, which showed an ...
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Erima reports a sales increase of nearly 11 percent to...
Erima reports a sales increase of nearly 11 percent to a record of €65 million in 2016, thanks in particular to its new Razor 2.0 line of team sports clothing and its new Hybrid line of footballs. It was the third annual double-digit increase in a row for the German ...
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Retail bankruptcies and the closing of some 1,200 stores in...
Retail bankruptcies and the closing of some 1,200 stores in the U.S. in the past year affected Hanesbrands, the parent company of Champion, which reported results below expectations for the fourth quarter and the full financial year. The company's total revenues grew by 11.8 percent to $1.56 billion in the ...
