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AnalysisMarket Analysis: The sports equipment market
This exclusive statistic includes revenue and market share development for the major global sports equipment brands.
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Norwegian sports specialty market grew by 3.6% in 2021
According to data compiled by the Norwegian sporting goods industry association, Norsk Sportsbransjeforening, Europe’s highest per capita sporting goods market recorded a 3.6 percent increase in 2021 among its nine top banners to 14,875 million Norwegian kroner (€1.46b) from 14,363 million in 2020. The trade group intends to release a ...
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Analysis: Sporting goods industry stocks down more than 14% in Q2 2022
According to SGI Europe’s quarterly study of 38 select sporting goods industry stocks, the decline was less than the 16.25 percent average decline in the first quarter of 2022, when 34 out of 36 stocks posted a stock price drop from the end of the fourth quarter. Five of the ...
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Analysis: Sporting Goods Industry Scorecard Q1 2022
Find out about the top industry performers. With our first quarter 2022 Sporting Goods Industry Scorecard, we provide an overview by sales and profit.
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Italy’s sporting goods industry association says winter season has shown positive signs
Assosport, the Italian sporting goods industry association, has described the past 2021/22 season as a positive one for winter sports after the dark period of the pandemic. Covid-19 forced to cancel virtually all activities from March 2020 until the end of 2021, with severe repercussions on the broader sector. Most ...
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Nike remains the world’s most valuable apparel brand
Nike tops the Brand Finance Apparel 50 ranking for the eighth time, making it the most valuable brand since the creation of the list.
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Inflationary pressures are mounting across the board
Sports brands have already started to charge slightly higher prices on selected products, privileging limited editions and premium or novel product releases. The price increases have been a logical response to a situation where the available demand is outstripping the demand, especially because of high Covid vaccination rates, coupled with ...
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Snowy winter supports sporting goods sales in Russia
In some Russian regions, consumer activity in the sporting goods market has nearly doubled thanks to snowy winter conditions during the current winter season. It has been particularly strong over the online channel. Ilya Titarenko, director of the distribution department of Sportmaster, the country’s leading sporting goods retailer, confirmed that ...
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McKinsey sees continued growth and polarization in the industry
The gap between the winners and the losers in the sports apparel and footwear sector has increased and will continue to increase, according to McKinsey & Company, based on a survey conducted for the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) which highlighted some key trends. The findings will ...
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Analysis: The industry’s market cap rose by 9.5% in 2021
This exclusive chart shows the development in the market capitalization of the top 88 stock-listed sporting goods companies between the end of 2020 and the end of 2021. This is exclusive data and analysis for Professional Members.
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Consumer confidence dwindles in the U.K.
GfK’s Consumer Confidence Index for the U.K. has fallen by one point so far in December, remaining negative at -15, in the midst of the spreading Omicron variant, which has led to more than 100,000 new daily cases of Covid contamination. The index had improved by three points to -14 ...
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Nike’s website gets more visits than major fashion retailers
Nike continued to outperform various fashion retailers this year in terms of visits to its website on a global basis, according to an annual study by Semrush that uses Google data. Monthly visits to its websites averaged 120 million so far this year, 3.3 percent below the level of 2020, ...
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Analysis: The European Sports Retail Market
This is an exclusive, yearly statistic only available for subscribers of SGI Europe. It includes revenue and market share development of the major sporting goods retailers in 15 European countries.
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Analysis: The world’s major sports retailers
This exclusive, yearly statistic shows the revenue development of the 50 largest sports retailers.
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Strong recovery in personal luxury may affect our sector
The personal luxury market has been traditionally subject to bigger swings than the sporting goods market in their competition for the consumer’s spending, and its recovery this year may impact the recovery of the sporting goods market, especially in the overalapping areas of sneakers and athleisure, in our opinion. The ...
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Outdoor outperformed the athletic and casual footwear market in 2020, but…
It all depends on the brands that we include in three annual surveys that EDM Publications puts out every year for these three segments of the shoe market, some of which play in two different segments.
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Norway’s sports market fell by 7% in Q3
The period between July and September 2021 was the second-best third quarter for retailers operating in the wealthy Norwegian sporting goods market. It recorded a 7 percent decline to 3.7 billion Norwegian kroner (€374m-$423m) as compared to the third quarter of 2020, when the market grew at an exceptional rate ...
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New NPD study shows a drop in China’s sports shoe market
China’s online market for sports footwear declined by one percent to $8.9 billion during the second quarter of 2021, according to a new study by the NPD Group. The drop was due to the poor performance of international brands, which suffered from a consumer boycott launched in March because of ...
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New Russian lockdown boosts the resale market
A week-long lockdown ordered by the Russian government to slow down the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic forced Russian sporting goods retailers and others to shut most of their outlets, but it doesn’t seem to have affected the market to a major extent. As Russia has become the European country ...
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The Swedish sports market grew by 6.5% in Q3
The Swedish sporting goods market rose by 6.5 percent at the retail level during the third quarter as compared to the year-ago period, according to the new SportIndex launched by the Svensk Sportforum last year in combination with HUI Research. While sales at physical stores went up by 4.1 percent, ...
