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News briefsOn opens new global headquarters and flagship store
The Swiss company On opened its new campus and global headquarters named On Labs, located in Zurich and offering space for roughly 1,000 employees (to date filled with the On staff of 700). Also, part of the building with a total size of 15,000 sqm is Europe’s first On flagship ...
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Infographics & DataInflation rates in the G20
This exclusive interactive chart shows inflation rates for June and July 2022 for all members of the G20. The chart can be downloaded. This is exclusive data and analysis for Premium Members.
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News briefsOn products more expensive in Switzerland
According to a media report, products from the Swiss running shoe manufacturer On are significantly more expensive in web stores in Switzerland than elsewhere. The price markups range from 15 to 51 percent, as evaluated by the “Sonntagszeitung” newspaper. The company admitted to the newspaper that prices vary in different ...
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X-Technology takes over Swiss distribution of X-Socks
Wollerau-based X-Technology Swiss Research & Development AG, which company founder Bodo Lambertz had sold to Swiss investors in November 2021, will take over distribution of the X-Socks brand in Switzerland from Lowa Schuhe AG as of January 1, 2023. This step consolidates and strengthens the distribution of the X-Bionic and ...
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ArticleSwiss sports market with record growth in 2021
According to GfK Switzerland, the Swiss sports market (excluding bicycles), like other non-food markets, benefited from the pandemic and recorded a 14 percent increase in growth to just under 2 billion Swiss francs, thus reaching record levels. For once, all sectors contributed to the double-digit sales growth: Hardware with +11 ...
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ArticleSport 2000 Germany reports best result in company history; outdoor, ski touring leading the pack
Sport 2000 GmbH continues to grow in Germany. The factored purchasing volume and external sales of the affiliated partner companies in Germany gave Sport 2000 the best result in the company’s history in 2021. As a result, Sport 2000 defends the position it already held in 2019 as Germany’s largest ...
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News briefsStudy shows e-commerce continues to soar in Switzerland and Austria
A very detailed survey conducted last fall among 284 Swiss retailers (and, for the first time, also 63 Austrian companies) by the Institute for Marketing Management at the ZHAW School of Management and Law shows that nine out of ten online stores in Switzerland and Austria have grown during the ...
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Omni-channel retailing dominates for sporting goods in Switzerland
Swiss consumers are shopping more than before online, but they still prefer to buy most kinds of products in the physical stores, according to a study commissioned by the Swiss Retail Federation to Oliver Wyman, which conducted its survey in November. The overall share of purchases made in brick-and-mortar stores ...
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News briefsThe Swiss sports market was stable in 2020, and it continued to grow online more recently
According to GfK, the Swiss sporting goods market ended up being flat in 2020, in spite of Covid-19, thanks to a sales rally in the last two months of the year. There was, however, a significant gap between the different sectors: the overall winners in 2020 were fitness, outdoor, running, ...
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Switzerland joins the retail lockdown
Joining Germany and Austria, the Swiss government has ordered the closure of all non-essential physical shops, starting on Monday, Jan. 18. The Swiss ban will last through the end of February, affecting all kinds of sports shops, many of which work a lot with winter sports. However, many Swiss ski ...
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Online retail for sporting goods grows above average in Switzerland
The latest edition of the Distance Selling Monitor for Switzerland - a monthly survey of 113 online retailers in Switzerland carried out by GfK in cooperation with the Swiss Post Office and the Swiss Retail Association - reports continued high online sales for the third quarter of 2020, although brick-and-mortar ...
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Big e-commerce growth holding up in Switzerland
Online retailing for sporting goods and other products continued to grow in Switzerland after the Covid-related spring quarantines, and the same has been happening elsewhere, to judge from recent reports. What’s more, e-commerce is widely expected to be very strong in the pre-Christmas period through events like Singles Day, Black ...
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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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Inspiration days for Swiss dealers
In order to offer assistance with pre-orders for summer 2021 without a large trade fair, the Swiss sports industry is organizing so-called “Inspiration Days” in Glattbrugg and Spreitenbach on June 29 and 30. On these days, the showrooms in the TMC, Trendhouse, House 9 and Industriestrasse in Glattbrugg as well ...
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