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Sport 2000 Germany reports best result in company history; outdoor, ski touring leading the pack

2022-03-08T09:23:00Z

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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Study shows e-commerce continues to soar in Switzerland and Austria

2022-02-10T12:04:00Z

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

2022-01-05T17:07:00Z

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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The Swiss sports market was stable in 2020, and it continued to grow online more recently

2021-04-29T15:21:00Z

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

2021-01-15T18:17:00Z

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

2020-11-11T12:16:51.727Z

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

2020-10-08T16:59:00Z

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

2020-06-11T09:03:00Z

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

2020-05-28T17:26:00Z

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 ...