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    Top 50 sporting retailers in the world 2022

    2024-01-12T10:17:00Z

    Download our annual overview of the world’s 50 largest sports retailers, including revenue and growth ranking compared with last year.

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    Nike says it’s “turning the corner” toward greater profitability

    2023-09-29T08:48:00Z

    Market chatter about Nike’s 9 percent stock price decline over the last month, recent high inventory levels, and 23 percent drop in market value this year had the bears out in force ahead of the company’s Q1 results yesterday. But Nike reported earnings results ahead of expectations and its senior ...

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    Topsports sticks to gameplay despite volatile years

    2023-05-25T07:37:00Z

    The Chinese sportswear retailer offering a portfolio of athletic brands, dominated by Nike and Adidas, suffered a 25 percent drop in net income attributable to shareholders to 1,836.6-million-yuan renminbi (€258.8m) for the 12 months ended Feb. 28. Gross margin slipped by 170 basis points to 41.7 percent from 43.3 percent ...

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    The largest sporting goods retailers in Asia

    2022-12-20T10:17:00Z

    Our exclusive annual analysis of the largest sporting goods retailers in Asia. Charts and data are downloadable. Exclusive for Premium Members.

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    The Largest Sports Retailers Worldwide

    2022-12-13T14:22:00Z

    Our exclusive annual analysis on the top 50 sports retailers worldwide. The charts and data can be downloaded. This is exclusive data and analysis for Premium Members.

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    The world’s biggest sports retailers 2021

    2022-12-13T05:08:00Z

    This exclusive, yearly statistic shows the revenue development of the 50 largest sports retailers worldwide.

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    Topsports sees H1 earnings, sales slip

    2022-10-31T07:17:00Z

    Chinese sports retailer and distributor Topsports saw its net profit in the six months ended Aug. 31 decrease by 19.9 percent to 1,145.4 million renminbi (€158.6m), and sales slip by 15.1 percent to RMB 13,218.0 million (€1,829.8m) as recurrent Covid-19 restrictions in China took their toll on store traffic. Despite ...

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    Sporting goods industry stocks down in Q3

    2022-10-04T05:05:00Z

    According to SGI Europe’s quarterly study of 40 select sporting goods industry stocks, the drop was less than in Q1 (-16.25%) and Q2 (-14.79%) but marked the third consecutive quarterly decline for the segment. But the results were mixed, as the stock prices of 19 companies – led by Xtep ...

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    Top sporting goods retailers in Asia

    2021-12-02T15:59:00Z

    This exclusive interactive chart ranks the top sporting goods retailers in Asia by revenues in USD for 2020 and percentage growth in their local currency. The charts and data can be downloaded. This is exclusive data and analysis for Premium Members.

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    Top 50 Sporting Goods Retailers in the Galaxy

    2021-12-02T11:00:00Z

    This exclusive interactive chart ranks the top 50 sporting goods retailers by revenues in USD for 2020 and percentage growth in their local currency. The charts and data can be downloaded. This is exclusive data and analysis for Premium Members.

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    Analysis: The world’s major sports retailers

    2021-11-24T18:18:00Z

    This exclusive, yearly statistic shows the revenue development of the 50 largest sports retailers. 

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    China’s Topsports improves margins on slightly lower sales

    2021-11-19T16:35:00Z

    Topsports International Holdings, the leading Chinese sports distributor and retailer spun off by Belle International in 2019, reported a decline of 1.2 percent in total revenues to 15.57 billion renmimbi (€2,128m-$2,407m) for the first half of its financial year, ended Aug. 31. The gross margin improved by 2.9 percentage points ...

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    Topsports’ annual revenues grew by 7%

    2021-05-26T16:50:00Z

    Topsports, the leading Chinese sports retailer and distributor, which previously belonged to Belle International, has reported a 20 percent increase in net income to 2,770.1 million yuan renmimbi (€355.0m-$401.5m) for the financial year ended Feb. 28 on a 7 percent increase in sales to RMB 36,009 million (€4,014.0m-$5,218.7m). The gross ...

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    Covid affected China’s biggest sports retailer slightly

    2020-11-02T08:12:00Z

    Topsports International, which claims to manage the biggest network of directly operated stores in the Chinese sports market, reported a 7.0 percent drop in revenues to 15.77 billion yuan renmimbi (€2.0bn-$2.4bn) for the first half of its fiscal year, ended on Aug. 31. The gross margin contracted by 2.1 percentage ...

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    Ranking - The Largest Sporting Goods Retailers Worldwide

    2020-10-29T16:30:00Z

    This exclusive chart shows the revenue development of the major global sporting goods retailers in 2019 vs 2018. The chart and data can be downloaded. This is exclusive data and analysis for Premium Members.

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    Analysis: Sporting goods industry stocks rebound 34.5% in Q2

    2020-07-01T15:30:00Z

    Investors are evidently persuaded now that the sporting goods sector will recover from the Covid-19 crisis better than others. The share prices of the public companies in the sector went up on average by 34.5 percent between the end of the first quarter and the end of the second quarter ...

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    China’s Topsports grows despite Covid-19

    2020-05-28T10:57:00Z

    Topsports International Holdings, the sports retailing arm of Belle International, published good results for the year ended on Feb. 29, although the growth slowed drastically at the end of the period due to the pandemic. The Chinese group, which raised $1.01 billion in an initial public offering on the Hong ...