Value Chain - Manufacturers – Page 4
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Xtep optimistic about 2021, despite lower profits in 2020
Xtep International Holdings of China recorded a 29.5 percent drop in net income for 2020, down to 513.0 million yuan renminbi (€66.1m-$78.8m), on revenues that inched down by 0.1 percent from the previous year to RMB 8,171.9 million (€1.05bn-$1.25bn). The gross margin declined by 4.3 percentage points to 39.1 percent, ...
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ArticleLi Ning grows further, adjusting to the pandemic
Rising interest in exercise and fitness in China after lockdowns were lifted contributed to improve Li Ning’s revenues, which grew 4.2 percent to 14,456.9 million yuan renminbi (€1.86bn-$2.09bn) in 2020. Net income increased by 13.3 percent from the previous year to RMB 1,698.4 million (€218.6m-$246.1m). Excluding a one-time financial gain ...
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Puma manufacturer in China cuts carbon emissions further
Shenzhou International, an apparel manufacturing partner of Puma in China, has kicked off a large-scale wind energy project that will supply about two-thirds of the company’s electricity needs in China by 2030. Shenzhou already gets some of its energy from a nearby wind farm but it has now agreed to ...
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Xtep to open operation center in Shanghai
Xtep International has plans to establish a new operation center in Shanghai. According to a report in Sportstextiles.com, the Chinese sportswear group has entered into an agreement with a property company to acquire a site covering around 11,000 sqm close to Hongqiao Airport. Xtep will use the new site for ...
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ArticleA Li Ning unit may take over Clarks for £51m
Li Ning, the famous Chinese Olympic gold-medallist-turned-businessman, is about to take control of the iconic British shoemaker Clarks less than a month after its shareholders agreed in principle to sell most of their shares to a Hong Kong-based private equity firm, LionRock Capital. Li is the non-executive chairman of Lion ...
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Chinese sports brands see better Q4
We have already reported on the preliminary results of Anta Sports Products for the fourth quarter of 2020, which showed a significant recovery in retail sales for its flagship Anta brand and stronger growth for Fila and the other brands in its portfolio, namely Descente, Kolon Sport, Sprandi, and Kingkow. ...
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Yue Yuen’s manufacturing revenues fall by 27%
Yue Yuen’s revenues from footwear manufacturing fell by 27 percent in terms of U.S. dollars in 2020, including a drop of 16 percent in December. The group’s retail subsidiary, Pou Sheng, improved its sales by 1 percent thanks to a strong finish of the year, with sales up by 11 ...
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China Dongxiang sees profits surge due to Japan sale
The sale of the Japanese Kappa trademark lifted China Dongxiang’s profits for the six-month period ended in Sept. 2020, which rose to 1,116 million yuan renminbi (€140.6m-$170.0m), up from RMB 188 million for the year-ago period. On the other hand, the company’s gross margin contracted by 5.3 percentage points to ...
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Losses continue for Yue Yuen
Despite China’s resilience against the pandemic in the third quarter, Yue Yen Industrial Holdings remained in the red, following two quarters of losses. The company was strongly impacted by government measures to contain the spread of the disease at the start of the year, and although the Pou Sheng Chinese ...
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Generally positive results for the Chinese sports brands
Chinese companies don’t publish detailed quarterly results, but all the four major public sporting goods companies except 361 Degrees had something positive to say in their preliminary operational updates for the third quarter of 2000, confirming the Chinese industry’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Li Ning Company reported an improvement ...
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BasicNet reacquires the Kappa brand in Japan
China Dongxiang has agreed to sell the rights to the Kappa brand in Japan for $13 million. BasicNet plans to give a major boost to brand’s development in the country, where Kappa generated sales of $30 million in 2019 through Phenix and its licensees. China Dongxiang will continue to focus ...
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Xtep’s new acquisitions boost turnover, but profits drop
Last year’s acquisition of K-Swiss and its various footwear labels, including Palladium and Supra, helped Xtep International Holdings of China to show good revenues for the first half of this year. A smaller contribution came from the company’s new joint venture with Wolverine Worldwide, from the Merrell and Saucony brands. ...
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ArticleNew strategies make Li Ning resilient
Li Ning fared better than most of its Chinese peers during the first half. While its net income declined by 14 percent from the year-ago period to 683.3 million yuan renminbi (€82.8m-$98.7m) in reported terms, its adjusted net income progressed by 22 percent when excluding a RMB 269.9 million (€32.7m-$39.0m) ...
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AnalysisMarket Analysis: The global athletic shoe market
The global market for athletic footwear enjoyed solid growth of 6.7 percent at the wholesale level last year, reaching a level of $70.9 billion, according to an annual analysis by Sporting Goods Intelligence of the major sports brands’ performance in this segment. It would have risen a little more without ...
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ArticleYue Yuen posts a $136 million loss
Yue Yen Industrial Holdings was hard hit by China’s measures to contain the spread of coronavirus. The world’s largest shoe manufacturer posted a net loss of $136.7 million for the first half of 2020, against net income of $165.9 million for the year-ago period. The company managed to reduce operating ...
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BasicNet buys back Kappa Japan from China’s DongXiang
BasicNet has signed a deal to reacquire the Kappa brand in Japan from the Chinese group DongXiang for $13 million. The company said the deal is limited to intellectual property assets and does not include any related business unit and should take place “in the coming months.” “Japan is a ...
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ArticleMany Chinese sportswear brands issue sales warnings for Q2
As a result of lockdown restrictions implemented in China and elsewhere during the Covid-19 pandemic, several Chinese sportswear brands have released profit warnings for the second quarter of 2020. Xtep warned that retail sell-through dropped by low-single digits in the quarter. It also has higher-than-usual inventories. The group expects that ...
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Yue Yuen's plants generated 19% less revenues in June
Yue Yuen Industrial reported a 10.6 percent drop to $724.6 in its turnover in June, as compared to the same month a year ago. The company pointed out that its retail segment, represented by Pou Sheng, saw its sales increase by about 3 percent to $314.4 million, which would imply ...
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Kappa lifts China Dongxiang’s sales, despite the pandemic
The recent introduction of a direct-franchise model, designed to ensure a sufficient supply of products in the stores through bulk orders of merchandise, lifted the Chinese sports company’s revenues, which were up by 12.6 percent on a comparable basis in the new financial year ended on March 31, reaching 1,841 ...
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Heavy losses for Yue Yuen
As China struggled with the coronavirus outbreak early in the first quarter, Yue Yen Industrial Holdings was strongly impacted by government measures to contain the spread of the disease. The world’s largest shoe manufacturer posted a net loss of $56.3 million for the period, against net income of $75.5 million ...
