All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 33, Issue 31+32 – Page 5
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News briefs
Northwave's sales up 34% for 2021
Northwave, the Italian specialist in cycling and snowboarding footwear and accessories, exceeded its expectations for 2021, posting a 34 percent rise in revenues to €35.6 million. Export sales topped 85 percent, the main foreign markets being Germany, Italy, Spain and France. Management is looking to countries outside Europe for future ...
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News briefsDeporvillage’s 11-year growth streak ends
In January, when we last checked in with the Spanish multichannel sports e-tailer, Deporvillage had wrapped up an 11th consecutive year of growth. Annual revenues for 2021 were up year-on-year by 40 percent. Things have now changed. Sales for the first and now the second quarter have been flat with ...
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News briefs
LA Dodgers ownership and PGA create investment fund
The PGA of America and Elysian Park Ventures – private investment arm of the ownership group behind the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team – have founded a new limited liability company operating out of Los Angeles, New York and London. Called EP Golf Ventures, the company “provides entrepreneurs with strategic, ...
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ArticleThe French Triman logo and the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
In France, a new law requires companies to use the so-called Triman logo. What everybody doing business in France needs to know.
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News briefsZalando promotes Christoph Lütke Schelhowe to GM DACH
After last week’s resignation of Florian Jodl, Zalando has revealed his successor. Christoph Lütke Schelhowe, a former McKinsey associate principal, will be Zalando’s new general manager for the German-speaking markets. Schelhowe has been with the company for almost ten years in different positions, most recently VP, demand – customer acquisition ...
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ArticleGoogle installs seamless shopping with new Shopify tool on Youtube
By installing a new Shopify connection on Youtube, the internet company is expanding the business opportunities for content creators, like influencers and brands. Up to now, Youtube creators were able to promote and sell products in live videos on Youtube – but for the purchase transaction, a change of platforms ...
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News briefs
Tennis is becoming increasingly popular in South Korea
Tennis is apparently becoming increasingly popular in South Korea. This is reported by Korea Jong daily. The market in Korea reached approximately 250 billion won (€190 million) last year, with around 500,000 people playing. According to research by Korea Jong daily, online stores, tennis apparel brands, brick-and-mortar retailers and tennis ...
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News briefsJD Sports reportedly bows to CMA, talking to potential Footasylum buyer
U.K.-based JD Sports Fashion was in exclusive talks to sell Footasylum to German private equity investor Aurelius Group, a Sky News reporter said Wednesday in a tweet followed by an article on the Sky website. The negotiations are the result of a months-long dispute with the U.K.’s Competition and Markets ...
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ArticlePost-lockdown China unlikely to hit annual growth target
China’s GDP appears to have shrunk from the first to the second quarter of this year. The 2.6 percent decline was steeper than the 1.5 percent decline predicted in a poll of financial analysts conducted by Reuters. China itself, in the statement issued by its National Bureau of Statistics, says ...
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News briefsNike invests $3 million in HBCU college
Source: Pensole Academy D’Wayne Edwards Pensole Lewis College of Business & Design, an HBCU (historically black colleges and universities) in the U.S. state of Michigan owned by former Jordan Brand designer D’Wayne Edwards, announced that Nike is investing $3 million in the college over three years. According ...
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News briefsEuropean ski industry slowly bouncing back after Covid-19
The European ski industry is slowly recovering after “a disastrous season hit by Covid-19,” the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) has said. According to results in the trade organization’s recent annual ski market report, skis and ski-equipment sales for the 2021/22 season increased slightly from those of ...
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Short stops
Short Stops Week 30, 2022
PRODUCT & MARKETING +++ Pádel Nuestro has signed Ari Sánchez and Paula Josemaría, the number two players on the young women’s circuit, to sponsorship deals +++ Varlion’s Summum Pro S and W will be the official balls for this year’s Premier Padel tournament, to be played for the first time ...
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ArticleFrasers Group recovers from Covid and posts rising profits
Frasers Group, the owner of Sports Direct, reported a “record-breaking year” following the successful recovery from the pandemic.
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