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    Sports stocks rose by 10.8% in Q3

    2020-10-01T17:07:00Z

    The sporting goods sector confirmed its resilience in the third quarter of 2020 with an average increase of 10.8 percent in the public companies’ share price between June 30 and Sept. 30. Comparatively, two relatively bullish American indexes, the Dow Jones 30 and the S&P 500, posted gains of only ...

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    Opinion: The short- vs long-term perspective of retail recovery

    2020-09-01T14:20:00Z

    Guest Article by Magnus Ohlsson The pandemic has led consumers to shift interests and behavior for now, but not necessarily forever. This also means that short-term gains and losses should not be translated into an everlasting future. It is important to take into the equation the brand performance of the ...

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    Market Analysis: The sports apparel market

    2020-08-31T19:06:00Z

    We show you who are the winners and losers in the market.

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    Market Analysis: The global athletic shoe market

    2020-08-17T20:20:00Z

    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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    Executive Survey: Sports and outdoor brands are pushing DTC

    2020-08-13T13:08:00Z

    While experiencing generally lower orders from retailers, primarily because of the coronavirus outbreak, more than two-thirds of sports and outdoor brands responding to our survey intend to further develop their own direct-to-consumer (DTC) operations, relying more on their own websites than on those of third-party e-tailers. 

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    Market Analysis: The sports equipment market

    2020-07-28T17:19:00Z

    This is an exclusive, yearly statistic only available for subscribers of SGI Europe. It includes revenue and market share development of the major global sports equipment brands including breakdown by region.

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    Covid-19 drives rent renegotiations, partnerships

    2020-07-10T15:30:00Z

    Retailers in Europe and the U.S. have been seeking rent relief while reeling from Covid-19 shutdowns, and now that their stores have reopened, they are facing uncertain sales prospects and higher costs to meet health and safety requirements. Although some landlords have taken a hard line, many others have been ...

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    McKinsey looks at the “new normal”

    2020-07-09T17:59:00Z

    Experts from McKinsey & Co. made some recommendations to sports brands and retailers on how to cope with the “new normal” that is shaping as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic at two webinars hosted by the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) at different times of the ...

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    NPD measures the impact of Covid-19 in Europe and China

    2020-07-04T06:29:00Z

    The NPD Group estimates that there was a drop of around 24 percent in sales of sports shoes during the first half of 2020 in Germany, France, Italy and Spain – the four European countries where it uses a retail panel of multi-sport specialty stores, combined with sell-out data from ...

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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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    Analysis: Digital accelerates at Nike after a poor quarter

    2020-06-26T13:28:00Z

    Nike has decided to accelerate the digital development of its “consumer-direct offence” program after suffering a 36 percent currency-neutral drop in group revenues for the fourth quarter of its financial year, ended May 31. The rate of decline would have been steeper without the fruits of its earlier investments in ...

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    Opinion: Amazon and other marketplaces may be in for a reckoning over illegal sales

    2020-06-07T06:03:00Z

    Why the sale of illegal products through online platforms could become a problem for Amazon and other marketplaces – and why the widespread circumvention of EU competition law may soon be over

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    McKinsey analyzes Covid-19 with WFSGI

    2020-04-24T12:28:00Z

    After conducting consumer research and interviews with more than 25 industry players in the apparel and sports markets, McKinsey & Co. has made a series of interesting recommendations for best-practice actions that sporting goods companies can take to navigate through the current Covid-19 pandemic. They were presented in a webinar ...

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    Analysis: What is happening with Covid-19 on the retail front?

    2020-04-09T20:00:00Z

    The retail lockdown in Germany is estimated to have caused a drop of 60 percent at brick-and-mortar stores in the fashion sector in general in March, as compared to the same month a year ago, although they were open in the first few days of the month. The trend will ...

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    Analysis: Covid-19 sinks sporting goods industry stocks

    2020-04-09T19:58:00Z

    Declining more than the stock market in general, the share prices of public sporting goods companies have taken a serious beating since the Covid-19 outbreak began with the start of the Chinese New Year, falling overall by 32.3 percent on average through the end of the first quarter.

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    Global industry stocks leap by 46%, led by sports retailers

    2020-01-11T00:00:00Z

    This exclusive chart shows the market capitalization development of the top 85 stock listed sporting goods companies (2019 to 2018). This is exclusive data and analysis for Professional Members.

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    What next in 2020 and beyond?

    2020-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Many brand and retailers ar on a mission to reinvent themselves. Which companies are leading the pace and why and what are key trends?

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    The European sports market remains flattish

    2019-10-18T00:00:00Z

    As in 2017, the Western European sporting goods market was almost flat overall in 2018, going up in some countries and declining in others, with some retailers outperforming it, according to an annual exclusive study of 15 markets by SGI Europe. In terms of currencies, the market rose by 2.7 ...

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    Analysis: Sports apparel market 2018

    2019-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Mirroring trends in the athletic footwear market, which grew at a similar rate last year (see our previous issue), global sales of apparel by sporting goods companies to the trade moved up by 9.0 percent in dollar terms in 2018 to an estimated $89.7 billion, according to an annual survey ...

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    Asia-Pacific overtakes Europe in a buoyant sports footwear market

    2019-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Driven by a booming Chinese market and by the growing lifestyle sneaker trend, the branded athletic footwear market grew by 8.9 percent to a new record of $66.7 billion in terms of invoiced sales in dollars in 2018, according to an annual survey by Sporting Goods Intelligence. Retailers did not ...