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Opportunities ahead – WFSGI and McKinsey release 2024 report
2023 was a year of ups and downs. Despite facing challenges, WFSGI and McKinsey’s new Sporting Goods Report argue that it’s not all headwinds.
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Skechers Q4 sales jump announced along with full year 2022 financial results
Skechers says it is planning to begin production in India, one of its fastest growing markets in the Asia Pacific region. Sales in the country displayed “particular strength” in the fourth quarter of 2022, as the company’s overall top line jumped by 13.5 percent to $1,878.8 million billion to reach ...
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News briefs
Winners and losers in the Chinese e-commerce market
Lockdowns lasting months in some areas have unsettled consumers in China. The apparel market has not escaped this. The NPD Group provides an overview of the biggest winners and losers – sports brands among them – on the most important e-commerce platform in China, Tmall. Source: Screenshot from ...
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Analysis
Asia-Pacific overtakes Europe in a buoyant sports footwear market
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 ...
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Analysis
Analysis: The sports equipment market 2018
After posting modest improvements of 1.4 percent in 2016 and 0.2 percent in 2017, the global branded sports equipment market booked a stronger 3.0 percent increase in dollars in 2018 at the wholesale level, building up to a total of $80.0 billion, according to a survey of the major vendors ...