Consumer insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 37

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    Uhlsport reports an 11 percent sales increase for the first...

    2016-07-29T00:00:00Z

    Uhlsport reports an 11 percent sales increase for the first half of this year, driven by a 46 percent jump for its handball brand, Kempa.  In Germany, where Uhlsport has been delivering a large selection of items and colors within 24 hours, sales grew by 18.5 percent, followed by lower ...

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    The demand for jerseys of the Icelandic national football team,...

    2016-07-10T00:00:00Z

    The demand for jerseys of the Icelandic national football team, which has been sponsored by Errea since 2002, went up unexpectedly by 1,800 percent before the match in which the team lost against France in the quarterfinals of the current European championships. According to various media, the Italian producer of ...

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    Global sales of sports apparel were basically flat last year...

    2016-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Global sales of sports apparel were basically flat last year in terms of U.S. dollars at $75.6 billion, according to Sporting Goods Intelligence. They went up by 5 percent in the U.S., but the higher value of the dollar resulted in a 6 percent drop in the rest of the ...

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    The global branded athletic footwear market rose by 6.3 percent...

    2016-07-10T00:00:00Z

    The global branded athletic footwear market rose by 6.3 percent in terms of the sell-in in U.S. dollars in 2015, according to an annual study by Sporting Goods Intelligence. Sales increased by 11.1 percent in the U.S. They rose by only 3.3 percent in dollars in the rest of ...

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    Fila Korea reports a 22 percent drop in total revenues...

    2016-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Fila Korea reports a 22 percent drop in total revenues to 168.2 billion won (€132.4m-$146.8m) for the first quarter ended March 31. Royalty income from its licensees in Asia and Europe was more or less flat, but sales fell by 17 percent in Korea to KRW 65.5 billion (€51.6m-$57.2m), and ...

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    Hudson's Bay Co. (HBC), the Canadian-based group that acquired Galeria...

    2016-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Hudson's Bay Co. (HBC), the Canadian-based group that acquired Galeria Kaufhof from the Metro AG group for €2.82 billion including debt last June, has reported a sales increase of 59.4 percent to 3.3 billion Canadian dollars (€2,288.8m-$2,576.0m) in the first quarter of 2016, as compared to the same period of the ...

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    Woolrich Europe saw internet sales increase by 70 percent during...

    2016-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Woolrich Europe saw internet sales increase by 70 percent during the past year, and the company expects a 60 percent jump in 2016. The company registered a 4 percent sales increase in the first quarter and forecasts a 10 percent increase for the year. The sales increase is also being ...

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    After record sales in the first three months of 2016,...

    2016-06-23T00:00:00Z

    After record sales in the first three months of 2016, April presented a setback for sporting goods sales in Sweden, reducing the cumulative growth of the market to 2.5 percent for the first four months of the year. The year started well, with January's sporting goods sales rising by 15.0 ...

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    Forum Sport, one of the major Spanish sporting goods retail...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Forum Sport, one of the major Spanish sporting goods retail chains, raised its sales by 5.0 percent to €112.5 million in 2015, a year in which it opened four new stores and closed one. Profits more than doubled to €4.57 million. Sales have been rising for three years in a ...

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    Li Ning Company reports that orders from franchised distributors at...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Li Ning Company reports that orders from franchised distributors at its trade fair held in March, for deliveries in the fourth quarter, moved up at a high single-digit rate compared with the same period in 2015. The increase was driven by low single-digit growth in footwear and a rise at ...

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    Goldwin raised its sales by 4 percent to 59.7 billion...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Goldwin raised its sales by 4 percent to 59.7 billion yen (€487.9m-$545.1m) in the fiscal year ended March 31, but comprehensive net income fell by 79 percent to ¥1,130 million (€9.2m-$10.3m). The gross margin expanded by 2.1 percentage points to 44.2 percent. Excluding foreign currency adjustments and other charges, net ...

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    Fitbit performed better than expected in the first quarter ended...

    2016-05-17T00:00:00Z

    Fitbit performed better than expected in the first quarter ended March 31 with sales rising by 50 percent to $336.7 million, boosted by the new Alta and Blaze models. Sales rose by 33 percent in the U.S., by 113 percent in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and by 142 ...

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    The average number of rounds of golf played across England,...

    2016-05-17T00:00:00Z

    The average number of rounds of golf played across England, Scotland and Wales decreased by 7.5 percent in the first quarter of 2016 compared with the same period in 2015, following on from a disappointing final quarter of 2015. According to Sports Marketing Surveys (SMS), which released the latest golf ...

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    The acquisition of Camelbak and Jimmy Styx boosted sales and...

    2016-05-17T00:00:00Z

    The acquisition of Camelbak and Jimmy Styx boosted sales and profits at Vista Outdoor in the fourth quarter ended March 31. Vista reported a 26 percent increase in total revenues to $612.3 million and a 135 percent jump in net profit to $37.3 million for the period. Organically, sales were ...

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    Globeride suffered a 79 percent drop in net income to...

    2016-05-17T00:00:00Z

    Globeride suffered a 79 percent drop in net income to 859 million yen (€7.0m-$7.9m) for the financial year ended last March 31, although its sales went up by 7 percent to ¥79.02 billion (€640.4m-$725.0m). For the current financial year, the former Daiwa Seiko is predicting an operating profit of ¥3.7 ...

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    Giant Bicycle doubled its net profit to 916.7 million Taiwan...

    2016-05-17T00:00:00Z

    Giant Bicycle doubled its net profit to 916.7 million Taiwan dollars (€24.8m-$28.1m) in the first quarter because of a one-time charge of TWD 655 million (€17.8m-$20.1m) taken last year that was not repeated. Revenues slid by 2 percent to TWD 14.4 billion (€389.8m-$441.2m) and the gross margin dropped by 1.4 ...

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    Wintersteiger's sports segment raised its sales by more than 5...

    2016-05-17T00:00:00Z

    Wintersteiger's sports segment raised its sales by more than 5 percent last year, reaching a record level, thanks to the strength of the U.S. dollar and the Swiss franc, combined with the adoption of its latest ski maintenance equipment at large projects in Austria and South Tyrol. The segment represents ...

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    Skullcandy reported a net loss of $4.9 million on one...

    2016-05-17T00:00:00Z

    Skullcandy reported a net loss of $4.9 million on one percent higher sales of $46.3 million for the first quarter, blaming the ongoing clean-up of its distribution in China. Sales increased by 4 percent in the U.S. They declined by 3 percent in the rest of the world, in spite ...

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    Yonex raised its sales by 13.7 percent to 54,159 million...

    2016-05-17T00:00:00Z

    Yonex raised its sales by 13.7 percent to 54,159 million Japanese yen (€437.9m-$495.7m) for the full year to the end of March. The operating income of the Japanese racquet sports and golf company soared by 57.5 percent to ¥3,279 million (€26.5m-$30.0m) and its net profit was up by 31.4 percent ...

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    Sporting goods sales showed an 11.3 percent increase for the...

    2016-05-17T00:00:00Z

    Sporting goods sales showed an 11.3 percent increase for the month of March in Sweden from the same period last year. This confirms the sporting goods sector as one of the fastest ones at retail during the first quarter of 2016. After starting the year with cold weather and snow, ...