Financial Results – Page 71
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Antiviral products help Polygiene thrive
Polygiene said its revenues grew in the first quarter of 2020, despite production being halted across Asia due to the coronavirus outbreak. According to preliminary estimates, the Swedish company’s sales rose by 4.3 percent from the year-ago quarter, which the management partly attributed to the group being able to deliver ...
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Nautilus swims against the tide
In a difficult context due to the coronavirus pandemic, while many other sports equipment companies faced a grueling first quarter, Nautilus released strong preliminary figures. It posted sales for the first three months of the year that gained 11 percent to around $94 million. It was the first time that ...
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Acushnet withdraws guidance
Acushnet said it is withdrawing its guidance for this year’s results, while drawing down $200 million under its revolving credit facility to cope with the impact of the coronavirus epidemic in Europe and North America. The company said that its sales in South Korea and Japan have started to recover ...
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Strong European e-bikes sales take Giant to record highs
The Giant Group reported a 5.3 percent increase in revenues to a record 63,449 million New Taiwan dollars (€1.9bn-$2.1bn) in 2019, boosted by the rising popularity of e-bikes, especially in Europe, where sales gained about 13 percent to NT$ 18,667 million (€571.6m-$617.4m). Collectively, the Taiwanese bike manufacturer’s brands - Cadex, ...
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Kathmandu’s sales jump by 52% on Rip Curl’s acquisition
Kathmandu Holdings had record sales and profit for the first half of its financial year, ended on Jan. 31 2020, boosted by the acquisition of Rip Curl during the period. Revenues were also driven by a good performance by its New Zealand business and robust sales at Oboz, the American ...
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Yue Yuen posts mixed results
Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings, the world’s largest footwear producer, reported a 4.2 percent increase in sales to $10,105 million in 2019, driven by a double-digit increase in retail revenues. However, the Chinese company’s gross margin lost 0.3 percentage points, going down to 24.9 percent. and its net income fell by ...
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Li Ning’s profits soar
Even though it faced a difficult comparison base due to a stellar year in 2018, Li Ning managed to more than double its net income in 2019 to 1,499 million yuan renminbi (€192.2m-$211.4m). The Chinese sports company’s annual sales jumped by 32 percent from the previous year to 13,870 million ...
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Fila performs well in Europe
The Italian heritage sports brand’s momentum remained particularly strong in Europe during the fourth quarter of 2019, as Fila Korea’s licensing royalties from the region surged by 47 percent from the year-ago quarter to 39,200 million Korean won (€29.2m-$32.0m).
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A stellar year for Lululemon
Lululemon Athletica ended the year the same way it started, with sales and profits soaring. This was expected, since the company raised its guidance in January to reflect a better-than-expected holiday period.
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ArticleNike’s anti-coronavirus playbook works out
Nike’s share price rebounded strongly when the New York Stock Exchange opened on Wednesday morning after the release of the company’s third-quarter results at the end of the previous day. It opened at $80.11 as compared to $66.75 on Tuesday morning and $72.16 on Tuesday evening, partly aided by a ...
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Good results for Anta, despite a loss from Amer
Led by Fila, for which it has the rights for Greater China and Singapore, Anta Sports Products reported a 30.3 percent increase in net income to 5,344 million yuan renmimbi (€695.4m-$752.2m) for 2019, while revenues increased by 40.8 percent to RMB 33,927 million (€4.4bn-$4.5bn). The gross margin and the operating ...
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Efficiency gains boost Stella’s profits
Stella International’s profits for 2019 soared by 54.2 percent to $95.9 million. It attributed this improvement in profitability to progress in migrating production capacity from Mainland China to Southeast Asia, including the ramping up of operations at its new manufacturing facility in Vietnam, which makes sports fashion footwear for Nike. ...
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Record sales for New Wave
The New Wave Group, the company behind Craft and Cutter & Buck, saw sales jump in the fourth quarter by 4 percent to 2,024 million Swedish kronor (€183.6m-$201.0m), or by 1 percent in constant currencies. This is the highest sales level that the Swedish company has ever recorded in a ...
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Technogym’s sales slow down in Europe
Technogym saw a slowdown in its European business in 2019, which the Italian company blamed on uncertainty in the U.K. due to Brexit, weakness in Russia, and a difficult comparison base in Italy with 2018, when key accounts made large purchases from the big Italian supplier of fitness equipment.
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Alpargatas’ growth softened in Q4
Against the backdrop of a Brazilian economy that grew by just 1.0 percent in 2019, in line with the previous one, Alpargatas’ consolidated revenues grew by 9.8 percent last year to 3,712 million Brazilian reais (€672.4m-$724.4m), driven by an improved of Havaianas in international markets. The adjusted net income went ...
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Vulcabras has restructured its production
Noted for its insistence on local manufacturing of athletic and women’s shoes, the owner of the Olympikus brand and licensee of Under Armour in Brazil completed the second wave of expansion of its two main factories in Brazil at the end of last year. While starting the second phase of ...
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Decathlon Ireland exceeds €1bn in revenues
According to the Irish Examiner newspaper, Decathlon generated annual sales of more than €1.1 billion in Ireland in 2018 even though its first physical store on the national territory is set to open no sooner than next month – at Ballymun in north Dublin. The main reasons appears to have ...
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Mixed picture for Le Coq
In a preliminary statement, Airesis said that the 2019 financial figures of Le Coq Sportif did not meet the Swiss holding company’s expectations, but the management was able to react quickly, putting the necessary adjustments into action.
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ArticleNo pressure for the sale of Mammut
As previously reported, the Conzzeta Group plans to divest its Outdoor division, which essentially consists of the Mammut Sports Group. Addressing financial analysts, the Swiss group’s management pointed out, however, that it is under no pressure to sell it at just any price because of the current economic uncertainty.
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ArticleLenzing focuses on specialty fibers to achieve sustainable growth
(updated on March 26) In view of the rapidly spreading cornavirus epidemic, the Austrian fiber producer withdrew its former guidance and said it is now expêecting its results to decline in 2020. Due to a “historically difficult” market environment in 2019, Lenzing posted lower revenues and earnings for 2019. Sales ...
