Financial Results – Page 88

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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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    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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    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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    Intersport Austria continues to perform well, reporting a 10 percent...

    2016-05-17T00:00:00Z

    Intersport Austria continues to perform well, reporting a 10 percent increase in sales for the first half of its financial year through to the end of March. As in the past year, it was probably aided by ongoing problems at Sport Eybl under the ownership of Sports Direct International. Aside ...

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Descente's sales climbed by 10.3 percent to ¥135,778 million (€1,098.8m-$1,247.1m)...

    2016-05-17T00:00:00Z

    Descente's sales climbed by 10.3 percent to ¥135,778 million (€1,098.8m-$1,247.1m) for the fiscal year until the end of March 2016, with nearly stagnant sales in Japan but expansion in other markets. The Japanese winter sports apparel brand and supplier of many other branded sports products lifted its sales by just ...

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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, ...

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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 outdoor & action sports division of VF Corp, with...

    2016-04-30T00:00:00Z

    The outdoor & action sports division of VF Corp, with brands like The North Face, Vans and Timberland, raised its sales by 2 percent to $1.6 billion for the first quarter ended on April 2. They were up by 4 percent in constant currencies, with increases of 8 percent for ...

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    Records were again smashed by Columbia Sportswear in the first...

    2016-04-30T00:00:00Z

    Records were again smashed by Columbia Sportswear in the first quarter ended March 31, as sales increased by 10 percent to $525.1 million, up by 12 percent in constant currencies. The rise included sales growth of 7 percent to $51.3 million in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), up ...

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    Giant Manufacturing Co. reported a 17 percent drop in its...

    2016-04-30T00:00:00Z

    Giant Manufacturing Co. reported a 17 percent drop in its sales in China in 2015. The big Taiwanese bicycle company said its sales were solid in the U.S. and Japan, but they improved only slightly in Europe because of the depreciation of the euro. Total revenues inched up by 0.6 ...