Market Statistics – Page 10

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    Sporting goods stocks jumped by 26.65% in Q2

    2 July 2021

    The average share price of the sporting goods sector grew by 26.65 percent between March 31 and June 30, accelerating from the 10.9 percent growth recorded in the first three months of this year. As usual, the public companies in this sector scored much better than all the major stock ...

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    The Swedish sports market recovers after a 2.9% drop in 2020

    1 July 2021

    The Swedish sporting goods market fell by 2.9 percent in terms of offline and online retail sales in 2020, but it made a strong recovery in the first quarter of 2021 with a growth of 15.0 percent, according to the Sportindex, a new quarterly report compiled by the Swedish sporting ...

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    Covid has created many new young and female runners

    3 June 2021

    Running has been one of the sports that have benefited the most from the Covid-19 pandemic, along with golf, cycling, home fitness, surfing, hiking and a variety of other outdoor sports. According to a global survey of 3,961 current runners, 28.76 of them started to run during the pandemic, Questioned ...

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    FESI report indicates a recovery in the sports goods sector

    2 June 2021

    A new survey conduct in April by the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) indicates that most sporting goods companies are now “on their way to recovery;” despite the difficulties they have been going through over the last 12 months. The picture is, however, quite diversified. The outdoor ...

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    Report ranks Lululemon and Adidas highest for avoidance of forced labor

    27 May 2021

    Of the 37 companies examined by KnowTheChain, the ten footwear or apparel companies that are most conscientious in terms of supply-chain labor policy, scored on a scale of zero to 100, are: Lululemon (89), Adidas (86), PVH (74), Gap (70), Primark (69), Nike (62), VF (62), Puma (58), H&M (55) ...

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    Wildberries: Extended work holiday boosts the market in Russia

    26 May 2021

    Sales of sporting goods on Wildberries’ website jumped by 111 percent as compared to the year-ago period after Russia President Vladimir Putin backed a proposal by the head of Russia’s health watchdog to introduce a 10-day no-work holiday from May 1 to 11 to help prevent a surge in new ...

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    Online sports retailing will grow by 13% a year, Signa Sports United estimates

    21 May 2021

    A new report issued by Signa Sports United (SSU) and compiled in cooperation with the Boston Consulting Group predicts that global sports participation will grow from 2.5 billion to 3.5 billion people by 2025, and that online sale of sporting goods will continue to increase overproportionately. It could be used ...

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    Stores remain closed in Germany, will reopen in France

    13 May 2021

    Sporting goods stores and other so-called “non-essential” physical retail operations are re-opening in all the major European countries except in Germany. They are set to open again in France on May 19. They have been rising sharply in England and Wales since they were allowed to open again on April ...

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    Big jumps in Chinese production and consumption

    16 April 2021

    China’s gross domestic product jumped year-on-year at an unprecedented rate of 18.3 percent in the first quarter of 2021. It had declined by 6.8 percent in the first quarter of 2020, due to the coronavirus outbreak. On a sequential basis, the country’s GDP moved up by 0.6 percent from the ...

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    NPD sees the European market down by 8% in 2020

    15 April 2021

    Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the market for sports clothing and footwear fell by 8 percent to €28.3 billion in the five major European countries in 2020, according to revised estimates made available to us by the NPD Group. A previous, preliminary estimate by the market research company had set ...

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    Alpine skiing fell by 15% globally in 2019/20

    15 April 2021

    The 2018/19 ski season turned out to be the best one in the new millennium, according to the annual Snow Report by Laurent Vanat. The 2019/20 season was the worst one since the year 2000 because it was brutally interrupted by the onset of the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to ...

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    Nike remains the world’s most valuable apparel brand

    13 April 2021

    Nike has been awarded the title of the world’s most valuable apparel brand for the seventh consecutive year, despite a 12.5 percent drop in brand value to $30.4 billion, according to the Brand Finance Apparel 50 2021 report. Although Nike’s sales took a hit last year due to the pandemic, ...

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    Consumers are ready to spend more, despite the lockdowns

    8 April 2021

    German consumers are known to be keen on saving money when there is an economic crisis. Faced with what they call the “Corona crisis,” they have saved an estimated €230 billion since March 2020, when the crisis began, but they are said to be eager to spend more again once ...

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    Sporting goods industry stocks rose by 10.9% in Q1 2021

    1 April 2021

    Confirming the resilience of our industry, the average stock market value of 38 selected public companies in the sporting goods sector advanced by 10.9 percent in the first three months of 2021. Comparatively, the main stock indices grew by only between 2.4 percent and 8.5 percent over the period.

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    Europe’s sports sponsorship market falls by 9%

    29 March 2021

    The total value of Europe’s sponsorship market dropped by 23 percent across all industries last year, marking the first time it has declined in almost a decade, a new report from the European Sponsorship Association (ESA) in cooperation with Nielsen Sports has revealed. The drop was a consequence of the ...

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    French ski industry in critical state

    18 March 2021

    The French sporting goods industry association, Union Sport & Cycle (USC), plans to ask the French government for a specific aid package for the country’s ski sector, whose total losses for the current season are estimated at about €1 billion - without including those of the skilift and cable car ...

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    The Norwegian market grew by over 7% in 2020

    1 March 2021

    Norway has the highest per capita consumption for sporting goods in Europe, and it grew strongly last year – in spite or because of the coronavirus epidemic – in contrast with an overall sales decline estimated at around 10 percent in the five major European countries. One main reason was ...

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    Soft anti-Covid restrictions boost sales of winter sports items in Russia

    25 February 2021

    After a slump in sales at the beginning of the current autumn/winter season, sales of products for winter sports in Russia have proven to be strong in January and February thanks to abundant snow and weak quarantine restrictions, allowing all ski facilities to continue to operate in contrast with ...

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    NPD: The European market fell by 10% in 2020, with running down 3%

    9 February 2021

    We apologize for a mistake made in an article yesterday about the running market in Germany and the four other major European countries. We run the article here again with a different first paragraph: According to NPD, the total European market for athletic footwear and apparel suffered an overall decline ...

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    Lululemon establishes a Global Wellbeing Index

    8 February 2021

    Lululemon has released its first Global Wellbeing Report, a survey that benchmarks the state of wellbeing worldwide with an inaugural Global Wellbeing Index. Lululemon commissioned an online survey managed by Edelman Data & Intelligence. The survey was conducted between Nov. 13 and Dec. 1, 2020 in ten countries, including Canada, ...