More Consumer News – Page 57
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The Spanish sporting goods market fell by 5 percent to...
The Spanish sporting goods market fell by 5 percent to €3.7 billion in 2012, according to a Spanish market research company, Dbk, leading to a further concentration of the retail network around the buying groups and the integrated retail chains. The five major retail players, led by Décathlon, already controlled ...
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The French sporting goods market grew by 3 percent to...
The French sporting goods market grew by 3 percent to €9.6 billion in 2012, according to the French sporting goods retailers' federation (FPS), but specialty sporting goods retailers raised their own sales by 4 percent. Most of the growth took place in the first half of the year. The NPD ...
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French people like running. According to a study by Kantar...
French people like running. According to a study by Kantar Media and Uniteam Active, conducted for a French bank, Caisse d'Epargne, around 5.9 million French people aged over 15 - 3.9 million men and 2 million women - run either regularly or occasionally. Of them, 1.5 million took part in ...
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BBW Marketing Dr. Vossen and Valido, two market research companies,...
BBW Marketing Dr. Vossen and Valido, two market research companies, have released a report on the evolution of e-bikes in Germany. The study is called “Konsumwelt 2013: E-Bikes” (“World Consumption of E-bikes, 2013”). One of the findings is that the German bicycle market is currently doing well mainly because of e-bikes, ...
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The Snowsports Industries America (SIA) federation reports that winter sports...
The Snowsports Industries America (SIA) federation reports that winter sports sales in the U.S. were up by 2 percent from August through February compared with the same period the previous year. Retail sales of winter sports products reached $3.1 billion, of which $1.7 billion was generated by specialty shops. This ...
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The Swedish sporting goods industry posted a slight decline in...
The Swedish sporting goods industry posted a slight decline in sales of 0.6 percent in February when compared to the same month last year
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Taiwan's exports of bicycles declined by 1.1% to 4.33 million...
Taiwan's exports of bicycles declined by 1.1% to 4.33 million units in 2012, but they generated 8.7 percent higher revenues of US$1.8 billion
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The upheavals in the Chinese sports market, as reported elsewhere...
The upheavals in the Chinese sports market, as reported elsewhere in this issue, have also slashed the turnover of Exceed, the company that sells the Xidelong brand. Its sales shrank by 27.5 percent to 2,383.5 million yuan renminbi (€298.5m-$383.2m) for the full year and the situation deteriorated markedly in the ...
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The Mammut Sports Group raised its sales by 10.3 percent...
The Mammut Sports Group raised its sales by 10.3 percent to 232.5 million Swiss francs (€190.8m-$244.9m) in 2012, with an increase of 8.4 percent in local currencies and excluding the effect of acquisitions, according to its parent company, Conzzeta Group. The highest growth rates were recorded in the Asian region ...
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Li & Fung saw its sales increase by a mere...
Li & Fung saw its sales increase by a mere 1.0 percent to $20.2 billion in 2012. In the trading unit, which accounts for 70 percent of the total turnover, sales fell by 12 percent in Europe but grew by 5 percent in the U.S., with an 8 percent overall ...
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Yue Yuen, the leading manufacturer of sports footwear, saw its...
Yue Yuen, the leading manufacturer of sports footwear, saw its sales increase by 3.6 percent to about $7,297 million for the full fiscal year until the end of September. The company's shoe manufacturing business lifted its turnover by just 1.5 percent to $5,074 million, with a decline of 4.9 percent ...
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In 2012, total sales of Hervis Sports, the Austrian sporting...
In 2012, total sales of Hervis Sports, the Austrian sporting goods retail chain, decreased slightly by 2 percent to €441 million even though it opened three more doors, including the first one in Germany in autumn. The subsidiary of the Spar food chain says the declining turnover is a result ...
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Giant reports 13 percent higher consolidated sales of 53.5 billion...
Giant reports 13 percent higher consolidated sales of 53.5 billion New Taiwanese dollars (€1.4bn-$1.8bn) for its last financial year. Europe represented 27 percent of the total turnover, North America 22 percent, Asia-Pacific 40 percent and the rest of the world 11 percent. The Taiwanese bike company plans to open a ...
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Globeride, the Japanese company formerly called Daiwa Seiko, reported operating...
Globeride, the Japanese company formerly called Daiwa Seiko, reported operating income of 4.6 billion yen (€36.6m-$47.8m) on sales of ¥45.3 billion (€360.4m-$470.9m) for the nine months ended last Dec. 31. For the full financial year, it's still budgeting an operating profit of ¥2.5 billion (€19.9m-$25.9m) and a net profit of ...
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Ecco reckons that it became the world's fourth biggest brand...
Ecco reckons that it became the world's fourth biggest brand of golf shoes in 2012. Its Golf Street line won several awards. The shutdown of Ecco's manufacturing facilities in Thailand, due to the autumn 2011 floods, did not prevent the company from raising its total revenues by 13.7 percent last ...
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Very much in line with the unaudited preliminary results put out...
Very much in line with the unaudited preliminary results put out last month, Black Diamond Equipment, the U.S. marketer of the Black Diamond, Gregory, Poc Sweden and Pieps brands, raised its total sales for the full 2012 financial year by 21 percent to $175.9 million. The adjusted gross margin grew from ...
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Compass Diversified Holdings (CODI) reported double-digit sales increases for last year for...
Compass Diversified Holdings (CODI) reported double-digit sales increases for last year for all its three of outdoor and sporting goods companies: Camelbak, Fox Factory and Liberty Safe. Camelbak, in particular, tripled its revenues, with net sales of $157.6 million in the year ended Dec. 31 against $42.7 million the year before. Camelbak generated operating ...
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Nautilus, the American fitness company, saw its sales jump by...
Nautilus, the American fitness company, saw its sales jump by 8.4 percent to $65.0 million for the fourth quarter, while its gross margin and income both improved markedly on the back of increased direct sales. The company ended the year with a sales increase of 7.5 percent to $193.9 million, ...
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According to information given by various market research firms like...
According to information given by various market research firms like Regioplan and KMU Forschung Austria, the Austrian sporting goods market grew in 2012 by an estimated 2.1 percent, while the general retail sector went up by 1.1 percent. These figures were presented by VSSÖ, the Austrian sporting goods industry federation, at the Ösfa ...
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A survey conducted by MMI and published by Sport, the...
A survey conducted by MMI and published by Sport, the Norwegian trade magazine, found that Norway remains a haven for cross-country skiing. The researchers estimated that 70 percent of all Norwegian adults had at least one pair of cross-country skis. Yet more encouragingly, about 13 percent said that they had ...
