All Wilson articles
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News briefsAmer Sports reports 60% revenue growth in China for Golden Week
The week-long national holiday starting Oct. 1, commemorating the founding of the People’s Republic of China, brought Amer robust sales growth driven by three brands’ solid performances.
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ArticleAmer Sports raises forecast, Ball & Racquet Sports sees moderate growth
Arc’teryx drives Amer’s Q2 success, boosting stock by over 10 percent and leading to an upgraded full-year forecast with strong growth in Technical Apparel.
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News briefsWilson opens football factory in Ohio and extends NFL partnership
According to a press release from Wilson, the National Football League (NFL) and Wilson Sporting Goods have renewed and extended their contract, naming Wilson again as the league’s official football. This partnership has lasted since 1941. As part of the multi-year extension, Wilson debuted its new factory in Ada, Ohio, ...
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ArticleTechnical Apparel segment drives Amer Sports’ Q1 revenue growth
Bolstered by constant-currency growth of 48 percent for its Technical Apparel segment that includes the Arc’teryx business, Amer Sports delivered Q1 sales and profitability above guidance in Q1. Operating profit fell by 16 percent to $109.0 million from $130.4 million in the period ended March 31. Ebit tumbled by 67 ...
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ArticleTechnical apparel will fuel Amer Sports’ growth in FY24
Thirty-four days after raising $1.365 billion in an NYSE IPO, Amer Sports conducted its first earnings call as a public company yesterday. While the Arc’teryx, Salomon and Wilson parent delivered Q4 revenues some $20 million above expectations, the quarterly loss was wider than expected. Amre’s shares finished the trading day ...
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News briefsWilson debuts 3D-printed airless basketball that “nearly fits” regulation
Who says a basketball has to be basic? Wilson just dropped a limited edition of the Airless Gen1 basketball, based on a prototype that doesn’t need inflating. The retail version has seen some tweaks and “nearly fits” regulation basketball standards for weight, size and bounce. “We knew it was time ...
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News briefsAmer Sports raises $1.365 billion in NYSE IPO
Amer Sports, the parent company of Arc’teryx, Salomon, Wilson and other brands, raised $1.365 billion in its IPO on the NYSE through the sale of 105 million shares, 24 percent below the $1.8 billion the company had originally planned to raise. Nonetheless, yesterday’s IPO valued Anta Sports at $6.5 billion, ...
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ArticleAmer Sports looks to raise $1.8bn from IPO
Amer Sports, the parent of Arc’teryx, Salomon, Atomic, and Wilson, aims to sell 100 million shares for a listing on the New York Stock Exchange next week at an opening price of $16 to $18 per unit. The group, which will trade under the “AS” ticker, will float approximately 26 ...
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News briefsWilson Golf introduces AI-powered club fitting technology
Wilson is launching Fit AI, an innovative technology that uses artificial intelligence and is “set to change the future of golf club fitting,” the brand said. The technology combines Wilson’s “black box algorithm” with Blast Motion’s motion analysis technology. Wilson Fit AI is a mobile app-based fitting solution that integrates ...
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News briefsAmer Sports confidentially files for IPO
Amer Sports, the Finland-based company controlled by Anta Sports and parent of Salomon, Wilson, Atomic, Arc’teryx, Peak Performance, Armada and other brands, has confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the USA to offer between $1 and $3 billion of its equity, Bloomberg reports, citing sources familiar with the ...
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News briefsAmer reports best H1 since acquisition by Anta
Helsinki-based sports equipment manufacturer Amer Sports has recorded its best H1 since the company was acquired by a consortium of buyers led by the Chinese group Anta Sports Products Ltd. in 2019. Amer’s revenues rose by 37 percent to 13.27 million yuan renminbi (€1.77bn) for the six months ended June ...
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ArticleAmer Sports gets upgraded by S&P Global
Amer Sports, the parent of Arc’teryx, Salomon and Wilson brands, last week received an upgrade on its credit rating to B+ from B and a stable outlook from S&P Global. The credit rating agency, which is projecting revenue growth of 17 to 18 percent for Amer this year and 8 ...
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ArticleAnta’s FY profit is flat despite revenue expansion
Anta Sports Products, forced to cope with pandemic-related policies that negatively impacted store foot traffic and consumer sentiment across China for most of 2022, reported 8.8 percent growth last year to 53,651 million yuan renminbi (€7.58bn) on a flat net profit of RMB 8,245 million (€1.17bn) against RMB 8,219 million. ...
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News briefsWilson Golf president to leave
Tim Clarke has stepped down as president of Wilson Golf, according to mygolfspy.com. Clarke first joined Wilson in the 1990s and became president in 2007. Bob Thurman, global R&D director, is reportedly stepping in as interim golf GM. Wilson Golf is part of Wilson Sporting Goods and has been owned ...
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News briefsWilson introduces 3D airless prototype basketball
Source: Wilson NBA All-Star Game 3D Airless Prototype Wilson Sporting Goods has introduced what it claims to be the first-ever 3D airless prototype basketball. The prototype made its debut during the first round of the AT&T Slam Dunk Contest in the National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star game ...
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News briefsAmer Sports partners with Sourcemap on transparency
Sourcemap, a New York-based specialist in supply chain transparency and traceability software, has announced that Amer Sports will leverage Sourcemap’s supply chain transparency solution to collect transaction certificates for certified materials and independently verify the company’s and its subsidiaries’ entire chain of custody, from raw material to finished product. Amer ...
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News briefsWilson signs first head-to-toe brand ambassador
Wilson Sporting Goods has signed up professional tennis player Marta Kostyuk as its first head-to-toe (rackets, footwear and apparel) Wilson advisory staff member. The 20-year-old Ukrainian rising tennis star has career-high rankings of 49 in singles (Feb. 2022) and 39 in doubles (Sept. 2022). She recently made the quarterfinals at ...
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News briefsWilson announces partnership extension with NCAA
Wilson Sporting Goods has announced an extension to its partnership with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as the official ball of March Madness and the Final Four for both the men’s and women’s basketball championships and the National Invitation Tournament (NIT). In addition, the Big Ten Men’s and Women’s ...
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News briefsWilson to begin selling pádel courts
Having joined forces with Padel Galis, Wilson Sporting Goods will begin selling pádel courts next month, according to CMDsport. Wilson Court, as the product is called, will, in time, be selling worldwide but is focused for now on the U.S. Padel Galis, a Spanish company that manufactures official courts for ...
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News briefsWilson appoints new head of racquet sports, sets sights on new markets
Wilson Sporting Goods has named Jason Collins, a 22-year veteran of the company, as its new global general manager of racquet sports, reporting to Joe Dudy, president and CEO at Wilson. Collins succeeds Hans-Martin Reh, who is moving on to pursue other interests outside the company. Reh had assumed the ...
