Article From：SGB Media According to Golf Datatech, U.S. rounds of golf were down 17.6 percent in November 2021 against November 2020 but still up 5.6 percent in the first 11 months of the year. The nations golf courses in recent months ha...

Article From：SGI Europe As we reported earlier this month, Adidas has struck deals with three producers of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on the Ethereum blockchain: Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), gmoney and PUNKS comic. The fruit of those init...

Article From：SGI Europe GlobalData a market research agency founded in 2016, combining several smaller such firms, and headquartered in London has released a report titled Energy and Sports Nutrition Market Overview, Consumer Behavior and...

Article From：SGI Europe A lot of snow fell on the Alps during the first full week of December, driving many local ski fans to the slopes. However, the French ski resorts are worried about a big drop in reservations by foreign tourists, es...

Article From：SGI Europe GfKs Consumer Confidence Index for the U.K. has fallen by one point so far in December, remaining negative at -15, in the midst of the spreading Omicron variant, which has led to more than 90,000 new daily cases of...

Article From：SGB Media While consumers are returning to their in-store shopping routines, according to a recent Mastercard survey*, 56 percent of shoppers have continued to prioritize online shopping this holiday season, citing waiting in...

Article From：SGB Media In the 12 months ending October 2021, revenue for the U.S cycling market grew 3 percent compared to the prior year, to just over $8.4 billion, according to the NPD Groups retail tracking data. In the year-ago period...

Article From：SGB Media According to The NPD Group, overlapping with the return of in-person learning and sports activities this year, revenue from kids activewear increased by 34 percent in the U.S. from January through October versus las...

Article From：SGI Europe Accelerated by the Covid pandemic, which has reduced the sports brands budget for national B2B advertising, the number of German retailer-oriented trade publications operating in the German sporting goods market ha...

Article From：SGI Europe The Remade Institute, a 132-member public-private partnership established by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) with an initial investment of $140 million, announced a funding round worth $33.2 million in new tech...

Article From：SGI Europe Intersport Germany and Rose Bikes are reportedly representing a group of 4,500 stakeholders in Germany that is grouping retailers, trade associations, journalists and economic experts in their opposition against th...

Article From：SGI Europe Topsports International Holdings, the leading Chinese sports distributor and retailer spun off by Belle International in 2019, reported a decline of 1.2 percent in total revenues to 15.57 billion renmimbi (2,128m-$...

Article From：SGB Media The 2021 holiday season appears to be on track to exceed the National Retail Federations (NRF) forecast for record spending despite supply chain disruptions, inflation and challenges, including the COVID-19 omicron...

Article From：SGB Media Global shipments for wearables grew 9.9 percent during the third quarter of 2021 (3Q21), reaching 138.4 million units, according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable...

Article From：SGI Europe It all depends on the brands that we include in three annual surveys that EDM Publications puts out every year for these three segments of the shoe market, some of which play in two different segments....

Article From：SGI Europe The market for sports-related shoes will continue to gain market share from other types of footwear over the next three years, according to 75 percent of the respondents to a survey organized by World Footwear in c...

Article From：SGB Media Total online spending on Black Friday was $8.9 billion, down from sales of $9 billion in 2020, according to Adobe Analytics. Results came in at the low end of Adobes predicted range. Thanksgiving Day coming in flat...

Article From：SGB Media EBay, Inc. has agreed to acquire Sneaker Con Digitals authentication business, a sneaker authenticator with operations in the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, and Germany. The acquisition is an extension of the ongoing...

Article From：SGB Media Nike announced a partnership with Roblox to create a virtual world called Nikeland. Users will be able to dress up their avatars in Nike-branded footwear and apparel. Nike said in a statement, Theres a new place on...

Article From：SGB Media FDRA Q4 Survey of the Top 100 shoe executives shows supply chain challenges and trade policy have caused a direct drag on future retail sales forecasts. Key takeaways include: A 20 percent decrease in shoe sales gro...