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ArticleQ1 2024: Bike industry stock market and real economy are two different things
Since the turn of the year, the global stock market has only known one direction: up. It has thus completely disconnected itself from the real economy. Here, you can find out whether our selected bicycle stocks have also been able to make strong gains in Q1 of 2024 despite all the adversities.
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ArticleQ3 Bicycle Industry Stock Chart: Bike manufacturers had to cut back
Even though the long-term prospects of the bicycle sector are looking promising, it is currently operating in difficult terrain. This is also reflected by The Outdoor Industry Compass’ Q3 analysis of the bicycle industry stock market.
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ArticleQ2 Bicycle Industry Stock Chart: Long-term outlook forecasts full recovery
In the current economic environment, the stock market – regardless of the sector – continues to be on a rollercoaster ride. This also applies to the bicycle stocks monitored by The Outdoor Industry Compass.
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ArticleAlpkit: An outdoor brand building success through community
Alpkit is reaping rewards from its event-based community. We look at how building a community can help generate and retain customers.
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ArticleStepping up to the plate: How the outdoor industry is taking responsibility seriously
Our functional fabric expert Charles Ross is convinced that even though incoming legislation like the EU Green Deal and Prop 65 and the forthcoming New York Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act in the U.S. are forcing many changes in how the Outdoor Industry conducts business, there is also a ...
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ArticleAnalysis: More than half of the outdoor stocks make gains in Q1
Our Q1 Outdoor Index includes the revenue and profit development of 37 major outdoor companies.
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ArticleCurrent overstock constraints cannot beat positive long-term outlook: Q1 bicycle industry stock chart
There are still hurdles to overcome. But in the long run, our cycling expert Jo Beckendorff says “Trends are the bike industry’s friends.”
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ArticleSwedish sports retail sales decreased by 7.5 percent in Q4
The quarterly Sportindex by Svenskt Sportforum shows that Swedish sports retail sales decreased by 7.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2022, making it the fourth consecutive quarter with negative development for sports retail. For the full year 2022, sports retail sales development landed at -5.8 percent. However, the drop ...
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ArticleGorpcore: Where fashion and sportswear meet
Gorpcore: the trend you may have missed and the huge potential it holds for performance brands. We explain it and evaluate its potential.
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ArticleGreenwashing: The tide and the law are turning
When does an environmental claim become greenwashing? We outline the current legal position on using environmental claims to market products
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Article2022 bicycle stock chart development proves you can always do worse
Five are up, the majority are down. Compare your brand’s performance with our analysis of the 2022 bicycle stock market.
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ArticleCircular economy in the textile industry explained in pictures
The circular economy is counter to the current linear “take-make-waste” economy; exploiting resources for manufacture, finite product life, and one which ends with disposal.
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ArticleRugged outdoor footwear market rebounds in 2021
After a disappointing 2020, impacted adversely by the global pandemic, the global branded outdoor shoe market returned to growth last year. Worldwide rugged outdoor footwear sales climbed 28 percent higher to $6,756 million in U.S. dollars in 2021, based on research conducted by the Outdoor Industry Compass in partnership with Sporting Goods Intelligence.
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ArticleSwedish sports retail sales decreased by 4.7 percent in Q3 2022
The Sportindex, a Swedish industry index produced by the Swedish Sports Forum in cooperation with HUI Research, shows that total sales in sports retail decreased by 4.7 percent in the third quarter of 2022 compared to the same period last year, making it the third consecutive quarter with negative development ...
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ArticleAnalysis: Global outdoor stock index falls by double-digits again in Q3
According to the latest Outdoor Industry Compass quarterly study of 37 select stocks which sell products into the outdoor recreation market, the segment Index fell by a double-digit percentage for a third consecutive period but by less than in the first (-17.84%) or second (-21.18%) quarters. Only four stocks – ...
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ArticleBicycle Stocks Q3 2022: Weighed down by fear of global crash, yet 1/4 buck the downward trend
The Russian war against Ukraine is having such a major global impact that other issues, such as Covid, seem to be taking a back seat. The energy crisis forced by the war, combined with rising interest rates, inflation, and consequently weakening consumer demand and spending, could lead to a global recession – and even a global stock market crash.
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ArticleE-Commerce: Secondhand marketplaces on the rise
Cross-border marketplaces are developing fast, and the C2C trend is one of the drivers.
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ArticleU.S. outdoor industry study examines recreation and outdoor companies’ hiring challenges
The Oregon State University’s center for the outdoor recreation economy, with support from Basecamp Outdoor, Path to Peak education and consulting and the Confluence of States, has conducted a new Outdoor Industry Workforce Assessment for the American Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) and the Outdoor Recreation Roundtable. The study aims to ...
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ArticleAdventure tourism market to reach $1.009 trillion in size by 2030
According to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc, a U.S. market research and consulting firm, the global adventure tourism market – valued at $282.1 billion in 2021 – is estimated to reach $1.009 trillion by 2030, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate from 2022 to 2030 of 15.2 ...
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ArticleAnalysis: Outdoor industry stocks fell more than 21% in Q2
Outdoor industry stocks fared worse in the second quarter than in the first period of 2022, declining an average of 21.18 percent compared to a 17.84 percent sequential drop in the average stock prices of companies primarily involved in the outdoor and bicycle sectors. This time around, our quarterly analysis ...
