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The mountain bike market is projected to post 5.4% CAGR by 2027
According to a new report by tech research firm Technavio, the global mountain bike market is estimated to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 5.4 percent from 2023 to 2027, with a growing emphasis on innovation and customer awareness. Electric mountain bikes (eMTBs) are gaining popularity. ...
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Sports fishing equipment market to accelerate at 4% CAGR by 2028
The global sports fishing equipment market is projected to grow by $3.25 billion between 2024 and 2028, namely a 3.97 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) during the forecast period, according to a recent report by research and advisory firm Technavio. The growth year-over-year from 2022 to 2023 was 3.25 ...
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Increasing participation in fishing in China
The recreational fishery industry in China’s southern island province of Hainan alone recorded a total output value exceeding 4 billion yuan ($563m) in 2023, representing a year-on-year surge of 90 percent, according to preliminary data provided by local authorities. Fishing participation in the province jumped by 73 percent in 2023 ...
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China aims to build €385bn outdoor sports industry by 2025
According to the government news agency Xinhua, China aims to develop outdoor sports into an industry worth 3 trillion yuan renminbi (€386 billion) by 2025, according to a government action plan released last week. The action plan, which covers the period from 2023 to 2025, aims to boost the construction ...
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WFSGI / McKinsey & Company
Sporting Goods Industry SurveySGI Europe would like to invite you to participate in this year’s WFSGI / McKinsey Sporting Goods Industry Survey.
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Global angling and hunting equipment market to post 7% CAGR by 2030
The global angling and hunting equipment, which was estimated at US$536.97 million in 2022 (the base year), is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.03 percent to reach US$924.98 million by 2030, according to a recent report by Dublin-based Research and Markets. The 248-page report ...
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Swedish sports retail sales fall 0.6 percent in Q1 2023
According to the Sportindex, compiled by industry organization Svenskt Sportforum in collaboration with the Swedish Retail Research Institute (HUI), sales in Swedish sports retail fell 0.6 percent in the first quarter of 2023. This is the fifth consecutive quarter of negative development in the sports retail sector. In the ...
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UK bike sector faced turbulent year in 2022
The Bicycle Association, the U.K.’s trade association for the bicycle industry, has released the “Annual Market Data Report for 2022: Riding out the Storm,” which provides coverage of the U.K. cycling sector for the calendar year 2022. Sales of mechanical bikes fell 22 percent to an estimated 1.88 million units ...
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Outdoor report by Marketmedia24 gives future outlook
Marketmedia24 has launched its new “Branchen-Report Outdoor 2023,” which puts a spotlight on the market development in Germany from the pandemic years 2020 and 2021 to 2022, a year overshadowed by war and inflation. Overall, Marketmedia24 sees 2022 as a year of slightly negative sales numbers (-1.4 percent) for the ...
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Shimano presents 2022 study on e-bike attitudes in Europe
Are you interested in a detailed country report on the attitudes toward e-bikes in several European countries? If so, you should keep an eye on Shimano’s “State of the Nation 2020” report. More than 15,500 people in 12 European countries were surveyed for this fourth annual report from the world’s ...
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Merrell releases global study on diversity in the outdoors
Outdoor lifestyle and footwear brand Merrell, part of Wolverine Worldwide, has published a report titled “Inclusivity in the Outdoors,” examining perceived inclusivity and experiences in outdoor spaces globally, with a focus on Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. While conventional outdoor research analyzes race, gender and income regionally, Merrell’s report ...
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Sports fishing equipment market to post 3.21% growth by 2026
The sports fishing equipment market is projected to accelerate at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.21 percent during the 2021-2026 period, representing an incremental growth of US$2.45 billion, according to a new report by research and advisory firm Technavio. Growth will be driven by the rising popularity of ...
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Adventure tourism doing record business in Spain
Spain’s adventure tourism sector is expected by the end of this year to exceed €26 billion in revenues, according to CMDsport, whose report draws on the forecasts of Yumping.com, themselves grounded in national economic figures. The projection for 2022 revenues would exceed the total for the pre-lockdown year of 2019 ...
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Outdoor recreation has mostly gained ground since Covid
According to the Outdoor Foundation’s Outdoor Participation Trends Report for 2022, the number of people entering or returning to outdoor recreation has risen by 26 percent since March 2020, when lockdowns and other pandemic measures went into effect in much of the world. This is the highest increase the foundation ...
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Global study by Recurate shows demand for brand-owned re-commerce offerings
The U.S.-based resale platform provider Recurate, founded in 2020, has conducted a new re-commerce study in eleven markets worldwide, together with social impact agency BBMG. To understand consumers’ pre-owned product shopping habits, the company has surveyed a mix of non-active and active e-commerce shoppers. First and foremost, the study finds ...
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European ski industry recovering slowly after the pandemic
The European ski industry is slowly recovering after “a disastrous season hit by Covid-19,” the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) has said. According to results in the trade organization’s recent annual ski market report, skis and ski-equipment sales for the 2021/22 season increased slightly from those of ...
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Italian outdoor market posted 27% increase in 2021, exceeding European average
In Italy, sales of outdoor products (sell-in) increased by 27 percent in 2021 compared to 2020. The increase in Europe in the same period was 18.7 percent, based on European Outdoor Group (EOG) data. Growth in Italy is primarily driven by technical gear and footwear. More specifically, Italy has emerged ...
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Bergzeit study sees pleasure trumping performance in outdoor sports activities
German mountain sports e-tailer Bergzeit has conducted a new online study among roughly 3,400 of its customers in the German-speaking countries to find out about their motivation in outdoor sports, goals, planning, equipment, travel choices, social media use and the consultancy expected from a retailer. One of the major takeaways ...
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Kearney releases circular fashion report 2022, with outdoor brands doing relatively well
Consulting company Kearney has released its Circular Fashion Index 2022. It assessed 150 fashion brands from 20 countries and six categories (luxury, premium and affordable luxury, mass market, fast fashion, sports and outdoor, lingerie and underwear). The methodology includes a score based on seven dimensions that affect ...
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Bike theft in Switzerland: Claim costs at record level
AXA Versicherungen AG has released statistics on bike thefts in Switzerland. Over the last five years, the number of stolen bikes has remained more or less the same – except in 2020, when there was a slight Covid pandemic-related decrease, but this was no longer noticeable by 2021. Over the ...