All Market Statistics articles – Page 6
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ArticleGerman e-commerce grows strongly, marketplaces on the rise
Berlin-based e-commerce and mail order trade association, bevh, has released its market figures for the second quarter of 2021, seeing an unbroken overall trend towards e-commerce and marketplace sales for all types of goods in Germany. After strong recovery effects earlier in the year, e-commerce revenue in the second quarter ...
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ArticleSales in Austrian sports retail strongly divided in 20/21 winter season
Pointing to the strongly diverging business development for Austrian retailers (depending on location and product range focus), the national Association of Sporting Goods Manufacturers and Suppliers (VSSÖ) provided a first summary for the full year 2020 and the winter season Q4, 2020, and Q1, 2021. According to the association, total ...
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News briefsRussia’s bicycle market is still shaken
Russia is still experiencing a shortage of bicycles, while the average price has increased by 10 to 35 percent since the beginning of the year, retailers reported. Russia’s Velograd said the shortage is likely to last throughout 2021, and it will take two to three years for the situation to ...
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News briefsSport not among top e-commerce performers in Spain
Sport does not figure among the chief product categories in Spanish e-commerce. So says the latest edition of an annual study put out by Elogia, a Spanish digital marketing agency, and IAB Spain, which claims to be the world’s largest association of communications, advertising and digital marketing agencies. Some 25.8 ...
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ArticleSvenskt Sportforum launches quarterly industry index based on sales of Swedish retail chains
Industry organization Svenskt Sportforum has launched the Sportindex, a Swedish industry index produced in collaboration with Stockholm-based HUI Research that includes statistics on the development of the sporting goods retail industry. The new Sportindex aims to provide a credible and quality-assured statistical basis that is valuable for industry players such ...
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ArticleStudy shows cross-border online shopping habits of Europeans
Cross-Border Commerce Europe (CBCommerce), a Brussels-based platform promoting cross-border online commerce in Europe, has examined and evaluated the 16 strongest European countries in terms of both consumer behavior and business performance in cross-border online shopping that generated sales of €146 billion in 2020 (excluding the travel segment) in the EU, ...
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News briefsMarketmedia24 forecasts growth of German athletic footwear industry until 2028
Market researchers from the Cologne-based market research and consulting institute Marketmedia24, who calculate future prospects for numerous consumer goods markets based on scientific methods, have concluded that the German athletic footwear industry does not have to worry much about future sales. According to the report, there will be a steady ...
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E-bike buyers are younger in Germany and Belgium than in the Netherlands
Figures from the annual GfK e-bike Monitor 2020, which was first launched in the Netherlands in 2018, show more young e-bike buyers in Germany and Belgium than in the Netherlands. Among e-bike buyers, the age groups 50 and 65+ are less strongly represented in these countries than in the Netherlands. ...
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News briefsEuropean consumers are interested in textiles’ care and eco-care instructions
A new survey from GINETEX, the International Association for Textile Care Labelling, has shown that 65 percent of consumers want to see more environmental information and ecological care recommendations on care labels. While the size (96 percent) and composition of textiles (74 percent) remain the most sought-after piece of information, ...
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News briefsRussian outdoor segment showed solid performance in 2020
The outdoor segment of the Russian sporting goods market experienced strong growth in sales last year, to a large extent thanks to a cold winter in the 2020/21 season, and because during the winter months, more customers spent their vacations in Russia, Ilya Titarenko, distribution director of the Russian sporting ...
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News briefsGfK sees slow but possible recovery of consumption in Germany
In its monthly study in Germany this May, GfK market researchers found consumer sentiment “rather bright than muted,” caused by falling illness rates and success in Covid-19 vaccinations. With more employees coming out of short-time work and incremental re-openings of stores and restaurants, conditions are good for a significant recovery ...
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Retail sales in the U.K. rise thanks to clothing and footwear
In April, U.K. retail sales rose by 9.2 percent month-on-month in volume thanks to the easing of Covid-19 restrictions, including the re-opening of all non-essential retail from April 12 in England and Wales and from April 26 in Scotland. During the period, sales for textile, clothing and footwear stores rose ...
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ArticleBicycle boom gives Austrian specialist retail some record boosts
The record result brought in by the Austrian market in 2020 is not only due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The trend toward bicycles, especially e-bikes, began several years earlier. Today, bicycles are the strongest sales drivers in the Austrian sporting goods market, alongside the ski and outdoor segments. It should ...
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News briefsFrench bicycle sales record double-digit growth
According to figures from UNION sport & cycle, the French sporting goods industry association, the bicycle market (bicycles, parts and accessories) reached the milestone of €3 billion in value for the first time in 2020, representing a 25 percent increase over the previous year. Overall sales of all types of ...
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ArticleGfK survey in the USA sees brand loyalty as payoff for intelligent consumer approach
In a survey of 1,000 U.S. residents, market research institute GfK asked consumers about their brand loyalty and trust in brands and retailers in relation to data security, as well as soft parameters such as CSR and political issues. According to the study, one of the social changes that the ...
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ArticleItalian tanners issue warning about rising raw material costs
The Italian tanners’ association, Unic, is warning about the “destabilizing” impact of a sharp increase in the price of raw materials. In recent weeks, the cost of raw hides and skins has increased in “a generalized and almost unreasonable way,” while tanneries face a sharp decrease in demand, Unic said ...
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ArticleVietnam predicts $20 billion in leather and footwear exports in 2021
Vietnam’s Leather, Footwear and Handbag Association (Lefaso) expects its industry to achieve exports of more than $20 billion this year after suffering from a decline last year due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on supply chains, consumption and trade. Last year, Vietnam’s export turnover of footwear and handbags ...
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Purchasing power in German-speaking countries remains strong
GfK has just published the latest data on purchasing power in German-speaking countries. According to the data analytics company, the Swiss will once again have significantly more money to spend and save in 2021 than neighboring Austrians and Germans with an average per capita spending power of €40,739. Austrians have ...
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News briefsLarge increases in purchases and production of bikes in Italy
A total of 2.01 million bicycles were sold in Italy in 2020, or 17 percent more than in the previous year, according to data provided by the Associazione Nazionale Ciclo Motociclo Accessori (ANCMA), the Italian bike industry association. The Covid-19 pandemic contributed to the strong increase, driving the demand for ...
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News briefsGfK figures show recovery in British consumer confidence
According to the latest GfK long-term Consumer Confidence Index, all signs point to a slow but noticeable recovery in the economic situation of U.K. consumers. All indicators surged in March, with the overall index score rising by a robust seven points to -16. The measure of personal finances over the ...
