Bicycle Retailer and Industry News honored industry suppliers and leaders at its annual BRAINy awards dinner Thursday night, marking the end to another successful three-day Bicycle Leadership Conference in this seaside town. Helping ...
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Retail sales are trending down through the first quarter this year compared to last year but that’s no reason for suppliers to panic, JJ Rudman, retail analyst for Leisure Trends Group, told attendees on a webinar yesterday. ...
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Leisure Trends Group will present a webinar Thursday that will include 2012 retail sales data and a look at emerging product categories, including new technologies. LTG retail analyst JJ Rudman?will present cycling retail sales data drawn ...
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Thanks to 2012’s unseasonably warm winter, IBD sales suffered from unfavorable year-ago comparisons this February but showed strength when viewed against the more realistic 2011 period, according to data from research firm Leisure ...
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Sales got off to a slow start at independent bicycle dealers this year. While total dollar sales held steady at $145 million, unit sales slipped 2 percent in January, according to sell-through data from Leisure Trends Group. Complete bike ...
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Zensah, a Miami based compression apparel company, has announced its plans to return to the 2013 Travel Goods Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. The TGS Show takes place February 27 to March 1 and attracts thousands of exhibitors and buyers from ...
Leisure Trends Group is hosting a webinar for NBDA members Wednesday to provide analytics and insights gained from ongoing tracking of monthly point of sales data from independent bicycle dealers. The one-hour webinar is being presented by ...
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Zensah, a Miami based compression apparel company, has announced the launch of its Seamless Power Running Jacket. The Zensah running jacket does what other companies have been unable to do thus far – create the most comfortable, ...
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Zensah, a Miami based compression apparel company, has announced its plans to attend the 2013 PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, Florida. The PGA show takes place from January 23 to January 26 and attracts thousands of exhibitors and buyers ...
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BOULDER, CO (BRAIN) — Sales at IBDs bounced back in November after October declines, with overall annual sales remaining on track for a record 2012, according sell-through data from the Bicycle Product Suppliers Association and ...
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BOULDER, CO (BRAIN) — Leisure Trends Group and the National Sporting Goods Association have reached an agreement that will provide NSGA members with access to retail sales data from Leisure Trends' Sporting Goods RetailTRAK program. ...
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The return of seasonable fall weather had a chilling effect on IBD sales in October, as overall merchandise sales declined by 4 percent in units and 7 percent in dollars to $170 million, according to Bicycle Product Suppliers Association ...
Tags: Report, IBD sales, Road bikes, Mountain bikes, Transit and fitness bikes
More than 40 percent of independent bicycle dealers report stronger Black Friday sales this year than in 2011, according to research firm Leisure Trends Group. Leisure Trends broke out the IBD data for BRAIN from a broader survey of ...
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Zensah announced at The Running Event 2012 that it is the number one selling compression leg sleeve for running specialty,according to Leisure Trends Group Specialty Running Retail TRAK YTD Data. Leisure Trends Group(LTG)is a leading ...
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How does Electra Bicycles turn a tidy profit marketing products to a nonenthusiast customer base the rest of the industry is largely content to ignore? Electra Marketing Director Elayne Fowler knows. But aside from a few tantalizing hints, ...
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