Suppliers sold fewer bikes in June compared to last year, suggesting it is unlikely that the industry will recover from weak sales early in the year. Suppliers were unable to continue momentum from a strong May. Bike sales to IBDs were ...
Tags: Road bikes, Transportation
Suppliers sold bicycles worth more in dollars this May than last May, marking the first month this year that dollar sales exceeded same month sales last year. Auppliers sold bicycles worth 11.1 percent more in May than in May last year, ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
The World Spinning and Sports Conference kicks off this week. Taking place May 31st – June 2nd at the Hotel Intercontinental in Miami, FL, the WSSC Conference brings cutting-edge programming and dynamic brands from around the world, ...
Tags: Spinning, Sports Conference
Supplier sales remained down through April compared to last year but suppliers regained some ground from the first quarter, according to the BPSA Topline for Cycling RetailTRAK from Leisure Trends Group. Inventory remains an ongoing ...
Tags: Supplier sales, Transportation
Whether it was the weather or just a slowdown in several performance categories, the athletic footwear market fell a modest 1.4% during the first three months of 2013 to $3,414.8 million from $3,463.0 million. The data showed that unit ...
Tags: Athletic Footwear, Sporting Goods
Below-normal temperatures and the 10th largest March snow coverage on record sent IBD sales into a deep freeze compared with an unusually warm and record-setting March last year, according to March retail sell-through data from Leisure ...
Training with power remains one of the most elite market niches in cycling: so expensive that even some ProTour teams limit their riders' access to power meters, keeping them under lock and key and lending them out for limited tests. In the ...
Tags: Transportation, bike, software, hardware
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 ...
Tags: Bicycle Retailer, Bicycle
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. ...
Tags: Retail sales, Bicycle
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 ...
Tags: Transportation, Service
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 ...
Tags: IBD sales, Merchandise
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 ...
Tags: bicycle, Leisure Trends Group, bike industry
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 ...
Tags: Leisure Trends Group, webinar, NBDA members
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, ...
Tags: jacket, apparel company, Zensah