2024-06-13 08:40:23
Sports activities and tenting outlets are apparently booming. Gross sales have elevated considerably in recent times – greater than in the remainder of the retail sector.
The sports activities enterprise just isn’t solely booming shortly earlier than main occasions such because the European Soccer Championship or the Olympic Video games this 12 months. Adjusted for value will increase, gross sales of sports activities and tenting outlets rose by 41.5 p.c (in actual phrases) between 2013 and 2023, considerably greater than gross sales in stationary retail as a complete, which rose by 9.1 p.c in the identical interval. The Federal Statistical Workplace introduced this on Wednesday in Wiesbaden.
Nearly half of the sports activities gear imported into Germany final 12 months got here from China, adopted by the Czech Republic (5.5 p.c) and the USA (4.8 p.c) at a substantial distance. The entire worth of imports, together with value will increase (nominal), was just below 1.5 billion euros. On the similar time, Germany exported sports activities gear value just below 1.2 billion euros. An important consumers had been Austria (12.8 p.c), France (11.1 p.c) and Switzerland (9.6 p.c).