Business news , Intersport Germany : slight decline in March

Cold records in time for the Easter business weighed on sales of the Intersport dealers in March. On balance, the members of the Heilbronn composite group had last month, a decrease of one percentage cope.

Hardware prepared the dealers under the assortments, with an increase of one percent, the greatest joy. Textiles were at a slight decline of one percent also quite good. Sports shoes, however, led to further inter-athletes in March a revenue decrease of five percent. However, the requirements of the March 2012 were also high. The same month the dealers had flushed a sales increase of twelve percent in the coffers.

Walking shoes to walk, stand skates

Inline skates were the losers in hard goods, soccer footwear models suffered most in March. For clothing outdoor jackets were once again on the losing side. The outdoor industry made ​​in March, however, not only for worry lines on the forehead of the Inter-athletes: Hiking shoes were the rage of the month. Winter equipment benefited from naturally coldest weather in March for 25 years. Alpine and shoes sold well, even cross-country equipment was required.

Cooling dominates buying behavior

Also, the buying behavior for clothing in the past month was marked by the cold weather too. Winter jackets, gloves and hats often went over the counter of the dealer. Functional underwear and ski pants were among the customers also high on the shopping list. Fitness equipment aroused great interest among athletes, sports bags and backpacks as well.

German Source Spomo.de  


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