NSGA is conducting its Cost of Doing Business Survey

NSGA members get a copy of the survey.

The National Sporting Goods Association’s (NSGA) Cost of Doing Business (CODB) Survey is completed once every two years. If you participate you will receive a free personalized CODB.

In the past surveys, NSGA has included bike, ski, fitness, and team specific industry segments in the CODB survey.

The survey is secure and confidential and is compiled by an independent audit firm.

This survey will provide you with many benchmarks to measure your business:

Ø Compare your actual and projected expenses to industry averages of shops your size

Ø Compare your margins against like sized shops.

Ø Compare payroll and benefit costs.

Ø Compare occupancy costs.

Ø Compare sales per employee.

“You have to work hard and be smart. The Cost of Doing Business Survey helps us to be smart.” – Todd Thimesch, owner of Sports Page of Ames.

Click here to take the survey. Please call or email Dan Kasen with any questions at (847) 296-6742 Ext. 108 or dkasen@nsga.org

The survey closes on July 30, 2012.

Become a member of the National Sporting Goods Association and learn about the cost of doing business in your store.

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NSGA Research Newsletter: May 2012 Running is growing and Bicycle Imports up slightly!

Posted: June 8, 2012 | Author: Recreation Law | Filed under: Cycling | Tags: bicycle, Blue Nose Marathon, Cycling, National Sporting Goods Association, Newsletter, NSGA, Sport, Sports, Team sport, training | Leave a comment

NSGA

National Sporting Goods Association

Research Newsletter Compliments of the National Sporting Goods Association

Running/Jogging Participation Shows Strong Growth: Team Sports Mixed

Running/Jogging, which grew by 10.3% in 2010, continued its strong growth in 2011. Data in NSGA’s annual “Sports Participation – Series I and II” reports, now available, shows running/jogging with 38.7 million participants in 2011, an increase of 8.9% compared to 35.5 million in 2010. Since the association began surveying running/jogging in 1984 (29.5 million participants), participation has grown by 30.9%.Among sports and activities with 10 million or more participants, the overall percentage leaders were aerobic exercising and running jogging, both showing an 8.9% increase. Aerobic exercising increased from 38.5 million participants in 2010 to 42.0 million participants in 2011. Tennis (13.1 million) showed a 7.0% increase, followed by yoga (21.6 million), 6.9%; hiking (39.1 million), 3.8%; and backpack/wilderness camping (11.6 million), 3.7%.

The overall percentage leader was kayaking, which showed a 26.6% increase to 7.1 million participants. Several other activities with fewer than 10 million participants showed increases in 2011, including cross country skiing (2.3 million), 11.5%; and target shooting-shotgun (9.5 million), 2.0%.

Among traditional team sports, wrestling led with a strong increase of 9.4% to 3.2 million. Gymnastics continued to increase, up 7.6% to 5.1 million and soccer was up 3.0% to 13.9 million. Among the team sports showing a decline, ice hockey (3.0 million) was down 9.2%; volleyball (10.1 million) down 5.1%; softball (10.4 million) down 4.2%; tackle football (9.0 million) down 3.0%; basketball (26.1 million) down 2.9%; and baseball (12.3 million) down 1.9%. This contrasts with 2010 increases in basketball (10.1%), baseball (8.9%), ice hockey (7.9%), and tackle football (4.8%).

For this survey, a participant is someone age seven or older who takes part in the sport or activity more than once in a calendar year. “Sports Participation in 2011 — Series I and II” cover 47 sports, recreation and fitness activities.

These reports have been published by NSGA for more than 25 years. They provide data on total 2011 participation, frequency of participation, and mean (average) and median (mid-point) number of participation days. Single-time participation, which is not counted in the total, is included separately.

Demographic data on participants includes gender, age, mean and median age by gender, gender by age, household income, and education of male and female head of household. Geographic analysis includes nine census regions and metro area size.

For more information and/or pricing for these and other NSGA research reports, please contact the NSGA Research Department, (847) 296-6742, ext. 108.

Bicycle Imports Up Slightly but Unit Value Down

Bicycle imports rose only 2% through February 2012 Year-to-Date compared to February 2011 according to U.S. Department of Commercedata. Total units imported through February were 2,027,404 up 34,575 from February 2011.Imports of kids’ bikes were up 29% to 604,645 with a value of $18.3 million, through February.

Among adult bikes, imports of mountain and comfort bikes decreased 17% to 545,548 units, with a value of $72.7 million.

Imports of 27-inch and 700C bikes were basically flat at 235,713 (valued at $69.5 million) for the second month of 2012, compared to 236,624 units through February last year.

Average unit value of an imported bicycle fell 8% for 2012 from $103.00 in 2011 to $95.00 in 2012.

In 2011, 15.65 million bicycles were imported into the U.S., with a value of $1.40 billion. Unit imports decreased 21.0% but their value increased 23.6%.

In 2010, 19.77 million bicycles were imported into the U.S., with a value of $1.43 billion. Unit imports increased 33.2% but their value dropped 1.7%.

NSGA stats say skiing is flat, numbers are right, why?

Posted: April 11, 2012 | Author: Recreation Law | Filed under: Skiing / Snow Boarding | Tags: Alpine, Downhill, National Sporting Goods Association, Ski, Ski Resort, Sports, winter sports | Leave a comment

National Sporting Goods Association (NSGA) have numbers you can rely on.

NSGA numbers for Downhill (alpine) skiing participation show the following for the past 8 years.

	2002	2004	2006	2008	2010
Total Skiers	7.4%	5.9%	6.4%	6.5%	7.4%
% of US Population	9.1%	10.0%	12.9%	6.7%	7.9%
Avg # of days	9.1%	10.0%	12.9%	6.7%	7.9%

Over the past ten years the number of people skiing has changed Zero Percent. The total fluctuation over ten years is 1.5%. Skiing is not growing, even though the US population is growing. As a percentage of population skiing has dropped 1.2% and fluctuated 2.1%.

Andrej Šporn at the 2010 Winter Olympic downhill. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

As the population goes up, skiing is keeping up.

Even worse, the age group that the growth in in skiing should be coming from is dropping.

Here is a scary number

	2002	2004	2006	2008	2010
Age 25 or Older	71.7%	60.6%	62.4%	53.2%	58.3%

72 percent of skiers used to be 25 or younger. Now that number is 13% and again, not in line with the current us population. Growth comes from the young, or at least growth that skiing needs and can count on for years to come.

Snowboarding is saving ski areas, but not by much.