Contents
Industry 4News
6 Analysis First Words
Like many of you I’m sure, I didn’t get any Olympic tickets. That’s not really a surprise as I didn’t apply for any as, although I would love to be part of the event first-hand, I found the whole process rather confusing and my bank manager wouldn’t have appreciated me trying to get several thousand pounds off him this spring for some, at the time, unspecified sporting events next summer. I’m as yet to have anyone provide me with a decent reason as to why the tickets have been allocated the way they have.
Granted, offering them on a first come, first serve basis like a concert or an everyday sporting event wouldn’t have worked. But surely there was a better way than having people apply in bulk and then drawing a ballot to see who got them? I know it would certainly have spared a few bank managers some sleepless nights. I’d still like to go of course, and I’m going to be optimistic and take heart from an experience I had a few weeks ago, although not in the sporting arena. I’m a big Peter Kay fan and my (now) wife made a concerted effort some 18 months ago to get tickets for his comeback Tour That Doesn’t Tour Tour. Tickets were a little price prohibitive at the time, and sold out pretty quickly as there was a high demand. But one Thursday afternoon at the start of June, she just happened to be searching an online ticket portal when she stumbled across tickets for that evening. So in the space of four hours, we went from preparing a TV dinner to eat in front of Eastenders to watching Rick Astley warm up for Peter Kay.
Not only that, but we had prime seats at the front of the floor, while people that had presumably fought for tickets all those months ago, hugged the clouds in the roof of London’s O2 Arena.
These were legitimate tickets (touting is bad) so I’ll be making sure I keep my eyes and ears open in the weeks and days ahead of July 27, 2012.
David Pittman, editor, SGB Sports
Rugby ‘riding the recession’ – Asics AYAMi to ‘redefine beauty’ – TCR becomes three shows – Swimming buoyant in recession
Students from the Performance Sportswear Design course at University College Falmouth show us their take on the future of sportswear design
8 Buying Groups
STAG tells us about ‘Independents Day 2011’ and how we should all get involved to support the independent retail community
Buying 10 Launch Pad
Harrows tells us about its new range of darts and equipment
12 Darts Showcase 14 Snooker Showcase 16 Yoga/Pilates Showcase
Selling 22 The Shop Floor
NK Sports tells us about its business, while Pointfore talks to the trade about racquetball
24 Road Test: Newton Running Following on from this year’s series of Natural Running seminars, we road test Newton Running minimalist running shoes
26 Football: Pattni Imaginations Toy company Pattni Imaginations updates us on the development of its football action figures, and tells us how retailers can benefit from stocking them
28 Football: Prostar
We find out how Prostar and Mitre are working together to reposition the former in the sports trade
30 Football/Rugby: Uhlsport/McDavid We find out about the developments Uhlsport and McDavid have made in recent times
www.sgb-sports.com The partnership voice for the trade
SGB Sportsis the UK member of the European Sports Trade Publishing Group, a co-operative of leading business magazines. ESPG partners exchange news and publish Sports Retail Europe, the only pan-European sports trade magazine – free to SGB Sportssubscribers. ESPG members include SAZ (Germany), SPORTeco (France), cmd (Spain), Sportfack! (Sweden) and Sportimyyja (Finland).
Sports Industry Awards official supplier
www.sportindustry.biz/awards ISSN 1757-7276
Datateam Business Media Ltd, London Road, Maidstone, Kent ME16 8LY. Tel: 01622 687031 Fax: 01622 757646
Editor: David Pittman -
dpittman@datateam.co.uk Contributors: Yvonne Holberton Journal Manager: John Andrews +44 (0) 1622 699135, +44 (0) 7811 185477,
jandrews@datateam.co.uk Sales Executive: Andy Morfey 01622 699120,
amorfey@datateam.co.uk Transcription: Helen Farress Publishing Director: Paul Ryder
pryder@datateam.co.uk Production Editor Brian King Subscriptions & Circulation: Sheila Skinner
sheila@yourresponse.co.uk
Register for your copy of SGB at
www.sgb.sports.com/registration
Annual Subscriptions £76.00 (UK); £82.00 (Europe); £118.00 (Air Mail); Single Copies: £6.50 (inc.p+p) Subscriptions include SGB Sports and Outdoor Guide to the Trade, the only annual directory published for the UK sports and outdoor industry. Subscribers to SGB Sports and Outdoor are entitled to receive SGB Sports and Outdoor Newsline free of charge, to the weekly emailed news service, instead of paying £180 per annum. Datateam Publishing Ltd 2002. All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, fax, email, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of Datateam Publishing Ltd.
Inside this month: Industry: Sportswear Design, Buying Groups Buying: Darts, Snooker
, Y oga/Pilates Selling: Football, Rugby, Netball, Running
Read about Target Darts on page 20
www.sgb-sports.com
July 2011 www
.sgb-sports.com
Official Manny Pacquiao Merchandise.
Accredited supplier to the STAG Group
32 Rugby/Netball: Team Colours Team Colours is pushing sublimation printing as a way for teamsports such as netball to get truly bespoke kits
34 Netball: Gilbert
Where has Gilbert Netball come from and where is it headed? We find out
36 Tech Rep: Ion-mask Dr Stephen Coulson tells SGB Sports about ion- mask liquid-repellent nano-coating technology
3
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40