A new year – a new lockdown!
Some new data to ponder.
Januarys figures were down – no surprise there but how bad are they and how is the year starting to look?
Watch Phil’s short video to find out more.
A new year – a new lockdown!
Some new data to ponder.
Januarys figures were down – no surprise there but how bad are they and how is the year starting to look?
Watch Phil’s short video to find out more.
Well at last we have got through what most will consider as one of the worst years – unless you sell PPE that is. As it stands Golf proved its health benefits and turned out to be rather popular again. With all the ups and downs we have now complied the overall data for 2020 and the news is pretty good – value was only down 10.7%.
No surprises we are not up – it was almost an impossible task to loose nearly 16 weeks of the year and not expect some negative impact. However some are up and up a lot. Others are down but not as bad as it could have been. Here’s a quick video with some highlight numbers.
Well, October was a cracker for the Golf Market.
Watch this month’s retail sales update for some good news across the industry, what to expect in November and, of course, Phil’s Movember ‘tash’.
Since lockdown the Golf market has performed very well – courses have been full and people have been reconnecting with the game. In July Golf Datatech recorded their biggest ever month of sales in their UK retail audit. To follow that up – August has become the second largest month on record.
Here is a quick Golf retail market update on the numbers for August 2020 and how they compare to 2019.
High street retail has had a pretty torrid time so far this year. Fortunately things have picked up over the last month or two – with July looking to be a real corker!
Here is a quick Golf retail market update on the numbers for July 2020 and how they compare to 2019.
A quick market update video on the numbers for June 2020. Coming off a tough 2 months how did June fair?
2019 bit the dust and what a year it was. With all the political ups and downs, it would have been hard to come up with the script.
So how would we describe the Golf market in 2019? In footballing parlance, I think it would be “a season of two halves”.
The first half saw the market get off to a roaring start. In March, we were over 7% up YTD and things were looking good. May was okay but then it all started to unravel the following month: one of the worst Junes for a long time which saw 80% more rain than average. We hoped this was a blip but, little did we know, it was a sign of things to come. Continue reading “UK Golf Retail: Market Overview 2019”
Today I went online and searched up “reasons to be happy”. It was a real challenge to find anything positive. I came across one article from 2013 and another from May 2018. And that’s it. Hasn’t anyone felt the need to write happy stuff since then?
If you believe everything you read in the Press, we do seem to be experiencing some unhappy times in the retail sector. Hysteria, conflict and sensation sell newspapers, whilst stories of doom feed the television news channels.