Brand Spotlight: Sports Direct
Sports Direct is the biggest sports retailer in the UK, with 470 stores throughout the UK and 24,000 staff working for them worldwide.
Sports Direct is the biggest sports retailer in the UK, with 470 stores throughout the UK and 24,000 staff working for them worldwide.
As the World Cup continues (despite England’s earlier exit) more and more consumers will be investing in football shirts and kits throughout the summer. An event like the World Cup can boost both consumer participation and spending so for resellers looking to profit this summer, finding sporting products at trade prices could be a lucrative investment.
Fitness is big business at the moment, as thousands of people across the country attempt to stick to their New Year’s resolutions.
The UK has seen soaring temperatures during the past few weeks and heat wave warnings have been issued in many parts of the country. So what can this mean for your wholesale reselling business? The team at Wholesale Scout have listed below some items that could be potentially lucrative for your business during the heat wave and some wholesale supplier details too.
The football season is over but there are plenty of other sports that are going to be popular this summer – and that means there will be plenty of sports equipment to sell!
Sports brand Adidas has been a popular seller for decades and this year is set to be one of their biggest years as they are one of the London Olympic 2012 sponsors.
Nike are one of the world’s biggest and known sports brands and with an annual turnover of $19bn (USD) they are certainly a brand that almost every consumer in the UK and the rest of the world would have heard of. Products from global brands such as this prove to be consistently popular amongst wholesale traders as they are regular sellers in the retail market place. Due to Nike’s sponsorship of global sports stars and their relentless brand marketing you can bet that once a wholesale buyer stocks their items at a competitive price – they will fly off the shelves, such is the popularity of the brand.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As most of our members will know the English Premier League (EPL) is big business and with the top two clubs (in terms of merchandise sales) selling around 2 million shirts worldwide per season between them it’s a business that many of our users, understandably, want to be a part of. A recent study showed that the most popular products to come out of the English Premiership were shirts from Man Utd, Liverpool FC and Arsenal FC with combined replica shirt sales reaching a staggering average of 3 million units!