Total sports equipment, apparel, licensed merchandise and footwear sales hit $111,697 million in 2021, up 16% over the prior year and 17% over 2019, according to the new Sports & Fitness Industry Association’s 2022 Manufacturers’ Sales by Category Report. The new research found that outdoor and home fitness sectors continued to build on their 2020 boom while team sports and institutional fitness began to recover from 2020 nadirs while still down or inching to low-single-digit gains over 2019. Findings were based on estimates of wholesale dollar sales from a panel of 300 industry C-level executives, supplemented with other company and ... Log in to view full article.