Our hopes for 2025

Outdoor and endurance sports to get greater recognition The omission of Jasmin Parris from the BBC Sports Personality of the Year nominees highlights just how much work there is left to do to bring some of the extraordinary outdoor / long-distance feats into the public eye in 2025. By any objective sporting standards, Parris should…

OMIS shows Q1 sales fall for outdoor industry

Total value sales for the UK outdoor industry fell by 20% in Q1 2024, new data from the Outdoor Market Intelligence Service has revealed. Compared to Q1 2023, sales were down in all categories, with camping (-32%) particularly hard hit. Request Call “A combination of ongoing economic pressure and cold, windy, weather not especially conducive…

Joe Petersen prepares for Canoe Marathon World Cup

Most people would agree that joining a new company is always a moment of upheaval. Doing so while also training for international sporting competition though is something that few people experience. That is exactly the situation Joe Petersen finds himself in. Having recently joined Sports Marketing Surveys as part of the acquisition of Culture of…

SMS to present market data at ISPO

How can the outdoor industry replicate the cycling boom? And just how far might that boom go? Those are just two of the questions that will be addressed by Marc Anderman, who heads Sports Marketing Surveys’ cycling operations, during a presentation on behalf of the European Outdoor Group (EOG) at virtual ISPO on Wednesday 3rd February. SMS has…