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RIA Weekly Benchmarks give retailers and brands key benchmarks and trends via their inbox. Powered by UQ Cadence, as an RIA member, you can compare your business metrics to peer...
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Running Shoe Design and Tech: Innovation or reboot?
Be sure to check this lively and interesting presentation form Dr Simon Bartold entitled "The Impact of “Super Shoes” on sports performance… and injury." In his 45 minute discu...
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Running Shoe Research in 2021: What's new?
Running shoe design has been dominated by 2 great paradigms over the past 40 years, that of cushioning and of motion control. But, do these paradigms stand up to scientific scru...
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Sports Marketing Surveys
Sports Marketing Surveys (SMS) is an agile research agency with global reach and 35 years’ experience. Our full range of quantitative and qualitative approaches provides compreh...
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Sports Marketing Surveys – November 2022
The option to download is on the right-hand side when logged in as a member. Attention RIA Retail Members! Are you interested in receiving critical run specialty market data th...
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