Golf Equipment Retail Industry Overview

Companies that retail golf clubs, golf balls, and other golfing equipment.

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POS Computer Systems

Changing Tastes

Many retailers now use bar coded sales tags to enter information into central computers at cash registers. These point-of-sale (POS) systems allow retailers to track sales of specific items daily, identify popular and unpopular items, track inventory, and automatically order more product.

A National Sporting Goods Association (NSGA) sports participation survey shows that the popularity of various sports has changed in the last decade: camping, golf, rollerblading, and mountain biking have increased, while tennis and skiing have decreased. Among teenagers, participation in baseball and softball, bicycling, ice hockey, and tennis has dropped, and increased in fishing, golf, rollerblading, skate boarding, and snowboarding.

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• Edwin Watts Golf, LLC
• Golf Galaxy, Inc.
• Nevada Bob's International Inc.

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Hoover's has developed its own industry classifications to better serve its customers. These classifications are mapped to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and the older U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. The Golf Equipment Retail maps to a number of NAICS codes including:

Full Golf Equipment Retail Industry Codes

• European Athletic Association
  
• National Association of Sporting Goods Wholesalers
  
• National Sporting Goods Association
  

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