Sports licensing has grown in scope and sophistication over
 the past decade, and is one of the top four revenue producers in the 
licensing world. In the US, the business is dominated by the four 
majo...
 Sports licensing has grown in scope and sophistication over the 
past decade, and is one of the top four revenue producers in the 
licensing world. In the US, the business is dominated by the four major 
sports leagues, National Football League, Major League Baseball, 
National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League along 
with NASCAR. In addition more than 300 colleges and universities in the 
US are involved in collegiate licensing, marketing their rights 
primarily to the apparel market with sometimes very respectable 
revenues, depending on the performance of their sports teams and the 
size of the university or college. In terms of its segments, sports 
apparel have the highest growth rate while among the sporting equipment,
 videogames/software are expected to grow at a faster rate as compared 
to sporting goods & toys and games.
The report “ Licensed Sports Merchandise Market”
 provides an in-depth analysis of the US and Canada market for licensed 
sports merchandise. The major trends, growth drivers as well as issues 
being faced by the industry are being presented in this report. The 
major players in the industry, VF Corporation, G III Appeal Group, 
Fanatics Inc. and Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc. are being profiled.
The key factors driving the growth of the licensed sports merchandise
 market are accelerating sports market in North America, rising demand 
of sporting goods, increasing GDP in the US and Canada, growing demand 
for e-commerce and rising demand for top sports. Some of the noteworthy 
trends and developments of this industry are growth of online streaming,
 introduction of domestic and housewares, licensing of player, 
technological advancement and rising demand of social media. However, 
the expansion of licensed sports merchandise market is hindered by 
counterfeiting/duplicate products, declining retail shelf space and high
 entry barriers.
By combining SPSS Inc.’s data integration and analysis capabilities 
with our relevant findings, we have predicted the future growth of the 
industry. We employed various significant variables that have an impact 
on this industry and created regression models with SPSS Base to 
determine the future direction of the industry. Before deploying the 
regression model, the relationship between several independent or 
predictor variables and the dependent variable was analyzed using 
standard SPSS output, including charts
, tables and tests. 
, tables and tests. 
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