CG: Girl Power Is Now a Multi-Billion Dollar Business
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Women have been the driving force behind the rise of activewear in the apparel industry. In this episode, we discuss the long-term trends that will continue to fuel this segment and the companies poised to benefit from the nearly $80 billion athleisure market.
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| 0:16.1 | Welcome to the industry focus. |
| 0:19.8 | The podcast it dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:23.4 | I'm your host Vincent Shen. |
| 0:24.9 | It is Tuesday, January 17th, and fellow Motley |
| 0:28.0 | analyst Sarah Priestley is in studio with me again this week to talk the |
| 0:31.6 | consumer and retail sector. |
| 0:33.2 | How are you Sarah? |
| 0:34.2 | I'm good thank you what a great commercial to bring us into our topic. |
| 0:37.4 | Yeah actually very very appropriate so you know last week obviously we talked about resolutions and we had ended that show or towards the end, we had talked a little bit about some surprising stats around gym attendance. |
| 0:52.0 | And the numbers are a little bit discouraging but basically |
| 0:55.8 | boiled down to something on the lines of 80% who joined a gym in January 2012 and |
| 1:01.8 | this was according to whatever the study you had found was they generally quit within five months and |
| 1:08.6 | There is apparently an episode of another podcast Planet Money where they visited a Planet Fitness |
| 1:15.2 | location the gym had a capacity for 300 people but they had signed up 6,000 |
| 1:21.9 | total members, |
| 1:22.8 | which is insane by the way. |
| 1:24.4 | And what came out was that half of the Planet Fitness |
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