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Be Part of the 2025 Athletic Business Purchasing Survey

AB Staff
Jan 8, 2025
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What was your best purchase of 2024? Where are you targeting your buying dollars in 2025? Athletic Business wants to know!

We're asking readers to fill us in on their past and future purchasing priorities by filling out our Purchasing Survey form — now quicker and easier than ever — by Jan. 31. Just access the survey here for your chance to be one of four winners of a $50 Amazon gift card. (Your name and contact information will be gathered only for gift card lottery purposes and NOT shared in the survey results.) The more completed surveys we receive, the more accurate our assessment of industrywide purchasing trends becomes. Be part of the picture!

Results of the 2025 survey — our 10th overall — will appear as part of the annual AB Buyers Guide in March. Thank you for your time and consideration!


Access Survey Here 

(check out last year's survey here)


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