{"id":30478,"date":"2026-08-11T07:12:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/under-armour-cuts-25-more-products-to-save-margins-will-it-work\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T07:12:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:12:24","slug":"under-armour-cuts-25-more-products-to-save-margins-will-it-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/under-armour-cuts-25-more-products-to-save-margins-will-it-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Under Armour cuts 25% more products to save margins. Will it work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.fibre2fashion.com\/Newsresource\/images\/312\/shutterstock-2510939899_324108.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>On Friday, during a post-earnings call, Plank outlined newer goals for Under Armour where another targeted reduction and full-price selling should continue to shield margins. He said that building on the <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> per cent reduction already achieved during the fall and winter <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> assortment compared to just <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> years ago, the company was now targeting a further <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> per cent stock keeping unit (SKU) reduction over the next <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the biggest lessons for us has been that athletes don<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>;t need more choices. They need better ones,\u201d Plank noted as part of Under Armour\u2019s efforts to remove footwear and apparel that has not worked so far. He pointed out that the company needed to be more intentional with the products that it was selling.<\/p>\n<p>Plank said the architecture of \u201chow we show up through good, better and best products, is not always eliminating. In some instances, we will have <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> or <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> or <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> products for one particular category. In other instances, we see opportunity in making better and best for things that are really close to us,\u201d he shared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the end of <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>, we are forecasting roughly a <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> per cent overall drop in SKUs, which is something we are really proud of,\u201d Plank added.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n        <ph name=\"Courtsey\"\/>&#13;\n    <\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fibre2fashion.com\/news\/apparel-news\/under-armour-cuts-25-more-products-to-save-margins-will-it-work--312531-newsdetails.htm\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, during a post-earnings call, Plank outlined newer goals for Under Armour where another targeted reduction and full-price selling should continue to shield margins. He said that building on the ** per cent reduction already achieved during the fall and winter **** assortment compared to just * years ago, the company was now targeting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}