American Sports Data, Inc. (ASD) is the specialist in consumer survey research for the sporting goods, fitness and health club industries. For over 20 years, ASD has provided syndicated and custom research to a wide array of major corporations, media and industry associations. ASD is the principal provider of consumer research for both the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association (SGMA) and the International Health & Racquet Sportsclub Association (IHRSA). Now in its 18th year, the widely acclaimed and frequently quoted annual Superstudy® of Sports Participation is the definitive source of sports/fitness participation data in the U.S.
In addition to sports participation research, the firm has conducted a syndicated tracking study of the U.S. athletic footwear market, as well as major proprietary research for entities such as Brass Eagle, SGMA, Spalding Sports Worldwide, American Youth Soccer Organization, National Sporting Goods Association, Sportbrain, IHRSA, Precor, Miller-Freeman, Fairchild Publications, Wilson Sporting Goods, Smith & Wesson and others.
ASD is also a unique repository of physical fitness and
health club research data, having built the only consistent historical database of U.S.
fitness participation, which dates from 1987 to the present.
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ASD President
Harvey Lauer |
American Sports Data, Inc. was founded by its current
president, Harvey Lauer, in 1983. Prior to forming ASD, Mr. Lauer was Senior Research
Analyst at the Public Agenda Foundation, a public policy research organization founded by
Daniel Yankelovich and Cyrus Vance in 1975. A former Commissioned Officer in the U.S.
Army, Mr. Lauer holds a master’s degree in psychology from the New School for Social
Research. |
