How many baseball hats are sold in the US every year? and Globally
every year? How many cowboy hats are sold in the US every year? and
Globally every year?

How large is the hat-buying market? And what key demographic(s) drive that market?

How large is the market for hat-care/cleaning?

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Clarification of Question by cw2006-ga on 10 Apr 2006 22:14 PDT

How many baseball hats are sold in the US each year?  How many cowboy
hats are sold in the US each year?

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 10 Apr 2006 22:59 PDT

Please clarify  if you require answers for the two questions in the
clarification box or for all the questions posted previously as well.

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Clarification of Question by cw2006-ga on 13 Apr 2006 21:02 PDT

What we are looking for is the number of baseball hats and the number
of cowboy hats sold in the US annually. We would also like to know the
size (in dollars) of the US hat-buying market, annually.

That is all that we require for this posting. You may disregard the
original posting.

Hello Cw2006,

The hat statistics requested are as follows:


How many baseball hats are sold in the US each year? 
 
121 million baseball hats 

?In the $35 billion sports apparel industry, no item better symbolizes
global reach than the baseball hat. And 85 percent of the 121 million
baseball hats sold each year have nothing to do with sports.?

New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/28/business/worldbusiness/28HATS.html?ex=1144900800&en=fc6be3a05dbf7ae8&ei=5070


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How many cowboy hats are sold in the US each year?

17 million cowboy hats

?The people at Resistol Hats recently did some high-powered research
and somehow concluded that there are more than 17 million cowboy hats
in the U.S. If you are among those behatted hordes and live in Texas,
chances are yours is a Resistol: Based in Garland, Resistol sells
about a million cowboy hats a year, ranging in price from $15 for a
straw workingman's special to $3000 for a beaver-and-ermine number.

The industry is finally getting back to a normal 2.8 million cowboy
hats a year, and now its growth seems to be in the non-Western end of
things.?

Texas Monthly
http://www.texasmonthly.com/ranch/readme/resistol.php


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U.S. Hat market:  $1.04 billion

?Hat sales have climbed 5 to 15 percent every year since the
mid-1980s, according to numbers collected by the New York-based
Headwear Information Bureau. Last year, Americans spent $1.04 billion
on hats, up from $992 million in 2002, said Casey Bush, founder and
director of the bureau that represents the hat industry.?

The Mix
http://www.dailygamecock.com/media/storage/paper247/news/2004/04/09/TheMix/Youth.Culture.Puts.Hats.Back.On.Top.Of.Fashion-656428.shtml?norewrite200604140035&sourcedomain=www.dailygamecock.com
 

?Americans spent $1.04 billion on hats.?

Career World, Sept, 2004  
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HUV/is_1_33/ai_n6174048


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Search terms used: 
Americans spent OR spend OR spending  ?billion on hats"
U.S. hat industry OR market 
Cowboy hats million sales
Baseball hats OR caps sales million


I hope the information provided is helpful!


Best regards, 
Bobbie7