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Decathlon opens a shop-in-shop at Auchan in Orléans
Decathlon has inaugurated its first shop-in-shop in collaboration with the Auchan chain of hypermarkets. Both retail banners are controlled by the Mulliez family and many of their stores in certain countries are located in the same shopping malls. The new Decathlon shop-in-shop is located at the Auchan hypermarket in Saint-Jean ...
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Reorganizing the top management, VF names Steve Murray president of TNF
VF Corporation is changing its management structure to suit changes in the way it does business, notably by dividing its brand portfolio into Core Brands and Emerging Brands and by getting them to be managed differently to help them achieve their full potential. Until now, the operations of its three ...
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Adidas holds digital festival for loyalty program members
Adidas has launched a “digital festival” for its loyalty program. Creators Club Week runs for seven days from Oct. 13 and is, according to the company, the first event of its kind. Adidas’ “global member community” will be privy to the company’s largest single introduction of exclusive and limited-edition ...
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News briefsWolverine takes its sales conference again digital
Because of Covid-19 and its related safety measures, Wolverine Worldwide has expanded its partnership with Envoy B2B, taking its buyers’ conference digital. The American company was obliged to cancel its Global Brand Conference in the spring, depriving its 12 brands of a means to introduce their new products to the ...
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Pentland has a new global brand director for Canterbury and Mitre
Pentland Brands has made Jodie Soussan its global brand director for the Canterbury and Mitre brands. Replacing Charlotte Cox, who has been promoted to president for EMEA, she will be reporting to the future chief marketing officer, Penny Herriman, who will take up her post later this year. Soussan joined ...
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New Balance may replace Nike as AS Roma’s shirt supplier
According to reports in the Italian newspaper La Stampa, New Balance will take over from Nike as the kit sponsor of AS Roma, the Italian Serie A football club. The new four-year deal, which would start in the 2021/22 season, is now awaiting final approval from Dan Friedkin, the new ...
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Puma celebrates Tommie Smith’s legacy with made-in-Italy Suede
Puma has announced a limited edition of its classic Suede silhouette that honors Tommie Smith, the sprinter who raised his fist toward the sky after winning a gold medal at the 1968 Olympics. The gesture, which was meant as a claim for justice and equality, has since become one of ...
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Li & Fung shuffles its top management
Li & Fung, which went private in May of this year, is shifting Joseph Phi from group president to chief executive. Spencer Fung, CEO since 2014, is in turn moving to executive chairman. He will be replacing William Fung, who is taking a seat alongside his brother, Victor Fung, on ...
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Nike stole the spotlight in the Roland-Garros men’s tournament
The French online trade magazine Sportbuzzbusiness.fr has reviewed all the sports brands that had a presence in the different product categories in the final stages of this year’s Roland-Garros men’s tennis tournament, specifically from round 16 of the competition until the final match in which Rafael Nadal beat Novak Djokovic. ...
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A new round of layoffs is reportedly underway at Nike
According to reports in the Portland-based Oregonian newspaper, Nike has launched a new round of downsizing measures. A first phase over the summer involved more than a hundred vice-presidents, says the newspaper. The current phase is now reportedly hitting so-called “S-band” employees – namely some of the most senior and ...
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Foot Locker partners with Adyen for online and in-store payments
Foot Locker is expanding its relationship with Adyen to various markets internationally for in-store and online payments. The international athletic footwear retailer has been working with Adyen since 2018. Headquartered in Amsterdam, Adyen has offices across Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia.
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ArticleE-commerce boosts Decathlon’s sales in the U.K. and elsewhere
A strong development of online retailing has been helping Decathlon to grow in Europe before, during and after the Covid-19 pandemic. A study conducted by SGI Europe on the major sports retailers’ traffic on their websites, which we are going to discuss more in detail shortly, shows that the global ...
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Infographics & DataRanking - The largest e-commerce sports shops in Europe
This exclusive chart shows the largest e-commerce sports shops in Europe ranked by website visitors. Included are sporting goods retailer and e-tailer. The chart and data can be downloaded. This is exclusive data and analysis for Premium Members.
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Latest GoPro camera boosts subscriptions, confirming DTC push
GoPro reported that high demand for its latest action camera, the Hero9 Black, has pushed the number of paying GoPro subscribers past the 500,000 milestone. With the vast majority of consumers purchasing the new camera through the company’s website along with an annual paid GoPro subscription, which includes unlimited cloud ...
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Puma hires new creative director
Puma has hired June Ambrose as creative director, in charge of designing items for women and girls. The 48-year-old designer from Antigua has a long list of important clients including several well-known Hollywood actors and hip-hop and R&B musicians – Zoe Saldana, Kim Cattrall, Missy Elliot, P. Diddy, Mariah Carey, ...
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News briefsAmanda Rajkumar will run HR for Adidas
Amanda Rajkumar, a 48-year-old British national with 24 years of experience in human relations at other global organizations, is taking the place of Karen Parkin at the Adidas Group as the executive board member in charge of global human relations, overseeing a staff of nearly 60,000 people. She will be ...
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Kering trims its stake in Puma to 9.8%
Kering has completed the sale of about 8.8 million shares in Puma for €655.6 million, further reducing its stake in the company from 15.7 percent to 9.8 percent. Kering held 86.3 percent of Puma’s shares before spinning off most of them to its own shareholders in 2018 in order to ...
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ArticleNike is the most marketed brand in sports
Nike, which sponsors over 11,000 athletes and sports organizations around the world, is at the top of SportsPro’s inaugural list of the World’s 50 Most Marketed Brands in the sports sector. It is followed, in order, by Emirates Airlines, Adidas, Monster Energy and Red Bull. The next sportswear brand on ...
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Asics launches an annual virtual relay marathon
Asics has founded an annual virtual relay marathon called the Asics World Ekiden. The footrace is split into six legs – three of 5 km, two of 10 km and one of 7.2 km – adding up to the usual marathon distance of 42.2 km.Teams of up to six people ...
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Adidas founds the Football Collective
Adidas has launched the Football Collective in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo. A form of federation of local individuals and clubs, the Football Collective intends to foster social changes through football. It will be working with local initiatives already set up under the Adidas Football Collective ...