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    Puma appoints new GM for China

    2023-06-19T09:39:00Z

    Puma has appointed Shirley Li as its new General Manager in China as part of the company’s strategy to strengthen its business in the market.

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    Chinese consumer preferences

    2023-04-28T15:05:00Z

    McKinsey sees a Chinese market with “robust underlying demand.” But what leads to consumers’ preference for local over international brands?

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    Adidas wants to win back China with "patriotic products"

    2023-04-25T14:58:00Z

    A few years ago, China was a promising market for Adidas because the country’s middle class was growing and the margins for Adidas were particularly strong. The brand with the three stripes was one of the most popular Western brands in China. As early as 2008, Adidas opened its (then) ...

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    Puma CEO Arne Freundt: “We are hungry”

    2023-03-02T13:26:00Z

    Alongside Puma’s positive 2022 figures, we bring you CEO Arne Freundt’s renewed strategy for growth, as told at Puma HQ on March 1, 2023

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    Russia considers more tariffs on sporting goods from ‘unfriendly countries’

    2023-02-22T08:00:00Z

    Russia is contemplating the imposition of protective tariffs on sporting goods imported into the country from “unfriendly countries,” according to Dmitry Kolobov, head of the Department of Important Social Goods at the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade. Affected countries, in the Russian government’s view, are those that it says ...

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    ISPO Beijing 2023 with 50% increase in visitors compared to 2022

    2023-02-17T11:04:00Z

    The message of ISPO Beijing, which took place Feb. 10-12, 2023, was clear: Trade shows are back – and the sports industry is booming, also and especially in China. 368 leading brands and 223 exhibitors attracted 37,623 trade visitors and sports enthusiasts to Beijing. According to organizers, the show celebrated ...

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    China eases Covid restrictions

    2022-12-08T12:23:00Z

    China announced a general relaxation of Covid-19 health rules, authorizing patients with mild symptoms and for asymptomatic cases to quarantine at home. Previously, such cases were sent to mass quarantine centers. The National Health Commission also indicated that negative PCR test results would no longer be needed for domestic travel ...

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    Online sales for China’s overall athletic footwear market down 22%, running footwear up 6%

    2022-11-24T05:13:00Z

    According to NPD Group, e-commerce sales of athletic footwear in mainland China declined 22 percent year-on-year through August 2022. Running footwear, however, increased 6 percent and increased its market share from 19 percent to 23 percent. Sales of running shoes, which have high double-digit growth in the $90+ price range, ...

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    No detailed Singles Day 2022 numbers; Chinese outperform foreign brands in best-selling items

    2022-11-15T15:01:00Z

    According to a report by Reuters, Chinese consumers tended to opt for relatively inexpensive domestic brands rather than more expensive ones on this year’s Singles Day (Nov. 11), as strict Covid-19 restrictions and economic uncertainty weighed on the shopping spectacle. The shopping day regularly surpasses “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday” ...

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    China’s ongoing Covid-19 restrictions may force brands to reconsider market strategy

    2022-11-14T14:25:00Z

    With some in the Biden Administration hoping to stabilize U.S. relations with China in talks between the country’s leaders at the G20 Summit in Bali today, footwear companies are considering a multitude of hard options for the coming year with respect to their operations in the globe’s second-largest economy. Business ...

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    Amazon helps seize fake sports apparel and other counterfeit products in China

    2022-11-11T10:29:00Z

    Amazon has announced the identification and disruption of three counterfeiting operations in China’s Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces, thanks to a collaboration between the local public security bureaus (PSBs) and intel provided by Amazon’s Counterfeit Crimes Unit (CCU). Chinese law enforcement seized more than 240,000 counterfeit items, including fake sports apparel, ...

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    Lululemon appoints China-based Apple executive to its board of directors

    2022-11-10T14:49:00Z

    Lululemon Athletica Inc. has appointed Isabel Ge Mahe to its board of directors, effective immediately. Ge Mahe is vice president and general manager of Greater China at Apple, where she provides leadership and coordination for Apple’s entire team in China. In this role, she has played a key role in ...

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    H1 sales growth in China for Nike, Adidas, Puma

    2022-11-08T14:07:00Z

    This exclusive analysis shows the three top sportswear companies’ first-half revenue and year-on-year revenue growth in China for 2022. 

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    Nike launches shoe recycling program on Alipay

    2022-10-31T14:02:00Z

    Nike Greater China has joined Ant Group’s Green Energy Initiative and launched an official mini-program on Alipay to encourage more Chinese consumers to recycle worn-out shoes. Consumers can search for the “Recycle-A-Shoe” mini-program on the Alipay app and have their old Nike shoes picked up. The shoes are then disassembled ...

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    ​Fila returns to growth in China

    2022-10-19T12:24:00Z

    After a weak first half in which premium brand Fila suffered from zero-Covid closures in China, retail sales grew in the low teens year-on-year in the third quarter. Anta Sports, which co-owns the brand in China through a joint venture with Fila Korea, said in an update that Fila outperformed ...

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    Alibaba.com offers new service for European B2B buyers

    2022-10-13T07:00:00Z

    Alibaba.com, Alibaba Group’s B2B marketplace, is launching a new B2B service called Alibaba.com Select, aimed at retailers, distributors, wholesalers, medium and large enterprises in Europe that already import from China or are interested in doing so. According to “The Future of B2B E-Commerce: Online Platforms,” an independent study by ...

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    Vuori to enter Asia

    2022-10-11T06:16:00Z

    U.S. performance apparel brand Vuori, founded in 2015, announced plans to expand into three new Asian markets following this year’s successful entry into Australia and other international markets. According to Retail In Asia, the activewear brand plans to open dedicated e-commerce regions in Hong Kong and Singapore with the brand’s ...

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    Skechers expects situation in China to ease

    2022-09-09T10:06:00Z

    Skechers still sees the international market as key to its goal of reaching $10 billion in sales by 2026, despite ongoing headwinds in China. The company said at the Goldman Sachs Global Retailing Conference that it expects the situation in the People’s Republic to improve within two quarters. It will ...

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    OHCHR publishes assessment of human rights situation in Xinjiang

    2022-09-06T05:36:00Z

    The United Nations (UN) Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published an assessment of the human rights situation in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China on Aug. 31. The assessment was initiated after serious allegations of human rights violations against Uyghurs and ...

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    ​Canada Goose appoints president for its China business

    2022-08-23T07:00:00Z

    Source: Canada Goose Larry Li, president China Canada Goose announced the appointment of Larry Li as president China, effective immediately. In this role, Li will oversee all business operations of the Canadian brand in mainland China, including retail, marketing and finance. He will be based out of ...