All Europe articles – Page 2

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    Hang Ten returns to the European market

    2023-02-16T16:27:00Z

    Californian surf lifestyle brand Hang Ten, founded in Seal Beach in 1960 by surf legends Duke Boyd and Doris Moore, is back on the European licensing scene and has appointed Plus Licens as its European licensing agent. Hang Ten became synonymous with the surf lifestyle in the 1960s, earning a ...

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    Foot Locker plans to wind down Sidestep retail brand

    2023-01-27T15:15:00Z

    Nine-and-a-half years after acquiring the sports fashion footwear chain as part of its deal for the Recklinghausen, Germany-based Runners Point Group, Foot Locker has decided to shutter Sidestep’s operation that currently consists of several dozen stores across Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. In February 2019, Foot Locker operated 80 ...

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    Changes at Elevate Outdoor Collective’s marketing and sales teams in Europe

    2022-11-07T15:06:00Z

    Source: Elevate Outdoor Collective Max Anselstetter, director of marketing EOC Europe “In response to the specific demands of the future,” Elevate Outdoor Collective (EOC) is setting the course for the expansion of its marketing team. As such, Max Anselstetter is taking on the role of director of ...

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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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    Consumer confidence at historic lows in Europe

    2022-10-04T05:03:00Z

    Consumer confidence has taken a dive in Europe. The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN) has produced a flash estimate for September, according to which the indicator has “resumed its steep downward trend, dropping by 3.5 points in the EU and 3.8 points in the euro ...

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    Alibaba wants to establish Lazada in Europe

    2022-09-06T06:32:00Z

    Alibaba’s unit Lazada plans to enter the European market and take on its online rivals such as Amazon and Zalando. In an interview with Bloomberg News, Lazada’s CEO, James Dong, highlighted that Europe is a “very big market” and that ”for most of the European brands, their largest retail partner ...

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    European ski industry slowly bouncing back after Covid-19

    2022-07-21T08:47:00Z

    The European ski industry is slowly recovering after “a disastrous season hit by Covid-19,” the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) has said. According to results in the trade organization’s recent annual ski market report, skis and ski-equipment sales for the 2021/22 season increased slightly from those of ...

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    McKinsey study on textile waste recycling sees economic potential, points out bottlenecks

    2022-07-15T09:02:00Z

    In a new online study, consulting firm McKinsey looked at the current state of textile recycling in Europe – and sees the potential to achieve a significant amount of fiber-to-fiber recycling in Europe by 2030. There are several hurdles to overcome along the way, including textile collection, sorting and pre-processing, ...

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    Samurai strengthens European business, partners with logistics specialist Bleckmann

    2022-06-03T08:26:00Z

    British sportswear brand Samurai has chosen Dutch logistics company Bleckmann as its partner for freight forwarding and cross-docking in Europe. Since an investment by Primosole Holdings in May 2021, Samurai has been on a journey to transform its business model from focusing exclusively on premium teamwear in the rugby and ...

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    Big changes in anti-trust commercial regulations are being discussed in Brussels

    2021-12-03T14:02:00Z

    Following a workshop held on Nov. 14 and 15, where the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) and other trade associations expressed their reservations about it, the European Commission has agreed to revise at least one of the new draft VBER2022 regulations and guidelines that it submitted for ...

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    Promising tennis sales in Europe for H1 2021

    2021-10-05T17:20:00Z

    According to Sports Marketing Surveys (SMS), sales of tennis racquets and strings for the first half of this year rose in all eight of Europe’s major tennis markets: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the U.K. Year-on-year growth in volume (45.3%) outpaced growth in value (40.7%), with ...

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    Brooks’ growth in Europe should accelerate to 40% in 2021

    2021-08-24T17:15:00Z

    Brooks Running reported average sales growth of 52 percent in Europe for the first half of 2021 in a press release, forecasting an increase of around 40 percent for the whole year, after a rise of 10 percent in 2020. The main Southern European markets grew significantly faster in the ...

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    European Sports Sporting Goods Market 2020

    2021-04-22T17:23:00Z

    The market for sports clothing and footwear fell by 8 percent to €28.3 billion in the five major European countries in 2020, according to revised estimates from NPD Group.

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    FESI welcomes entry into force of FTA between EU and Vietnam

    2020-08-03T14:04:00Z

    The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) is welcoming the long-awaited formal entry into the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Vietnam (EVFTA) on Aug. 1. After more than eight years of negotiations, the EU and Vietnam will finally benefit from a free trade agreement that ...

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    Analysis

    The European sports market remains flattish

    2019-10-18T00:00:00Z

    As in 2017, the Western European sporting goods market was almost flat overall in 2018, going up in some countries and declining in others, with some retailers outperforming it, according to an annual exclusive study of 15 markets by SGI Europe. In terms of currencies, the market rose by 2.7 ...