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    Sport 2000 France is planning new store openings across its different retail networks

    2022-02-21T16:11:00Z

    Sport 2000 France is expected to see around 45 new store openings this year, roughly as many as in 2021, according to a report by Sport-Guide.fr. The plan would involve its different retail networks. Sport 2000, the eponymous banner, is expected to add 14 new stores, while Mondovélo is set ...

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    Sport Achat is back

    2022-02-17T15:47:00Z

    After three years of absence and two consecutive cancelations, due to the Covid-19 pandemic and related restrictions, Sport Achat Hiver will finally take place this year as a physical event at Eurexpo in Lyon, France, on March 7-9. Sport Achat, organized by Sportair, is a B2B event for industry professionals ...

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    UNESCO held a ministerial conference on sport and sustainable development

    2022-02-17T06:49:00Z

    UNESCO, the United Nations specialized agency that focuses on promoting world peace and security through education and culture, hosted a ministerial conference on “Sports and Sustainable Development Goals in Childhood: Societal issues regarding appropriate physical activities” on Feb. 7-8. The conference, held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, was organized by ...

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    France’s presidential candidates will present their sports policies in dedicated event

    2022-02-17T06:46:00Z

    The next French presidential election is scheduled for April 10 and 24, 2022. The Maison du Sport Français in Paris will host a special event on March 17, inviting the presidential candidates to explain their respective sports policies. The event is co-organized by the French Olympic Committee (CNOSF) with the ...

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    European app logs post-pandemic surge in walking

    2022-01-18T17:42:00Z

    In 2021, with the easing of pandemic restrictions, Europeans emerged from their houses to walk – or so says WeWard, which has been producing and operating a walking app since 2019. The company’s study of data collected for 2020 and 2021 – as generated by some 4.5 million app users ...

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    Top 10 countries leading the global sports market in 2020

    2021-10-21T11:54:00Z

    This exclusive interactive chart shows total market size of sporting goods in the U.S., China, Germany, Japan, France, the U.K., Canada, South Korea, India and Italy for the year 2020. The chart can be downloaded. This is exclusive data and analysis for Premium Members.

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    The Lifestyle Company will distribute O’Neill ready-to-wear in France

    2021-07-26T05:46:00Z

    The Lifestyle Company will distribute O’Neill products in France, including the overseas departments and territories, in a new multi-year contract that will debut in spring 2022. The contract only involves the O’Neill ready-to-wear lifestyle offer. O’Neill Wetsuits, based in England, takes charge of the equipment and technical products. O’Neill is ...

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    Google is fined €220m in France over its ad auction processes

    2021-06-08T16:19:00Z

    France’s Competition Authority (Autorité de la Concurrence) has fined Google €220 million for “having abused its dominance of the ad-server market with respect to publishers of websites and mobile applications.” The authority calls this “the world’s first ruling on the complex algorithmic auction processes by which online ‘display’ advertising functions.”

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    French ski industry in critical state

    2021-03-18T18:04:00Z

    The French sporting goods industry association, Union Sport & Cycle (USC), plans to ask the French government for a specific aid package for the country’s ski sector, whose total losses for the current season are estimated at about €1 billion - without including those of the skilift and cable car ...

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    New face masks regulations in the U.K. and France

    2020-07-15T17:39:00Z

    The British government has requested that people wear face masks in stores as of July 24, and the French government is considering making masks mandatory in stores and all other public places by Aug. 1 at the latest. The British Retail Consortium has said that retailers should not be required ...

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    NPD measures the impact of Covid-19 in Europe and China

    2020-07-04T06:29:00Z

    The NPD Group estimates that there was a drop of around 24 percent in sales of sports shoes during the first half of 2020 in Germany, France, Italy and Spain – the four European countries where it uses a retail panel of multi-sport specialty stores, combined with sell-out data from ...

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    French sport specialist retailers’ sales drop by 21%, but online sales are up 85%

    2020-07-02T13:26:00Z

    According to a recent panel survey by the French federation of specialist retailers (Procos), specialist retailers across all sectors in the country suffered a 31.8 percent sales decline in the first half of the year as compared with the same period in 2019, but their online sales grew by 50 ...

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    Survey estimates €3.1bn loss in industry revenues in France

    2020-04-07T17:30:00Z

    According to a survey among its members by Union Sport & Cycle, the French sporting goods and cycling industry association, the Covid-19 pandemic has so far led to losses of €3.1 billion and to the layoff of 50,000 employees across the supply chain in the industry at large. More than ...