All JD Sports articles – Page 3

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    JD Sports offers Pennies donation service at Go Outdoor and other stores

    2022-09-06T04:29:00Z

    France-based payment service provider Worldline has partnered with sports fashion retailer JD Sports to enable its customers to make donations through its payment terminals using the charity fintech Pennies’ micro-donation application. Currently in use at 151 locations, the product will be fully rolled out to approximately 679 JD Group stores, ...

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    JD Sports signs its first sponsorship deal in Spanish football

    2022-08-18T05:57:00Z

    Spanish football club Real Valladolid has announced JD Sports as a new official sponsor. The contract, the value of which was not disclosed, runs until 2024. Under the terms of the deal, Real Valladolid will have JD Sports’ logo on the left sleeve of the shirts of all the teams ...

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    JD Sports’ new chairman buys £400,000 in shares

    2022-08-12T15:00:00Z

    Andrew Higginson, JD Sports’ new chairman, has reportedly purchased nearly £400,000 (€471,700) worth of shares in the retailer. Higginson joined JD Sports in late July following the departure of Peter Cowgill, who had served as the retailer’s CEO and executive chair since 2004.

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    Revenues up 71% year-on-year in H1 at ISRG

    2022-07-29T14:16:00Z

    For the first half of the year, Iberian Sports Retail Group (ISRG) has posted sales of €621 million, for a year-on-year increase of 71 percent. A joint venture between Britain’s JD Sports (50%), Portugal’s Sonae (30%) and the Segarra family (20%), ISRG handles the business of the Sprinter, Sport Zone ...

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    JD Sports re-affirms FY Ebit guidance, continues CEO search

    2022-07-22T15:34:00Z

    Updating its June 22 statement on year-to-date results, JD Sports said total sales in the group’s like-for-like businesses were 5 percent ahead of year-ago levels through June 30. With the positive result, JD is maintaining a performance outlook that calls for profits before tax and exceptional items for the fiscal ...

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    ​JD Sports to build new headquarters with space for 2,000 employees

    2022-07-14T07:01:00Z

    As reported by BusinessLive, JD Sports has drawn up plans to build a new corporate HQ in Greater Manchester. The proposed 2.3-hectare site is next to the current headquarters and expected to include 8,045 square meters of gross floor area and 172 parking spaces. According to documents filed with the ...

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    JD Sports opens mega store in Hamburg’s HafenCity district

    2022-06-17T08:27:00Z

    The British retail chain JD Sports will open an 800-square-meter store in Hamburg’s HafenCity, operated by Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, a global developer and operator of flagship destinations with a portfolio worth €54.5 billion. The new mega store’s extensive brand and assortment mix will combine brands such as Nike, Adidas, Puma and The ...

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    JD Sports, Elite and Rangers fixed prices of replica shirts, says U.K. CMA

    2022-06-07T13:19:00Z

    JD Sports, Elite Sports and Glasgow’s Rangers Football Club have been found guilty of fixing prices on replica clothing products at the expense of fans, the U.K. competition watchdog said in a provisional finding. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which has been investigating since December 2020, said Elite and ...

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    JD Sports continues to strengthen its board

    2022-05-16T14:03:00Z

    JD Sports Fashion has appointed Suzi Williams as a non-executive director, effective May 16. Williams has spent thirty years leading global consumer brands and businesses for blue-chip companies, including Procter & Gamble, Orange and the BBC. As chief marketing officer of BT Group, she led the transformational London 2012 Olympics ...

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    Update: Sports companies and the war in Ukraine

    2022-03-17T11:31:00Z

    We had previously reported on first, early measures taken by some sports companies such as Nike, Haglöfs and Mammut following Russia’s attack against Ukraine. In the meantime, other companies have joined, and industry groups and federations are also taking action. We have summarized the activities that we are aware of. ...

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    Sprinter opens a first store outside Spain

    2021-11-24T18:22:00Z

    Sprinter – the biggest and more techical sports retail banner within the Iberian Sports Retail Group (ISRG) – confirms that has opened its 173rd physical store and its first one outside of Spain. According to CMDsport, the Sprinter store is located at the Zuidplein mall in the Dutch port city ...

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    The largest e-commerce sports shops in Europe - Q3 2021 Update

    2021-11-17T14:53:00Z

    This exclusive interactive chart shows the largest e-commerce sports shops in Europe ranked by the number of website visitors in Q3 2021, with % changes vs Q2 2021. Included are regular sporting goods retailers and pure e-tailers. The chart and data can be downloaded. This is exclusive data and analysis for Premium Members.

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    The largest e-commerce sports shops in Europe - Q2 2021 Update

    2021-08-12T11:34:00Z

    This exclusive interactive chart shows the largest e-commerce sports shops in Europe ranked by the number of website visitors in Q2 2021, with % changes vs Q1 2021. Included are regular sporting goods retailers and pure e-tailers. The chart and data can be downloaded. This is exclusive data and analysis for Premium Members.

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    The largest e-commerce sports shops in Europe - Q1 2021 Update

    2021-05-10T06:56:00Z

    This exclusive interactive chart shows the largest e-commerce sports shops in Europe ranked by the number of website visitors in Q1 2021, with % changes vs June-August 2020. Included are regular sporting goods retailers and pure e-tailers. The chart and data can be downloaded. This is exclusive data and analysis for Premium Members.

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    Afterplay establishes e-tail platform for installment payments

    2021-04-28T14:24:00Z

    The payment processor Afterpay is launching an online platform, called Dropshop by Afterpay, that offers interest-free installment payment plans for exclusive or early access to certain products. For instance, working in partnership with The Finish Line, the U.S. sporting goods retailer recently acquired by JD Sports Fashion, the platform will ...

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    At least seven more JD stores in Spain are in the works

    2021-03-24T18:18:00Z

    JD Sports is expanding rapidly in Spain, where it has already set up a network of a dozen stores in the last couple of years. It has just opened a store in a shopping center of Madrid, La Vanguardia, and according to CMDsport , it is planning to add ...

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    Ranking - The Largest Sporting Goods Retailers Worldwide

    2020-10-29T16:30:00Z

    This exclusive chart shows the revenue development of the major global sporting goods retailers in 2019 vs 2018. The chart and data can be downloaded. This is exclusive data and analysis for Premium Members.

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    Puma signs up Wizkid for new campaign with JD

    2020-10-28T18:10:00Z

    Puma has named Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, best known as Wizkid, as the Puma x JD Ambassador for the relaunch of the Puma Suede Classics range for autumn/winter 2020. The campaign, due to be launched on Nov. 4 at JDSports.co.uk and all major JD Sports retailer stores across Europe, features the ...

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    Analysis: The 10 major European sports retailers online

    2020-10-15T17:08:00Z

    The online retail business in the sporting goods sector has been growing stronger and stronger in recent years, find out which players are the real winners.

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    Ranking - The largest e-commerce sports shops in Europe

    2020-10-08T15:50:00Z

    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.