Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 112
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News briefsVF opens its first multi-brand store
VF Corporation has opened its first multi-brand store on a surface of 2,000 square meters on three levels in a landmark building near Milan’s cathedral. Named after its address, Orefici11 carries three brands – Timberland, The North Face and Napapijri – with dedicated show windows for each brand and dedicated ...
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News briefsFormer Zappos head Tony Hsieh dies
Tony Hsieh, who co-founded Zappos.com, the pioneering American footwear and clothing online retailer, and ran it for about two decades, died at the age of 46 due to complications from injuries sustained in a house fire in New London, Connecticut. Known for his kindness, generosity and a relentless focus on ...
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New Balance changes distributor for Romania and Bulgaria
Startline, the Greek distributor of New Balance, will also be responsible for Romania and Bulgaria from Jan. 1, taking over the role from the brand’s Turkish distributor, NBI Giyim. The company says that Startline has done a good job for the brand by creating a strong omni-channel business, including nine ...
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Adidas is a new founding partner of the Global Sports Week
Adidas has been announced as a new founding partner of the Global Sports Week (GSW) in Paris. The German sportswear giant joins the other founding partners of the event, which are the French Ministry of Sport, the French banking group BPCE, and EGG Events. The first edition of GSW Paris ...
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ArticleA shorter retail lockdown will benefit the trade
Fortunately for European sporting goods retailers, the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic appears so far to have been more manageable, leading some governments to relax a ban on sales of non-essential products in physical stores after only about one month of enforcement – a lot less than during the ...
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+++ XXL Sports & Outdoor has commissioned a 7,000-square-meter, robotized warehouse for the Austrian market that will open next year in Enzersdorf, near Vienna’s airport +++ Daka Sport, the Dutch retailer, has completed the transformation of four Sportsworld stores it had acquired last year with its new Daka Megastore in ...
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Adidas launches its first road cycling shoe since 2005
Evidently responding to the booming demand for cycling products, Adidas is releasing the Road Cycling Shoe, its first since the launch of the Adistar Road SL over 15 years ago. The upper of the Road Cycling Shoe is made from Primegreen, which the company claims to be a 100 percent ...
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AnalysisAnalysis: The European Sports Retail Market
This is an exclusive, yearly statistic only available for subscribers of SGI Europe. It includes revenue and market share development of the major sporting goods retailers in 15 European countries.
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Dior launches a ski line with Descente and other partners
For the launch of its first men’s capsule ski collection, Dior is opening a pop-up shop in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, specifically at 109 Greene Street. Other pop-ups – in Osaka, Japan, for instance – will open during the month of November. The New York shop, operating ...
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Deporvillage sees a run on indoor cycling
Like many other retailers of sporting goods, Spain’s Deporvillage has experienced a run on fitness items with the onset of new Covid-19 lockdowns and a good autumn/winter season. Stationary bikes have been difficult enough to keep in stock, but never in its decade-long history has the e-tailer seen such demand ...
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Slinger Bag enters India, names media advisor
Slinger Bag, the innovative marketer of portable ball launchers, continues its international drive with a five-year distribution agreement for the Indian market with Racquets4U, a fast-growing specialist e-tailer that is said to be highly rated for the comprehensive marketing and grassroots programs it conducts to help grow the sport of ...
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Oberalp will distribute Falke and Burlington in Italy
The Oberalp Group will take over the distribution of Falke and Burlington for the Italian market from January 2021, raising the number of distributed brands to nine. It may also obtain the distribution of these two brands of socks in other European countries. Founded in 1981 by Heiner Oberrauch, the ...
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Stöckli wants to facilitate ski rentals in Switzerland
Stöckli Swiss Sports will equip its retailer partners in Switzerland with a rental system software developed by an Austrian company, Axess. The Swiss producer claims that this will enable ski rental stores to provide faster service, especially in times of Covid-19, but also there after. As a first step, Axess ...
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Sports Direct to purchase four stores in Spain
In a deal worth €34 million, Frasers Group’s sports banner, Sports Direct, will be purchasing six Toys ‘R’ Us stores in Spain in a sale & leaseback deal. They are located in the cities of Alcobendas (outside Madrid), Sant Boi (outside Barcelona), Granada, Valencia, Málaga and Pamplona. Toys ‘R’ Us ...
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The Nike United retail concept goes live
Nike is introducing a new retail concept, called Nike United, at nine locations around the world, including one at East Kilbride in the U.K. The others are in the U.S., China and South Korea. Coming after the Nike House of Innovation, Nike Rise and Nike Live, the new concept is ...
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Decathlon opens its largest store in Germany
The largest Decathlon store in Germany is opening in November in Weiterstadt, covering 8,000 square meters and employing 80 people. In addition to the classic sales area for more than 100 sports segments and 85 private labels, there will also be numerous test areas, a sports park and an exhibition ...
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Head takes over the distribution of some products in Scandinavia
Head Scandinavia is taking over the distribution of its racquet sports operations in Sweden, Denmark and Finland from GSL, which has had the rights for Sweden since 2010. According to Sportfack, it will be pushing in particular the paddle tennis segment, which is growing strongly in Sweden. Head Scandinavia is ...
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New licensing director for Fanatics from Nike
Eager to continue to expand internationally, Fanatics has appointed a new licensing director, Younes Latayi, to drive its global licensing strategy and to manage its growing international portfolio of partners, maximizing their online and offline offerings. He will be based in Europe, reporting to Vicky Picca, Fanatics’ senior vice president ...
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Carla Murphy will lead Adidas Outdoor
In yet another important management change, Adidas has appointed Carla Murphy as general manager of its Adidas Outdoor business unit, starting on Dec. 14. She will assume one of the two roles of Tim Janaway, who has been with the Adidas group for more than 20 years, serving most recently ...
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ArticleNPD: The sports market recovered in Q3 in Europe, but pure e-tailers lost market share
The consumption of sports apparel and footwear declined by 11.5 percent in the first nine months of 2020 in the five major European markets – Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the U.K. – according to NPD, which has kindly agreed to share with us again some of the detailed market ...
