Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 120
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Courir enters Portugal
Courir, the athletic footwear chain sold by the French Go Sport group to an investment fund at the end of 2018, has just opened its first store in Portugal. It is located in Porto, and about three other openings are planned in the country during the coming months, followed by ...
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Kanye West delivers ultimatum to Adidas and Gap
The American rapper and businessman Kanye West apparently intends to “walk away” from his deals with Adidas and Gap unless he is appointed to their respective boards. He said so in North Charleston, South Carolina, at a rally for his U.S. presidential campaign, which began with a tweet on America’s ...
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Adidas France has a new managing director
Mathieu Sidokpohou has taken over from Guillaume de Monplanet as the new managing director of Adidas France, the French subsidiary of the sporting goods giant. De Monplanet, who joined the Adidas group in 2005 as commercial director for Reebok, has left the company. He became country manager in 2018. Sidokpohou’s ...
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New Balance rolls out new concept store in Tokyo
New Balance has introduced the T-House, a new concept store in Tokyo that is inspired from traditional Japanese tea houses. The two-story space, designed by Tsunemu Nagasaka, features a medley of wooden fixtures, made with repurposed frames that were taken from a 122-year-old warehouse in Saitama. The shop is on ...
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VF to open its first multi-brand store
VF Corp. will be opening its first multi-brand store, called Orefici 11 Milano, in the autumn. Located in the Italian city, the three-level, 22,000-square-foot store is meant to reflect its surroundings, mimicking the courtyards, façades and balconies of typical Milanese apartment buildings, the so-called case di ringhiera (guard-rail houses). As ...
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ArticleZalando improves its guidance
Zalando expects the gross merchandise volume (GMV) to rise by 20-25 percent and revenues by 15-20 percent for the full financial year, with the adjusted Ebit reaching €250-300 million, as the German online fashion retailer benefited from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The previous guidance, published on May 6 ...
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Decathlon Italy partners with Carrefour
Decathlon is further expanding its collaborations with grocery store chains across Europe as part of its plan to make its products available to shoppers in their everyday life. After partnering with Carrefour in Belgium earlier this year, Decathlon is now teaming up with Carrefour in Italy. Some roducts of the ...
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ArticleXXL bounces back
It seems that there is light at the end of the tunnel for XXL ASA, after many quarters stuck in a downward spiral. To turn the business around, the leading Nordic sports retailer has been taking drastic steps such as cutting costs, clearing inventory and searching for new “sustainable” sources ...
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Russia’s Sportmaster wants to trade more online
Russia’s biggest sporting goods retailer, Sportmaster, plans to boost the share of sales online to 30 percent, as compared to 12 percent before the coronavirus pandemic, said Dmitry Strakhov, Sportmaster’s sales and development director. To reach that goal, Sportmaster plans to design and launch a new online store as well ...
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ArticleMartes Sport expands in Poland and abroad
While putting on hold the planned rebranding of its higher-end Martes Sport Premium stores, Poland’s largest sporting goods retailer is continuing to add new stores to its chain and to expand internationally, in spite of the coronavirus epidemic. Martes Sport has opened a total of 16 new locations under its ...
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Lululemon opens corner in a Munich department store
Lululemon has opened a shop-in-shop of 90 square meters in the urban sports section of Oberpollinger, the high-end department store in downtown Munich. It’s the first of the kind in Germany for Lululemon, which already has a store in Munich and eight others in the rest of the country.
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ArticleCovid-19 drives rent renegotiations, partnerships
Retailers in Europe and the U.S. have been seeking rent relief while reeling from Covid-19 shutdowns, and now that their stores have reopened, they are facing uncertain sales prospects and higher costs to meet health and safety requirements. Although some landlords have taken a hard line, many others have been ...
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Tecnica Group reshuffles distribution in Sweden and Norway
Blizzard and Tecnica will be distributed by J0 Sport in Sweden and by Sport Sensation in Norway, starting from March 2020. Sport Sensation is taking over the distribution in Norway from Ramos, while JO Sports will be taking it over from Scantrade after the delivery of the autumn/winter 2020/21 collections. ...
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Rossignol reorganizes functions at its Swiss subsidiary
According to sportbiz.ch, the website of the Association of Swiss Sports Retailers (Asmas), Groupe Rossignol is reorganizing its Swiss subsidiary. Switzerland will become part of a larger regional division, which will be managed by Alessio Meda, currently country manager for Italy. Meda has been working for Groupe Rossignol since 2006, ...
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Nike introduces a new, reactive store concept
On July 9 Nike introduced a new, reactive store concept at its flagship in the Chinese city of Guangzhou. Called Nike Rise, the system tailors the shopping experience to individual “members” – that is, customers registered with one of its apps – and connects them to a community in the ...
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Deporvillage signs deal with Tour de France
Deporvillage and the Tour de France have signed an agreement that will make the Spanish-based e-tailer the official retailer of licensed products for the 2020 edition of the race. Deporvillage has been trading in France since 2013, and is aiming to further increase its visibility in the European market. The ...
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Real Madrid implements an omni-channel retail plan with Legends
Real Madrid is implementing an omni-channel retail program developed for it by Legends, a company that operates in sports, entertainment and attractions and seeks to provide “holistic solutions for legendary brands.” The football club is opening a new online store, in eight languages, for its official merchandise, but it will ...
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Five years of Adidas with Parley for the Oceans
Adidas presented a new limited-edition sneaker for the fifth anniversary of its collaboration with Parley for the Oceans. The company said it would donate €30 to the NGO for each pair of the model sold in the first three days of the promotion. The partnership between Adidas and Parley for ...
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Town & Country is returning to Europe
According to Boardsport Source, Town & Country is returning to Europe this summer, in time for next year’s 50th anniversary, with the soft launch of a surf shop in Hossegor, France – not far from the legendary beach at La Gravière. Called “The Salts Only,” the store will strike a ...
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ArticleOnline sales support Kathmandu and Rip Curl
Kathmandu Holdings told investors that it expects a 30 percent drop in adjusted Ebitda for the current financial year, in spite of strong online sales during the recent corona-related retail lockdowns in Australia and double-digit sales increases overall after its stores reopened. While it is still more than half way ...
