Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 132
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The MOC Order Center in Munich has welcomed On Running...
The MOC Order Center in Munich has welcomed On Running shoes, Komperdell/Camaro, Paul Lange and 4F as new tenants. Four other tenants have expanded their permanent showrooms, including Equip Outdoor, the parent of Rab and Lowe Alpine, and Osprey Packs, which are using the space for their local subsidiaries. The ...
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Stephan Drake, who founded DPS Skis together with Peter Turner...
Stephan Drake, who founded DPS Skis together with Peter Turner in 2005, apparently left the company earlier in this season, according to still unconfirmed internet reports
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Hummel has hired Giannicola Bellarosa as its new sales representative...
Hummel has hired Giannicola Bellarosa as its new sales representative for all of Switzerland, starting on Jan. 1
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Sprinter, the Spanish sports retail chain partly owned by JD...
Sprinter, the Spanish sports retail chain partly owned by JD Sports Fashion, has expanded its e-tail page into an e-commerce marketplace, adding some 500 brands and 50,000 products to the catalog. Sprinter will now be hosting the sale of hoverboards and electric skates, for instance. Existing categories, such as cycling, ...
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Trial Sport, the third-largest Russian sporting goods retailer after Sportmaster...
Trial Sport, the third-largest Russian sporting goods retailer after Sportmaster and Decathlon and a major distributor of foreign sports brands, has opened a new store in the city of Omsk, one of the biggest cities in Siberia. This is the company's second store in the city. As of today, the ...
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Canada Goose has just opened a new and sophisticated experimental...
Canada Goose has just opened a new and sophisticated experimental store at CF Sherway Gardens, a mall near Toronto. Called “The Journey,” it has no products in its inventory, and it will treat customers to daily synthetic snowstorms. The store uses OLED TV displays, 4K laser applications, rock walls and ...
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Zalando has launched its Zalando Lounge concept in the Czech...
Zalando has launched its Zalando Lounge concept in the Czech Republic, a market that the e-tailer entered in the summer of 2018. Zalando Lounge, which has more than 25 million members in 14 European countries already, offers discounts of up to 75 percent on a selection of shoes, clothing and ...
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Lacoste has inaugurated its revamped store in Milan's via Dante,...
Lacoste has inaugurated its revamped store in Milan's via Dante, which has been redesigned in accordance with the brand's Le Club concept. The 350-square-meter store, on two floors, was inaugurated on Dec. 5. “Le Club” is the format that Lacoste launched internationally in 2017, to enable a customer's total immersion ...
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Decathlon is entering the Serbian market with a new store...
Decathlon is entering the Serbian market with a new store in a park next to the Big Fashion shopping center in the Karaburma district of Belgrade. Meanwhile, the world's largest sporting goods retailer has opened two more stores in Germany, in Heilbronn and Bremen, making a total of 80 stores ...
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Goldwin has opened a flagship store in San Francisco, at...
Goldwin has opened a flagship store in San Francisco, at 444 Jackson Street. It is the second retail flagship store and the first of the Japanese technical outdoor apparel brand outside of Japan. San Francisco's Jackson Square area is considered the city's design center. The store was inaugurated on Nov. ...
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After expanding its concept store on Munich's Maximilianstrasse, Moncler is...
After expanding its concept store on Munich's Maximilianstrasse, Moncler is prepared to pay rent of €6 million per year for a store on Paris' avenue des Champs-Elysées, according to fashionmagazine.it
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Adidas Golf is launching Collection Ø, a new limited-edition apparel...
Adidas Golf is launching Collection Ø, a new limited-edition apparel collection inspired by street culture. The unusual style is meant to break down the typical notion of what golf fashion should look like, combined with the performance features that wearers need on-course.
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Adidas Terrex UK will be the official apparel sponsor of...
Adidas Terrex UK will be the official apparel sponsor of the Threshold Trail Series in 2020. The Threshold Trail Series is a series of four endurance trail events in the U.K., each offering a variety of terrains, gradients, elevations, landscapes and distances. The four events include: Heineken Race to the ...
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Alibaba Group has announced a new partnership with Manchester United...
Alibaba Group has announced a new partnership with Manchester United that will give the Chinese e-commerce giant exclusive rights to share club contents in China across the group's platforms
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Intersport’s internet platform widens its reach
After doing its own thing in the area of e-commerce, as the Intersport organizations in France and some other countries are still doing, Intersport Germany has decided to take part in the international development of Intersport 2.0, the omni-channel digitalization strategy of Intersport International Corporation (IIC).
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China’s Topsports doesn’t disappoint with first results since IPO
After raising $1.01 billion in an initial public offering on the Hong Kong stock exchange last month, Topsports International Holdings, the sports retailing arm of Belle International, published strong results for the six months ended on Aug. 31. Sales rose by 12.4 percent as compared to the year-ago period to ...
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New records for Alibaba’s Singles Day
The gross merchandise value (GMV) generated by Alibaba’s 11th Singles Day hit a record of 268.4 billion yuan renmimbi (€34.7bn-$38.3bn), eclipsing last year’s score by 26 percent, thanks in part to a longer pre-sales period, a larger assortment of discounted products, the extension of the festival to new markets outside ...
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Adidas moves Speedfactory technology to Asia
By the end of this year, Adidas will be transferring the robotic Speedfactory technology that it has developed in cooperation with Oechsler to two of its Asian footwear suppliers to help increase the flexibility of the design and production process. With production times substantially cut there, Adidas says it will ...
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Nike stops with Amazon’s marketplace
A few days after the appointment of a new chief executive, John Donahoe, who previously ran eBay, the Swoosh announced that it will stop a pilot program, initiated in 2017, to sell selected products on the Amazon Retail marketplace. Nike justified the move with its “focus on elevating consumer experience ...
