Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 134
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Deportes Alaska, a well-known ski and mountaineering shop in Madrid,...
Deportes Alaska, a well-known ski and mountaineering shop in Madrid, has moved to new premises. In tripling its area to 430 square meters, the shop has gained a storefront 12 meters wide on Calle Cristóbal Bordiú and, at last, a parking lot. The old shop had been tight for years ...
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Moncler will be opening a flagship store at 119, Champs...
Moncler will be opening a flagship store at 119, Champs Elysées, on the upper section of Paris' iconic avenue, according to reports in FashionNetwork.com. Moncler will take over a 1,500-square-meter space that was occupied by Nespresso from 2007 to October 2019. The date of the opening has not been unveiled. ...
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Fred Perry has opened a 700-square-foot store in Lower Manhattan,...
Fred Perry has opened a 700-square-foot store in Lower Manhattan, working with the same architectural firm, BuckleyGrayYeoman, with which it has cooperated for stores in Stockholm, Seoul, Munich and Bangkok
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J. Lindeberg has opened a new store in the Illum...
J. Lindeberg has opened a new store in the Illum shopping center of Copenhagen
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Munich, the Spanish brand of sneakers, has opened two stores...
Munich, the Spanish brand of sneakers, has opened two stores in Madrid – one at Las Rozas The Style Outlets and another at X-Madrid – raising its total points of sale overall to 19
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Honma Golf, the Japanese golf brand, has opened its first...
Honma Golf, the Japanese golf brand, has opened its first European store in Paris' Boulevard Pereire, in the Porte Maillot district of the French capital city
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Adidas and Prada are partnering on a collaborative line of...
Adidas and Prada are partnering on a collaborative line of sneakers. The announcement has been made on Instagram with the three accounts – Prada, Adidas and Adidas Originals – posting the same photo at the same time, all using the hashtag #Pradaforadidas, followed by the comment “Coming Soon.” The collection ...
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The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and Adidas are extending...
The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and Adidas are extending their sponsorship deal through 2030. Adidas originally supplied the Spanish national team's jersey from 1981 to 1983. The present deal dates back to 1991. As recently as last June (see SGI Europe Vol. 30 N°19+20), Adidas was threatening to take ...
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Nike, the NFL and Fanatics have signed a new global...
Nike, the NFL and Fanatics have signed a new global partnership that extends Fanatics' exclusive consumer product licensing rights to manufacture and distribute all Nike NFL adult products worldwide. The new agreement is an upgrade to the deal they signed in 2018, which covered only the U.S.
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Adidas has unveiled the Uniforia, the official match ball for...
Adidas has unveiled the Uniforia, the official match ball for Uefa Euro 2020, named in honor of the unity and the euphoria that football can bring, the brand explained
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Adidas has introduced the second generation of the FutureCraft Loop,...
Adidas has introduced the second generation of the FutureCraft Loop, its first 100 percent recyclable shoe. Like its predecessor, the second-generation shoe is also a 100 percent recyclable performance running shoe, but is created using a mix of raw materials and recycled components from the first-generation shoe. This means that ...
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ArticleGood sales momentum for Foot Locker
Foot Locker reported a 5.7 percent increase in comparable store sales for the third quarter ended on Nov. 2, indicating an improvement from the previous quarters as the increase for the first nine months of the year was only 3.8 percent. However, the management predicts that the increase on a ...
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Adidas speeds up
In line with the management's forecast, the Adidas Group accelerated on the sales front in the third quarter, posting a currency-neutral sales increase of 6 percent, compared with year-on-year increases of 4 percent in the first and second quarter, and the progress is expected to continue in the fourth quarter. ...
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Adidas opens a digital flagship in London
Adidas has opened a new flagship store, which it calls Adidas LDN, covering 27,000 square feet on four levels on Oxford Street in London, opposite the main department store of Selfridges. The site offers a unique, immersive customer experience. According to the company, it is the most digital Adidas store ...
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Asics invests more in digital
Asics Corp. continues to make new investments in start-ups and adjacent segments. Late last month, the Japanese group acquired Race Roster, a Canadian-based platform with a suite of services for the organizers of foot races that will complement its Runkeeper platform, based in Boston, and other digital operations. The purchase ...
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Zalando improves results
For the first time in its history, Zalando received more than a billion visits to its web stores in a single quarter, or a total of 1,000.3 million, up by 37.3 percent year-on-year from 728,700. The share of mobile visits was 84.8 percent. The number of active customers reached 29.5 ...
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O'Neill has appointed Christian Hecht as the new country manager...
O'Neill has appointed Christian Hecht as the new country manager for Germany, Switzerland and Austria. He succeeds Andreas Rauter, who left the company in May. Meanwhile, Sébastian Lounis will start in December as sales manager for western Switzerland. Hecht will manage the team that oversees the entire DACH region from ...
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Lowa says it has signed a new long-term agreement with...
Lowa says it has signed a new long-term agreement with its Chinese partner, BC Sports China in Nanjing, to consolidate and accelerate the strategic internationalization of the brand. Lowa has been present in China since 2005. Thanks to its distribution partner, BC Sports, Lowa has been able to build up ...
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Zalando, the Berlin-based online retailer, is currently testing same-day delivery...
Zalando, the Berlin-based online retailer, is currently testing same-day delivery with electric cars. The online retailer recently started a pilot project in Hamburg with 24 electric cars, which are operated on 100 percent green electricity. Zalando works with various logistics partners. Hamburg's urban area has 600 charging stations for electric ...
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Decathlon is expanding its presence in Berlin. The sporting goods...
Decathlon is expanding its presence in Berlin. The sporting goods retailer will be opening an eighth store this month, having opened two others earlier this year. The new branch will have a sales floor of 1,400 square meters. With the Mydecathlon membership card, customers will receive a bonus of €10 ...
